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do not Ship:
Only select this option if your company does not
charge for shipping or if your web store will not calculate
or charge shipping charges - or if your shipping costs
are included in each product's price. If this option
is checked, your shopping cart will not calculate shipping
costs at all.
Include Insurance:
If this option is checked, insurance will be added
to all Real-Time Carrier shipping methods and included
in the shipping price.
Shipping Carriers and Methods
- Real-Time Shipping Quotes from USPS, UPS, FedEx and
DHL:
If your business is located in the United States
or Canada, your shopping cart may calculate shipping
costs according to actual shipping prices as calculated
by popular carriers. The Fortune3 Shopping Cart & Ecommerce
Wizard software in conjunction with its back-end integrations
to major US carriers provides direct shipping quotes
in real-time based on packaging specifications and shipping
locations. They are currently available for UPS, FedEx,
USPS and DHL.
The shipping costs provided by shipping carriers depend
on weight package, dimensions, origin address and destination
address. In order to get accurate shipping quotes the
information you provide for products' weights and dimensions
must be precise, and you must enter the appropriate
boxes that your company uses in the "My
Boxes" section. For shipping calculation
purposes, the Box Consolidation
feature the FORTUNE3 software will automatically package
your items into as few boxes as possible.
The available shipping methods are displayed on the
left-panel. In order to add a selection, simply click
on the appropriate line to highlight it. If you wish
to offer a percentage discount (or a negative discount)
from the regular shipping cost, enter the discount amount
(enter 5 if you want to discount the quote returned
by 5% or enter -5 if you want to add 5% to the quote
returned). Click on the "Add >>" button. The specified
"Shipping Method" and "Discount" will appear on the
"Provide Online Quotes for these Shipping Methods" window
on the right-panel, and will be available to customers
when ordering from your shopping cart. You may continue
to add methods as desired.
If you select a UPS and/or a DHL method, you will get
a prompt warning telling you that you must register
with UPS and/or DHL in the Administration Site in order
for the UPS and/or DHL shipping quotes to be available
on your shopping cart orders - if you do not perform
the Registration in the Administration Site, the UPS
and/or DHL shipping quotes will not be offered on your
checkout process.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Because
all of the selected shipping methods will be quoted
on each customer's order in real-time, we do not recommend
offering too many alternatives, as this could create
unnecessary processing delays which may result in the
abandonment of your shopping cart.
Alternate
Shipping Methods:
In addition to real-time quotes offered by major
carriers, you can offer your customers Alternate
Shipping Methods ("Customer Pick Up", "Customer's
Carrier" and "To Be Arranged"). No
shipping charges will be applied when selecting either
"Customer Pick Up", "Customer's Carrier"
or "To Be Arranged": If a customer selects
any of these options, the system will skip the Shipping
Cost Calculation process, and no shipping charges
will be added to the shopping cart checkout.
Add a Free Shipping Method:
Only enter a name for a Free Shipping Method
if you are offering Free Shipping to all of your orders,
as anything entered here will offer this free method
to all of your orders for any products on your site.
Company
Shipping Rules:
You can also create your
own "Company Shipping Rules" as
Alternate Shipping Methods. To create a rule, you
must first specify a name for that rule ( under the
"Shipping Method Description" input
box ), then click on "Add". A screen
will pop up prompting you to select a shipping rule
to be defined. Your 5 choices are:
Option
1 - "Charge according to the total Invoice
Amount or Shipping Weight" - Select
the calculation method that applies (Establish
Rule Based On: Invoice Amount or Shipping
Weight). Fill out the table with the corresponding
shipping charges based on range values you establish
(as shown below):
You should consider the following
when creating a rule according to the 'Weight of
the Shipment':
If you would like to base your shipping costs
on the number of products that are ordered, then you
can use this option. Simply enter each product's weight
as being 1 lb. (or kg.) and select "Establish
Rule Based on Weight of the Shipment" and
fill out the chart with weight units increasing one
by one, along with the appropriate Shipping Charge for
each lb. (or product).
If you leave the Domestic column blank, this shipping
method will only be available to International Orders.
If you leave the International column blank, this shipping
method will only be available to Domestic orders.
This shipping method will only be offered to those orders
whose invoice amount or total weight is within one of
the ranges specified by you in the table. If the invoice
amount or total weight is not in the table's range,
this shipping method will not be offered. If you run
out of space on this table (not enough rows), you can
always create a new Shipping Rule, continuing the range
from where this first table left off.
NOTE:
Using this option, you can also set up a free
shipping method based on the total Invoice Amount. If
you would like to do this, while defining the chart,
once you reach a specific price range, you can set the
actual shipping charge to "0"
Option
2 - "Specify a percentage from the
total 'Invoice Amount'" - Enter a percentage
of the cost of the shopping cart contents to obtain
a shipping cost. A minimum charge can apply if the percentage
does not meet the minimum amount.
Option
3 - "Specify a minimum charge plus
a percentage from the total 'Invoice Amount'"
- Set a minimum charge and add a percentage (surcharge)
from the price of the shopping cart contents to obtain
the total shipping cost. The
difference between Option 2 and Option 3, is that Option
3 automatically charges the Minimum charge AND adds
the specified percentage on top of the minimum; Meanwhile
Option 2 ONLY charges the minimum charge IF the percentage
of the total invoice amount is not equal to or greater
than the minimum charge, yet it does not include the
percentage at all.
Option 4 - "Charge
according to the total Invoice Amount or Shipping
Weight by State" - Select
the calculation method that applies (Invoice Amount
or Shipping Weight). Fill out the table with
the corresponding shipping charges based on a range
of values you establish and by state or groups of states
(you can add different rules for each state or for a
group of states).
NOTE:
The shipping method will ONLY be offered to the states
that are added to the list.
Option 5 - "Charge according to the total
Invoice Amount or Shipping Weight
by Country" - Select the calculation
method that applies (Invoice Amount or Shipping
Weight). Fill out the table with the corresponding
shipping charges based on a range of values you establish
and by Country or Countries (you can add different rules
for each country or for a group of countries).
NOTE: The shipping
method will ONLY be offered to the countries that are
added to the list.
Additional Shipping Settings:
Flat Rate Handling:
By entering a Flat Rate Handling fee here,
the fee entered will be added to ALL of your shipping
methods in addition to the original shipping price,
even if the original shipping price is 0.
Ship From Address:
This option should be selected and edited only
if your company ships from an address other than the
company's main address specified in the "Company
Information" section. Shipping costs will
be calculated accordingly, as if the packages were departing
from this address:
My
Boxes - Defining Box Sizes:
Once you have entered your shipping methods,
click on the "My Boxes" button. A window will
prompt you to specify or checkmark the dimensions of
the boxes you use for packing / packaging your products.
The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software
in conjunction with its back-end Box
Consolidation calculation will arrange and "pack"
your shopping cart contents into the minimum number
of the smallest boxes possible from the boxes that you
have either checked in the Screen or Custom Boxes that
you have added to this screen. The FORTUNE3
Box Consolidation fills up your boxes up to
a 90% filled capacity - you should always calculate
that the boxes need to have 10% of the space of their
volumetric dimensions - Length X Width X Height free.
NOTE: If the
appropriate boxes are not added, problems with shipping
costs when using Real-Time calculations can arise for
orders with more than one product. This is because if
several products of yours do not fit into one box, the
system may calculate the shipping costs based on more
than one box or package to be sent. To make sure that
many products can fit into one box, add boxes that are
big enough to fit several of your products.
Regular box dimensions for the 4 major US carriers are
pre-defined and displayed. You may add or remove any
of the pre-defined selections by clicking on the check
box next to each entry.
Custom Boxes
- You may also add your own custom box sizes
by entering a Reference Name and the 3 corresponding
dimensions ("L", "W", "H").
Click "Add >>" to make them available for packaging.
Added custom boxes will be displayed in the bottom-panel
window. You may remove any addition by clicking on a
selected entry; and then clicking on the "Delete"
button. When you are satisfied with the boxes listed,
click on "OK".
Box
Consolidation / Packaging:
Setting up 'Custom Boxes' will enable the 'Shipping
Consolidation' (packaging) feature, which may offer
customers lower shipping prices for consolidating the
products added to the shopping cart in as few boxes
as possible.
The 'Box Consolidation' calculation is performed
during the shopping-cart checkout process, prior to
the 'Shipping Cost Calculation'.
Two or more items may be placed into a larger box whose
dimensions exceed those of each individual item and
the total volume of the items being consolidated. FORTUNE3's
back-end E-Commerce Shopping Cart software uses logical
conditions and math algorithms to consolidate the items
into a minimum number of Custom Boxes. A 10%
security factor is taken into consideration to always
fit the overall volume.
In order for your company
to use this state-of-the-art algorithm, you must specify
the boxes and/or containers that are available in your
company for packaging products. Please note, while the
consolidation system is accurate, it defaults to a cautious
estimation. In cases where a product's shape or dimensions
are irregular, the consolidations may yield an inaccurate
result. When a product has an irregular shape (tube,
triangle, etc.), we recommend that you adjust the dimensions
accordingly in the product's
properties window in the Wizard's "My
Products" section.
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