DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE SHOPPING CART SYSTEM FOR AN OLINE STORE


DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE CART SYSTEM FOR AN ONLINE STORE

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

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                                                                  CHAPTER ONE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

1.1    General Introduction

AnE-commerce is the trading in products or services using computer networks, such as the Internet(Wikipedia, 2015). Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web for at least one part of the transaction's life cycle, although it may also use other technologies such as e-mail. Every business that want to shoot online, irrespective of ittypes  need an e-commerce software product that fits your online store's unique needs and requirements. For the past years e-commerce has been the trend for most business spanning  across different cities and countries. Where product and service can be deliver through their web service and delivery is done using different transport medium like ship,car or through post office.

This work is an attempt at delivering an online shopping cart system capable of delivering goods and services on demand, using a small Mobile outlet as a case study.

    1.2   INTRODUCTION

        Chapter one introduces the research work and the problem definition of the research, and to know the aim of this research work, research justification tells us why it is important to research on this topic; it also covers areas like scope and limitation of study which entails the boundary of this work. Definition of terms gives summarize what each chapter entails.

1.3 Problem Definition

This research work was undertaken to solve the various challenges encounter in showcasing and delivering goods and services to different client around the globe.Where every business transaction involve an on presence for transaction to be successfully executed

1.4.0   OBJECTIVE OF STUDY

               In view of the problems mentioned above, this project is aimed at implementing an online shopping cart system for a mobile shop will exclusively:

⦁    Display goods and services in the store

⦁    Automate  every sales effectively without mixing product prizes

⦁    Store product detail using a secure database.

1.5    RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

        This research work “Design and implementation of computerised shopping cart system for a GSM/Mobile shop”. the system will be a web-based application and will be implemented on a relational database system (MySQL). Html (hypertext markup language), CSS (cascading style sheet) and Java Script will be used to design the web-user interface, php (hypertext pre-processor) will be used as the serve- side script language to link the interface and the database and Ajax technology for automation of the cart system.

1.6    SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF STUDY  

This research work is to develop a system capable of handling sales by automating in it self a cart system that stores all sales details prior to when the user request close the sales service.

1.    The system will also incorporate in its design a billing system that will display the total sales and product at the close of each transaction.

2.    The system will not incorporate in its development all the functions of a functionalbusiness activities system but will focus only on the aforementioned functionalities. The system will not be responsible for any loss of data if its environment (network/system installed on) is corrupt.

1.7    DEFINITION OF TERM

Application Service Provider (ASP):is defined as an enterprisethatdelivers application functionality and associated services across a network to multiple customers using a rental or usage-based transaction-pricing model.

E-commerce: Electronic commerce, commonly written as e-commerce, is the trading in products or services using computer networks, such as the Internet.

Electronic data interchange (EDI): Electronic data interchange (EDI) is an electronic communication method that provides standards for exchanging data via any electronic means.

Merchant:a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying goods to a particular trade.

URL: is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator and is a reference (an address) to a resource on the Internet

Shopper: a person who is shopping.

Web hosting service (WHS): is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web.

Web server: are computers that deliver (serves up) Web pages

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