Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily since the spread of the Internet. A wide variety of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although it can encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail as well.

Benefits of Online Store

• Manage the store your own.
• Store online 24/7.
• Worldwide coverage.
• Save cost on shop building, renovation and workers.
• Instant payment business.

What is Zencart?

Zen Cart™ is an open source online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Providing support for many languages and currencies, it is available free under the GNU General Public License.

Some shopping cart "solutions" seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users' needs, Zen Cart™ puts the merchants and shoppers requirements first. Similarly, other shopping cart software programs are nearly impossible to install and use without an IT degree, Zen Cart™ can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills.

Zen Cart's default installation provides everything needed to maintain a professional shopping cart web site for an unlimited number of products. Products, pricing, shipping, newsletters, sales and more are managed by the store owner through the administration area. The shopping cart is already set up to receive payments from any major credit card and several popular payment gateway services are included.

Features of Zencart.

• Multiple customer modes.
• Multiple sales and discounts.
• Multiple display modes.
• Unlimited extra pages.
• Multiple shipping options.
• Multiple payment options.
• Includes discount coupons, gift certificates, newsletter manager.
• More than 100 Templates available.
• More than 300 Addons.

SAMPLE of eCommerce Websites.

• Online Book store - http://www.indobookshop.com
• Online Mobile store - http://www.expressori.com
• Online Cosmetic store - http://www.easycosmetics.co.uk
• Online Decorating shop - http://www.homedecorexpo.com
• Online Jewelry store - http://www.jewelrysilverworld.com
• Online Digital shop - http://www.shop.superstore2u.com
• Online Housewares shop - http://www.buyers-market.net

 

*Special thanks to www.wikipedia.org for all the information about Electronic commerce.
*Special thanks to www.zencart.com for all the information about Zencart.