E-Commerce

E-Commerce

1. What can be purchased through E-Commerce sites?

   • Physical products such as books
   • Digital goods such as music records
   • Services such as access to paid web content
   • Entertainment such as concert tickets
   • Holidays and Hotels can be booked onlne

2. E-Commerce means the sale and purchase of goods and services over electronic services such as the internet.

3. What do customes need to shop online?

   • A computer
   • Access to the internet
   • Find website interested in
   • Choose item to purchase
   • Add to digital shopping cart
   • Confirm order
   • wait for product to arrive

4. What do Businesses need?

   • Domain name for the wbsite
   • Website that allows access to their product
   • Easy to use navigational system
   • Secure way to get payment for products
   • Automatic way of sending order confirmation emails
   • Way of sending products to customers

5. Security on e-Commerce websites

   • Use encryption
     • This is where your details such as your credit card or account number are scrambled into a secret code only the compute can read.
   • Secure website
   • Username and Password