The internet has made hitherto unthought-of possibilities a reality. Ecommerce or electronic commerce has opened up new vistas of doing business anytime, anywhere. The need for complete ecommerce solutions is daily paving the way for innumerable innovations in the field of information technology. Ecommerce developments have the potential to change the financial equations existing between the nations of the world.
The buying and selling of products or services over the internet is referred to as ecommerce. Ecommerce development is directly proportional to increase in internet availability and usage. The search for perfect ecommerce solutions has stimulated areas such as electronics funds transfer, supply chain management, inventory management, data management, online transaction processing and web site designing to name a few.
Today’s advanced technology and the internet boom allows ecommerce solutions to run businesses the world over. There are ecommerce solution providers through out the world who are capable of delivering customized ecommerce web site design for the end users and customized ecommerce software for the back end operations. A complete ecommerce solution includes design and development of a web site, database of products/service offerings; order processing systems, payment systems etc.
With a complete ecommerce solution, the hassles of running a business are magically removed. There is no need for a store space or salesmen or premises administration etc. ecommerce developments have ensured that the customer can simply visit the online store of his choice, place his order, make his payments and relax. In a fixed time, the goods are delivered to him physically by mail, at his doorstep.
Ecommerce software also known popularly as shopping cart software is a software application that is integrated into the ecommerce web site, as part of a complete ecommerce solution. The ecommerce software runs on the web server and allows customers to browse through the web site, choose items, dump them into ’shopping carts’ and then order the items. A common example for what the ecommerce software does is the ‘Search’ feature available in any ecommerce web site.
Ecommerce software typically has three components: a database to store product data, a user interface that acts as a ’store front’ and an admin area that allows the store keeper to manage items in the store. Most of the store data is available in backend databases; this means an ecommerce web site design should be in a way that allows the web pages to be loaded dynamically, depending on what the end user chooses to view.
Ecommerce solutions are available as off-the-shelf applications. These solutions will include ecommerce web design and ecommerce software woven together seamlessly. A business can buy such an application and then customize it to its needs. Ecommerce solutions are available for different broad business categories like book stores, travel agencies, grocery stores etc. A good ecommerce solution should be able accommodate and handle increase in catalog items and increase in order volumes.
Ecommerce development can be customized to handle both Business-to-Business(B2B) as well as Business-to-Consumer (B2C) situations, on the web. B2B allows business to be conducted between two businesses like a credit bureau agency providing credit information to banks. B2C allows businesses to interact with individual consumers like a book store selling books to customers.
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#1 by Julia on April 29th, 2010
eCommerce is the conducting of commerce with goods and services over the Internet. It includes: consumers using the Internet to purchase goods and services online; as well as businesses selling and communicating with other businesses through the Internet.
Electronic Commerce (also referred to as EC, e-commerce eCommerce or ecommerce) consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services over electronic system such as the Internet and other computer networks.
#2 by Ryan B on April 30th, 2010
Yes, blogging is one of the good idea. The reason is you can use article marketing to boost the traffic and let your visitor know more about your product
#3 by CrazyOn1 on April 30th, 2010
wow, that's incredibly vague. You should include things like what language you're programming in, ideally post some code along with the question. I'm not trying to chew you out or anything, just trying to help you ask future questions a little more clearly. That being said…
Basically you're going to need to make an HTML form with some inputs so the user can input whatever data you need for a user. Also, you need to set the action attribute on the form to the name of the file that will process the information (php, python, jsp, etc file).
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<form action="file.php">
<input type='text' name='name'/>
<input type='password' name='password'/>
<input type='text' name='email'/>
<input type='submit'/>
</form>
…
clicking the submit button will push the input's data to file.php. Depending on what language you're using, you will use different syntax to get those parameters and enter them into the database. I'd at least need to know what language you're programming in to help you out anymore. good luck, hope that was some help
#4 by Beige on April 30th, 2010
California has many special taxing jurisdictions (districts), which are funded by a transactions (sales) and use tax rate that is added to the standard statewide rate of 7.25%, effective January 1, 2002. The tax rates for these districts range from 0.10% to 1.00% per district. In some areas, there is more than one district tax in effect. In others, there is no district tax in effect.
I've attached a link to this to help you out.
#5 by John on April 30th, 2010
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#6 by James on May 2nd, 2010
Not a Big Deal.. Let me explain..
Create some web 2.0 Property Pages for all his targeted keywords as the url with some description included about the product and image of it and finally bookmarking them using tools like Bookmark Demon)shareware) or Social Marker.
Try to participate in Forums. Forums would really help you. Don't promote your business in the start. Post some constructive messages for all the crap in that forum and finally yours. It should be like 1:10 ratio. 10 shouldn't be related to your niche and 1 should be yours.
Try to post the ads in all Major Ad Portals like Craigs List. This would really helps. You can go by regional with Craigs List. If your client wants some regional traffic then do some research and search for local ad sites () you would find many ad sites for free. You can even bookmark the ad url which would drive people to it.
Finally make use of Google Base. Create an Ad with some description and bookmark the same..
Hope this help..
Regards
Bharath Reddy
#7 by Rose on May 2nd, 2010
This will give you a step-by-step tutorial how to build an e-commerce website using Linux, Apache,Mysql, PHP (aka L.A.M.P)
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Building-an-ECommerce-Site-Part-1-Building-a-Product-Catalog/
#8 by Shanook on May 2nd, 2010
You're in a bit of a squeeze here. Oregon doesn't have a sales tax so there's no issue with goods shipped to OR.
Hawaii doesn't have one but DOES have a Gross Receipts Tax that you will pay on your TOTAL RECEIPTS regardless of where the goods are shipped to or from. Your best bet would be to simply pad your prices by the amount of the GRT since you'll pay it regardless of where the buyer is located. Although it's common to state the GRT separately on receipts in HI, it's not a requirement and you don't collect it and render it in the manner that you would a traditional sales tax.
#9 by quest1 on May 2nd, 2010
I looked into lots of solutions but opted for Paypal in the end. Their fees are most reasonable and there is no upfront payment required. I did technically have my account frozen as I had reached their designated limit for receiving money but I was still able to send & receive money and then received an e-mail saying that the limit had been lifted so it didn't cause me any inconvenience. I would recommend them. Their customer service also works well as you get a personal contact who keeps in touch with you throught the setup process.