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My
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The FORTUNE3 E-Commerce & Shopping Cart Wizard
software features a visual product tree
that starts with a main icon labeled "My
Products". Your online store's ease of
use and navigation will depend on how you organize
your product catalog through categories. You can
incorporate all of your Categories,
Products, Products
with Options and Gift
Certificates through specific icons on
the tree.
Since any category can be placed inside
another category (in different layers or
sub-categories), you will be able to build your
online store by placing each product in the right
location and maximize your shopping cart's usability
and sales. You can categorize your online store
by index (like a printed catalog), location
(similarly to the isles and shelves of a department
store), type, brand, size,
color, etc.; or by combining them as needed
in your E-Commerce website.
By right clicking on any of the icons on the product
tree, a menu will open offering you various options.
You can also move any icon from one place to another
or use the Cut,
Copy and Paste options, as well
as the Drag and Drop feature with
your mouse. There are also buttons on the bottom
of the tree called "Move Up"
"Move Down" "Move to Top" and "Move to Bottom"
that will organize your items in order.
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Adding
Categories - The First Step |
By creating the appropriate Product Categories,
the products in your online store / catalog will
appear well organized and can easily be found
by customers (i.e. type, brand, location, etc.).
The FORTUNE3 E-Commerce Software and Shopping
Cart Wizard software allows you to display unlimited
nested categories (multiple levels of sub-categories)
in the same way as they appear on the shelves
of your store / warehouse, or as it has been printed
on the catalog of your company. On your site,
sub-categories will be shown as an expandable
(pop-out) menu coming from the main category when
the mouse is over it (or a non-expandable if you
choose to in the "More
Settings" button of the Wizard's
My Web Pages
section).
To add a Main (1st Level)
Category, right-click on the "My Products"
icon; click on Add "Product Category"
from the menu and fill in the appropriate information.
To add a sub-category, right-click on the parent
Category and click on Add "Product
Category" from the menu.
Category
Fields
Name:
This is a required field. This is the
field that represents your category. Your web
store's navigation menu contains the category
Name field for each category on your
Tree. Therefore, because of the space
limit for the menu, this field is limited to 24
characters.
Description:
This is a required field. Use this
field to write a description for your category
and possibly the type of products it contains.
This field will support general HTML tags to further
enhance the appearance of the text and is limited
to 250 characters (see HTML
Tags for more details). For larger category
descriptions, you may use the Additional Description
field.
Additional Description:
Use this field to add a larger description
for your category. This field will support a much
larger number of characters than the Description
field. The "Place Additional Text" drop-down menu
will allow you to choose where you want the Additional
Description to show up on each of your category
pages. It can either come up before the list of
products, or after it. This field will support
general HTML tags to further enhance the appearance
of the text and is not limited in its number of
characters (see HTML Tags
for more details).
Image:
You may Browse for an Image
if you would like your Category to be represented
by an Image. Images can have a maximum
size of 100kb. That size should be large enough
for an image that is up to 700 pixels wide and
in normal-high resolution. The only acceptable
image file types are .jpg .jpeg .gif and .png.
Category-based Discounts
can also be incorporated into each of your categories.
Each of your categories may offer a percentage
discount for a 2nd product purchase for products
within the same category (Products beyond this
point may reflect a 2nd product discounted by
a percentage - Buy one, get the 2nd Product Discounted
by ___%). For each product within this category,
you will be able to select whether or not that
product is eligible for this discount. The discount
will be advertised on your category pages and
on the product pages for each of the products
that participates in the discount.
Webpage
Meta Tags/Properties -
In this area, you can designate your own custom
Webpage Meta Tags and assign a filename for this
category's web page(s). If you do not wish to
do this, leave these text areas blank, and the
software will create default values for these
fields based on the information you have entered
into the Name and Description
fields for this category - and though these default
values will not be visible on the software itself,
they will be on your site. You can specify the
web page's Title, Description, Keywords and Filename.
This is mainly available for you to optimize your
pages for search engines. If any of these fields
are left blank, FORTUNE3's default optimization
will be used for that field on this category's
web page(s).
Title
- The
title and title Meta Tag for this category's
web page(s). The
title appears on the top title bar of browsers,
and is used by search engines to display
a title for this category's web page(s),
and possibly to determine where to position
this category's web page(s) on their search
results. Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's Default
Title Optimization for this page (which
is based on the category name).
Description
- A
description and description Meta Tag for
this category's web page(s). This
will be used by search engines to display
a description for this category's web page(s)
on their search results page (under the
title), and possibly to determine where
to position this category's web page(s)
on their search results.
Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's Default Description
Optimization for this page (which is based
on the category name and description).
Keywords
- Will
be used as the keywords Meta Tag by search
engines to determine the ranking and positioning
for this category's web page(s) on their
search results when people search for your
keywords. Because search engines prefer
it, every keyword entered here will be separated
by a comma on the category's web page(s),
even if you do not separate the words with
commas on this field. Please remember these
are keywords, not key phrases.
Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's Default Keywords
Optimization for this page (which is based
on the category name and description).
Filename
- The
name of the html file for this category's
web page(s). Simply enter the name, do not
enter .html at the end. If the filename
you enter has already been assigned to another
category or product, or if your category
is divided into several pages (because there
are too many products to fit in one page),
the system will automatically add a number
to the end of the filename (Filename_2.html).
Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's Default Filename
for this page (which is based on the category
name). |
When finished, click on "Save & Close".
You can continue adding categories and sub-categories
until the desired structure of your E-Commerce
website's navigation menu is complete.
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Category
Discounts: Adding a 2nd Item to the shopping
cart and getting a discount |
The FORTUNE3 Shopping
Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software enables
you to offer a percentage discount for selected
products when a second item is added to the shopping
cart from the same category. To establish this
type of discount, select a Product Category,
right-click on it and click on 'Properties'.
Check-mark the box corresponding to a 2nd product
purchase discount and select the desired percentage
discount. Finally, any product beyond this category
(Products and Products with Options)
can participate in the established discount by
having the corresponding box checked in the product's
properties window.
Important
Note: When using
this discount option, the least expensive product
of the two will be the one the discount will apply
itself to, not necessarily the "Second"
chosen product.
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Adding
Products / Editing Products |
The FORTUNE3 E-Commerce
& Shopping Cart Wizard software features two
ways of adding Products: Either add a product
by entering the product information manually or
by using the "Import
Products from Spreadsheet" feature.
To enter a product
manually, select the "Product Category"
target (on the category that you want to add
the product to), then right-click on it and select
"Add Product" or "Add Product
with Options" (If your product has options
such as sizes, colors, etc., then choose "Add
Product with Options", otherwise if your
product is a simple product without any options,
choose "Add Product"). Fill
in the corresponding entry-form. You may also
right-click on the "Product
List" panel to fill in the product
entry-form, but it will not appear in the tree
or on the site until it is copied and pasted or
dragged and dropped into a "Product Category"
on the Tree.
The
Product List:
The FORTUNE3 Shopping
Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software features
a linear product list. All of the products
in Product Tree appear in the "Product
List", but on this "linear"
list, the products and categories are not related
to each other. Furthermore, products that may
have once existed on the Tree but have
been deleted will remain in the "Product
List" unless they are removed
from the list manually (by right-clicking on it
and clicking on "Delete").
This is in case you delete a product by accident,
or delete a product and want to easily bring it
back at a later time. Additionally, products that
are imported from a spreadsheet but weren't imported
into a category on the Tree will be listed
on the "Product List" ONLY.
You may easily drag and drop or copy and paste
these products from the "Product List"
into any category in the Tree in order
to bring them back into your web store. You can
display the list by clicking on "Show
Product List" from the top bar.
Use the "Product List"
to quickly find a product, to get access to a
product's data entry form, and to...
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Sort products
either by SKU, Name, or Color.
The color determines
whether the product is currently in the
Tree (black), has been deleted
from the Tree (red), or is newly
imported from a spreadsheet but was not
imported into a category (blue). Highlight
items in the list by using the "Up"
and "Down" arrow keys or
by "pointing and clicking" with
the mouse. |
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Select (highlight)
any item and press the "Enter"
key or right-click with your mouse and then
click "Properties". A corresponding entry-form
becomes available for data field modifications.
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Group several products
in one selection. Use the "Shift"
key for sequential groups and "Ctrl"
key for non-sequential groups. |
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Drag and drop any
selection from the Product List
onto its appropriate category on the Product
Tree. Preset the selection either as
a "Product" or as a "Product
with Options" by selecting the
appropriate type from the choice below the
list. |
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Copy and Paste selected
products from the Product List
into its appropriate category on the Tree.
Right-click on the selection and choose
"Copy". Select a "Product
Category" target on the Tree, right-click
on it and select "Paste". |
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Differentiate the
products by action type: Products
that are "current and available"
in the Product Tree are listed with
"black-type".
Newly imported products that were not imported
into a category are listed with "blue-type"
(until being placed onto a category in the
Product Tree). Products
deleted from the Product Tree are
listed with "red-type". |
NOTE: Products deleted from the "Product
List" window will also be deleted from
the Product Tree and from the E-Commerce
website, online store and shopping cart. If a
product is ONLY on the product list, it will not
show up on the site.
Thumbnail
Size (px):
A thumbnail will
automatically be created for every product and
category image, and will be used on category web
pages that display multiple products and multiple
categories in one page.
You can choose the
size of the thumbnails that get displayed to represent
your products and categories on all of the category
pages that display the thumbnails. Your choices
are "75X75", "100X100" and
"150X150". These are measured in pixels.
Images are automatically reduced proportionally
so that image quality is not compromised. When
adding images to your products and categories,
add the full-size version of the images, as the
FORTUNE3 software will automatically produce a
high-quality thumbnail for each image you add.
Try to use images of the same width X height proportions
for each specific product, as keeping the same
proportions for each image will ensure that the
category pages' layout will be displayed uniformly.
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Product
Properties Screen |
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Product
Fields
SKU: This
is referred to as a stock keeping unit. This will
be the reference number for this item within your
web store and is therefore a required field. Your
products will mainly be represented by their SKU
number on your order reports in the Administrative
Site. SKU Numbers for each product MUST
be unique. The Product SKU field has a limit of
15 characters. Please avoid having the first character
of the SKU be a zero ( 0 ), as this may cause
problems while importing/exporting the products.
UPC Code:
This is an optional field used for references
or for possible shopping cart customizations to
integrate a web store with accounting and inventory
programs that are tied to an in-store scanning
device. This is not displayed to your customers.
Product Name:
This is a required field. This is displayed
by default on any part of your site that lists
this product. HTML web pages for products created
on your site will be named after the Name of the
product unless you specify a filename. The Name
field does not need to be unique. The Product
Name field has a limit of 50 characters.
Description:
This is a required field. Write a short to medium
description for your item - larger descriptions
and specifications should be entered into the
"Additional Description" field explained
below. The description is displayed on your category
pages for categories that contain this product
(this is why it shouldn't be too long) and on
this product's individual web page. This field
will support general HTML tags to further enhance
the appearance of the text and is therefore not
limited in its number of characters (see HTML
Tags for more details).
Additional
Description -
This is an unlimited field for a large
description or additional product information,
available for notices or other information of
interest to a buyer. This field will support general
HTML tags to further enhance the appearance of
the text (see HTML Tags
for more details), and will appear on this product's
individual web page only.
Regular Price
- This is a required field. This is
the basic price of your item, and is the retail
price at which retail customers can purchase this
product unless there is also an On Sale Price
defined for this product (in which case customers
can purchase this product at the On Sale Price).
This field is required unless the "Set
Prices by Order Qty", "Display
Call For Price" or "Do Not
Show Price Info" options are checked.
On
Sale Price
- This is an optional field that will
offer the item at a Reduced Price instead
of the Regular Price. It will override
and visually cross out the Regular Price during
shopping and it will advertise the savings (You
Save: $____). To enable this, the box
"On Sale Price" must be checked and the
sale price entered. If this is enabled, this product
is considered to be a Special Offer.
TIP: If your product
is offered for free ($0), and customers can order
it without paying, enter 0 on the Regular
Price field and then on the On Sale Price
field, enter -2 (negative 2). Only entering 0
into the Regular Price field will not
allow customers to order this product.
Set Prices by Order
Qty - By enabling this
option, you can set a price for a product according
to the quantity that is added to the shopping
cart of this particular item. Just check-mark
the box and fill out the table according to the
prices per quantity to be ordered similarly to
the below image:
Note: What you enter
on the first field (from) of the first row will
determine the Minimum Order Qty for this
product. If you start the table with a quantity
of 6, customers will not be able to order this
product unless a minimum quantity of 6 is ordered
because as there is no price defined for that
quantity.
Display "Call
for Price" Message
- If enabled, the software will
not show a price for this product, instead the
product will display "Call for Price".
Visitors will not be able to order this product
on your Retail Shopping Cart if this is selected.
Do Not Show Price Info
- If enabled, the software will
not show a price for this product, and the product
will not display anything that relates to the
price. Visitors will not be able to order this
product on your Retail Shopping Cart if this is
selected.
State
Taxable Product -
If this box is un-checked, the online
store will prevent this product from being taxed
even if the customer is in a taxable state. Otherwise,
the product will be taxed in states where "Sales
Tax" has been specified. This is checked
by default.
Wholesale
Price Levels (1 - 5)
- Defines 5 different prices for
this product on your Wholesale shopping cart.
By using the Administration Site's "Manage
-> My Wholesale Customers" interface,
each wholesale customer can be assigned to one
of the five price levels available. Wholesale
customers will then be able to order this product
at their assigned Price Level. These
fields will be disabled if your Wholesale shopping
cart is not activated in the "Wholesale
Options" screen of the Wizard's
"My Company"
section.
Webpage
Meta Tags/Properties -
In this area, you can designate your own custom
Webpage Meta Tags and assign a filename for this
product's individual web page. If you do not wish
to do this, leave these text areas blank, and
the software will create default values for these
fields based on the information you have entered
into the Name and Description
fields for this product - and though these default
values will not be visible on the software itself,
they will be on your site. You can specify the
web page's Title, Description, Keywords and Filename.
This is mainly available for you to optimize your
pages for search engines. If any of these fields
are left blank, FORTUNE3's default optimization
will be used for that field on this product's
individual web page.
Title
- The
title and title Meta Tag for this product's
web page. The
title appears on the top title bar of browsers,
and is used by search engines to display
a title for this product's web page, and
possibly to determine where to position
this product's web page on their search
results. Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's Default
Title Optimization for this page (which
is based on the product name).
Description
- A
description and description Meta Tag for
this product's web page. This
will be used by search engines to display
a description for this product's web page
on their search results page (under the
title), and possibly to determine where
to position this product's web page on their
search results. Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's
Default Description Optimization for this
page (which is based on the product name
and description).
Keywords
- Will be used as the keyword Meta
Tags by search engines to determine the
ranking and positioning for this product's
web page on their search results when people
search for your keywords.
Because search engines prefer it, every
keyword entered here will be separated by
a comma on this product's individual web
page, even if you do not separate the words
with commas on this field. Please remember
these are keywords, not key phrases. Leave
blank to use FORTUNE3's Default Keywords
Optimization for this page (which is based
on the product name and description).
Filename
- The name of the html file for this
product's web page. Simply enter the name,
do not enter .html at the end. If the filename
you enter has already been assigned to another
category or product, or if your category
is divided into several pages (because there
are too many products to fit in one page),
the system will automatically add a number
to the end of the filename (Filename_2.html).
Leave blank to use FORTUNE3's Default Filename
for this page (which is based on the product
name). |
Unit
of Measure -
This is a required field. This field
represents the unit of the product or the amount
of the current product that the customer will
be buying at the specified price. This will be
displayed on your product's price in the shopping
catalogs as well as invoices similarly to $ ___
/ Each. This field defaults to Each, but other
examples include Box, Dozen, Lb., Foot, Meter,
Gallon, Pair and others.
Minimum Order Qty.
-The smallest quantity
of this product that can be ordered on your retail
site. This product may not be added to shopping
cart without at least x amount. This field is
set to 1 by default.
Maximum Order Qty.
- The largest quantity
of this product that can be ordered on your retail
site, regardless of the quantity in stock defined
in the Admin Site's "Manage -> My
Inventory" interface. This
field is set to 999999999 by default.
Minimum
Order Qty. for Wholesale
- The
smallest quantity of this product that can be
ordered on your wholesale site. This product may
not be added to shopping cart by wholesale customers
without at least x amount. This field will
be disabled if your Wholesale shopping cart is
not activated in the "Wholesale
Options" screen of the Wizard's
"My Company"
section. This field is set to 1 by default.
Maximum Order Qty.
for Wholesale
- The largest quantity
of this product that can be ordered on your wholesale
site, regardless of the quantity in stock defined
in the Admin Site's "Manage -> My
Inventory" interface. This
field will be disabled if your Wholesale shopping
cart is not activated in the "Wholesale
Options" screen of the Wizard's
"My Company"
section. This field is set to 999999999 by
default.
Product Image:
Optional but Recommended. This is the
main image for this item (note that you will have
space for 6 additional images per item). If you
do not select an image, instead of the image a
square will appear on your site saying "Image
Not Available", or a default generic image
will be displayed for your product. Images can
have a maximum size of 100kb. That size should
be large enough for an image that is up to 700
pixels wide and in normal-high resolution. The
only acceptable image file types are .jpg
.jpeg .gif and .png. When adding the image
to your product, add the full-size version of
the image, not the thumbnail. The FORTUNE3 software
will automatically produce a high-quality thumbnail
for each image you add that will be used when
displaying multiple products on one web page.
Try to use images of the same width X height proportions
for each specific product, as keeping the same
proportions for each image will ensure that the
category pages' layout will be displayed uniformly.
For
this Product, Apply Shipping Charges According
to:
Calculate
According to Shipping Settings
- This is selected by Default. Select
to use the company's Shipping Calculation
Settings (shipping calculations are specified
in the "Shipping
Information" tab of the My
Company section) for this item,
by either providing customers with shipping
prices from the carriers, or with Company
Shipping Rules.
FREE
Shipping - Limited Time Offer (Will Advertise)
-
Select to provide customers with free shipping
(paid by the company) for this product.
This will bypass the shipping calculations
specified in the "Shipping
Information" tab of the My
Company section, and set the shipping
cost to "Free" for this item. Your site
will advertise this limited time offer of
free shipping for this item. If this item
is ordered among other items that do have
a shipping cost, this item will not be included
into the shipping cost calculations of the
order. If this item is ordered by itself,
it will have no shipping cost, and the shipping
method will automatically be set to "To
be Arranged".
Fixed
Amount -
Select to
use a fixed amount for this item's shipping
cost. This will bypass the shipping
calculations specified in the "Shipping
Information" tab of the My
Company section, and set
the shipping price of the item according
to the Fixed Amount indicated in
the Domestic and International fields. The
fixed amount will be charged for each quantity
unit of this product, so if a quantity of
2 of this item is ordered, the shipping
cost will be doubled. If this item is ordered
along with other items that have different
shipping methods, then the fixed amount
will simply be added to the shipping methods
of the other items. Otherwise, if
this item is ordered by itself, the shipping
method will automatically be set to "Fixed
Shipping". |
This
Product's Handling Fee
- An
additional fee may be added to the shipping amount
for this item, beyond the specified or calculated
shipping charges. The handling fee will be to
the shipping cost of the orders that contain this
item.
Weight
and Dimensions
- These are used to calculate
shipping costs and consolidate the number of products
in a shipment or box and must be relatively accurate
if you are to get accurate shipping quotes from
live carriers. Please set the dimensions of the
items as they are packaged and shipped, not necessarily
as they are. Entering 0 in ANY of these fields
will result in no shipping costs for your orders
if you are using the shipping carriers to calculate
your shipping costs live.
See Box
Consolidation and
Shipping Information
for more information.
Display
Weight & Dimensions to Visitors
- Check-marking this will display this
Product's weight and sizes to visitors on the
Product's Specifications section (under the Additional
Description) on this Product's Page.
Show
Product on:
Retail
& Wholesale Websites - This
is selected by default. Choosing this option
will display this product on both Retail
& Wholesale sites (if both sites are
activated).
Retail Website
Only - Choosing this option will
display this product on the Retail site
only.
NOTE: If this
box is grayed out, this means you do not
have your site set up for Retail. In order
to enable your site for Retail, go to the
'My Company' Section,
and click on 'Retail
Options'. Enable your Retail Site by
clicking the checkbox 'Create Retail Web
Site'.
Wholesale Website
Only - Choosing this option will
display this product on the Wholesale site
only.
NOTE:
If this box is grayed out, this means you
do not have your site set up for Wholesale.
In order to enable your site for Wholesale,
go to the 'My Company'
Section, and click on 'Wholesale
Options'. Enable your Wholesale Site
by clicking the checkbox 'Create Wholesale
Web Site'.
Do
Not Show - Choosing
this option will keep this product from
being displayed on the site at all. You
can use this to temporarily disable a product. |
Additional
Pictures
- In this window, you can add up to
six additional pictures to display different angles,
colors or for whatever use you would like.
Images can have a maximum size of 100kb.
That size should be large enough for an image
that is up to 700 pixels wide and in normal-high
resolution. The only acceptable image file types
are .jpg .jpeg .gif and .png.
Custom
Fields:
Creating
Custom Fields - Custom Field Names
Custom Fields are text
fields for your products that are not included
in the software, that you may use to better describe
your products to your customers. For example,
if you are selling diamonds, you may add custom
fields like Clarity, Cut, Color, etc., and then
specify the description for each field on each
product. Another example is if you are selling
books, you may add custom fields like Author,
ISBN, Publisher, etc. First, you must specify
the Custom Field Names by clicking on
"Custom Field Names" in the
top bar of the My Products section. Here
you will add the names of the custom fields you
would like to have for your products. Custom fields
for your products will display on the bottom of
the individual product pages. You can add Fields
that will not display on every product, but will
on certain products only. Only those products
where you enter a value into the custom fields
will display these fields.
Custom
Field Values
Once you have added the fields
you want to be able to use, you can input the
information you want displayed in each field for
each specific product. You will find this window
by clicking on the "Custom Fields"
button of each product's Properties window. If
you leave a field blank, the field will not show
up for this specific product.
The end result of these fields will look like
this on the bottom of the product's individual
web page:
Tab Setup:
If you would like to use tabs
to display information for the product, you can
do so by using the Tab Setup feature.
Click on "Tab Setup" on the
Product Properties screen. Tabs are sections
with information. Users will be able to click
on a Tab in order to view the information
that is in that tab.
Add/Delete
Tabs - You
can add a Tab by typing in the
name of the new Tab on the top
"Tab Text" field, and
clicking in "Add Tab" on the right.
To delete a Tab, click on the desired
Tab on the top and click "Delete
Tab" on the bottom right.
To add a Tab, you can enter in
the Tab Name (this will be displayed as
the text to the clickable tab to viewers)
into the Tab Text box, and click
on "Add Tab". This will
create tabs for you to designate whatever
information you want to display. You may
then select the Tab that you want
to edit from the middle section, and enter
the information that you want to display
into each tab separately.
Adding Preset
Tab Tokens - You can easily
populate your tabs with information by using
Tab Tokens to "call" upon certain
pieces of information for this product that
you have provided elsewhere in the system.
Select the Tab Token you wish to
use from the drop-down box and click "Add
Token".
At this point, you can then add whatever
information you want. You can input the
plain text yourself, use HTML code (see
HTML Tags
for more details), use the Tab Tokens
you want each tab to show, or any combination
of the three. The information will be displayed
on your site exactly as it is layout in
your tab content sections, and in the same
order. As you can see in the image above,
we have added these Tab Tokens
to the Description tab:
[% proddesc %] - Shows Product Description
[% refundpolicy %] - Shows Refund Policy
The end result
of these Tab Tokens will look like
this on the bottom of the product page:
Note
About Tab Tokens: Entering
the Tab Tokens
is
very sensitive and should be approached
with care. Entering a Tab Token
in an invalid format, for example, not opening
or closing it properly, or having additional
token opening ( [% ) or closing ( %] ) tags
will cause this product's page to show completely
empty / blank.
Copy These Settings for Every Product.
- To universally use the current tab
setup for all of your products, click on
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Product
Icons
- Using these options will display
small icons on the product's individual web page.
Icons
in Order: Hot Deal, Bargain, Fast Shipping and
Great Idea
Downloadable
Product
- If the product you're selling is
a downloadable file, you can use this to browse
for the file on your computer to be attached to
this product. It will be uploaded to the site
when you do the overall upload. You can use this
feature is you sell digital products such as music
or MP3 files and software files.
When your customers purchase a downloadable product,
they will be sent an e-mail containing a link
to download the file directly to their computer.
The file download will be active for 10 days,
and will be in an encrypted URL format so that
people cannot access the file download from your
site unless they order the product. Because this
type of product does not require shipping, there
will be no shipping associated with an order containing
only downloadable products.
NOTE:
Be aware that it is illegal to share/sell
files or programs that you do not own the copyright
or reproduction rights to. FORTUNE3 is obligated
to investigate any complaints of copyright violations
and shut down any site that violates copyright
laws.
Ask
Customers for some specific information that must
be typed in
- If your product requires your customers
to enter or send you some text while ordering
a product, this is what you use (used for embroidery,
books with dedications, etc...). This field is
disabled for a "Product", but
enabled for a "Product with Options".
In this field, enter the text that asks the customer
to enter their specific information. You may checkmark
the Required option to
require the customer to enter this field - in
which case the customer will not be able to order
this product unless they enter the required information.
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The FORTUNE3 E-Commerce
& Shopping Cart Wizard software has the ability
to create a 'Product with Options' so that
your customers can choose options for their products
(such as color, size, etc.).
If a Product with Options is offered
in your Online Store, customers will have the
ability to customize several options before adding
the product to the shopping cart. Some cases include
computers, clothing, food-restaurant, etc. A customer
can order a computer by selecting from various
monitors, video-cards, hard-drives and other options
that you offer. A T-shirt can be offered in several
colors and sizes.
To add a Product with Options, select
the "Product Category" target
(on the category that you want to add the product
to), then right-click on it and select "Add
Product with Options". Enter the information
requested.
For instructions on how to fill out the Product
Properties Screen,
click here.
Once you have finished entering the information,
click on "Save & Close".
If you had already added your product, but not
as a Product with Options, but as a regular
Product, you can easily turn it into
a Product with Options by right-clicking
on the product's icon, and clicking on "Change
to Product with Options". Your icon
will then change, and by clicking on the plus
sign (+) to the left of it, you can extend it
to see the "Options" icon underneath
it. Proceed by adding your Groups
of Options, click
here for instructions. You can also do the
opposite and change a Product with Options
into a Product by right-clicking
on the product's icon, and clicking on "Change
to Product". Be aware that when you
do that, you will permanently remove all of the
Options that are associated with that
product as well.
The Wizard will then automatically Prompt you
if you would like to Add a Group of Options
to this product.
What to do here?
If you want to present several options (such as
sizes, colors, or optional accessories) for your
customers to choose from before ordering this
product, click on Yes.
Otherwise, if you simply want to copy/paste options
from another product or ask the customer to enter
text before ordering the product (by using the
Ask Customer for some specific information
that must be typed in field),
click on No and you
will return to the tree view. Otherwise, you may
have added a Product with Options when
you should have simply added a Product,
if that is the case, click on No
and then when you are back in the tree view, right-click
on the product and click on "Change to Product".
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A Group of Options is just what it sounds like
- A Set Of Options that the customer can choose
from before ordering the product by using a Scroll-Down
List, a Radio List, Check Boxes, or Quantity Fields.
You can have an unlimited
number of Groups of Options within a
product. For example if you wanted to ask customers
to select both color and size for your product,
you would need to have 2 separate Groups of
Options, one that contains several options
for selecting a size, and one that contains several
options for selecting a color. To add a new Group
of Options to any Product with Options,
right-click on the "Options"
icon located inside the Product with Options,
and click on "Add Group of Options".
Fill out the screen based on your needs. All fields
are described below:
Group
of Options Fields
The Name
and Description
Fields are required and will be displayed as your
question to the customers on this Product's
ordering page. Fill these fields out in a similar
fashion to the image above. The Descripton
field will support general HTML tags to further
enhance the appearance of the text and is therefore
not limited in its number of characters (see HTML
Tags for more details).
Additional Description
- Larger
space for a wider description available for notices
or other information of interest to a buyer. This
field will support general HTML tags to further
enhance the appearance of the text and is therefore
not limited in its number of characters (see HTML
Tags for more details).
Display Options Using:
- Select Either Drop Down List, Radio List
or Check Box.
Note: If you checkmark "For this
Group of Options, allow customers to enter a quantity
for each option", this will be disabled.
The Drop Down List, Radio List and Check Box will
not appear at all, instead, an input field asking
for the quantity will be displayed for each option.
Drop Down List Sample:
Radio List Sample:
Check Box Sample:
Quantity
Fields Sample:
Image
- Browse for an Image File only if
you want to display an image in the same area
where you are asking your question
to the customers on this Product's ordering page.
Images can have a maximum size of 100kb. The only
acceptable image file types are .jpg .jpeg
.gif and .png.
For this Group of Options
always disclose (print on order form) the Customer's
Selection
- If this checkmark is checked, invoices
for orders will always show which option was selected
by the customer for this product. If this is un-checked
and the Customer orders the item with the Default
Option selected, the invoice will not
say which option was selected.
For this Group of
Options, allow customers to enter a quantity for
each option - If
this checkmark is checked, your options will not
appear in a Drop Down List, Radio Buttons, or
Check Boxes. Instead, all of the options will
appear as a list with a quantity field next to
each option, therefore, customers will be able
to order multiple quantities of multiple options
at the same time (as opposed to ordering each
option separately).
NOTE: You should only checkmark this option
for one (1) Group of Options per Product.
Do NOT checkmark this option for more than one
Group of Options within the same product,
as this will cause ordering confusion with customers
and yourself.
Each Option is considered
as a separate product -
If this checkmark is checked, then each
Option on the list, whether it is a Default
Option or an Alternate Option, will
be considered as a separate product, and therefore,
each option must have a price (entered into the
Price Variation field), weight and dimensions
specified in their properties. The parent Product's
price will be ignored and will not be counted
towards the purchase price, only the price of
each option will be used. If this is un-checked,
the parent Product's price will not be
ignored, it will be used for the purchase price,
and each option may or may not have a Price
Variation that affects the price of the parent
Product.
Customers must select
one of the Alternate Options to order
this product - If this checkmark is
checked, the shopping cart will not allow customers
to order this product with the Default
Option selected. Only after they select
one of the Alternate
Options can they order this product.
This is used only when your Default
Option is something like "Please
Select One".
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Default
Option / Alternate Options: |
This important feature is available from the Shopping
Cart Wizard software to provide maximum functionality
to customers buying products from your E-Commerce
website, as they can customize their products
at your online store during the ordering process.
In order to fully define the different options
to be offered to customers for a Product with
Options, each Group
of Options that is created requires filling
in their corresponding "Default
Option" and "Alternate
Options" entry-forms. Each Group
of Options allows only one (1) Default
Option and as many Alternate Options
as desired. The price,
dimensions and weight of the "Default
Option" are considered to be part of
the "Product with Options" default
configuration. If a buyer selects an "Alternate
Option", it could affect the final price,
weight and dimensions of its corresponding product.
You can use the Options feature to offer
several choices (colors, sizes, etc.) for the
customer to select from before adding the product
to the shopping cart. For example: Color options
such as Gray, Blue, Red, etc. can be created
within a Color "Group of Options".
Default
Option:
The Default Option is the first option
to be displayed in the current Group of Options
for this product. If your Group of Options
has Drop Down or Radio List selected on the Display
Options Using field, the Default Option
will be automatically selected or checked on the
product's ordering page, and the Default Option
cannot contain a Price Variation. Otherwise,
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