E Commerce Web Platform Development

Abstract

E-Commerce also known as Electronic Commerce, selling of service or products via the internet or computer network. E-commerce has been a revolutionized medium for both buyers and sellers. When E-Commerce emerged people were reluctant to use it but as time passed people got more used to it and now it is the most popular choice amongst people. The revolution of E-commerce wave has also hit Bangladesh. More companies are interested in investing online and creating an entity of their own in the World Wide Web. E-Commerce provides smaller business to go toe to toe with bigger organizations, it reduces friction between organizations in marketplace. E-Commerce provides hassle free shopping and delivery services, and the monetary transactions are all maintained in a secured way. E-Commerce websites greatly enhances a company’s visibility in the market, hence it is easier to reach out to a larger audience base which previously would have been impossible. E-Commerce also reduces the marketing and advertising costs which benefits the company financially. Small entrepreneurs are often absent in e-commerce platform due to lack of technical skills, shortage of initial establishment fund to begin an e-commerce site, and inconveniences to maintain the system. The barriers to entering in e-commerce for small business can be overcomes by taking the integrated approach where many small business entrepreneurs can collectively fund and start an E-commerce site that will facilitate e-commerce applications to all of them. In this project, we have designed and developed a collective e-commerce platform for small and medium business considering the context of a developing country like Bangladesh. We have developed “Ecom” as a model of e-commerce that can bring many small entrepreneurs close to the customer. The project, “E Commerce Web Platform Development” has been developed for enabling a small business to use e-commerce to sell goods and service through online Shops of diversified business can create their online shop for their product such as cloth. Books, foods, fashion etc. It also provides the online customers a list of different available products in different stores. This project also supports through mobile banking transaction for the convenience of customers. This system is implemented using a 3-tier approach, with a backend database (MYSQL). A middle tier of Apache web server and PHP and a web browser as the front end-user. It also discusses the way, how the underlying technologies used in the implementation. Extensive use and implementation of this system can make significant contribution, in the economic development of countries with emerging ecommerce fields