		                Welcome to FreeCommerce

FreeCommerce is a simple and intuitive, yet very flexible tool for building, maintaining, 
and updating e-commerce websites.  FreeCommerce uses a simple drag and drop process.  
Products are dragged into pages. Pages are dragged into departments, and your departments
are dragged into your store.  Stores, departments, pages, and products can be edited, 
created, deleted, replaced and reorganized quickly and easily, and an entire website
can be dynamically rebuilt in seconds.

A fully functional website can be built in under an hour, and FreeCommerce will deploy
the site directly to any FTP capable server.  Style templates, product libraries, and 
prebuilt departments will be released periodically to you grow and expand your new 
e-business.

FreeCommerce offers a number of unique tools and special features giving you the flexibility
to make quick departmental or store-wide price adjustments, dynamic discounting, incentives, 
and even e-coupons.  You can define any number of customized shipping options.  You can 
import any HTML documents, pictures, imbedded files or applets, and you even have a simple
yet powerful graphics module for browsing, scanning, editing, converting and filtering 
your web images.

FreeCommerce is not your typical WYSIWYG website editor and it is not a confusing 
code-based html editor.  FreeCommerce lets you concentrate on defining and stocking your
store, setting your prices, choosing a look, managing your business and letting FreeCommerce 
build you a complete working website. The programming, interface design, layouts, and 
implementations have all been done for you, so no absolutely no programming knowledge or 
technical experience is required.

Just define your products, pages, and departments.  Then write your descriptive titles, 
headlines, and text.  Set your prices and shipping rates.  Drag your products into your
pages, your pages into departments, your departments into your store, and press the build
button.  A complete functional website is yours in seconds, and with the Magic Carpet 
Shopping Cart enabled you will instantly have one of the most powerful and versatile 
automated e-commerce sites around.

FreeCommerce is distributed free of charge, however current versions do place banners
at the bottoms of any websites they generate.  These banners may be removed manually,
but they will be recreated whenever you rebuild your FreeCommerce store.  An optional
integrated add-on shopping cart, and additional style libraries are distributed with the 
program as shareware.  

The FreeCommerce program is very useful for building showcase and catalog type websites
without the shopping cart or any additional plug-ins, but once the shopping cart is turned 
on your free-commerce site can instantly become a sophisticated and extremely flexible
online store, with capabilities to rival some of todays most advanced and respected
e-commerce websites.

I hope you enjoy FreeCommerce, and I am certain many of you will find FreeCommerce to be the 
e-business tool you have been waiting for, to help bring your dreams to life.  Feel free to
explore it, distribute it, share it with your friends.  Use it to build yourself a 
wonderful new career, a cool site, or a rewarding spare time fund-raising endeaver.  

FreeCommerce is privately owned freeware with optional shareware components built in.  
FreeCommerce may be posted, published, distributed, or broadcast in any way, but may
not be altered, amended, changed, or edited without specific written consent of the 
authors and owners.
 
					Your Friend,
							Harry

Distribution:

You may freely copy and distribute this software, provided it is only 
distributed in its entirety as it was originally downloaded or received and that no
part or portion of the program or accompanying files have been modified, edited, or
ammended or changed in any way.  This software must be used and distributed without
any specific warranty, and it may not be reverse engineered, disassembled, or other
used for any unlicensed or unlawful purpose.


Requirements:

		Intel Pentium or higher
		Windows 95, 98, NT, or 2000
		32 Megabytes of RAM, 64 recommended
		4 Megabytes of hard distk space

		

Installing FreeCommerce

FreeCommerce comes packaged with an automated installation and uninstall utility.  To begin
installation simply run "Setup.exe" from the unzipped 'ZIP' file, or from Disk 1 of any 
disk release.  Install Shield shall guide you easily through the remainder of the 
installation.


File Names & Locations


   Your e-stores homepage will always have the name:

	index.htm

		Note: You may change this file name on your website, 
		      but never change any other file names created or
                      posted by FreeCommerce.


CONTACT:

International Magic Factory
3033 N. Avon Street
Burbank, Ca, 91504
phone:  (818)556-6202
fax:	(818)556-6204

email:	info@magicfactory.net
orders: sales@magicfactory.net

URL: www.magicfactory.net