1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
1 Introduction
1.1 Overview
The purpose of the document is to collect and analyze all assorted ideas that have come
up to dene the system, its requirements with respect to consumers. Online shopping is
a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services
from a seller over the Internet using a web browser. Consumers nd a product of interest
by visiting the website of the retailer directly or by searching among alternative vendors
using a shopping search engine, which displays the same product's availability and pricing
at dierent e-retailers. Customers can shop online using a range of dierent computers
and devices, including desktop computers, laptops, tablet computers and smartphones.
Anything that customers purchases aects environment by means of delivery, whether they
have the product shipped at home or drive to a brick and mortar store(supermarket). In
earlier days people used to go to dierent shops before purchasing as they didn't have a
great deal of easy access to information on products. Due to the development of World
Wide Web it has now become easy to access the products available worldwide without
wasting time, money and other resources apart from helping environment.
1.2 Purpose
The main purpose of this online shopping cart is that it provides the customers to calculate
easily what all they purchase whether it is goods or services. Shopping cart contains not
only products but also customer data. Today there are an incredible number of shopping
carts.Consider an Amazon.com is an e-commerce website allows consumers to electron-
ically exchange goods and services with no barriers of time or distance. Electronic com-
merce has expanded rapidly over the past ve years and is predicted to continue at this
rate, or even accelerate. India's biggest online store for Mobiles, Fashion(Cloths/Shoes),
Electronics, Home Appliances, Books, Jewelry, Home, Furniture, Sporting goods, Beauty
& personal care and more! Largest selection from all brands at lowest price. Payment op-
tions - COD, EMI, Credit card, Debit card & more.
1.3 Scope
Purchasing and selling products and services over the internet without the need of going
physically to the market is what online shopping all about. Online shopping is just like
a retail store shopping that we do by going to the market, but it is done through the in-
ternet. Online shopping has made shopping painless and added more fun. Online stores
oer product description, pictures, comparisons, price and much more. Few examples of
these are Amazon.com, ebay.com, framt.com and the benets of online shopping is that
by having direct access to consumer ,the online stores can 4 oer products that cater to
the needs of consumer ,cookies can be used for tracking the customer selection over the
internet or what is of their interest when they visit the site again . Online shopping makes
use of digital technology for managing the ow of information, products, and payment be-
tween consumer, site owners and suppliers. Online shopping can be either B2B (business
to business) or B2C (business to consumer) Shopping cart is one of the important facility
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