Here at FastCommerce.com we've been taking phone inquiries, answering questions, and offering support to our growing list of small business entrepreneurs who are currently building their free online store with FastCommerce.com. The question always comes up, if it is free how do you make money? And if the FastCommerce.com ecommerce software is free, how good is it.

These are all good questions. Here at FastCommerce.com, out goal is to provide a really great ecommerce website for small business, and to do it at a low price. Our technology is first rate, and it's been designed to handle thousands of customers. Our goal is to make having an ecommerce shopping cart no different than signing up for Yahoo or Hotmail email: with email applications you sign up and sign in and you have access to an application that is easy to use, has lots of tools, and does what you need it to do.

Here at FastCommerce.com, our goal is to provide web based ecommerce websites that will let small business owners run the whole of their online business from a single site. Our free online store is not a simple shopping cart, but a business application that lets you sell online while also running the rest of your business with shipping, email notifications, processing orders, order and account management, and more. And there is much more to come.

So in offering a free online store, FastCommerce.com wants to earn your loyalty by offering you the best online business tools for ecommerce. We figure that if we make it easy to get started, and keep developing more tools, that we will not only earn your loyalty, but also be instrumental in your success.

We will be developing new product features, like coupons and gift certificates, and we will charge money for additional features. You will be able to choose from a list of options that will let you tailor your online store to your goals and needs. We will not bundle features together, but let you choose a highly targeted list of features so that you will spend the least amount of money to get exactly those tools you need to succeed with your online store.

Nevertheless, this is a free online store that will let you run the whole of your online business and to do it for free. The free part will not change. By signing up for our free ecommerce software solution, you are not skimping on the tools you need to run your online store. You can sign up with the security and confidence to know that your software is no or low cost, and it will give you the features you need to build a successful online store. As your needs grow, FastCommerce.com will be there with more great features to enhance both your online store and your back office business.