e-commerce

e-commerce :- commerce of buying and selling products conducted over the internet and through web based application.

*Advantage of E-Commerce system:

You can reach customers around the globe instead of a limited geographic location.
You have the ability to be open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
You can automate the process of taking and fulfilling orders.
In addition to automating the order taking, you can receive many more orders at one time than you can with one salesperson working at the physical store location.

* Tools used for E-Commerce application:
VS 2005.
SQL Server.
IIS
SSL Cerificate.

- The Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) is a set of guidelines, principles, concepts, and proven practices for designing and engineering software applications with Microsoft technologies.
* How to gather information?
· Interview.
· Documentation:- Organizing the info. Collected from client in well manner and analyzing that information.
· Official Requirement for building any e-commerce application
§ Product Catalog.
§ Shopping Cart.
§ Paypal credit card handling.
§ Tracking Information.
§ Content Management System(CMS).
§ About Us.
§ Contact Form.
§ User Account/Login form.
§ Product of the Month.
This information is taken into consideration with the help of case study they have provided in book (Little Italy Vineyards-Sonoma Valley).

* Turning Sales into Profit:-

· Selling Main Products.
· Selling Affiliate (Connected or Related) products.
· Partnering with similar business.
· Creating a user membership.
· Selling advertising space.

* Risks Involved in e-commerce:-
· Supply for demand: Company unable to meet the orders due to less production as compared to demand..
· System downtime:- due to heavy traffic, many request to server.
· Payment processing: SSL certificate, use paypal processing system.
· Physical and logical attacks: Hacker stills the data, logical hack is the one in which hacker hacks the system or software ie it targets the code and the software.
· Sensitive information and data.