Understanding eCommerce

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Understanding e-Commerce

• A-Level Ict

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• E-Commerce is impossible to avoid now days
  .Almost everyone in the western world is at one
  point a consumer of the growing industry of
  e-Commerce
• Because the world is becoming busier all the time
  people are relying more heavily on computers to
  organise all their needs shopping for food,
  buying presents and even sorting out their
  banking.

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Examples of e-Commerce

• Here are some different businesses, see if you
  can work out which are involved in e-Commerce and
  why
• EBay
• Tesco
• iTunes
• Microsoft
• McDonalds

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Examples of e-Commerce cont.

• As you will have noticed by now everything we do
  is part of e-commerce. This is because everything
  now can be done online as well as in the shops.
• EBay An online based auction room
• Tesco Also does internet shopping
• iTunes Buy music online.
• Microsoft Downloads, sales and technical advice
  online.
• McDonalds Only advertises online.

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Why e-Commerce??????

• E-Commerce is growing so fast because of its
  quickness- whereas in years gone by people would
  send a cheque to the company and then the company
  would cash the cheque before dispatching the
  goods we can now use instant transactions to
  transfer money from account to account in a
  number of seconds.

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Why e-Commerce?????? cont.

• Another popular factor of e-Commerce is its wide
  availability people from everywhere can buy-
  not just those the company can afford to send a
  leaflet to, also it means that the internet can
  be used as an extra income for your spare time.
• E-Commerce is very low maintenance- you just have
  to wait for people to buy and then send the
  goods simple as!!!

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The Dangers of e-Commerce

• As with every industry there are downfalls- in
  the case of e-commerce these downfalls are a way
  for criminals to make vast amounts of cash with
  minimal effort- this can happen because
• Sellers never send the goods.
• Sellers steal credit card details.
• Buyers use a fraudulent account which they cease
  once they have received the goods , therefore
  cancelling a payment.
• Buyers payments or details are lost due to an
  error on the servers.

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How It All Works
USER
WEBSITE
BUYS ITEM
CREDIT CARD DETAILS GIVEN
DETAILS SENT TO A PAYMENT COMPANY e.g. PAYPAL
ORDER RECEIVED PAYMENT CLEARED
GOODS SENT!!!