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Fortune3 Ecommerce Software New Features: Pack May 2012

At Fortune3, we are always striving and constantly working on our platform to make sure to deliver the best possible product to our customers. We know and understand the importance of having every feature available to you that means success for your ecommerce website. If you are a Fortune3 customer, you already know this about us. If you aren’t, it’s time you give Fortune3 a try and build a success ecommerce business.

Fortune3 is excited to announce the release of some great new features in our shopping cart and eCommerce platform. These new features are already available to you as a Fortune3 user and can be enabled right away!

Recurring Billing – With our new Recurring Billing feature, you can sell products and services on a subscription-basis in a fully automated way. Customers purchasing a “Recurring Billing” product will only have to place their initial order, and depending on the recurring product’s settings, orders will be placed automatically on the next billing period and come in as new orders to your online store. Recurring billing orders can be fully managed from the Admin Site or Cancelled by navigating to the “Orders -> Recurring Orders -> Recurring Billing Orders” screen. To set up a product as a Recurring Billing product, make sure that you downloaded the latest update to the Fortune3 Wizard, and go to the Product’s Properties screen, and find the last tab on top – Recurring Settings. Select your settings for how to base the pricing of recurring orders and their intervals. Then Save, and upload your site. You are done!

Auto-Ship / Recurring Shipping – With our new Auto-Ship feature, customers purchasing a product with this setting enabled will select every how often they would like the product to be shipped to them, and new orders will be placed in the shopping cart automatically on every interval, depending on the auto-ship settings selected by the customer. Auto-Ship orders can be fully managed from the Admin Site or Cancelled by navigating to the “Orders -> Recurring Orders -> Auto-Ship Orders” screen. The auto-ship feature is also located in each product’s Properties screen, under the Recurring Settings tab.

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Fortune3 Lowers Ecommerce Hosting Setup Fees

Fortune3 Ecommerce Hosting Solution now with significantly lower set-up fee!

The same excellent service and support, with the best and latest software, and now even lower prices, all come together to create the most versatile Ecommerce Shopping Cart in the market. In order bring our service to a larger array of customers we will be lowering all set-up fees for the next couple of months. We hope that these changes will encourage small companies to take the first step to immersing themselves into the competitive world of online trade and emerging stronger than ever before, with the Fortune3 Ecommerce Hosting Solution as the flagship.

Here is what the new prices of the Fortune3 Ecommerce Shopping Cart look like:

Plan Basic Silver Gold Platinum Diamond Infinity
Max. Number of Products 30 100 1,000 5,000 10,000 Unlimited
Old Setup Fee: 99.95 99.95 99.95 129.95 149.95 169.95
New Setup Fee: 39.95 39.95 39.95 49.95 74.95 99.95

Although lower in price we ensure the same quality of service and responsiveness as ever. Our software continues to be free to use, and all trial accounts will continue to last for the same 30 day period, which allows you to get a feel for our Ecommerce Shopping Cart and create a fully functioning Online Store, before you have to pay a single cent. Of course this trial period allows you to full access all the features of our Wizard as if you were a paying customer, this includes the Fortune3 Wizard, dynamic software which allows you to configure and maintain all aspects of your online store, the products, categories, payment methods, shipping and much more. The Administration site, a browser based command center, that helps you run your online store smoothly and efficiently, keeps records of all customers, track and ship orders, print labels, live statics and more.

The Fortune3 Ecommerce Shopping cart also features a highly trained team of specialist, happy to answer any questions or concerns you may have regarding not only Fortune3, but all that involves Ecommerce. Tech support can be contacted via phone Mon – Fri: 09:00 AM – 7:00 PM EST, or when an urgent matter 24/7, or 24 hours 7 days a week online tech support is available via http://support.fortune3.com

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Shopping Cart Software and Checkout by Amazon Integration

Fortune3 now allows your ecommerce shopping cart software customers to checkout using the Checkout by Amazon Carts payment system. This is great news for Existing and New Fortune3 Clients as it will help them to expand their customer base and allow for a completely unique income stream. What many ecommerce business owners look for in their shopping cart system is how to make purchasing easier for their visitors. Fortune3′s ecommerce software checkout process aims at making the checkout an easy to navigate situation for your customers. By adding Checkout by Amazon, the process is streamlined even more by allowing them take advantage of the many benefits Amazon can bring to the table. Checkout by Amazon allows customers with existing Amazon accounts to checkout using pre-defined account credentials and even by entering a secret passphrase that only the customer knows. Not only does the Checkout by Amazon service decrease the time it takes your customers to checkout, it also adds to the already secure checkout process offered by Fortune3. All Amazon Checkout transactions are scanned to detect fraudulent orders and irregular payment activities, this obviously adds to checkout security, but also allows for Amazon to put into place the “Amazon A-to-Z Guarantee.” Learn more about the Amazon A-to-z Guarantee here.

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Online Store Software Dashboard & Graphical Reports

Fortune3 Total Ecommerce Solutions is focused at providing the best online store software available. Our web shop program includes all features that are necessary in order for any business owner to make the most out of their online shop. As we build more and more functionality into our online store software we grow within what promises to be a completely web based commercial society. As a recent addition to our already broad range of ecommerce tools, you now have access to a complete store summary via the dashboard on your Fortune3 web shop program.

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New Ecommerce Solution Feature: Layaway capability as payment option.

One of Fortune3′s best features is the variety of payment options available for your online shopping cart.  Aiming to stay the best ecommerce solution on the net, Fortune3 recently added eLayaway® payment processor to the list of  integrated payment processors, allowing store owners to offer products at Layaway.  eLayaway® allows buyers to purchase items by scheduling payments on a payment calculator. The payments are then deducted from the buyer’s bank account until all remaining payments have been made in full. The merchant can then ship out the order accordingly.

If you are interested in accepting eLayaway as a payment option, you may link it to your shopping cart hosting account by loging in to your Fortune3 administrative site > setup > payment options > eLayaway.

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Capitalizing on Abandoned Ecommerce Shopping Cart Orders

One of the main similarities between having a physical business location and owning an Ecommerce Shopping Cart Store is the need for watching and maintaining of market trends and your marketing strategies. One of the most important elements in creating a marketing strategy is to watch your customer’s needs and track their likes and dislikes. There is no Ecommerce Shopping Cart or Ecommerce Web Hosting solution that provides an all in one packaged service that allows you to do this, up until now that is. We at Fortune3 have added a tool that will allow you to take advantage of this much needed part of your business marketing strategy. Imagine if you could track of every one of your Ecommerce Shopping Cart visitors and even better, imagine if you could find out why that certain group of people may not have purchased from your web store.

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