EASTERN VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Tanauan Campus
 Tanauan Leyte

CHAPTER I

I. Introduction
Nowadays most of the purchasing of the items are needed for the daily
basis, can be got through the online mode. There are many shopping websites
like Amazon, Lazada, Shopee, Alibaba and many more. People without wasting
much energy in going to the shops to buy the shopping items that are required
can purchase it through the shopping websites. The Online shopping system or
what we call E-commerce is the applicartion that allows the users to shop online
without going to the shops to buy they desire product. This will help in saving the
energy, fuel, time needed to do the shopping by going to the shops.

E-commerce is fast gaining ground as an accepted and used business paradigm.

More and more business houses are implementing web sites providing functionality for
performing commercial transactions over the web. It is reasonable to say that the process
of shopping on the web is becoming commonplace. (Bryan Syverson, Joel Murach,
Murach’s SQL Server 2012 for developers, Murach, 2012)

Online shopping is the process of buying goods and services from

merchants who sell on the Internet and people can purchase just about anything
from companies that provide their products online. Online shopping is a form of
Electronic Commerce. E-commerce or Electronic commerce, is a subset of E-
Business (a company that does all or most of its transactions through the
Internet), is the purchasing, selling, and exchanging of goods and services over
computer networks (such as the Internet) through which transactions or terms of
sale are performed electronically. Increase in sales. Increase in customers.
Ability to be open 24/7. Instant processing of transactions. Increased business
reach. Use electronic payment refers to paperless monetary transactions. These
business transactions occur either as business-to-business (B2B), business- to-
consumer (B2C), consumer-to-consumer (C2C) or consumer-to-business (C2B).
The terms e-commerce and e-business are often used interchangeably. The term
E- Tail (electronic retailing) is also sometimes used in reference to transactional
processes for E-Shopping or Online Shopping. E-Shopping or Online Shopping
E-Shopping is the browsing and purchase of goods using computer (Internet) or
Television catalog; also called Home Shopping. Online Shopping is a form of e-
commerce which allows customers to directly buy goods form seller over the
Internet. (Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp, 2012)