Introduction to Ecommerce

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Introduction toE-commerce
? Dr. Eshaa M. Alkhalifa
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What is e-commerce?

• E-commerce is the activity that takes place when
  a commercial process takes place on the Internet.
• A commercial process is a series of steps in an
  exchange that may have money as one of the things
  traded or exchanged.

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What are the different types?

• B2C This is the well known Business to
  Customer type of e-commerce when you go to a site
  and select something then pay for it with your
  credit card. You then either gain the right to
  download a program that you bought or wait until
  the items are sent through mail.
• B2B Here the exchanges occur between companies.
  A factory that makes aluminium car tyre rings,
  must buy aluminium from a factory that buys
  aluminium alloy and converts it to ductile
  aluminium. The amount of money that is exchanged
  in this type of exchange is much higher than that
  spent by individual buyers on the Internet.

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B2C We will concentrate on this during this
course.

• What you need?
• A site where you can place your store, and this
  requires
• i. A domain name
• ii. A host
• A shopping cart
• A merchant account
• A payment gateway

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• Now you are ready to start your Practice sessions