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The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart
& E-Commerce Wizard software offers you the options
of creating a B2C Web Site (retail), a B2B
Website (wholesale), or both within the same site.
You should consider whether or not you want to allow
the general public to view your web site (retail),
to limit the access to approved users only (wholesale),
or both. If you enable both retail and wholesale, your
retail site will allow the general public to access
your product listing and purchase, and your wholesale
restricted-access section will allow your approved wholesale
customers to log in and buy from you at wholesale prices.
Place a check-mark next to "Create Retail Web
Site" and/or "Create Wholesale Web
Site" (in the Wholesale
Options screen) according to your company's
requirements.
Retail
Website:
By creating a Retail Web Site, your E-Commerce
website, online store and shopping cart will be available
to the general public. Thus giving the public access
to your online store without requiring an Authorized
Login, at these regular URLs:
http://domainname (i.e. http://www.naturalab.com)
or if you are not using a domain name
for your FORTUNE3 store:
http://www.fortune3.com/Username/ (i.e. http://www.fortune3.com/naturalab/)
Retail
Payment Methods:
You can specify the payment methods that you will be
accepting for your retail shopping cart. If you do not
have a retail web site, this option will be disabled.
If you have both, retail and wholesale shopping carts,
you should specify the payment methods for each portion
of the shopping cart. The retail shopping-cart payment-methods
are specified here and the wholesale shopping-cart payment-methods
are specified in the next section "Wholesale
Options".
Credit
Cards: Merchant Accounts & PayPal:
Once your online store
and shopping cart has been created, you may need a Merchant
Account to process payments online. If you don't
have a Merchant Account you can either apply
through FORTUNE3 or through any other merchant account
provider - click
here for more information. Until then, your shopping
cart will not be able to process payments automatically
unless you use PayPal or Google Checkout. However, the
complete credit card information for the shopping cart
orders will be saved and available through your Administration
Site. If you do not want to open an Internet Merchant
Account, you don't need to. You can process the cards
manually (through your in-store credit card terminal)
by keying in the credit card numbers that are displayed
in the Administration Site for each order.
Credit Card numbers will only be displayed on the Administration
Site to registered customers, they will be blocked
by X's during the 30-day trial period. In addition,
the customers' CVV (Credit Card Validation) code will
never be recorded or visible as it is illegal to save
these numbers.
"PayPal" is a free service provided for FORTUNE3's
customers. A "PayPal" setup screen is available
in the Administration Site, so in addition
to check-marking the PayPal payment method on this screen,
you will need to go to your Administration Site
and follow the steps to link your PayPal account to
your FORTUNE3 web store.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are only using
PayPal Website Payments Standard for your order processing,
ONLY choose "PayPal" on this screen and make
sure that ALL credit cards are un-checked, as PayPal
will handle your credit card transactions, not your
FORTUNE3 shopping cart.
Wire
Transfer, C.O.D., Electronic Checks and Open Credit:
You can offer "Wire
Transfers" as a payment method in your shopping
cart, but only to provide information to the customer
about the bank account where payments should be wired
to. When a customer uses this payment method, the money
will not be wired automatically. Instead, this will
just provide your customers with the information they
need in order to perform the wire transfer. Please fill
in your Bank Account Information in order to accept
Wire Transfers.
"Electronic Checks" can be offered
as a payment method if you have an online check processor
connected to the processing gateway. "C.O.D."
and "Open Credit" can also be offered
as payment methods. You can limit the access to the
"Open Credit" option by requiring customers
to enter a password. Open Credit is generally used if
some of your customers use Purchase Orders to make payments
to your company. You would supply them with the password
you have selected to allow them access to the Open Credit
option, and then proceed by entering the other payment
information (ie. a P.O. Number). Simply click on the
appropriate button to specify a password.
For Open Credit orders, you are solely responsible for
collecting payments from customers based on your credit
terms.
Setting up Payment Methods
in your Online Store:
To activate a "Payment Method"
just click on the appropriate check boxes. These represent
the Payment Methods that will be made available to your
customers during the checkout process.
Available Payment Methods:
"Cash", "Money Orders", "Personal
Checks", "Cashier's Checks", "Electronic
Checks", "PayPal", "Other"
and the following credit cards: "Visa", "Master
Card", "Amex", "Discover",
"Diners", "JCB", "Solo"
(U.K.), "Switch/Maestro" (U.K.).
PayPal
- Checking this option will make the PayPal
Website Payments Standard or the PayPal Express Checkout
options present during the checkout process of your
shopping cart. You do not need a Merchant Account or
Gateway to accept PayPal, all you need is a PayPal Premier
or Business account that can accept payments.
To activate PayPal as a payment method, check-mark the
PayPal payment option. After you have uploaded your
site, you must link your PayPal account to your shopping
cart. To do this, you must log in to your Administration
Site and follow the instructions under "Link
PayPal Account".
Wire Transfer
- Checking this option requires that you
to specify your bank account information using the "Set
Bank Account" button. The bank account information
form prompts for the following information: "Bank
Name", "Bank Address", "Bank Phone",
"Routing or ABA #" and your actual "Account
#".
NOTE:
Check-marking the Wire Transfer will not have your site
transfer the funds from the bank account on its own;
it simply displays your banking info to the customer
so that they can make the Wire Transfer themselves.
C.O.D.
- Checking this option allows "C.O.D."
(Cash On Delivery) payments.
Open
Credit - Checking this option activates
"Open Credit" as a payment option. You
can limit the access to the "Open Credit"
option by requiring customers to enter a password. Open
Credit is generally used if some of your customers use
Purchase Orders in order to make payments to your company.
You would supply them with the password you have selected
to allow them access to the Open Credit option, and
then proceed by entering the other payment information
(ie. a P.O. Number). Simply click on the "Set Credit
Password" button to specify a password.
For Open Credit orders, you are solely responsible
for collecting payment from customers based on your
credit terms.
NOTE: This option requires
setting a password to limit the access to this payment
method.
Credit
Card Surcharge:
You can specify surcharge percentages for the credit
card transactions on your retail shopping cart. Enter
the surcharge percentage amounts according to the credit
card types. The appropriate amount will be automatically
added during the shopping cart check-out process. Some
states and countries prohibit credit card surcharges
to be passed on to the final consumers, FORTUNE3 strongly
recommends that you check with the laws of your country
or state regarding credit card surcharges before adding
one to your shopping cart.
Security
/ Authorization Method: If you have a Merchant Account
/ Gateway:
To activate a merchant account and link it to your
shopping cart, you must provide all of the required
information, as well as your designated processing gateway.
In most cases your E-Commerce website can be linked
to your current merchant account and gateway to process
your shopping cart sales. You should contact
FORTUNE3 in order to activate your payment Gateway
and/or Merchant Account.
In order to minimize fraud
liability, check the box "The SHIPPING ADDRESS must
match the card holder's BILLING ADDRESS". If you
have this box checked, your checkout pages will not
ask the customers to enter a Shipping Address, it will
only ask for a Billing Address and assume that the Shipping
Address is the same.
Select whether you want to Authorize transactions, or
simply Pre-Authorize them with your credit card gateway.
By choosing to authorize your transactions, your payment
processing gateway will automatically submit the authorization
for the funds on the given card, and begin the move
of the funds into your merchant account. By choosing
to Pre-Authorize your transactions, this will check
to make sure the funds are available on the given card,
however you will need to either finish the authorization
process within the FORTUNE3 Administration Site by clicking
to charge for the transaction or by signing into your
Processing Gateway and completing the charge on the
card (or capturing the pre-authorization).
Shipping
& Billing Countries:
Leave the right column blank
if you want to allow billing and shipping addresses
from anywhere in the world. If you want to limit the
countries in which your Retail shopping cart will allow
billing and shipping addresses from, choose those countries
on the left box, select if you want to limit Billing,
Shipping or Both to that country, and add click to Add
them. One by one, select each country that you want
to allow and click on the Add button. Once all countries
are added, your acceptable Bill-to and Ship-to Countries
will be listed on the right column. The limit type will
be displayed inside parentheses before the country name
on the right column - (B) for Billing, (S) for Shipping
and (2) for Both.
In this example, your retail site will be limiting the
Billing Countries to The United States, Canada and The
United Kingdom and limiting the Ship-To countries to
The United States, Canada and Australia.
Minimum Order Amount:
Enter
a value for your Retail Shopping Cart's Minimum Order
Amount. Customers on your retail site will not be able
to make a purchase until their shopping cart's total
value equals or exceeds the minimum amount specified
here.
Shopping
Cart Discounts:
You can
set specific discounts for your Retail and Wholesale
Sites separately. These discounts are based on either
a percentage off of the total amount or a set dollar
amount off of the total amount. You can set your own
values in these fields. You can also designate when
to use these discounts.
As you see below, there is
a discount of $25 on any Retail order over $300. There
is also a discount of 15% on any Retail order with 5
or more Items in the customer's Shopping Cart.
IMPORTANT
NOTE: If two or more discounts apply
to the current contents of your customer's cart, only
the discount with the higher discounted value will be
applied to the customer's purchase.
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