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Click Here to Download the Fortune3 Wizard Shopping Cart Software First Time Users: Upon opening the Wizard software for the first time the New Store Setup window will appear and you will be prompted to input basic information pertaining to your company. Since FORTUNE3™ Wizard & E-Commerce Web Site software uses the information you input to create your online store it is important to provide accurate information because it will affect several aspects of your online store. Once you fill in the information, and click on "Create Store", your online store will be populated with a few sample products and categories according to the industry you have selected. NOTE: You may change any of the information that is entered into the New Store Setup screen at a later time.  During the store creation process, your account will either be verified or activated with the Username (Company ID) and Password that you specified in the form. In some instances the company's Username might already be taken. If this occurs, a form will display asking you to change the Username (Company ID). You will be able to select from a list suggesting several others.  If you have already created your store with Fortune3, and the New Store Setup window appears when you open the Wizard, it is either because your data was lost or uninstalled, or because you are using a different computer than the one that your store was set up with, in which case you must click on "Import Existing Company" to import your existing store's files from a Rescue file (.zip or .f3x). Click here for more information on using multiple computers, how to retrieve your existing store's data through Exporting it from the latest location, and performing backups after uploading and then following the Rescue Company Data process. When you open the Wizard Software after your first company has been created, you will be prompted to either "Open an Existing Company" , "Import Existing Company Data" or "Create a New Company". By default, the FORTUNE3™ Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software is set to open an existing company. To open an existing company (a company is the same as an individual online store), select the company that you wish to open from the list, and click on "Open". If you are importing your store from a Rescue File or a Wizard Export file (.f3x), select "Import Existing Company Data", click on "Import", and then browse for your saved Rescue File (.zip or .f3x), select it and click on "Open". if you want to create a brand new store select "Create a New Company", click on "Create", the New Store Setup window will appear. 
For each online store (Company) that you create, the FORTUNE3™ E-Commerce software and Shopping Cart Wizard software generates an online storefront Web site through a set of files and saves a database on your computer's local drive. You can modify your E-Commerce Web site at any time and perform updates as necessary on the FORTUNE3 Wizard and upload to your Web hosting account with FORTUNE3. Main Menu contains 6 buttons which contain the entire Fortune3 Ecommerce Software and all of its features and functionality. They are My Company, My Web Pages, My Products, Upload Site, Admin Site, and My Site. 
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Company InformationEditing and updating your online store information is simple. The FORTUNE3™ Wizard & E-Commerce Web Site software is a fully customizable shopping cart software that features smart entry boxes to simplify the process of creating your online store as well as editing your E-Commerce Web site information. To guarantee peak performance, make sure that the information you provide is accurate. This screen prompts you to provide general Company Information. The FORTUNE3™ Online Store Builder software displays entry boxes with black titles indicating that the information is optional. Red titles are used to indicate that the information is required. Some entry-forms require completion of all of the entry boxes. The information you enter in this section will establish some of the functionality of your online store, E-Commerce Web site and Web site shopping cart. To guarantee that you are immediately notified of all sales activity in your online shopping cart, please make sure that the E-mail addresses and other required contact information are accurate. NOTE: You cannot advance to the next entry-form until all of the required fields have been completed in the current entry-form. 
Each entry-form contains data fields that are of special interest with regard to the functionality of your E-Commerce shopping cart, for example: Company Name - This should be your company's correct legal name, it is displayed in several sections of your site including the Terms of Sale and Privacy Policy, as well as in the Title of all product and category pages (and meta tags) by default. Address, City, State/Province & Zip Code - Used to calculate shipping costs, print labels & displayed as your company's contact information on your web store. Country - Select the Country in which your Company's main location is registered. This info is also displayed on your company's contact information. Once you select your country, the list of States will get updated so you can select the state you are in within your country. Shipping settings will be applicable according to the country you select here. Currency - Used to include the currency unit for all of your shopping cart transactions. Currency Conversion and Languages - These options are used to make it easier for your customers to view and use your site. The Currency Conversion is used to let the customers see exactly what the products' price is in their own currency. You can pick which currencies you would like to make available to your customers. NOTE: Orders will not be processed in multiple currencies by default. If your credit card processor can process payments in multiple currencies, and you would like your web store to process orders in multiple currencies, please contact FORTUNE3. The Language Translations are used to make it easier for a customer to use your site if the language your site is built in is not their first language. You can choose which languages to translate to from whichever language your site has been created in. NOTE: The translator may make a rough translation, and may not be absolutely true to the verbiage you use on your site. This is mainly used to give customers without the ability to normally read your site a better, easier way to understand and browse your site. Our translation tool utilizes the Google Translator and may not be 100% accurate, but is by far the best web site translator around. Also, the translator will only recognize basic text; it will not change the text on buttons, images or other objects. For the Currency Conversion and the Language Translations, you have the ability to choose how you want these options to be displayed to the customer. You can choose to display them on either a Drop-down List, or as a series of flag images of the related countries. 
To add your allowed currencies and/or languages, select your choice from the boxes on the left one at a time, and click on the "Add" button until all of your choices show up in the boxes on the right. Sales Dept. E-mail - Enter the e-mail address where you want order notifications to be sent to, this address will also be displayed on your web site as your contact e-mail address. If you would like your order confirmation e-mails to go to multiple e-mail addresses, enter the various e-mail addresses in this box, each e-mail address should be separated by a semi-colon ( ; ). Store Info E-Mail -Contact Form e-mails from your web store's default contact form will be sent to this e-mail address. Unit of Measure - Select the measurement system that your company operates on. Decimal Symbol - Enter the symbol used for decimals in your region. Enter either are a period ( . ) or a comma ( , ). Contact Name - Enter the Administrator's Contact Name for FORTUNE3 references. Website Admin E-Mail - Enter the e-mail address where the web site administrator will receive relevant information, messages, news, FORTUNE3 Upgrades, wholesale account requests, and reports. If you did not enter anything under Store Info E-mail, the Contact Form e-mails from your web store's default contact form will also be sent to this e-mail address. Username (Company ID) and Password - You need to identify your company by selecting a "Username (Company ID)" and "Password". The Username will identify the company; it will be also used as part of the temporary web site's URL and part of your secure pages' URL if you will be using FORTUNE3's free SSL. (I.e.http://www.myfortune3cart.com/username/), and to log in to the Administration Site from any web browser. The information provided will be used on your online store where applicable. Your password can be retrieved or changed at any time in the Administration Site. Your username can only be changed by contacting FORTUNE3. Template Footer (represented by the token {companyinfo} on your template): All of the web pages on your online store, E-Commerce web site and shopping cart will contain the following information by default to display your company information to visitors. This information can only be removed by removing the {companyinfo} token from your template's HTML code (see My Template): Company Name Address City, State, Zip Code Country Sales Dept. E-mail Phone & Ext. Fax |
Retail OptionsRetail Web Site: By creating a Retail Web Site, your E-Commerce web site, 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 URL's: or if you are not using a domain name for your FORTUNE3 store: http://www.myfortune3cart.com/username/ (i.e. http://www.fortune3.com/naturalab/) 
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 "Wholesale Options". 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. Credit Cards: Merchant Accounts: 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, Checkout by Amazon, or Google Checkout. However, the complete credit card information for the shopping cart orders will be saved and made 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 saving these numbers in any way is prohibited by law. 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. If you would like to change the text that for the name of a payment method, simply right-click on it, and re-name it. 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". Linking your PayPal account to your online store is free. IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PAYPAL: 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 - 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 arrange for the Wire Transfer themselves.  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. 
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. IMPORTANT NOTE: 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. Additional Options 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 Sub-Total value equals or exceeds the minimum amount specified here. The "SHIPPING ADDRESS" must match the card holder's "BILLING ADDRESS": 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. Authorize vs. Pre-Authorize: If you have a Merchant Account 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 web site 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. 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). Please note that not all credit card gateways have this feature, so this feature's functionality depends upon whether your payment processor allows a pre-authorization model or not. 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 the example below, 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. 
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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Wholesale OptionsThe FORTUNE3 E-Commerce & Shopping Cart Wizard software will grant access to the "Wholesale Web Site" to authorized users only. All new users wanting to view or purchase products at "wholesale" will be required to register on-line and get approved by the web site administrator through the Administration Site's "Manage -> My Wholesale Customers" interface. With a wholesale site, you can set various price levels in order to have certain customers on specific pricing schedules. These price levels are specified in each individual product's properties screen. Please see the "My Products" section of the help for more information. You can specify which price level each of your wholesale customers is on by going to your Administration Site and managing your wholesale customers. You can also give each customer a custom price list for each product you sell. NOTE: If the Retail Web Site is disabled and only the Wholesale Web Site is enabled, all visitors trying to access your shopping section will reach the "Login Page" of the Wholesale Web Site. However, if both the Retail Web Site and Wholesale Web Site are enabled, then the ONLY way of accessing the Wholesale Web Site would be by clicking on the Wholesale Login link on your site's menu (if you activate this link), or by going to the corresponding wholesale web site's URL: or http://wholesale.domainname (i.e. http://wholesale.naturalab.com) 
Wholesale Payment Methods: 
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 wholesale 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. Add Login Link on Main Menu: Check-marking this option will add a Wholesale Login button to your Main Menu. This is recommended if you have both Retail (B2C) and Wholesale (B2B) web sites activated. Wholesale Orders are Taxable: By default, your wholesale shopping cart will not charge sales tax. Checkmark this option to charge Sales Tax on wholesale orders. The tax will be charged according to the settings in your Sales Tax Setup screen. Wholesale Minimum Order Amount: Enter a value for your Wholesale Shopping Cart's Minimum Order Amount. Customers on your Wholesale site will not be able to make a purchase until their shopping cart's total value equals or exceeds the minimum amount specified here. The "SHIPPING ADDRESS" must match the card holder's "BILLING ADDRESS": 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. Authorize vs. Pre-Authorize: If you have a Merchant Account 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 web site 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. 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). Please note that not all credit card gateways have this feature, so this feature's functionality depends upon whether your payment processor allows a pre-authorization model or not. 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 wholesale 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 wholesale 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. 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 30% on any Wholesale order over $500. 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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Shipping Information
We 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. Shipping Carriers and Methods - Real-Time Shipping Quotes from USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, Canada Post and Australia Post: Your shopping cart can 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 carriers provides direct shipping quotes in real-time based on packaging specifications and shipping locations. They are currently available for UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, Canada Post, and Australia Post. 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. The carriers that are available to you will depend on the country you have selected in the "Ship From Address" window (i.e USPS is only offered if your business is in the US, Canada Post is only offered if your business is in Canada, etc). 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 right-panel, and will be available as choices 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. Company Shipping Rules: You can also create your own manually-defined "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 from available types of shipping rules. Your 6 choices are: 
Option 1 - "Charge according to the sub-total, shipping weight, or order qty" - Select the calculation method that applies (Establish Rule Based On: Invoice Amount, Shipping Weight, or Order Qty). 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 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. - Using this option, you can also set up a free shipping method based on the total Invoice Amount (i.e Free Shipping for Orders over $100). 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", or simply only fill out the chart with the range that the method is offered for (from 100 to 999999, charge $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 sub-total, shipping weight, or order qty by State" - Select the calculation method that applies (Establish Rule Based On: Invoice Amount, Shipping Weight, or Order Qty). 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 sub-total, shipping weight, or order qty by Zip / Postal Code" - Select the calculation method that applies (Establish Rule Based On: Invoice Amount, Shipping Weight, or Order Qty). Fill out the table with the corresponding shipping charges based on a range of values you establish and by zip or postal codes, or by groups of zip/postal codes (you can add different rules for each zip code or for a group of zip codes). 
NOTE: The shipping method will ONLY be offered to the zip / postal codes that are added to the list. Option 6 - "Charge according to the sub-total, shipping weight, or order qty by Countries" - Select the calculation method that applies (Establish Rule Based On: Invoice Amount, Shipping Weight, or Order Qty). 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. 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. 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. Include Insurance: If this option is checked, insurance will be added to all Real-Time Carrier shipping methods and included in the shipping price. 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, Australia Post, and Canada Post are pre-defined and displayed. Additionally you may select general use boxes which are not affiliated to any particular carrier or postal office. 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 4 corresponding dimensions ("L", "W", "H", "Lb"). 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 for packaging materials 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. You must make sure that you enter each product's dimensions accurately, entering the dimensions of each product as it is packed in the box (if folded, enter the dimensions when folded). 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. 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: 
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Sales Tax - VAT - IVA SetupThe FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software applies automatic sales tax calculation for shopping cart transactions for businesses located in the United States or who charge taxes to U.S. customers. Scroll down the State list and select the State that your company is located in or the states to which you charge sales tax to. A percentage rate based out of FORTUNE3's database is selected and displayed by default, but tax rates vary by county, so if your tax rate is different than the one that is shown for the state, you may adjust the tax percentage value located under the scroll down list, then click on "Add". If the "Tax Shipping?" checkbox is selected the Wizard will also take into account the cost of shipping when calculating the USA sales tax. If your company has shipping locations in different States, you may select and "Add" as many States as required. Make sure that all of the States you want to include for taxation purposes appear on your list. In most states, the law is that you should charge your county's sales tax rate only to those customers whose shipping address state is a state where your company ships from. 
The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart and E-Commerce Wizard software applies automatic taxation (V.A.T.) calculation for shopping cart transactions for businesses located in Canada or who charge taxes to Canadian customers. You can either choose to add a General Canadian Sales Tax, or a Provincial Canadian Sales Tax, the options for both are listed below. General Canadian Sales Tax: If you would like to charge a tax for all customers located in Canada then enter the GST percentage value. If your company uses HST for this General Tax, then enter the HST percentage value. If the top "Tax Shipping?" checkbox is selected the Wizard will also take into account the cost of shipping when calculating the General Canadian sales tax. Provincial Canadian Sales Tax: If your company charges Canadian Sales Taxes based on Province, you can scroll down the Province list on this screen and select the Province that you want to add tax to, then enter the GST percentage value. If your company uses HST for this Province, then enter the HST percentage value and check-mark the "Use HST" option. Then click on "Add". If your company charges PST for this Province, check-mark the "Use PST" option and specify the PST percentage value. Then click on "Add". If the bottom "Tax Shipping?" checkbox is selected the Wizard will also take into account the cost of shipping when calculating either the HST or PST sales tax for this province. If your company charges PST or HST to multiple Provinces, you may scroll down on the list to select other Provinces. Then enter the values for each Province and click on "Add" until all of the Provinces that you want to include are on the list. 
International VAT: The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart and E-Commerce Wizard software applies automatic taxation (V.A.T. or I.V.A.) calculation for shopping cart transactions for businesses located in Countries other than the United States and Canada. If you charge VAT to Countries outside of the U.S. and Canada, you may scroll down the Country list and make your selection. Enter the VAT (Value Added Tax) percentage value and click on "Add". If the "Tax Shipping?" checkbox is selected the Wizard will also take into account the cost of shipping when calculating the international VAT. If your company charges VAT to different countries, you may scroll down the list to add other countries you want to include. Click on "Add" until all of the countries that you will charge taxes to are on the list.  Surtax by Zip Code/Postal Code : The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software allows you to specify additional surtax percentages based on the zip code or postal code of the shipping address in the order. The surtax will be added on top of any other applicable taxes (State or International). The appropriate amount will be automatically added during the shopping cart check-out process. If you charge a surtax for certain Zip/Postal Codes you may enter the zip/postal code you wish to apply a surtax to. Enter the tax percentage value and click on "Add". If the "Tax Shipping?" checkbox is selected the Wizard will also take into account the cost of shipping when calculating the surtax for this zip/postal code. If your company charges a Surtax to different zip/postal Codes, "Add"until all of the zip/postal codes that you charge surtaxes to are on the list. You may also choose to Import your Surtaxes from a Spreadsheet, which is a tool made available from the "Import/Export" menu to save time configuring your Sutax by Zip / Postal Codes. 
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Return / Refund Policy
All Sales are Final - No Returns - By selecting this option you establish that all sales are "final", and that no returns will be accepted. This notice will be printed on every product's page by default and on your Terms of Sale document. If this option is selected, on every product's page there will be a note that reads "NOTE: Items are not refundable". You can get rid of this text in the product pages by going to the "Cart Options" portion of the Wizard's "My Web Pages"section and un-checking the 'Refund Policy Info' option from displaying on the Product Pages. No Refunds - By selecting this option you establish that products may be returned within a specified time frame for store-credit, but no money will be given back to the customer. If this option is selected, on every product page there will be a note that reads "NOTE: Items are not refundable". You can get rid of this text in the product pages by going to the "Cart Options" portion of the Wizard's "My Web Pages"section and un-checking the 'Refund Policy Info' option from displaying on the Product Pages. My Company's Return Policy - By selecting this option you can establish the following:
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Content Pages / Pre-Designed Web Pages
The pre-designed pages are:
Keep in mind that any of these pages can be completely modified to fit your needs. If you do not like the setup or layout of the pages, change them as you wish. All of these pages contain generic terms. You can use them as they appear or they can be modified with HTML. Please see the "Adding / Editing Web Pages" section NOTE: The pre-designed pages may contain special tokens to identify your company's information. These tokens are case-sensitive and include: {companyname}, {Addr1}, {Addr2}, {City}, {State}, {Zip}, {County}, {Country}, {Phone}, {Ext}, {Fax}, {SalesEmail} and {randompage}. These tokens represent and call the information that was entered into the Wizard's "Company Information" section. Template Footer (represented by the token {companyinfo} on your template): All of the web pages on your online store, E-Commerce web site and shopping cart will contain the following information by default to identify your company. This information can only be removed by removing the {companyinfo} token from your template's HTML code (see My Template): Company Name Address City, State, Zip Code Country Sales Dept. E-mail Phone & Ext. Fax |
Adding / Editing Web PagesTo create or incorporate a new content page (informational web page), open the FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software and go to the "My Web Pages" section. Click on the "Add Page" button, then enter the exact name of the web page that you want to add into the Web Page Filename field (do not enter any spaces, quotes, path names or .html extension), or click on Browse File to import the page from an existing .html file. Under Web Page Name, enter the name of the page as you would like it to appear as the text for the link on your Main Menu when you add a link to your main menu. Under Use HTML Code you need to select whether you want your HTML page to be placed inside your Template or by itself. Select "With Company's Template" or "Stand Alone" and click on "Next >".  Stand Alone If you select "Stand Alone"to create your web page, you will be sent directly to the built-in HTML editor to start working on your Stand-Alone web page, bypassing the "Web Page Meta Tags" and "Web Page Layout" windows that follow. In a stand-alone page, it is up to you to insert the Meta Tags and Title Tag in your HTML code, since you will not be using the template on this web page, the Wizard will not prompt you to enter these fields. Web Page Meta Tags (this window only appears if you selected the "With Company's Template" option): If you select "With Company's Template" to create the web page you will be prompted to fill in the web page meta tags for this page (Title, Description, and Keywords):
Enter the Meta Tags and then click on "Next >" to continue. FORTUNE3's built-in HTML editor will appear. Web Page Layout (this window only appears if you selected the "With Company's Template" option): The Fortune3 Wizard comes with several pre-set layouts that you can choose from when creating your content pages. Each web page can have a unique layout for its content. The type of layout that you choose guides the FORTUNE3 E-Commerce and Shopping Cart Wizard in formatting your text and placing images and other objects in the web page you are creating. Each layout has a unique design and is used for a specific type of web page. Depending on which layout is selected the content which you can input in that particular page is affected. Select a layout, or select Blank if you don't want to use a layout and want to design the page from scratch, and click "Next >". You will then be taken to the FORTUNE3 built-in HTML editor to provide the content for this page. 
NOTE: Once you have selected a layout for the new web page and your web page has been created, the layout cannot be changed. If you want to select a different layout for your new web page you must close the built-in HTML editor, and click on the Add Page button to re-add your page with the new format. You can then copy / paste the HTML code back into the original page, or remove the original page and keep the new one. Edit a Web Page (Edit Page): To change / modify an informational web page (content page), open the FORTUNE3 E-Commerce & Shopping Cart Wizard software and go to the "My Web Pages" section. Select the icon corresponding to the web page you want to "Edit Page"button. This will send you to the Wizard's built-in HTML editor, explained next. |
FORTUNE3's Built-in HTML Editor / WYSIWYGThe built-in HTML editor, or WYSIWYG Interface, is used to create and modify Web Pages, Templates, or any HTML OK field (such as product descriptions, Web Texts, product tabs, etc) within the FORTUNE3 Wizard. Powerful and easy to use, this HTML editor helps beginners and experts alike create professional and attractive online stores, manage and maintain their web pages, and control all aspects of their site without the need for 3rd party HTML editors. 
File Menu Save (Ctrl + S) - Saves the web page, template, or field you are currently working on. FORTUNE3 recommends that you save your work frequently to prevent the loss of data. Save & Close - Saves and closes the web page, template, or field you are currently working, on returning you to the FORTUNE3 Wizard. Properties (Ctrl + R) - Opens and closes the "Floating Properties Window". For more information regarding the Properties window please click here. Print (Ctrl + P) - Prints the current file in the mode you are currently on (Design Mode, View Code, Browser Mode). Exit - Closes the HTML editor and returns you to the Fortune3 Wizard. You will be asked if you want to save your changes before closing. 
View Menu Toolbars - Opens and closes the various toolbars of the editor. The Standard, Format, Design, and Status bars have features which help you modify the various aspects of your web page, template, or field. Form Objects - Form objects can be added to a web page to allow users to input data. You can add the following form objects to your web page: Password - A field for entering a password, will show as bullets (●●●●●) to hide the text.
HTML Source - Allows you to insert HTML Code directly into the position that your cursor is in. This can be used to embed videos or flash animations into your web pages, templates, or HTML OK fields. Click Here for more information on embedding or adding videos or flash animations to your site. Format Menu
Pressing "Enter" between each bullet point will automatically build the bullet list structure for you. To exit a bullet list you can press the "Enter" button twice. Numbered List - This option allows you to make a numbered list, which displays as follows:
Pressing "Enter" between each numbered point will automatically build the numbered list structure for you. To exit a numbered list you can press the "Enter" button twice. Bring Above Text - Places the selected element in front of any text which overlaps it. Send Below Text - Places the selected element behind any text which overlaps it. Lock Element - Selecting this options locks the element in place, preventing it from being moved within the web page and the layers of the web page. Snap to Grid - Snap to Grid command enables and disables snap to grid. When enabled, when you move a layer or selection the grid points move the object towards them. Table Menu Insert Table - Clicking on this option opens the Insert Table window, which allows you to set the parameters of your new table, clicking ok will add the table into your web page, where your cursor is located. 
Insert Rows - Clicking this option inserts a row above the cursor's cell. You must be in a table's cell for this option to be enabled. Insert Cols - Clicking this option inserts a column to the left of the cursor's cell. You must be in a table's cell for this option to be enabled. Insert Cell - Clicking this option inserts a cell to the left of the cursor's cell. You must be in a table's cell for this option to be enabled. Delete Rows - Clicking this option deletes the row the cursor is currently in. You must be in a table's cell for this option to be enabled. Delete Cols - Clicking this option deletes the column the cursor is currently in. You must be in a table's cell for this option to be enabled. Delete Cell - Clicking this option deletes the cell the cursor is currently in. You must be in a table's cell for this option to be enabled. Merge Cells - This option combines the cells currently selected into 1 cell. This option only works if the selected cells can be merged. Empty cells cannot be merged, so if you would like to merge cells that are empty, enter a text into the empty cells temporarily, select the cells and do the merge, and then remove the temporary text you added. Split Cells - This option splits the cursor's cell into 2 equal parts.
Pressing "Enter" between each bullet point will automatically build the bullet list structure for you. To exit a bullet list you can press the "Enter" button twice.
Pressing "Enter" between each numbered point will automatically build the numbered list structure for you. To exit a numbered list you can press the "Enter" button twice.
 Cut (Ctrl + X) Removes the selected text or object(s) and stores them into the Windows clipboard until another data is copied or cut into the clipboard.  Copy (Ctrl + C) Makes a copy of the selected text or object(s) and stores them into the Windows clipboard until another item is copied or cut into the clipboard.  Paste (Ctrl + V) Places the data that is stored on the Window's clipboard and places it on the page. You can pay this item as many times as needed because a copied item is not removed from the clipboard.  Undo (Ctrl + Z) Undoes the last action performed.  Redo Redoes the last undone action.  Insert TableClicking on this option opens the Insert Table window, which allows you to set the parameters of your new table, clicking ok will add the table into your web page, where your cursor is located.
 Form Objects - Form objects can be added to a web page to allow users to input data. You can add the following form objects to your web page: Insert Form - Inserts the main Form tag (<form>) required for pages with form submissions. Textbox - A Text box is a field that allows you customer to input alphanumerical data. The field appears as a single line and moves horizontally as text is entered so that new text can be viewed as it is entered. You can expand the box both horizontally and vertically in the editor however since the text will always appear as a single line expanding vertically will only have a visual effect on the box but not impact on how the text is displayed. Textarea - A Text area is a multi-line textbox field, allowing users to type in multiple lines of text. Checkbox - Allows your customer to choose from multiple responses. As many options as apply can be selected. Radio List - Allows you customer to choose a SINGLE response from multiple options. Selecting any option in a radio list de-selects the previously selected option. Listbox - Displays predetermined options values with a scrolling menu that allows you customer to choose multiple options. Dropdown -A dropdown displays as an arrow that expands to show a list when clicked by a customer. It is used to list options your customer can choose from. Button - Inserts a submit button for your form. Hidden - Hidden fields store and pass along static information to be manually transmitted by a form. Password - A field for entering a password, will show as bullets (●●●●●) to hide the text.
 Design Mode Selecting this mode displays the web page and its elements visually allowing you to make and see the changes. This is the default mode for editing.  View Code Selecting this mode displays the web page and its elements entirely through HTML code and allows you to edit the HTML code directly.  Browser Mode Enables Browser mode, which shows you what your web page, template, or field will look like within a browsers' window.  Preview in Browser (only enabled when editing Web Pages or Templates)Opens up your default web browser to preview the Web Page or Template you are editing. If you are editing a web page that is set to be Within the Company's Template, the preview will open within the template, allowing you to see a realistic view of how your web page will be seen once uploaded.  Insert Rows Clicking this option inserts a row above the cursor's cell. You must be in a table's cell for this option to be enabled.
Hide Options - Clicking this button hides the Options Pane which contains the Web Page Properties, Objects Properties, and HTML Structure panes, thus giving you more horizontal space to work with your web page or template.. Web Page Properties This window allows you to modify the Meta Tag information and other properties of your web page (only available when editing a Web Page that is Within the Company's Template).. Title - The title for this particular
web page. The
title appears on the top title bar of
browsers, and is used by search engines
to display a title for this web page,
and possibly to determine where to position
this web page on their search results. (Edit Meta Tags) - Clicking this button takes you to the Web Page Meta Tags window. In this area, you can designate your own custom
Meta Tags for this web page. You can specify the web page's Title, Description, and
Keywords. This is mainly available for you
to optimize your pages for search engines. Stand Alone - This field specifies whether the web page will be displayed within your template. If this field displays "Yes" and you have chosen to make this a stand-alone page, it is up to you to insert the Meta Tags and Title Tag in your HTML code, since you will not be using the template on this web page, the Wizard will not generate these dynamic fields for you. (Edit Options) - Clicking this button takes you to the Edit Web Page window. In this area you can name your Web Page, as it will appear in your Main Menu, import data from an existing HTML page, replacing the code currently on this web page, and select whether you will be using your company's template (With Company's Template), or using this page as a Stand Alone, without your company's template. Objects Properties 
The Objects Properties Pane allows you to customize all aspects of your web page's elements. Each fields represents a different aspect of that element's attributes, controlling the look and functionality of your web page's objects overall and allowing you to modify the HTML properties of each element. Changes made here directly affect the code of the selected object. Select the object in the HTML Editor, go to the Objects Properties, select the Property you would like to change, and change the value on the top Input field. NOTE: All fields within the Objects Properties are not available for every element of your site. Some fields will have no bearing on the functionality or appearance of most of your elements.
A. Code Viewer - Displays the code of the element the cursor is currently on. B. Coordinates - Displays the coordinates of the mouse. C. Character Viewer - Displays the character of the element the cursor is currently on. D. Toggle Keys - Shows which of your toggle keys are currently activated, INS (Insert), CAPS (Caps Lock) and NUM (Num Lock). Active keys appear in black inactive keys appear in light gray.
The Floating Properties Window displays and allows you to modify the attributes of the elements on your web page, template, or HTML OK field. The elements that can be seen and edited from the floating properties window are Images, Tables, Cells, and Text. Each element has distinct attributes and depending on what type of element you are selecting or your cursor is on (Image, Table, Cell, or Text.) the floating properties window will show different fields that you can view and modify. 
  Font Selecting this opens the "Font" window which allows you to modify the font, style, effects, size, and color of the text you are currently selecting or if no text is selected to the text typed after the location of the cursor. You should only use web-safe fonts. 
 Bold (Ctrl + B) Choosing this option will BOLD the selected text. If no text is selected the BOLD applies to text typed after the location of the cursor.  Italic (Ctrl + I) Choosing this option will Italicize the selected text. If no text is selected the Italicize applies to the text typed after the location of the cursor.  Underline (Ctrl + U) Choosing this option will Underline the selected text. If no text is selected the Underline applies to the text typed after the location of the cursor.  Colour Opens the Font Color window, which allows you to select from 40 default colors and apply them to your selected text. Select "Custom.." and then "Define Custom Colors" to manually specify the values. You must then press "Add to Custom Colors" for the custom color to appear below the 40 preset colors, where it can be easily applied to your font. 
 Align Left Aligns the text horizontally to the left.  Align Center Aligns the text horizontally to the center.  Align Right Aligns the text horizontally to the right.  Align Justify Aligns the selected text so that all of the lines are the same length.  Sub Script Formats the selected text and/or text typed after the location of the cursor to appear as Subscript.  Super Script Formats the selected text and/or text typed after the location of the cursor to appear as Superscript.  Strike Choosing this option will  Bullets - This option allows you to make bullets list, which displays as follows:
Pressing "Enter" between each bullet point will automatically build the bullet list structure for you. To exit a bullet list you can press the "Enter" button twice.
Pressing "Enter" between each numbered point will automatically build the numbered list structure for you. To exit a numbered list you can press the "Enter" button twice. Image Attributes: 
SRC - Displays and allows you to modify the Source of the selected image (its file). Click on the Folder icon to replace the selected image for another. When you select an image from the folder icon, the new image file will automatically be placed in the corresponding and proper folder, allowing the Fortune3 Wizard to upload it to your site automatically and show the image on your site. You may also use an image URL in this field. Link - Displays and allows you to modify the hyperlink (href) of the selected image. You may use either a relative link (pagename.html) if this link will go to a page within your site, or an absolute link or URL (http://www.mysite.com/filename.html). Alt - Displays and allows you to modify the Alternate Text of an image (balloon text on mouse-over or text that shows when the image cannot load). Title - Displays and allows you to modify the Title of an image (also used for balloon text on mouse-over or text that shows when the image cannot load). Target - Displays and allows you to modify the target of the image's link (for example, use _blank to open the link in a new window). Border - Displays and allows you to modify the border of the selected image. When hyperlinking an image, use 0 in the border to hide the border from showing on the site. W - Displays and allows you to modify the width of the selected image as specified in the HTML code (will not actually change the image file). H - Displays and allows you to modify the height of the selected image as specified in the HTML code (will not actually change the image file). H. Space - Displays and allows you to modify the Horizontal spacing (or padding) assigned to the selected image. V. Space - Displays and allows you to modify the Vertical spacing (or padding) assigned to the selected image. 
W - Displays and allows you to modify the width of the selected table. Selecting the % sign will allow you to designate the table a variable width, allowing the table to take up a certain amount of space within the confined space that is given to it. Selecting px will designate a fixed pixel width to the table. H - Displays and allows you to modify the height of the selected table. Selecting the % sign will allow you to designate the table a variable height, allowing the table to take up a certain amount of space within the confined space that is given to it. Selecting px will designate a fixed pixel height to the table. Cell Padding - Displays and allows you to modify the padding (in pixels) that is assigned to each cell of the selected table. Cell Spacing - Displays and allows you to modify the spacing (in pixels) between each cell of the selected table. Align - Displays and allows you to modify the horizontal alignment assigned to the selected table. Bg Image - Displays and allows you to modify the background image that is assigned to the selected table. Click on the Folder icon to select an image as the background for the current table. When you select an image from the folder icon (from any folder on your PC) the image file will automatically be placed in the corresponding and proper folder, allowing the Fortune3 Wizard to upload it to your site automatically and show the background image on your site. You may also use an image URL in this field. Border - Displays and allows you to modify the border width (in pixels) of the selected table. Border Color - Displays and allows you to modify the border color that is assigned to the cell your cursor is in. Select the Color Picker for common colors or Custom Colors you have defined. Only applies if the Border is greater than 0. Bg Color - Displays and allows you to modify the background color that is assigned to the cell your cursor is in. Select the Color Picker for common colors or Custom Colors you have defined. 
W - Displays and allows you to modify the width of the cell your cursor is in. Selecting the % sign will allow you to designate the cell a variable width, making up a percentage of the total width of the table. Selecting px will designate a fixed pixel width to the cell. H - Displays and allows you to modify the height of the cell your cursor is in. Selecting the % sign will allow you to designate the cell a variable height, making up a percentage of the total height of the table. Selecting px will designate a fixed pixel height to the cell. H. Align - Displays and allows you to modify the type of Horizontal alignment that is assigned by default to the cell your cursor is in. V. Align - Displays and allows you to modify the type of Vertical alignment that is assigned by default to the cell your cursor is in. Bg Color - Displays and allows you to modify the background color that is assigned to the cell your cursor is in. Select the Color Picker for common colors or Custom Colors you have defined. Bg Image - Displays and allows you to modify the background image that is assigned to the cell your cursor is in. Click on the Folder icon to select an image as the background for the current cell. When you select an image from the folder icon (from any folder on your PC) the image file will automatically be placed in the corresponding and proper folder, allowing the Fortune3 Wizard to upload it to your site automatically and show the background image on your site. You may also use an image URL in this field. Border Color - Displays and allows you to modify the border color that is assigned to the cell your cursor is in. Select the Color Picker for common colors or Custom Colors you have defined. No wrap - If this option is checked, the cell your cursor is in will not allow text to wrap to the next line. Instead, the cell will grow wider and wider to fit the entered text in one line.  Merge Cells This option combines the cells currently selected into 1 cell. This option only works if the selected cells can be merged. Empty cells cannot be merged, so if you would like to merge cells that are empty, enter a text into the empty cells temporarily, select the cells and do the merge, and then remove the temporary text you added.
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Bold (Ctrl + B) 
Indent 
Outdent 
Background Color 
Save (Ctrl + S)
Print (Ctrl + P)
Find (Ctrl + F) 
Picture
Hyperlink
Document Details - Clicking this options toggles the document details showing elements of the document that usually aren't shown such as <br/>, <p>, etc.
Show Borders 
Properties (Ctrl + R)
Insert Cols 
Delete Rows 
Delete Cols 
Delete Cell 
Split Cells 
Position Absolute 
Bring Forward 
Send Backward 
Send to Front 
Send to Back 
Bring Above Text 
Send Below Text 
Lock Element 
Snap to Grid 
Textbox
Textarea 
Checkbox 
Radio List 
Listbox 
Dropdown 
Button 
Hidden 
Password 
Editing a Web Page: Advanced Editing / HTML CodeNOTE: The pre-designed pages come as HTML code and with the company's template by default. You can edit them directly, or provide your own HTML as explained in this section. 
Folder Path (Use this folder path to save your images): When manually entering the code, you will need to place all of the images and files that are called from the web page in the proper Folder Path.This field specifies the Folder Path in your local drive for the html pages and graphics of your Web site's content web pages. The Folder Path is by default located in this directory on your PC: Incorporate all images and animated objects referenced in the HTML code by saving their corresponding files (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .png, .fla, .swf, .swd, .spl formats) directly into the specified Folder Path - do not use sub-folders. Any files of this type that are in the Folder Path will be uploaded with your site on your hosting space's Root directory. Therefore, all references to images and objects in the HTML code should be made directly to the filename and extension - no path or sub-folders (i.e. - <IMG SRC="filename.ext">). Editing your Web Pages in HTML Editing Programs like Dreamweaver or Expression Web / In order to edit your web pages in an HTML editor like Dreamweaver, Expression Web, FrontPage, CofeeCup, or even Notepad, you can open the HTML editor program. If you are on Windows Vista or Windows 7 and have User Account Control turned on, you will need to open your HTML editor by right-clicking on it and selecting on "Run as Administrator", or else your changes will not be saved. Once you have the HTML editor open, go to File -> Open. Then browse through your PC's files to the following folder on your computer (Same as Folder Path): Make sure that
the HTML Editor screen for this page is not
open in the Wizard (that you are not currently
editing this page).
Another example of a token is {f3index} which will automatically be converted to the URL of your HOME Page. Thus, you may include a couple of links in your HTML code by entering the following: And this would yield the following output: Displaying Products on your Index Page (Home Page) - Using Top Sellers and {randompage}: FORTUNE3 has created a shortcut in order for you to display some of your products on your home page easily and in an attractive format. Instructions on how to do this are available on the Administration Site under the "My Reports" menu by clicking on the "Top Sellers" link. |
Company LogoNOTE on Logo Sizes: If you are using a predefined template, your logo will be automatically resized down to fit the template you have selected if the size of your logo overlaps the template's space for it. Some templates accept much smaller logos than others, so each template is configured to accept a separate maximum size. We recommend that you select a template that has the necessary space to fit your logo, or make enough space for it be editing the template. 
Click on the "Save & Close" button to save the changes made to your company logo. |
My TemplateYou may select a predefined template, you can modify the design of one of our templates or design your own by using the built-in HTML editor, or by using HTML editors such as Macromedia / Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web / FrontPage. You may also change your template's images and graphics by editing a .png file with "png" graphic software Fireworks. IMPORTANT NOTE ON CUSTOM TEMPLATES: FORTUNE3 does not recommend creating a template from scratch or using a template not provided by FORTUNE3 unless you are extremely proficient with HTML code and with the Wizard's HTML and template functionality all around. If you want to incorporate your own template for your shopping cart, it is highly recommended that you select the "Modify As..." option to download one of FORTUNE3's templates and start by working to turn FORTUNE3's template into your template. This is recommended because the template requires certain tokens and tags that are already placed in FORTUNE3's templates and because a template also includes many images, graphics and style sheets (like the Add to Cart button), which you will get into your template only when you download one of FORTUNE3's templates. Select Pre-defined Template: The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software comes with a library of ready-to-use templates that can quickly help you start your E-Commerce web site. Browse through the different Categories of templates in the Show Templates: drop-down on top of the screen, select a template "Style" from the menu on the left; then choose a color combination on the right. You may Preview any template by selecting the template of your choice and clicking on the "Preview" button. The template that is selected by default for your new company is determined by the industry you choose in the New Store Setup window. 
Click on "Save & Close>" to select and enable the template chosen. Modify/Customize Template: In order to assist you in changing a template or creating your own template design, the 'FORTUNE3 E-Commerce & Shopping Cart Wizard software' provides a library of customizable templates that can be downloaded to your computer and modified. In order to edit a FORTUNE3 template, go to the "My Web Pages" section of the Wizard, and click on "My Template", browse through the different Categories of templates in the Show Templates: drop-down on top of the screen, select a template Style from the menu on the left; then choose a color combination on the right. You may preview any template by selecting it and clicking on "Preview". Once you have chosen the template you would like to download and customize, select it and click on the "Modify As" button. The "Create New Template" window will appear. Fill in the "Name of New Template" field by entering a name that would reference your template - we recommend that you use your FORTUNE3 username or Company Name as your template's Name in order to avoid confusion. Click on OK. The template download will begin (this will require an Internet Connection).  Once the template is downloaded, the FORTUNE3 built-in HTML editor will open with your new template's code. Make the changes to the template as necessary. For help using the built in HTML editor click here. Web Designers / Integrating a Custom Template: You can delete the entire template if that is your choice and start with your custom template from scratch, but make sure to keep the required tokens in their proper placing as mentioned in the sections following below. 
If you want to modify your template by using an HTML editor such as Macromedia / Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web / FrontPage), exit the built-in HTML editor by going to "File -> Save & Close". Then click here for instructions on using an external HTML program to edit your template. If you will use Fortune3's HTML editor to modify your template: You may modify the template in the HTML Editor directly, or with HTML code by clicking on the View Code icon. Enter any HTML code you wish, with the exception of the few incompatible tags listed in the HTML Tags section. Make your changes as necessary, keeping these tips in mind: Link to other web pages on your site by specifying only the page name followed by .html (exclude the Folder Path. i.e. <A HREF="pagename.html">Enter Text Here</A>). Link to any of the 'FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software's auto-generated web-pages by using tokens: {f3index}, {f3products}, {f3specials}, {f3shop}, {f3about}, {f3contact}, {f3search}, {f3terms}, {f3privacy}, {f3faq} and {f3orderstatus} as link tokens for the filenames (exclude the Folder Path and the .html file extension. i.e. <A HREF="{f3privacy}">Privacy Policy</A>). The following chart depicts each link token that is available within FORTUNE3:
Refer to new images and animated objects being incorporated by specifying the filename followed by the corresponding file extension (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .png, .fla, .swf, .swd, .spl / exclude the Folder Path. i.e. <IMG SRC="imagename.gif ">). Please do not use uppercase letters in the filename. Any uppercase letters in the filename will automatically be converted to all lowercase letters to avoid errors. If your filename does have uppercase letters, please enter the full URL of the file (in the SRC tag) in order to keep the uppercase letters (<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/ImageName.jpg">) . Folder Path for the 'Template Design' - where to put This field specifies the Template's Folder Path in your local drive for your new template design. The Template's Folder Path is shown under the HTML panel. The Folder Path for your templates will look like this (Template's Folder Path): TIP: TemplateName = This is what you entered in the "Name of New Template" field when you first downloaded the template. Incorporate all of the new images and animated objects referenced in the HTML code by saving their corresponding files (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .png, .fla, .swf, .swd, .spl formats) directly into the specified Template's Folder Path - do not use sub-folders. The Template's Folder Path also contains other files, mostly image files and a style sheet (for example, the navigation menu's button images are in this folder, i.e button.gif). You may change any of the files and images in the Template's Folder Path. When you upload, the changed images will be reflected on your site. If you would like to edit the fonts in the style sheet, you may do so by editing the style.css file that is located in the Template's Folder Path, but in order for your modified style sheet to get uploaded to your site, you must also make sure that style.css is selected as the "Style Name" in the "Fonts & Styles" section of the Wizard.
<META name="keywords" content="{keywords}"> <META name="description" content="{description}"> <META name="title" content="{title}"> <title>{title}</title> Required Tokens / Tags: DO NOT REMOVE the following tokens: {onload} within the body tag of the HTML ( <body {onload}....> )- You Must Have this to have a Functional Shopping Cart. {menu} for the main category menu. {content} This token displays the dynamic contents of each of the web pages on your site. {jscript} Java Script for dynamic menu - You need this in order for the menu to work. The following 2 lines must appear before the body: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="script.js"></SCRIPT> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" title="Da Stylesheet" HREF="style.css"> Optional Template Tokens / Tags:
To save the changes to the template and enable the new template design select "File" on the menu bar on the top left hand corner of the built-in HTML editor and select the option "Save & Close". If any images that are being called from the template's HTML code are not in the Template's Folder Path, you will be prompted to browse for these missing images. When you browse and select a missing image, the Wizard will automatically copy the image you selected to your Template's Folder Path. Once you click on "Save & Close"you will be taken back to the template selection screen, however, because your custom template is already enabled, the Show Templates: will automatically be selected to "Custom Templates" and your particular custom template will be selected on the right-panel, signifying that your custom template will be used on your site. If you would like to edit the template again in the future, click on the "Modify" (NOT the "Modify As") button to go back to the built-in HTML editor and edit the template. You may also choose to edit the template by using an HTML program such as Dreamweaver or Expression Web. Clicking on "Modify As" when a custom template is selected will copy the files from the current custom template and create a 2nd custom template with those 
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Editing a Template in HTML Programs: Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web
Once you have the template downloaded to your computer, you may open the HTML editor program of your choice (Dreamweaver, . Expression Web, etc.). If you are on Windows Vista or Windows 7 and have User Account Control turned on, you will need to open your HTML editor by right-clicking on it and selecting on "Run as Administrator", or else your changes will not be saved. Once you have the HTML editor open, go to File -> Open. Then browse through your PC's files to open the following file on your computer: C:\Program Files\FORTUNE3 Wizard\Templates\TemplateName\content.html The Template's Folder Path should be located in this path: TIP: TemplateName = This is what you entered in the "Name of New Template" field when you first downloaded the template. Make your changes to the template within this file and then simply save the file. Once you save the file, you are finished, the next time you upload your site you will see the changes you made to the Template on your site. Needless to say, this content.html file is the main file that represents your custom template, along with other graphic and style sheet files that are in the Template's Folder Path. Within the content.html Template file: Link to other web pages that you have on your site by specifying only the page name followed by .html (exclude the Folder Path. i.e. <A HREF="pagename.html">Enter Link Text Here</A>). Link to any of the 'FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software' auto-generated web-pages by using an of the following tokens: {f3index}, {f3products}, {f3specials}, {f3shop}, {f3about}, {f3contact}, {f3search}, {f3terms}, {f3privacy}, {f3faq} and {f3orderstatus} as the link addresses for the links (exclude the Folder Path and the .html file extension. i.e. <A HREF="{f3privacy}">Privacy Policy</A>). The following chart depicts each link token that is available within FORTUNE3:
Refer to new images and animated objects being incorporated by specifying the file name followed by the corresponding file extension (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .fla, .swf, .swd, .spl / exclude the Folder Path. i.e. <IMG SRC="imagename.gif..">). Please do not use uppercase letters in the filename. Any uppercase letters in the filename will automatically be converted to all lowercase letters to avoid errors. If your filename does have uppercase letters, please enter the full URL of the file (in the SRC tag) in order to keep the uppercase letters (<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/ImageName.jpg">) . Folder Path for the 'Template Design' - where to put your template's images and files: Incorporate all of the new images and animated objects referenced in the HTML code by saving their corresponding files (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .png, .fla, .swf, .swd, .spl formats) directly into the specified Template's Folder Path - do not use sub-folders. The Template's Folder Path also contains other files, mostly image files and a style sheet (for example, the Add to Cart image is in this folder, called btnadd.gif). You may change any of the files and images in the Template's Folder Path. When you upload, the changed images will be reflected on your site. If you would like to edit the fonts in the style sheet, you may do so by editing the style.css file that is located in the Template's Folder Path, but in order for your modified style sheet to get uploaded to your site, you must also make sure that style.css is selected as the "Style Name" in the "Fonts & Styles" section of the Wizard. Any new images or files you add to the template must have the image files located directly in the Template's Folder Path: C:\Program Files\FORTUNE3 Wizard\Templates\TemplateName\ without any sub-folders, and referred to within the HTML code as simply <img src="file.ext".....>. Please do not use uppercase letters in the filename. Any uppercase letters in the filename will automatically be converted to all lowercase letters to avoid errors. If your filename does have uppercase letters, please enter the full URL of the file (in the SRC tag) in order to keep the uppercase letters (<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/ImageName.jpg">).
<META name="keywords" content="{keywords}"> <META name="description" content="{description}"> <META name="title" content="{title}"> <title>{title}</title> Required Tokens / Tags: DO NOT REMOVE the following tokens: {onload} within the body tag of the HTML ( <body {onload}....> )- You Must Have this to have a Functional Shopping Cart. {menu} for the main category menu. {content} This token displays the dynamic contents of your site. {script} Java Script for dynamic menu - You need this in order for the menu to work. The following 2 lines must appear before the body: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="script.js"></SCRIPT> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" title="Da Style sheet" HREF="style.css"> Optional Template Tokens / Tags:
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Cart TemplatesCategory & Product Templates: The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software comes with a library of ready-to-use templates (layouts) for your Category and Product pages.You can select and view which category and product layout that will be used by your online store by selecting "Cart Templates" in the "My Web Pages" section of the wizard. If you preview some of these templates, you will see the differences between the layouts and how the product and category pages will be displayed with each layout. Categories: By selecting "Categories" from the "Page Type" drop-down menu, you can view the different category page layouts. Find the category layout that will best suit your needs by selecting the radio button pertaining to the layout that you wish to preview and clicking on the "Preview" button. Once you have your desired category layout "Save & Close" to enable the selected layout on your site. 
Products: By selecting "Products" from the "Page Type" drop-down menu, you can view the different product page layouts. The differences Find the product layout that will best suit your needs by selecting the radio button pertaining to the layout "Preview"button. Once you have your desired product layout "Save & Close" to enable the selected layout on your site. 
IMPORTANT NOTE ON EDITING CART TEMPLATES: FORTUNE3 does not recommend editing the html code in the cart templates unless you are a programmer and are extremely proficient with HTML code and study the Wizard's HTML cart template functionality all-around. If you want to modify our Category and/or Product page templates, select the "Modify As" button to download the selected Cart Template. The Wizard will now ask you to name your template ("New Template Name") . Enter a name for the Cart Template and click on OK. The template's layout and code will be displayed in the built-in HTML editor. Edit a Category  
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If you would like to edit the Cart Template in an HTML editor like Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web, click on "File -> Save & Close", and then click on Yes, and click here and proceed to follow the instructions for editing the cart templates with HTML Programs. Make your changes to the code carefully. If there are any 'if conditions' or 'loops' that are not properly formatted or closed, errors will show on the site. 'If conditions' and 'loops' should not be altered or removed, they look like this: [% IF ... %] [% ELSIF ... %] [% ELSE %] [% FOREACH ... %] [% UNLESS ... %] [% END %] Click on"File -> Save & Close" when finished. Note: Because of their complexity, customized "Cart Templates" cannot be previewed. FORTUNE3 also offers very limited support on customized "Cart Templates" because of their complexity and the difficulty of finding errors and problems with them. Refer to new images and animated objects being incorporated by specifying the file name followed by the corresponding file extension (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .fla, .swf, .swd, .spl / exclude the Folder Path. i.e. <IMG SRC="imagename.gif..">). Folder Path for the 'Cart Template Design' - where to put your cart template's images and files: This field specifies the Template's Folder Path in your local drive for your custom cart template. The Template's Folder Path is shown under the HTML panel, which is usually: For Category Page Templates: For Product Page Templates: Incorporate all of the new images and animated objects referenced in the HTML code by saving their corresponding files (.gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .png, .fla, .swf, .swd, .spl formats) directly into the specified Template's Folder Path - do not use sub-folders. The Template's Folder Path contains many files, particularly image files. You may change any of the files and images in the Template's Folder Path. When you upload, the changed images will be reflected on your site. Any new images or files you add to the cart template must have the image files located directly in the Template's Folder Path,without any sub-folders, and referred to within the HTML code as simply <img src="file.ext".....>. Image Editing on "Cart Templates" For Graphic Designers and Web Developers: To edit the cart template's buttons and graphics all at once, use Macromedia / Adobe Fireworks to modify the colors and design of the template's graphics ("Category Layout #.png or Product Layout #.png" are the files that will be downloaded with each template and should be available in your Template's Folder Path). Do not delete, change names, shapes, sizes and positions of the predefined slices). Once finished, use the graphics software to export all of the slices to the specified Template's Folder Path. |
Cart Options I want my general products page to contain: This is where you select what you want to display on your General Products page, which is the page that visitors will get to when they click on "Products" and represented by the link token {f3products}. Select one of the options given: Special Offers Only (if any): Selecting this option will display Special Offers, which are products that have both a Regular Price and an On Sale price defined. A "Related Categories" section will also be shown under the products for easier navigation within the current page. If this option is selected and there are no Special Offers in your Product Tree, your General Products Page will display your standard products. Special Deals Only (if any): Selecting this option will display Special Deals, which are products that are included in deals that are defined within Product Categories (Products beyond this point may reflect a 2nd product discounted by a percentage - Buy one, get the 2nd Product Discounted by ___%). If this option is selected and there are no Special Deals in your Product Tree, your General Products Page will display your standard products. All Products / Services: Selecting this option will display all of your web store's Products in the order in which they are in on the Product Tree. All products in all categories and sub-categories will be included. Categories and Sub Categories: Selecting this option will display only your Main Level Categories on your General Products Page (as "Related Categories"). Selecting this option will also make your shopping cart only display the Sub-Categories of a Parent Category, if a Parent Category is clicked on (on the Categories Menu) and if it has no products directly under it (only Sub-Categories) Category Pages should contain the following information: Checkmark only the options for the pieces of information that you would like to display on your Category Pages. Category pages show several products in each page, so if too much information is being displayed it may sometimes overcrowd your category pages with text. You can also specify how many products you want to display per category page. FORTUNE3 recommends that you do not display more than 15-30 products per page, as too many images loading on a page may bring slow loading times on your Category pages. Category Name: Makes the Category Name visible on the category pages. Category Description: Makes the Category Description visible on the category pages. Category Image: Makes the Category Image visible on the category pages. Category Add Description: Makes the Category Additional Description visible on the category pages. Category Path: Displays the full path of the parent categories to get to the current category. Category Results: Displays the number of items that are located in the current category. For example: "50 Items Found in *Category*". Search Link: Displays a link to your site's Search page on the category pages to allow your customers to search for specific keywords. Sort/Search Options: Displays the "Search / Sort Toolbar" on the category pages. The "Search / Sort Toolbar" Allows your customers to search for products in a category page by specific options such as Price Ranges, In-stock products, Special Offers, Brand, Custom Fields, or by keywords, and will also allow them to sort (order) the results by Name, Price, or SKU. This will search and show the results for all matching products within the current category. You can also disable and fully customize each particular category's Search Toolbar in the Category Properties window under "Search Toolbar Options", while leaving this checkbox enabled to leave the toolbar working in other categories. Related Categories: Displays any sub-categories that are within the current category, or all other categories within the same parent category. My Account/View Orders: Displays links to these pages on the category pages when a Retail customer is logged in to the "Order Status" section. This is also visible to wholesale customers on every page once they have logged in. The My Account page will allow your customers to change their addresses and information on file. The View Orders page will allow your customers to view any previous orders they have placed on your web store, and view the status of those orders (along with any assigned tracking numbers). A Log Out link will also be added as part of these links. Product SKU: Displays the SKU number for each product on the category pages. Product Category: Displays the category name that the product is in for each product on the category pages. Product Description: Displays the product's description for each product on the category pages. Add to Cart or Custom Order button: Displays the "Add to Cart" button for "Products" or "Custom Order" button for "Products with Options" for each product on the category pages, allowing the customers to add products to the cart directly from the category pages for "Products", or to go to the products' page to choose the options and order for "Products with Options". Product Name: Displays the product's name for each product on the category pages. Price: Displays the product's price for each product on the category pages. You Save: If a product is a "Special Offer" (if it has an "On Sale" price), this will display the "You Save" field and show the customer the monetary savings for each product on the category pages. Image Thumbnail: Displays a thumbnail (smaller version) of the main image that you have uploaded for each product on the category pages and links the thumbnail to that product's individual page. Customer Reviews: Displays any product ratings on the category pages for products that have been rated by your customers and whose ratings have been approved by you in the Administration Site's "Manage -> Product Ratings" section and also allows customers who have purchased from you (and registered with a password) to rate each product they have purchased. Custom Fields: Displays the custom fields for each product that has custom fields on the category pages. Stock Information: Displays the inventory or stock quantity available for each product on the category pages for products that have an inventory quantity specified in the "Manage -> My Inventory" section of the Administration Site. Display # products per page: You can choose the number of products that you would like to display on the category pages. FORTUNE3 recommends that you do not display more than 15-30 products per page, as too many images loading on a page may bring slow loading times on your Category pages. Depending on the Category Layout you have chosen, you should choose a number based on a multiplier of the number of columns that your category layout contains. For example, if your category layout uses 3 columns to display products, use 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, etc. If your category layout uses 4 columns, use 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, etc. Display Products in: "One Column" or "Two Columns". You can choose between the One-Column layout and the Two-Column layout for category pages. This is only enabled if you have the "Default Template" selected for Category Pages on the "Cart Templates" section of the Wizard. Product Pages should contain the following information: Checkmark only the options for the pieces information that you would like to display on your Products' individual pages. For example, you can hide/show the products' dimensions, hide/show the SKU, hide/show stock information and even display tabs to give you a better, easier way to organize the information for your customers. SKU: Displays the SKU of the current product. Product Category: Displays the Category that the current product is located in. Description: Displays the description of the current product. Add to Cart or Custom Order button: This will allow your customers to add the current product to their cart for purchase. Name: Displays the name of the current product. Price: Displays the price of the current product. You Save: If a product is a "Special Offer" (if it has an "On Sale" price), this will display the "You Save" field and show the customer the monetary savings for the product on the product's individual page. Image: Displays the main image that you have designated for each product on each product's individual page. Wish List: This option will allow customers to build wish lists (add items to a wish list from the products' individual pages for possible future purchase). Customer Reviews: Displays any product ratings on the products' individual pages for products that have been rated by your customers and whose ratings have been approved by you in the Administration Site's "Manage -> Product Ratings" section and also allows customers who have purchased from you (and registered with a password) to rate each product they have purchased. Tabs: If you have set up tabs for your products, check-marking this box will display the tabs on the product pages for those products that you have added tabs to (in each product's "Tab Setup" section. E-Mail a friend: Displays the E-Mail a Friend feature on your product pages, allowing your customers to e-mail a link to a specific product's page to an e-mail address of their choice. Custom Fields: Displays the custom fields on the products' individual pages for those products that have custom fields. Discounts: Displays any category-level discounts available for the current product for those products that are included in deals that are defined within Product Categories (Products beyond this point may reflect a 2nd product discounted by a percentage - Buy one, get the 2nd Product Discounted by ___%) directly on the product's individual page. Also displays the other products for which the discount applies to within the same category. Add. Description: Displays the information that you have entered into each product's "Additional Description" field. Stock Information: Displays the inventory or stock quantity available for each product on the individual product's page for products that have an inventory quantity specified in the "Manage -> My Inventory" section of the Administration Site. Min/Max Qty: Displays the Minimum Order Quantity and Maximum Order Quantity on each product's individual page. Refund Policy Info: Displays the Refund Policy that you have chosen in the "My Company" > "Return Policy" section of the FORTUNE3 Wizard on each product's individual page (e.g. "Note: Items are not refundable" or "Money Back Guaranteed for __ days"). Dimensions Info: Displays the dimensions (Height, Width, Length, and Weight) that you have entered into your products' properties screen on each product's individual page. Product Icons: Displays the icons that you have enabled in your products' properties screen on each product's individual page. For example, if the "Fast Shipping" Icon is enabled, a graphic of a shipping truck will be displayed. Related Products: Displays the products that have been recommended as Cross-Selling Items beneath the current product's information. For example, this may show something like "Other customers also liked..." and display other products or similar products to recommend, or products that go in combination with the product that is currently being viewed. If this is un-checked, the cross-selling products will not display on the product pages, but will display in other locations like the right column, or once the parent product is added to the cart. |
Fonts & StylesWhen you upload your E-Commerce web site with the FORTUNE3 E-Commerce & Shopping Cart software, all of the text on your E-Commerce web site gets a designated font style. For example, your menu items have a designated font style. You can change these fonts that are automatically generated by the Wizard. Proceed as follows: Click on "Fonts & Styles". From the "Style Name" drop-down list, select "style.css". Select the "Class Name" that you want to change, and change its properties. Continue to modify the properties of any "Class Name" that you want to change, when you are finished, click on Save & Close. NOTE: When "Template's Default" is selected on the "Style Name" list, you will not be able to modify the classes for it. If you want to restore your fonts to the default styles that came with your template, select "Template's Default" as the Style Name. You may also edit the CSS file directly through the code. You can find the file at this location: In order to find the corresponding classes to edit the specific fonts you need to change, you can go to your web site, and view the source code of the page. By looking through the code or searching for the specific text you want to change, you can match it with the classes in the CSS style sheet and change it accordingly. Main Menu Font Classes: The following is the list of class names that are used for your main Category menu. If you would like to change the fonts of the category menu, you simply need to change the properties of these classes: .heada .headahighlight .childa .childahighlight .menuinv 
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Change Web Texts - MessagesClick on the "Change Web Texts"button. In the "Search For" field, search for the text or part of the text that you want to change (you can change any text/message located on your site or even on e-mails that are sent out to the customer when something is purchased). Once you find the text you are looking for, change it on the lower-left text field. The text will be updated in real-time while you are changing it. Your may click on the Edit HTML button to format the text using the built-in HTML editor. Proceed with changing any text in the same manner. When you are finished, click on "Save & Close ". Upload your site and your text/messages will be changed. NOTE: You can change all of the text on your site to other languages, just change every text to the language desired and this will make your entire web store's text in your desired language. 
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Search Options
Search by Default: This drop-down menu allows you to choose the default way in which the keywords your customers enter into the search are treated by default. If "All Words" is selected, when a customer inputs a series of words, the product must contain all of the words in order for it to appear on the results page (though the words do not need to be in the specific order in which the customer entered them). When "Any Words" is selected only one of the single words that the customer enters needs to be within the product for it to be displayed. "Exact Words" causes the search to show only the products that have the words in the specific order in which the customer enters them. Please note that this is only the default setting, that is used for search fields that are in your template. In the "Search Page" the customer can choose any 3 of these options to search for products, but the one you select here will be the one that will be selected by default. Suggest Similar when there are no results: Selecting this checkbox will cause your search page to suggest keywords when the words which your customer inputs produce no results. The keywords suggested are similar to what the customer searched for, and will show results. For example, If the customer inputs "Haels"and the search page finds no products with that specific word it will offer "Heels" as a possible relevant keyword that produces at least 1 result. Results Per Page: You can choose the number of products that you would like to display on the "Search Page". FORTUNE3 recommends that you do not display more than 15-30 products per page, as too many images loading on a page may bring "Search Pages", Show Duplicates: Selecting this checkbox will cause the "Search Page" to display a product multiple times if it appears in more than one category. Search In: You can define the product fields to search through when a customer performs a search on your site, The wizard allows you to select SKU, Name, Description, Additional Description, Brand, Mft. Part Number, Tabs Text, or any Custom Fields as the product fields that are searched through. Add or remove the fields that you want the search to go through. Only the fields added to the right column will be used for the search matching. Filter Results: After the results of a search have been displayed a customer is able to refine ("Filter") the products that are within the results page. A drop-down menu will be displayed above the results allowing customers to choose which products they are interested in viewing. You can select additional filters to refine your search even further bringing the correct products to the correct customers. The filters available for you to display on your "Search Page" are By Price, By Category, In Stock, With Free Shipping, By Top Seller, On Sale, By Brand, and any Custom Fields that you have specified.
Sort By: This field allows you to provide your customers with different ways of sorting the products in your "Search Page" results. As drop-down menu will appear on the "Search Page" toolbar, above the products, allowing the customer to change the order of the results. The different sorting options are By Name, By Price, By Relevance, By SKU, By Brand, By Rating, By Top Seller, By Category. The default ordering is By Relevance. |
Menu Options
General Menu Settings: Menu Style: This drop-down menu allows you to change the way which your Menus display the various pages of your Web site. Select 'Expanding Menu' if you want your Category menu to expand to the right with its sub-categories when the mouse is over it (pop-out menu). Select 'Non-Expanding Menu' if you do not want your main menu to expand with Sub-Categories until they are clicked on. A 'Pull-Down' menu will instead pull down the sub-categories when the main category is clicked on (a 'Pull-Down' menu is only recommended if you do not have more than 3 levels of categories / sub-categories). 'Custom Menu' will allow expert web developers to create a fully custom menu with their code. Maximum number of sub-category items to be displayed: Controls how many sub-category items you want your Pop-out menu to show before a "More" button is presented and the remaining sub-categories go on a new pop-out to the right when the mouse is put over the "More" button. FORTUNE3 recommends having less than 20 sub-category items to be displayed in order to save vertical space and to avoid your customers from having to scroll down in order to see the full set of the sub-category menu. Web Site Menu Layout: This section of the "Menu Options" allows you to modify, create, or remove the menus that appear on your web site. Menus On: This drop-down menu allows you to select which web pages you want to view or modify the menus of. The 4 options are:
Copy content to all pages: Clicking this button copies the menus of the currently selected option under "Menus On" to all of the other options, a quick way to make all of your site's pages show the same menus as you have built them on the select page type.
Drop-Down Menu: Selecting this checkbox will cause the menu being added to be created as a standard drop-down menu, over-riding the setting selected at the top of the screen under "Menu Style" for the menu being added. |
Checkout Options
You can choose whether you want your customers to go through a Three Page Checkout, or a One Page Checkout. In a Three Page Checkout, the order process will be broken up into three sections (three web pages). The One Page Checkout will consolidate the entire checkout process into one easy to use and well organized web page. Select/Unselect Checkout Fields: This section allows you to select the type of customer information you would like to collect during the checkout process. Login Information: By registering with a password, your customers will be able to log in and view previous orders (through the Order Status button), and check their orders' status and tracking information (if tracking is assigned to the orders in the Admin Site). Customers who register will also be able to rate your site and products (if enabled in the "Rate this Site" which appears in the Menu Options section) and skip having to enter their address information when placing orders in the future by logging in. In this portion, you can specify whether you want your customers to be able to create an account during their purchases, whether you want to force them to create an account, whether you want to give them a choice to create an account or not during their purchases, or a combination of any of these. Registered Customer: Checking this box will allow customers who have previously registered with a password New Customer (No Registration): Checking this box will allow New Customers to place orders without having to register with a password on your web store (the password field become not required if selected). New Customer (w/ Registration): Selecting this box will allow New Customers to register with a password when placing an order on your web store. Un-checking this option will remove the password field so new customers cannot enter a password. Allow Customers to Save Cart for Later: Selecting this box will allow your customers to begin shopping, place items in their shopping cart, and return later if they need to by clicking on the Save Cart button shown in their shopping cart, and saving the cart. The items originally placed in their cart can be retrieved when they come back to your site and view the cart. Customer Types: This will give your customers the ability to choose the best fitting description on the type of customer they are from a drop-down list during the checkout process. Some fields of the checkout will change from non-required to required for certain customer types (e.g. If a customer chooses that they are a Corporation, they will be required to enter the Company Name and Company Phone Number fields during the checkout). You may un-check all options here if you do not want to ask your customers what type of customer they are. Note: If your Wholesale Site is enabled, leave the Wholesale customer option checked in order to have full wholesale functionality. Billing Information: These are optional billing address fields, if you do not wish to display them on your checkout, un-check them accordingly. The remaining billing address fields on your checkout are required and cannot be removed due to credit card processing, shipping calculation and tax requirements. Shipping Information: These are optional shipping address fields, if you do not wish to display them on your checkout, un-check them accordingly. The remaining shipping address fields on your checkout are required and cannot be removed for proper shipping calculations and credit card processing requirements. Final Step: By default your checkout comes with two fields on the final step, a field for Purchase Order # and/or a separate field for the customer to enter Special Instructions for their purchases. Both of these are text fields and will allow customers to type something in. Whatever your customers type into these fields will be saved and available to you when viewing your orders. The Purchase Order field is displayed as a single-line text input field, whereas the Special Instructions is displayed as a multi-line textbox. This can also be used if you need to ask your customers for other information during their purchases because you can change the texts "Special Instructions" and "Purchase Order" to whatever you would like to ask them in the Wizard's "Edit Web Texts" section. Add Fields: This section allows you to add more fields to the Checkout pages, so that you can gather additional information from your customers that is not gathered in the standard checkout. Any information that customers enter into these fields will be saved in your database as part of the orders. The information will be visible on the Order Confirmation e-mail and in your Admin Site. Enter the information into each field by following the guidelines below, and click "Add" on the right to add the field to your designated checkout page. NOTE: If you need to change a field that you have previously created, select the field from the box on the right and click "Delete". This will take it out of the box, however, it will populate all of the fields on the left with the information you had originally entered. Change what you would like to change and click back on "Add". This will place the field back into the box on the right. If you would like to simply delete a field, select it in the box on the right, click "Delete" and press "OK". Name: This will name the new field for your records. The name will not be visible to your customers. Field Type: You can choose what type of field you would like to display on your checkout. You can simply display information to customers (HTML OK), insert text fields for your customers to fill out, or give them choices to choose from a list. Default Value or List Values: This is where you enter the information that you want displayed, the default text to display in a Text field, or the list of values (choices) for your customers to choose from. To enter the choices for a list, separate each value with a "|". This is a "Pipe" character. It can be found on the same key as the Backslash, which is the key above the "Enter" key. For example, for a "How did you hear about us?" Drop-Down list, the list values should be set to something like this: Magazine|Newspaper|Television|Friend Field Caption: This field tells customers what this choice or text box is for. This is your question to the customer and is displayed to them. For example: "How did you hear about us?" Additional Properties: This portion is optional. If used, it does require some HTML knowledge as this actually controls the field's properties. For example: If you have an input field, you can enter "size=30" or "maxchars=10", and this will add these properties to the field in the HTML code. Location: This will allow you to choose which section of the checkout process this field will appear in. You can choose to put it on the Billing Info section, the Shipping Info section, on both the Billing and Shipping, or the Final Step. Any new fields that are added will always appear below the regular fields (on the bottom of the location, below the other standard checkout fields). Show on Invoice: By placing a checkmark in this box, after placing the order, the contents your customers typed in or the choices they made on added fields will be visible on the invoices they receive via e-mail, as well as in your order notification e-mail. By not checking this box, the information will not be displayed on the customers' invoices, but will be on the order notification e-mails that you will receive. Required: By placing a checkmark on this box, you will make the field being created required for the customer to input or select in order to place the order. |
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Adding Categories - The First StepOn your site, sub-categories can be shown in two different ways. You can choose an expandable menu which allows your sub-categories to pop out in a window when the mouse is over the main category name. The other option is to show it as a non expanding menu. This will allow the user to click on the main category they wish to enter and the category page will then show the menu with all of its sub-categories. These settings can be changed from the More Settings - Menu Options button in the My Web Pages section of the Fortune3 Wizard.   Category Fields - Basic Info 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. Click on Edit HTML to edit the description and its format with the WYSIWYG / HTML Editor. 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. Click on Edit HTML to edit the additional description and its format with the WYSIWYG / HTML Editor. 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 file size of 500kb. That size should be large enough for an image that is up to 1200 pixels wide and in normal-high resolution. The only acceptable image file types are .jpg .jpeg .gif and .png. More Info: 
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 and set of options 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. 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. Show Category On:
Webpage Info: 
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).
Search Toolbar Options The FORTUNE3 Wizard allows you to customize the way the Search/Sort Toolbar looks, functions, and the filtering and sorting options it contains on each of your categories, for more help concerning "Search Toolbar Options" please click here. Copy Setting to All Categories: Clicking this button will copy the "Search Toolbar Options" of the of the category you are currently inspecting to all other categories in "My Products" Tree. When finished, click on "Save & Close". You can continue adding categories and sub-categories until the desired structure of your E-Commerce Webster's navigation menu is complete. |
Category Discounts: Adding a 2nd Item to the shopping cart and getting a discount
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. |
Adding Products / Editing ProductsThe 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"). Proceed by filling in the corresponding entry-forms on the Product Properties screen (click for help). You may also right-click on the "Product List" panel to add a product, but a product created on the Product List 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. 
Editing Products: The FORTUNE3 E-Commerce & Shopping Cart Wizard software features 3 ways of modifying existing Products: By editing the product information manually, by using the "Import Products from Spreadsheet" feature (which will update all existing products), and by using the Bulk Changes tool. To edit a product manually, right-click on it and select "Properties (Edit)" or double-click on it with your mouse. Proceed to making your changes into the Product Properties screen (click for help). 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. Drag the  Arrow icon to expand or shrink the "Product List" horizontally (to allow for more organizing space). 
Use the "Product List" to quickly find a product, to get access to a product's data entry form, and to...
NOTE: Products deleted from the "Product List" window will also be deleted from the Product Tree and from the E-Commerce web site, online store and shopping cart. If a product is ONLY on the product list, it will not show up on the site. |
Product Properties Screen
Product Fields The Product Properties screen is divided into 6 Tabs that contain different types of fields and information that can be configured into each product. The 6 Tabs are: Basic Info, More Info, Webpage Info, Additional Images, Tabs, and Custom Fields. Basic Info 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 50 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 barcode 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 in the Webpage Info tab above. The Name field does not need to be unique. The Product Name field has a limit of 50 characters to keep your product filenames from becoming too long. 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. Click on Edit HTML to edit the description and its format with the WYSIWYG / HTML Editor. 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). Mfg. / Brand - This optional fields allows you to input the manufacturer or brand of the product. This field can be used to search through your products, filter results, and sort results, see "Search Options" for more information. Additionally you can also create menus with the information entered into this field in the "Menu Options" section, allowing your customers to browse through your catalog "By Brand" directly from your main navigation menu (in addition to browsing by your categories). For more information please click here. Mfg. Part # - This field allows you to input the manufacturer's part number, which is used to reference the part for product feeds. 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. Click on Edit HTML to edit the additional description and its format with the WYSIWYG / HTML Editor. 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. 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 file size of 500kb. That size should be large enough for an image that is up to 1200 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. Pricing Information - This drop-down menu and its subsequent fields allow you to specify the form of pricing of the product. The different options in the drop-down menu change the way in which the products price is displayed and calculated, the options are as follows; Use Retail Price (Regular Price), Use Sale Price (On Sale Price), Use Price Per Qty (Set Prices by Order Qty), This Product is Free, Do NOT Show Price, Display Call for Price, Add to Cart for Price, and Donation (customer defined). Regular Price - 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", "This Product is Free", "Do Not Show Price Info", or "Donation" options are selected. 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 "Use Sale Price" must be selected. If this is enabled, this product is considered to be a Special Offer. Set Prices by Order Qty - By selecting 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 select Use Price Per Qty and fill out the table according to the prices per quantity to be ordered similarly to the below image: 
This Product is Free - If selected, the product will have no cost other than shipping and handling, or the cost of any options selected. Do Not Show Price Info - If selected, 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. Display "Call for Price" Message - If selected, 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. Add to Cart for Price - If selected, the software will not show the price of this product until it has been added to the cart. Donation (customer defined) - If selected, the software will allow the customer to enter or define their own price for purchasing this product (used for donations, and other scenarios).. Avg. Cost - This is an optional field that allows you to input the cost of producing or acquiring the product. The cost is used for profit reporting purposes. 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. Setup Fee - This is an optional field that allows you to add an additional setup fee to the price of the product. The setup fee will be combined with the product's price once it is added to the cart, but will be displayed as a separate fee from the Regular Price or On Sale Price. 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. 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 - Checking this box 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. More Info 
Tax Information State Taxable Product - This Checkbox will only show if your business is in the USA. 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. GST/HST Exempt- This Checkbox will only show if your business is in Canada. If this box is checked, the online store will prevent this product from being taxed GST or HST Sales Tax even if the customer is in an HST Province in Canada. Otherwise, Canadian customers will be taxed GST and HST according to your "Sales Tax" setup. This is un-checked by default. PST Exempt - This Checkbox will only show if your business is in Canada. If this box is checked, the online store will prevent this product from being taxed PST Sales Tax even if the customer is in a PST Province in Canada. Otherwise, Canadian customers will be taxed PST according to your "Sales Tax" setup. This is un-checked by default. Price Includes VAT / % VAT - This Checkbox will only show if your business is outside of the USA and Canada. If this box is checked, the online store will prevent this product from being taxed VAT even if the customer is in a VAT taxable country. If your product should not charge VAT, or its price already includes VAT, checkmark this option and enter the percentage of VAT tax that is included in the product's price (to be shown to customers on the site). Otherwise, leave this option un-checked and the product will be taxed in countries where "VAT Sales Tax" has been specified. This is un-checked by default. Order Qty Limits Retail Min. - 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. Retail Max. - 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. Wholesale Min. - 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. Wholesale Max. - 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. Shipping Preferences
Downloadable Product - If the product you're selling is a downloadable file (a digital product), 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 if 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. Their order confirmation screen will also contain a link to download the file directly when they complete their purchase. The file download will be active for 10 days under a hidden URL, 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. Webpage Info 
Webpage Meta Tags - In this area, you can designate your own custom Webpage Meta Tags 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 optimized 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.
Webpage File Name - 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's name). Show Product on:
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. Additional Images Additional Product images - In this window, you can add up to six additional images to display different angles, colors or for whatever use you would like. Images can have a maximum file size of 500kb. That size should be large enough for an image that is up to 1200 pixels wide and in normal-high resolution. The only acceptable image file types are .jpg .jpeg .gif and .png.  Tabs If you have different sections of information and would like to use tabs to display this information for the product in a clean fashion, you can do so by using the Product Tabs feature. Click on "Tabs" 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 within that tab and easily switch between the tabs that contain different information without navigating away from the page they are on. 
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. Aside from displaying on your site, Custom Fields can also be used to set up a new Menu on your main menu i.e. as a menu for Browse by Publisher (see "Menu Options"), or to filter the results in the Search Page or Search/Sort Toolbar in each category page (see "Search Options"). First, you must specify the Custom Field Names by clicking on "Custom Field Names" button 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 display.  The end result of the fields entered on the previous page will look like this on the bottom of the product's individual web page: 
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Products with OptionsIf a Product with Options is offered on 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 For instructions on how to fill out the Product Properties Screen, click here. 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. 
Fill in the product's information and then click on "Save and Close".
The Wizard will then automatically Prompt you if you would 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, 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 "Change to Product". |
Group of OptionsYou 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 to any Product with Options, right-click on the "Options" icon located Product with Options, and click on "Add Group of Options". You can also simply right-click directly on the Product or Product with Options icon and click on the "Add Group of Options" (even though the product is not the parent icon, the Wizard allows this for more flexibility). Fill out the Group of Options 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. For example, use something like "Select a Size" if this Group of Options will be used for a size selection. Fill these fields out in a similar fashion to the image above. Click on Edit HTML to edit the description and its format with the WYSIWYG / HTML Editor. The Description field will support general HTML tags to further enhance the appearance of the text and is therefore not limited in its number HTML Tags for more details). Additional Description - Larger space for a wider description available for notices or other information of interest to a buyer. Click on Edit HTML to edit the additional description and its format with the WYSIWYG / HTML Editor. 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) First Option 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 First Option selected, the invoice will not say which option was selected. Customers Cannot Order the First Option in this Group - If this checkmark is checked, the shopping cart will not allow customers to order this product with the First Option selected. Only after they select one of First Optionis something like "Please Select One". 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 file size of 500kb. The only acceptable image file types are .jpg . Option Settings 
Display Options Using a -Select Either Drop Down List, Radio List, Check Box, or Qty Field. Each type is shown below:  Radio List Sample: 
Check Box Sample:  Qty Fields 
Qty Fields - If this option is selected, 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 from its own product page) NOTE: You should only use the Qty Fields option for one (1) Group of Options per Product. Do NOT use this option for more than one Group of Options within the same product, as this will cause ordering confusion with customers and yourself (because of possible option combinations). If you have the "Qty Fields" Option selected you will have several additional options available to define the options within the product in relation to pricing and calculations of weight and dimensions for shipping. Use Product + Options Pricing and Dimensions - If this option is selected the product and the option will have separate pricing, dimensions, and weight that will be added together when calculating the item's price and shipping cost. Only Use Option's Pricing and Dimensions - If this option is selected the option overrides the product, all information concerning pricing, dimensions, and weight will be pulled from the added options' fields when calculating the item's price and shipping cost, and the price, dimensions, and weight of the parent product will be ignored. Use Parent Product's Pricing and Dimensions for Each Option - If this option is selected, each option's price, dimensions, and weight are derived from the information entered on the parent product. For example, if your product is $10 and weighs 2 Lbs, each option in the Group will cost $10 and weigh 2 Lbs when ordered. When you select this option, you cannot enter a Price Variation,Dimensions or Weight Variations on any of the Options inside this group. This option is useful when you have products with options that vary in price based on the quantity, as the price of each option will be based on the additive quantities of the selected options and calculated based on the Price Per Qty table ranges specified in the parent product.. More Info 
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Discounts Will the Options within this Group of Options Earn the Discounts Offered with a 2nd Product Purchased - If "Yes" is selected, any category discount assigned to the parent categories will affect the price variation of each of the options within this group (buy one, get 1 and __% off). For more help regarding category discounts please click here. |
OptionsYou can have an unlimited number of Options inside any Group of Options. To add a new Option, simply right-click on the Group of Options that you want to add the new option to, and click on "Add".   SKU - The SKU Number for this product with this option selected. Does not need to be unique unless you plan on using the inventory or accounting systems. This will only be displayed to customers if they click on the option to view its details. UPC Code - This is an optional field used for barcode 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. Name - This is the text that will appear and be displayed as your option (either on the scroll-down list, radio list, check box, or next to the quantity field). Description - Enter a description for this option. Click on Edit HTML to edit the description and its format with the WYSIWYG / HTML Editor. 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). This will only be displayed to customers if they click on the option to view its details. Additional Description - Larger space for a wider description available for notices or other information of interest to a buyer. Click on Edit HTML to edit the additional description and its format with the WYSIWYG / HTML Editor. 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). This will only be displayed to customers if they click on the option to view its details. Use this Option to Ask Customer a Question -If selected the "Description" field will change to "Question Text", allowing you to ask your customer a question that must be typed into a textarea if this option is selected. For example, you can use this if the option you are adding is something like "Engrave your Product", where the customer must enter the text for engraving. In this case, enter something similar to "Enter Engraving Text" into the Question Text. This is similar to the Ask a Question feature, but instead of on being on the Product level, it is on the Option level (the text field will only be available if this option is selected). Required - This checkbox can only be selected if you checked the "Use this Option to Ask Customer a Question" checkbox the the left. It makes the textarea question a required fields that the customer must input in order to add the product to the cart. Unit of Measure - This is a required field. This field represents the unit of the option or the amount of the current option that the customer will be buying at the specified price. This will be displayed on your invoices similarly to $ ___ / Each. This field defaults to Each, but other examples include Box, Dozen, Lb., Foot, Meter, Gallon, Pair and others. Image - Browse for an image for this option. The image will only be displayed to customers if they click on the option to view its details. Images can have a maximum file size of 500kb. That size should be large enough for an image that is up to 1200 pixels wide and in normal-high resolution. The only acceptable image file types are .jpg .jpeg .gif and .png. Price Variation - By specifying an amount and selecting Add or Subtract in the entry-screen of an Option, it is possible to calculate the final price of a Product with Options. It takes into account the prices of the Options that the buyers include before adding the product to the shopping cart. A floating window with the selected options' price will automatically appear on the Product's page when there is a Price Variation so that customers know the price of the product as they are ordering it before adding it to the cart. The Price Variation is disabled for the Option because the Option should have its price included in the product's price, unless the option is displayed as a check box or a qty field. If your Group of Options has "Qty Fields" selected and you have selected "Only Use Option's Pricing and Dimensions", you will be forced to enter a price for each option because the product's price is ignored (not used when customers order it) and is replaced by the Price Variation entered for the option itself. Set Prices by Order Qty - By enabling this option, you can set a price for this option that is based on the quantity that is added to the shopping cart of this option's parent Product, with this option selected. The pricing will be based on how many are ordered of this particular option. Just check-mark the box and fill out the table according to the prices per quantity to be ordered similarly to the image below. 
Wholesale Price Levels (1 - 5) - Defines 5 different price variations for this option 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 with this option 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. Shipping: Attached / UnAttached - Specifies if an Option requires additional packaging aside from the Product with Options itself; For example, monitors shipped separately from computers would be Unattached and thus calculated separately when shipping. Please note that UnAttached does NOT mean that it is shipped in a different box, simply that it is a separate unit from the product (as if the product and the option were 2 separate products). Additional Weight - Additional weight of the option. The weight is added to the product's weight when this option is selected and is included for the Shipping Cost Calculation. Dimensions (LxWxH) - Length, Width and Height are only required when UnAttached shipping is selected. They are used to Calculate shipping costs. The same rules apply as in the Additional Weight mentioned above with regards to how your Group of Options is configured, and when this field is available, required or optional. If your Group of Options has "Qty Fields" selected and you have selected "Only Use Option's Pricing and Dimensions", you will be forced to enter a weight and dimensions for each option, because the product's weight and dimensions are ignored (not used when customers order it) and are replaced by the Additional Weight and Dimensions entered. Ask a Question This feature allows you to ask customers questions that must be typed in related to the product they are purchasing, further customizing their order. The question appears in a textarea field within the product page that is to be filled out by the customers if the field pertains to them, or if you choose, can be made a required field. Because a Question is treated as an Option, the Question Properties screen is very similar to the Option Properties screen, varying only in the labels/titles of some of the fields. Right-Click on the desired Product, and click on Add "Question".  
SKU - The SKU Number for this product with this question filled in. Does not need to be unique unless you plan on using the inventory or accounting systems. This will not be displayed to customers. UPC Code - This is an optional field used for barcode 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. Question Text - This is the text that will appear and be displayed as your question to the customer. Additional Description - Larger space for a wider description available for notices or other information of interest to a buyer. Click on Edit HTML to edit the additional description and its format with the WYSIWYG / HTML Editor. 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). This will only be displayed to customers if they click on the question to view its details. Unit of Measure - This is a required field. This field represents the unit of the question or the amount of the current option (question) that the customer will be buying at the specified price. This will be displayed on your invoices similarly to $ ___ / Each. This field defaults to Each, but other examples include Box, Dozen, Lb., Foot, Meter, Gallon, Pair and others. Image - Browse for an image for this question. The image will only be displayed to customers if they click on the question to view its details. Images can have a maximum file size of 500kb. That size should be large enough for an image that is up to 1200 pixels wide and in normal-high resolution. The only acceptable image file types are .jpg .jpeg .gif and .png. Price Variation - Allows you to alter the price of the product if the question is filled in by the customer. By specifying an amount and selecting Add or Subtract in the entry-screen of a Question, it is possible to calculate the final price of a Product with Options. It takes into account the price of the question that the buyers fill in before adding the product to the shopping cart. A floating window with the selected questions' price will automatically appear on the Product's page when there is a Price Variation so that customers know the price of the product as they are ordering it before adding it to the cart. Set Prices by Order Qty - By enabling this option, you can set a price for this question that is based on the quantity that is added to the shopping cart of this question's parent Product. Wholesale Price Levels (1 - 5) - Defines 5 different price variations for this question 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 with this question 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. Shipping: Attached / UnAttached - Specifies if a question requires additional packaging aside from the Product with Options itself. Additional Weight - Additional weight of the question. The weight is added to the product's weight when this question is filled and is included for the Shipping Cost Calculation. Dimensions (LxWxH) - Length, Width and Height are only required when Unattached shipping is selected. They are used to Calculate shipping costs. |
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Add "Question"Right-Click on the desired Product, and click on Add "Question".
SKU - The SKU Number for this product with this question filled in. Does not need to be unique unless you UPC Code - This is an optional field used for barcode 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. Question Text - This is the text that will appear and be displayed as your question to the customer. Additional Description - Larger space for a wider description available for notices or other information of interest to a buyer. Click on Edit HTML to edit the additional description and its format with the WYSIWYG / HTML Editor. 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). This will only be displayed to customers if they click on the question to view its details. Unit of Measure - This is a required field. This field represents the unit of the question or the amount of the current option (question) that the customer will be buying at the specified price. This will be displayed on your invoices similarly to $ ___ / Each. This field defaults to Each, but other examples include Box, Dozen, Lb., Foot, Meter, Gallon, Pair and others. Image - Browse for an image for this question. The image will only be displayed to customers if they click on the question to view its details. Images can have a maximum file size of 500kb. That size should be large enough for an image that is up to 1200 pixels wide and in normal-high resolution. The only acceptable image file types are .jpg. Price Variation - Allows you to alter the price of the product if the question is filled in by the customer. By specifying an amount and selecting Add or Subtract in the entry-screen of a Question, it is possible to calculate the final price of a Product with Options. It takes into account the price of the question that the buyers fill in before adding the product to the shopping cart. A floating window with the selected questions' price will automatically appear on the Product's page when there is a Price Variation so that customers know the price of the product as they are ordering it before adding it to the cart. Set Prices by Order Qty - By enabling this option, you can set a price for this question that is based on the quantity that is added to Product. Wholesale Price Levels (1 - 5) - Defines 5 different price variations for this question 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 with this question 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. Shipping: Attached / UnAttached - Specifies if a question requires Product with Options itself. Additional Weight - Additional weight of the question. The weight is added to the product's weight when this question is filled and is included for the Shipping Cost Calculation. Dimensions (LxWxH) - Length, Width and Height are only required when Unattached shipping is selected. They are used to Calculate shipping costs. |
Common OptionsThe FORTUNE3 E-Commerce Shopping Cart Wizard software allows you to create a "Group of Options" that will be common throughout every "Product with Options" in a category branch in order to avoid having to add the same options to every product. By adding Common Options, you will be able to save time if all products within a certain Category should offer the same options to customers. Right-click on a "Product Category" and select Add "Common Options"; Follow the steps similar to adding a normal Group of Options (click for help), keeping in mind that all Groups of Options that you add under the Common Options will be reflected on every Product with Options in the category. You may add many Groups of Options to a single set of Common Options, simply by right-clicking on the Options icon Common Options, and clicking "Add Group of Options". 
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Defining Cross-Selling: Recommended Items & AccessoriesCross-Selling Discounts (i.e. buy item ABC and get 50% off of item XYZ or Buy item ABC and get item XYZ for free), even allowing you to automatically add the other item to the cart when the parent item is added and pair two items together. Right-click on a product, click on Add Cross-Selling Products. Enter a Tip Title, Tip Description, and add an image if you like and click "Save & Close". The tip is your tip or suggestion to the customer (for example, "Other customers also liked..." or "With this product, you will also need these items...". Now, a cross-selling icon will appear under the product in the product tree.  
List of Cross-Selling items In order to recommend your cross-selling items, you will need to use the Cross-Selling List. As the products in your E-Commerce web site are entered through the Tree, they are automatically included in the Cross-Selling List. You can display the list by clicking on the "Show Cross-Selling List" from the tab bar. Drag the Arrow icon to expand or shrink the "Cross-Selling List" horizontally (to allow for more organizing space). 
Use the Cross-Selling List to assign the desired recommended items to a particular product in the tree by using the following methods:
Get __% off for every __ purchased (Cross-Selling Discounts) - These fields allow you to add a discount or even offer a product for free with the purchase of another product. In the first % field, enter the discount you would like to give customers for the recommended item (enter 100% for free), and on the second field, enter the qty that is required of the parent item in order to receive the discount specified on the 2nd item. Use this for offering promotions like "Buy item ABC and get 50% off of item XYZ". __ XYZ is required for 1 ABC - This field allows you to define how many of the cross-selling item are required or recommended for every parent item ordered. For example, if product ABC (the parent item) requires 2 of product XYZ (the recommended item), enter 2. Add Product Automatically - Selecting this option will automatically add the recommended item to the cart when the parent item is added. Force Quantities to Match - This option is only enabled if the "Add Product Automatically" option above is selected. Selecting this option will not only automatically add the recommended item to the cart when the parent item is added, but will also make it so that the recommended item must be ordered along with the parent item, and in the same quantity. If the quantity of the parent item is updated, the quantity of the recommended item will also be updated. This will make it so that two items are intertwined, they must be ordered together and in the same quantities. Click on "Save & Close" when you have finished selecting your cross-selling options. You can get back into this screen to modify the information at any time by right-clicking on the Cross Selling Product icon, and clicking on Properties. You may add as many products as cross-selling items under each product as you want. Once set up, cross-selling items should look like this: 
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Custom FieldsCustom 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. Aside from displaying on your site, Custom Fields can also be used to set up a new Menu on your main menu i.e. as a menu for Browse by Publisher (see "Menu Options"), or to filter the Search Page or Search/Sort Toolbar in each category page (see "Search Options"). First, you must specify the Custom Field Names by clicking on "Custom Field Names" button 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 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" tab on 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:
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Gift Certificates: Adding Gift Certificates:Minimum Amount: Enter the Minimum Dollar Amount (or other currency) for ordering a Gift Certificate on your site. Anything less than this amount cannot be ordered.  
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Image Options
Product Pages Image Zoom Method: The Fortune3 Wizard allows you to choose from 3 different zoom types (the way the image is presented when a customer mouses over or clicks on a product's image). You can view a sample of each zoom method by clicking on View Sample. Select the radio button corresponding to the Zoom Type you would like to use for your products. Image Sizes: You can choose the size of the Thumbnails and Medium-Sized Thumbnails that get displayed to represent your products and categories on all of the category pages that display the thumbnails. You can either choose a preset size or specify the sizes. Product Page Image Max Size: This drop-down menu determines the size of a product's image size as it appears on the product page, before being Zoomed in (the Medium-Sized Thumbnail). When a customer clicks on this image, depending on your zoom type, the image will be presented in it's original full size (your original image as it was uploaded). The default value for this is Manual 270 X 900. Product Thumbnail Max Size: This drop-down menu determines the size of a product's image thumbnail as it appears on category pages or any page that lists multiple products. The default value for this is 150 X 150. Category Image Max Size: This drop-down menu determines the size of a category's image size as it appears on the category's page in full size. The default value for this is 150 X 150, since displaying a larger category image can sometimes distract your customers and take the attention out of the products that the category lists. Category Thumbnail Max Size: This drop-down menu determines the size of a category's thumbnail as it appears on your category pages as Related Categories or any page that lists categories (such as your Index page). The default value for this is 150 X 150. |
Bulk Changes
The "Bulk Changes" screen contains 4 main sections that allow you to specify what you would like to change: What to Update, Update Price Amounts, Update Text Values, and Conditions. What to Update - Select the type of item you would like to update in bulk. The 4 options are Categories, Products, Group of Options, and Options. You may only make bulk changes to 1 item type at a time. What you select here will determine what fields you will be able to update (since each type of item has different fields available). Update Price Amounts - Only fill this portion if the bulk changes you would like to make are changes to price fields for the selected item type. For example, you may want to make bulk changes to the Regular Price, On Sale Price, Wholesale Price Levels, Cost, or Setup Fees. Next to the Change: label, select the field that you would like to update, and the remaining options:
Update Text Values - Only fill this portion if the bulk changes you would like to make are changes to any of the text fields (any fields other than price fields) for the selected item type. For example, you may want to make bulk changes to Names, Descriptions, Weights, Meta Tags, or other settings. Next to the Change: label, select the field that you would like to update, and the remaining options:
NOTE: You must either Update Price Amounts or Update Text Values, but you cannot do both at the same time. Conditions - This section allows you to specify the conditions that an item must meet in order for the changes you are making to affect it. You can add more than 1 condition to your update, using the AND and OR selections to specify whether you want all conditions or any conditions to be met in order for an item to be affected by the Bulk Changes. Select and enter your conditions and click on "Add". Your conditions will appear on the bottom panel so you can review them before running your update. If you have made any mistakes to a condition, you can select it and click on the "Delete" button to remove it and re-add it properly. Save Update String / Load Update String - Allows you to save the entire Bulk Changes settings that you have specified on the current screen, for use at a later time. The settings will be saved as an .f3s file and can be loaded at any time by coming back into the Bulk Changes screen and clicking on "Load Update String", and selecting the .f3s file that was saved. |
Using 'Cut', 'Copy', 'Paste', 'Paste
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The Product Tree - Bringing it all TogetherThe example below portrays a Computer Selling Company. Inside the main Product Category "Computers" there are sub-categories; one of which is called "Desktop Computers". Inside "Desktop Computers", there are several "Products with Options". Each of these represents a particular type of computer to be sold on the store. One of the products is named "Lenovo 3000 K100 57061334 Intel Desktop Computer". This "Product with Options" has an "Options" icon under it. The "Options" icon contains two "Groups of Options", which are: "Processors"and "Memory". Each one of these offers its own options to customers (For example; "Processor" offers 2 options to customers: "Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.6 Gigahertz Processor" and "Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.3 Gigahertz Processor"). In addition, the Product Category "Desktop Computers" also has a set of "Common Options" which will ask customers to choose a monitor when ordering any desktop computer, including the Lenovo desktop mentioned above. The Lenovo desktop will in total offer the customers to select from three (3) sets of options - the monitor, the processor, and memory. This product will offer the customer different alternatives to choose from before adding the product to the shopping cart. Customers can essentially choose which monitor, processor and how much memory they want from the available options. The same concept can go for other types of products with different options, such as a t-shirt that comes in different sizes and colors. 
Moving Products, Categories and other icons within the Product Tree: As we stated before, the E-Commerce and Shopping Cart Wizard software will organize your online catalog based on the hierarchy of the "Product Tree" that you create. You can move, cut, copy and paste any product, category or icon available on the tree (where permitted). To move any icon down, simply select the icon, then click on the 'Move Down' button located at the bottom the tree panel. Proceed similarly to move it up. You are also given the option to 'Move to top' or 'Move to bottom', which will move the selected icon to the top or bottom position of its parent icon. 
Along with using the "Move Up/Down" Buttons, you can also drag and drop or cut/copy and paste items if you want to easily add them or move them to a different category location. You should take into consideration that your online store's menu will be built according to the position of the category icons on the tree. Regardless of your business industry, the FORTUNE3 E-Commerce and Shopping Cart Wizard software allows for as much or as little complexity and detail as you wish to provide to your online store and E-Commerce shopping cart. Search in Tree: By clicking on the "Search in Tree" button on the bottom of the "My Products" section, or by pressing Ctrl + F on your keyboard, you will be taken to a screen where you can easily search for any item in your tree, whether it is a category, product, option, or cross-selling product. 
Enter the keyword(s) or search phrase for of the items that you want to search for and select your search options: Direction - Select the direction for your search. The search will start from the location of the item that is currently selected in the tree, in the direction that is selected. If you have "Entire Tree" selected in the Search In section below, this option is disabled, because the direction can only be searched down, so when searching for an item in the entire tree, select an item in the tree that is above the item that you are searching for (or select the first item in the tree), and then go to the Search in Tree screen and perform your search. Search For - Select the type of item that you are searching for. Search In - Select where you would like to search in the tree. "Entire Tree" will search the entire My Products tree for your search term, in the Down direction (the search will start from the location of the item that is currently selected downward). "Current Category and Sub Categories" will perform the search only inside of the currently selected category and its sub-categories or the category that the currently selected item is in, in the Direction that you select. "Current Category Only" will perform the search only inside of the currently selected category or the category that the currently selected item is in, in the Direction that you select. Click on "Find Next" until you find the item that you are looking for. The found items will be highlighted in the Product Tree with a light blue on the icon. The Tree will automatically scroll down to the section in the tree where the found result is, and any parent icons will be automatically expanded so you can view the results properly. |
Import Categories from SpreadsheetNOTE:If you are working with a CSV file, you can use Excel to turn it into an ".xls" file to be imported. Proceed as Follows: TIP:To see the proper format of a category spreadsheet, manually add a few categories and sub-categories to the "My Products" section, and then export the data to an Excel file by going to "Import / Export - > Export Categories to Spreadsheet". For details about each of the importable fields and their proper format, please review the Category section further below. Click on the "My Products" icon to display the "Product-Tree". Select "Import/Export" from the top menu bar, and choose "Import Categories from Spreadsheet". Click on the "Browse" button and select the import file (.xls) from your computer; the corresponding data fields will appear on the left-panel. On the right panel are the FORTUNE3 fields for categories. One by one, click to highlight the imported field from your spreadsheet; locate its compatible field on the right-panel and highlight it with a click. Click on the "Match Fields" button. Once you finish matching all of the fields, click on "Import". You may also click on the "Try to Match all Fields" to have the software try to match all of the possible fields for you, but this will only work if your fields (columns) are named with the same names as the software uses and Exports the products as (through Export Categories to Spreadsheet). NOTE: If you had previously matched the fields from this spreadsheet and clicked on Save Selection and saved the selection file (.f3s), click on Load Selection and select the .f3s file. 
If you plan on importing the spreadsheet again in the future and would like to avoid matching up the fields every time before importing, click on "Save Selection" once all fields are matched and save the .f3s file in a destination on your PC. You will later be able to click on "Load Selection" and browse for the saved .f3s file to save time on future imports.  Once you finish matching all of the fields, click on "Import". Once the import is complete, you will be given confirmation of what was imported properly or warnings about any errors that occurred during the import. You will also be given the option to view one ( 1 ) or two ( 2 ) log files. If there were any errors during your import, you will initially be shown an error log that displays which category or categories had the error(s), and what the errors were during the import. If you cannot figure out what the errors mean or how to fix them, please copy the errors and contact FORTUNE3 Customer Support with the details. Once you close the error log, the successful import log will be shown containing details of what was imported properly. If no errors occurred during the import, you will ONLY be shown the successful import log containing details of what was imported properly. NOTE:The system will not import duplicate categories into the same parent category. Based on the name, it will replace the existing information instead. If you are importing categories to update information on categories that already exist, only import the required fields / columns, and the ones that you are updating. To avoid issues, do not import fields that you are not updating and are not required. The software will ONLY update the fields that are being imported for categories that already exist; fields that are not imported will remain as they were before the import. Category Import Fields: Listed below are all of the importable fields for Categories. We recommend that you read the section below along with the section on Category Fields - Click Here.
Export Categories to a Spreadsheet The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software facilitates the creation of a (".xls") file containing the Categories and Sub-Categories that are in your online store and E-Commerce web site: By using the "Export Categories to Spreadsheet" feature you can export the Category information from your shopping cart onto a spreadsheet file that can be imported by your accounting or any other software, or back into the FORTUNE3 Wizard after being modified to make bulk changes to your categories. Just follow these instructions: Click on the "Import/Export" button located on the top menu bar. Select the Export Categories to Spreadsheet option, then specify a destination folder and provide a name for the (.xls) file. Click on the "Save" button. Your spreadsheet file will be created and saved in the specified location on your PC. 
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Import Products from Spreadsheet:NOTE: If you are working with a CSV file, you can use Excel to turn it into an ".xls" file to be imported. Proceed as Follows: TIP: To see the proper format of a product spreadsheet, manually add a few products to the "My Products" section, and then export the data to an Excel file by going to "Import / Export - > Export Active Products to Spreadsheet". For details about each of the importable fields and their proper format, please review the Product Import Fields section further below. Click on the "My Products" icon to display the "Product-Tree". Select "Import/Export" from the top menu bar, and choose "Import Products from Spreadsheet". Click on the "Browse"button and select the import file (.xls) from your computer; the corresponding data fields from your spreadsheet will appear on the left-panel. On the right panel are the FORTUNE3 fields for products. One by one, click to highlight the imported field from your spreadsheet; locate its compatible field on the right-panel and highlight it with a click. Click on the "Match Fields" button. Once you finish matching all of the fields, click on "Import". You may also click on the "Try to Match all Fields" to have the software try to match all of the possible fields for you, but this will only work if your fields are named with the same names as the software Exports the products to (through Export Product Tree to Spreadsheet). NOTE: If you had previously matched the fields from this spreadsheet and clicked on Save Selection and saved the selection file (.f3s), click on Load Selection and select the .f3s file. If you DO import the Category to Move to field, the Categories must already be in place prior to the import. If you did not import the Category to Move to field:
Export Product Tree to a Spreadsheet / Export Product List to a Spreadsheet The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software facilitates the creation of a (".xls") file containing the Products that are in your online store and E-Commerce web site: By using the "Export Product Tree to Spreadsheet" feature and the "Export Product List to Spreadsheet" feature you can export the Product information from your shopping cart onto a spreadsheet file that can be imported by your accounting or any other software, or back into the FORTUNE3 Wizard after being modified. Just follow these instructions: Click on the "Import/Export" button located on the top menu bar. Select the Export Product Tree to Spreadsheet option, then specify a destination folder and provide a name for the (.xls) file. Click on the "Save" button. Your spreadsheet file will be created and saved in the specified location on your PC. Export Product Tree to Spreadsheet is different from Export Product List to Spreadsheet. The Export Product Tree to Spreadsheet feature will ONLY export the products that are in the tree, meaning products that are only on the Product List and not under a category on the Tree will not be exported to the spreadsheet. Export Product List to Spreadsheet will export all products from the Product List to the spreadsheet and because it does not relate products to categories, it will not export the Category to Move to, Webpage Title, Webpage Description, Webpage Keywords, and Filename fields. Only the Export Product Tree to Spreadsheet feature will export these fields. 
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Import Options from Spreadsheet:NOTE: If you are working with a CSV file, you can use Excel to turn it into an ".xls" file to be imported. Proceed as Follows: TIP: To see the proper format of an Options spreadsheet, manually add a few products with several options to the "My Products" section, and then export the data to an Excel file by going to "Import / Export - > Export Options to Spreadsheet". For details about each of the importable fields and their proper format, please review the Options Import Fields section further below. NOTE: Options are imported along with the Groups of Options to which the options belong to. Every option must be imported with the fields for the Group of Options that it belongs to. Click on the "My Products" icon to display the "Product-Tree". Select "Import/Export" from the top menu bar, and choose "Import Options from Spreadsheet". Click on the "Browse" button and select the import file (.xls) from your computer; the corresponding data fields from your spreadsheet will appear on the left-panel. On the right panel are the FORTUNE3 fields for options. One by one, click to highlight the imported field from your spreadsheet; locate its compatible field on the right-panel and highlight it with a click. Click on the "Match Fields" button. Once you finish matching all of the fields, click on "Import". You may also click on the "Try to Match all Fields" to have the software try to match all of the possible fields for you, but this will only work if your fields are named with the same names as the software Exports the options to (through Export Options to Spreadsheet). NOTE: If you had previously matched the fields from this spreadsheet and clicked on Save Selection and saved the selection file (.f3s), click on Load Selection and select the .f3s file. 
If you plan on importing the spreadsheet again in the future and would like to avoid matching up the fields every time before importing, click on "Save Selection" once all fields are matched and save the .f3s file in a destination on your PC. You will later be able to click on "Load Selection" and browse for the saved .f3s file to save time on future imports. 
Once you finish matching all of the fields, click on "Import". Once the import is complete, you will be given confirmation of what was imported properly or warnings about any errors that occurred during the import. You will also be given the option to view one ( 1 ) or two ( 2 ) log files. If there were any errors during your import, you will initially be shown an error log that displays which category or categories had the error(s), and what the errors were during the import. If you cannot figure out what the errors mean or how to fix them, please copy the errors and contact FORTUNE3 Customer Support with the details. Once you close the error log, the successful import log will be shown containing details of what was imported properly. If no errors occurred during the import, you will ONLY be shown the successful import log containing details of what was imported properly. NOTE: The system will not import duplicate options within the same Group of Options in the same Product with Options. Based on the SKU, it will replace the existing information instead. If you are importing options to update information on options that already exist, only import the required fields / columns, and the ones that you are updating. To avoid issues, do not import fields that you are not updating and are not required. The software will ONLY update the fields that are being imported for products that already exist; fields that are not imported will remain as they were before the import. Options Import Fields: Listed below are all of the importable fields for Options. We recommend that you read the section below along with the section on Options Fields - Click Here and the Group of Options Fields - Click Here.
Export Options to Spreadsheet The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software facilitates the creation of a (".xls") file containing the Options and Groups of Options that are in your online store and E-Commerce web site: By using the "Export Options to Spreadsheet" feature you can export the Option information from your shopping cart onto a spreadsheet file that can be imported by your accounting or any other software, or back into the FORTUNE3 Wizard after being modified. Just follow these instructions: Click on the "Import/Export" button located on the top menu bar. Select the Export Options to Spreadsheet option, then specify a destination folder and provide a name for the (.xls) file. Click on the "Save" button. Your spreadsheet file will be created and saved in the specified location on your PC. 
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Import Custom Fields from Spreadsheet:NOTE: If you are working with a CSV file, you can use Excel to turn it into an ".xls" file to be imported. Proceed as Follows: TIP: To see the proper format of a Custom Fields spreadsheet, manually add a few custom fields to products in the "My Products" section, and then export the data to an Excel file by going to "Import / Export - > Export Custom Fields to Spreadsheet". For details about each of the importable fields and their proper format, please review the Custom Fields Import Fields section further below. Click on the "My Products" icon to display the "Product-Tree". Select "Import/Export" from the top menu bar, and choose "Import Custom Fields from Spreadsheet". Click on the "Browse" button and select the import file (.xls) from your computer; the corresponding data fields from your spreadsheet will appear on the left-panel. On the right panel are the FORTUNE3 Custom Fields. One by one, click to highlight the imported field from your spreadsheet; locate its compatible custom field on the right-panel and highlight it with a click. If you do not see any fields on the right side except for the SKU field, use the first row of the spreadsheet to import the Custom Field Names by check-marking the "Update/Create Field Names with First Row"option. Update/Create Field Names with First Row - Place a check in this box if you would like the software to automatically add the Custom Field Names that have not been previously entered to the system or to update the Custom Field Names that have been previously entered to the system. If this is checked, the first row of your spreadsheet should contain the names of your custom fields as you want them to be displayed. Click on the "Match Fields" button. Once you finish matching all of the fields, click on "Import". NOTE: If you had previously matched the fields from this spreadsheet and clicked on Save Selection and saved the selection file (.f3s), click on Load Selection and select the .f3s file. 
If you plan on importing the spreadsheet again in the future and would like to avoid matching up the fields every time before importing, click on "Save Selection" once all fields are matched and save the .f3s file in a destination on your PC. You will later be able to click on "Load Selection" and browse for the saved .f3s file to save time on future imports.  Once you finish matching all of the fields, click on "Import". Once the import is complete, you will be given confirmation of what was imported properly or warnings about any errors that occurred during the import. You will also be given the option to view one ( 1 ) or two ( 2 ) log files. If there were any errors during your import, you will initially be shown an error log that displays which category or categories had the error(s), and what the errors were during the import. If you cannot figure out what the errors mean or how to fix them, please copy the errors and contact FORTUNE3 Customer Support with the details. Once you close the error log, the successful import log will be shown containing details of what was imported properly. If no errors occurred during the import, you will ONLY be shown the successful import log containing details of what was imported properly. NOTE: The system will not import duplicate Custom Fields within the same Product. Based on the SKU and Custom Field Names, it will replace the existing information instead. Custom Fields
All other fields will need to be matched at your discretion, depending on what Custom Field Names you have available and which Custom Fields you want to use on each product. Export Custom Fields to a Spreadsheet The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software facilitates the creation of a (".xls") file containing the Custom Fields that are in your online store and E-Commerce web site: By using the "Export Custom Fields to Spreadsheet" feature you can export the Custom Fields information from your shopping cart onto a spreadsheet file that can be imported by your accounting or any other software, or back into the FORTUNE3 Wizard after being modified. Just follow these instructions: Click on the "Import/Export" button located on the top menu bar. Select the Export Custom Fields to Spreadsheet option, then specify a destination folder and provide a name for the (.xls) file. Click "Save"button. Your spreadsheet file will be created and saved in the specified location on your PC.  |
Import Products Tabs from Spreadsheet:NOTE: If you are working with a CSV file, you can use Excel to turn it into an ".xls" file to be imported. Proceed as Follows: TIP: To see the proper format of a Product Tabs spreadsheet, manually add a few Product Tabs to your products in the "My Products" section, and then export the data to an Excel file by going to "Import / Export - > Export Product Tabs to Spreadsheet". For details about each of the importable fields and their proper format, please review the Product Tabs Import Fields section further below. Click on the "My Products" icon to display the "Product-Tree". Select "Import/Export" from the top menu bar, and choose "Import Product Tabs from Spreadsheet". Click on the "Browse" button and select the import file (.xls) from your computer; the corresponding data fields from your spreadsheet will appear on the left-panel. On the right panel are the FORTUNE3 fields. One by one, click to highlight the imported field from your spreadsheet; locate its compatible custom field on the right-panel and highlight it with a click. Click on the "Match Fields" button. Once you finish matching all of the fields, click on "Import". NOTE: If you had previously matched the fields from this spreadsheet and clicked on Save Selection and saved the selection file (.f3s), click on Load Selection and select the .f3s file. All of the Product Tabs will automatically be attached to their respective products (based on the SKU). 
If you plan on importing the spreadsheet again in the future and would like to avoid matching up the fields every time before importing, click on "Save Selection" once all fields are matched and save the .f3s file in a destination on your PC. You will later be able to click on "Load Selection" and browse for the saved .f3s file to save time on future imports. Once you finish matching all of the fields, click on "Import". Once the import is complete, you will be given confirmation of what was imported properly or warnings about any errors that occurred during the import. You will also be given the option to view one ( 1 ) or two ( 2 ) log files. If there were any errors during your import, you will initially be shown an error log that displays which category or categories had the error(s), and what the errors were during the import. If you cannot figure out what the errors mean or how to fix them, please copy the errors and contact FORTUNE3 Customer Support with the details. Once you close the error log, the successful import log will be shown containing details of what was imported properly. If no errors occurred during the import, you will ONLY be shown the successful import log containing details of what was imported properly. NOTE: The system will not import duplicate Product Tabs within the same Product. Based on the SKU and Tab Caption, it will replace the existing information instead. Product Tabs Import Fields
Export Product Tabs to a Spreadsheet The FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart & E-Commerce Wizard software facilitates the creation of a (".xls") file containing the Product Tabs that are in your online store and E-Commerce web site: By using the "Export Product Tabs to Spreadsheet" feature you can export the Product Tabs information from your shopping cart onto a spreadsheet file that can be imported by your accounting or any other software, or back into the FORTUNE3 Wizard after being modified. Just follow these instructions: Click on the "Import/Export" button located on the top menu bar. Select the Export Product Tabs to Spreadsheet option, then specify a destination folder and provide a name for the (.xls) file. Click "Save"button. Your spreadsheet file will be created and saved in the specified location on your PC.  |
Once you have are satisfied with the information that you entered / changed in the FORTUNE3 Wizard, you should click on the"Upload Site" icon which is located at the top of the FORTUNE3 Shopping cart and E-Commerce Wizard toolbar. When updating an existing web site, you can either select "Upload Everything" and select the portions of the data you want to upload or select "Upload Changes Only" (the default option) in order to save time. Once you have made your choices, click on the "Upload Now" button. A status log will display itself on the left-panel while the data is being sent for publication. Uploads may take anywhere between a few seconds all the way up to a few hours, depending on the options you select on the screen, the file sizes of the portions you have chosen, 
Images: Upload Everything: Selecting this causes the software to upload all the data and files from the checked portions of data. Upload Changes Only: Checking this causes only the modifications made to your company to be uploaded, significantly reducing the time it takes to upload. After the upload completes and the upload confirmation window is closed, the Wizard will ask you if you would like to upload a backup file to Fortune3's servers, with the following window: 
What to do here? Selecting "Yes" will make the software go through a process that uploads a backup file of your Wizard data, so you can recover the latest data from Fortune3's Admin Site (through "Tools -> Rescue Company Data") at any time and from any computer (if you need to transfer the latest changes to another location or PC this is a good way to do it). Selecting "No" will bypass the Backup File Upload, making the latest changes uploaded un-recoverable from the Fortune3 Admin Site (although the last 10 previously upload backup files will still be available for recovery). Fortune3 recommends that you upload backup files frequently, so that your work can be recovered if it is lost. You should only select "No" if the upload that just completed did not satisfy you and you will be making another upload soon (when you are done making changes and uploading, you should always upload a backup file by selecting "Yes" after the upload completes). In addition, if you use multiple computers to upload your site, and you need to make changes from a PC that was not the last PC to make changes, you will need to recover the data that has the last changes made to the store from the other PC, which can only be done remotely if you upload a backup file from the location where you made your changes, so the file can be recovered with the latest changes from the other PC with the Admin Site's "Tools -> Rescue Company Data" tool. If you select "No", you will not be able to recover the data from this upload with the "Rescue Company Data" tool in the Administration Site, so Fortune3 will then recommend that you at least make a backup file locally on your PC, with the following question: 
Selecting "Yes" will take you to the Export Company Data process (explained in the next section), which is a local backup file creator, so you can back up your store's Data and Files into a local file on your PC (or on a Flash Drive), and take it with you to any other PC where you would like to make changes or use it as an emergency backup in case of data loss. |
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Export Company Data (to Rescue File)To export your E-Commerce web site and/or online store data into a file, please proceed as follows:
Enter a name for the file. We recommend a descriptive name that includes the following: the company's name, the type of export (full or partial), the date and the word export. For example: "[CompanyName]Exportof[Portions][MonthDayYear]". Click on "Save". 
Once the file is complete, you will be able Import it into the FORTUNE3 Wizard software on any PC and recover your entire data and files exactly as they were when you exported the file. |
HTML TagsThe Wizard will support the manual entry of most HTML tags such as <B>, <I>, <U>, <FONT>, <TABLE>, <TR>, and <TD> among many others. However, certain tags are not permitted anywhere on your site. The tags that are not allowed are the following: <ILAYER>, </ILAYER> <LAYER>, </LAYER> <FRAMESET>, </FRAMESET> <BASE ...> <!--#...--> <?php ... ?> <% ... %> In addition, because your template should already contain the HTML tags listed below, please do not include any of the following HTML tags into any section of the FORTUNE3 Wizard that says HTML OK, or into any web page that is within the company's template: <HTML>, </HTML> <HEAD>, </HEAD> <BODY>, </BODY> <TITLE>, </TITLE> <META> These tags should only be included in the template's HTML code or in any Stand-Alone informational web page (page without the template) that you may have. All other tags are permitted and compatible in all HTML panels and files, and all HTML OK sections. |