Tuesday, September 13, 2011
What is Ecommerce?
Ecommerce is the buying and selling of products and services by businesses and consumers over the Internet. Sometimes these transactions include the real-time transfer of funds from buyer to seller and sometimes this is handled manually through an eft-pos terminal once a secure order is received by the merchant.
E-commerce can provide the following benefits over non-electronic commerce:
Reduced costs by reducing labour, reduced paper work, reduced errors in keying in data, reduce post costs.
Reduced time. Shorter lead times for payment and return on investment in advertising, faster delivery of products.
New Markets. The Internet has the potential to expand your business into wider geographical locations.
Payment Gateways
PayPal and Authorize.Net offer credit card to bank account payments.
Ecommerce Software
The software can be developed from scratch by web developers in custom PHP, classic ASP or ASP.NET. Or you could use open-source software like Joomla, Magento and OS-Commerce.
Imagine a web site that would allow your customers to place an order for your goods and when they sent their order to you, your stock or inventory database was updated immediately, outwards goods were notified and the customer was sent an advice from packing staff when the goods were shipped.
E-commerce can provide the following benefits over non-electronic commerce:
Reduced costs by reducing labour, reduced paper work, reduced errors in keying in data, reduce post costs.
Reduced time. Shorter lead times for payment and return on investment in advertising, faster delivery of products.
New Markets. The Internet has the potential to expand your business into wider geographical locations.
Payment Gateways
PayPal and Authorize.Net offer credit card to bank account payments.
Ecommerce Software
The software can be developed from scratch by web developers in custom PHP, classic ASP or ASP.NET. Or you could use open-source software like Joomla, Magento and OS-Commerce.
Imagine a web site that would allow your customers to place an order for your goods and when they sent their order to you, your stock or inventory database was updated immediately, outwards goods were notified and the customer was sent an advice from packing staff when the goods were shipped.
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