PrimePick-An E-commerce Store
Jie Zhou 0446860
Shichen Liu 0432295
Shushu Qin 0434687
Taslima Sultana Juli 0447933
Rizwoan Ahmed Tanim 0429166
Abstract—This project proposal outlines the development
of Prime Picks, an e-commerce platform designed for a
professional online shopping experience. Key objectives
include setting up the foundation using Django, integrating
secure payment processing, developing a robust shopping
cart feature, implementing user management functionalities,
and AWS integration for scalability and reliability. The
project will follow a structured development approach,
leveraging tools like Django, HTML/CSS/JavaScript,
MySQL, and AWS. The expected outcome is a fully functional
e-commerce platform hosted on AWS, offering core features
like product listing, shopping cart management, secure
payments, and user authentication. Prime Picks aims to
provide a premier destination for quality-conscious shoppers
globally.
Keywords— E-commerce, user friendly, integration,
security, scalability, optimization.
I. INTRODUCTION
Our project aimed at developing a fully functional and
professional e-Commerce store, which covers all critical
aspects of eCommerce development, from setting up the
foundational structure to implementing advanced
functionalities such as secure payment processing, user
management, and AWS integration, focusing on delivering a
user-friendly interface, easy-to-manage, ensuring data
security, and optimizing performance for a great user
experience.
II. OBJECTIVE
A. E-commerce Foundation Setup
1) Establish the basic structure and layout of our
eCommerce website using Django, ensuring a solid starting
point for development.
B. Payment Integration
1) Implement secure and efficient payment processing
capabilities using PayPal to facilitate smooth transactions.
C. Shopping Cart Development
1) Develop a robust shopping cart feature to manage
user selections and streamline the checkout process, manage
shopping cart operations, including sessions, adding,
deleting, updating items, and optimizing performance for a
better user experience.
D. User Management
1) Create comprehensive user management
functionalities, including account creation, login, and profile
management, to enhance user experience.
E. Email Verification
1) Increase security and user trust by integrating email
verification features into our user management system.
F. AWS Integration
1) Use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for various aspects
of our project, including storage (Amazon S3), database
management (Amazon RDS), and hosting (Amazon Elastic
Beanstalk).
G. Shipping and Order Processing
1) Implement features to handle shipping logistics and
order processing, ensuring efficient operations from
purchase to delivery.
H. Styling and Data Validation
1) Enhance the user interface with professional styling
and ensure data integrity through rigorous validation
techniques.
I. Password Management
1) Implement secure password management features,
including password hashing, reset, and recovery options to
protect user data.
J. Context Processors
1) Implement context processors to manage global
variables effectively within Django.
III. METHODOLOGY
A. Requirement Analysis:
1) Conduct meetings with group members to gather
detailed requirements.
2) Identify core functionalities such as user
authentication, product listing, shopping cart, checkout
process.
B. Design:
1) Design the database schema using Django ORM.
2) Create wireframes and mockups for user interfaces.
3) Design the overall architecture, ensuring scalability
and security.
C. Implementation
1) Set up the Django project environment.
2) Develop modules incrementally, starting with user
authentication and progressing to more complex features.
3) Use Django’s built-in templating engine for rendering
dynamic HTML pages.
D. Deployment users to store and retrieve any number of data objects in the
1) Set up the AWS environment. cloud. S3 provides a secure, reliable, and highly scalable
storage solution suitable for a variety of different use cases
2) Configure the Django application for production.
and scenarios, including data backup, static website hosting,
3) Deploy the application using CI/CD pipelines for data distribution, and big data analysis.
continuous integration and delivery.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed
E. Tools and Technologies relational database service provided by Amazon Web Services
1) Framework: Django (AWS). RDS enables users to easily deploy, manage, and
2) Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (using Django’s scale relational databases in the cloud without having to
template engine) manage the underlying database servers. With RDS, users can
3) Database: MySQL easily set up database instances and automatically scale
computing and storage resources as needed. RDS manages
4) Hosting: AWS
routine database tasks such as backup, replication, fault
5) Version Control: Git (GitHub/GitLab) recovery, and software updates to reduce the management
6) Testing: Django’s built-in testing framework burden on users.
VI. EXPECTED OUTCOME
IV. TIMELINE
A. Target
A. Week1: Planning and Design
1) Our project is to build an e-commerce platform using
1) Planning and Requirement Analysis: Conduct initial the Django framework.
meetings with group members, finalize requirements, and
prepare the project plan. B. Main features of the web application
2) Design: Design the database schema, create 1) Users can add their favorite products to the shopping
wireframes, and finalize the overall architecture. cart, and can update and delete the products.
2) Create a user management system where users can
B. Week2: Initial Implementation
register, log in, and log out.
1) Project Setup: Set up the Django project environment. 3) Users can query logistics information on the website
2) User Authentication: Develop user authentication and place orders for products in the shopping cart
features (registration, login, logout). 4) Database management, etc
3) Product Management: Implement product listing,
detail pages. All the above codes will be deployed to the AWS cloud
C. Week3: Core Feature Development platform service.
1) Shopping Cart: Develop shopping cart functionalities VII. ARCHITECTURAL DIAGRAM
(add, remove, update items).
2) Checkout Process: Implement the checkout process.
D. Week4: Testing, Deployment and initial Maintenance
1) Testing: Conduct unit testing, integration testing,
2) Deployment: Set up the AWS environment, configure
the Django application for production, and deploy the
application.
V. RESOURCES
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a cloud-based
flexible computing service provided by Amazon Web
Services (AWS). EC2 allows users to rent virtual computing
resources, called instances, to run various types of
applications in the cloud. EC2 instances provide scalability,
security, and reliability, and can dynamically adjust
computing power based on demand. EC2 instances can be
used to run a variety of workloads, including website hosting,
application development, big data processing, machine
learning, etc. We may use this service in subsequent projects.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage
service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). S3 allows