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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:
NOTE: All of your shopping cart sales are bound by the return policy specified here. |
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