E-COMMERCE TUTORIALS
E-Commerce - Overview
- Electronic Mail (e-mail)
- Electronic Bulletin Boards
- Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT)
- Other Network-based technologies
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Features
E-Commerce provides the following features −
Non-Cash Payment − E-Commerce enables the use of credit cards, debit cards, smart cards, electronic fund transfer via bank's website, and other modes of electronics payment.
24x7 Service availability − E-commerce automates the business of enterprises and the way they provide services to their customers. It is available anytime, anywhere.
Advertising / Marketing − E-commerce increases the reach of advertising of products and services of businesses. It helps in better marketing management of products/services.
Improved Sales − Using e-commerce, orders for the products can be generated anytime, anywhere without any human intervention. It gives a big boost to existing sales volumes.
Support − E-commerce provides various ways to provide pre-sales and post-sales assistance to provide better services to customers.
Inventory Management − E-commerce automates inventory management. Reports get generated instantly when required. Product inventory management becomes very efficient and easy to maintain.
Communication improvement − E-commerce provides ways for faster, efficient, reliable communication with customers and partners.
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Traditional Commerce v/s E-Commerce
Sr. No. | Traditional Commerce | E-Commerce |
---|---|---|
1 | Heavy dependency on information exchange from person to person. | Information sharing is made easy via electronic communication channels making little dependency on person to person information exchange. |
2 | Communication/ transaction are done in synchronous way. Manual intervention is required for each communication or transaction. | Communication or transaction can be done in asynchronous way. Electronics system automatically handles when to pass communication to required person or do the transactions. |
3 | It is difficult to establish and maintain standard practices in traditional commerce. | A uniform strategy can be easily established and maintain in e-commerce. |
4 | Communications of business depends upon individual skills. | In e-Commerce or Electronic Market, there is no human intervention. |
5 | Unavailability of a uniform platform as traditional commerce depends heavily on personal communication. | E-Commerce website provides user a platform where al l information is available at one place. |
6 | No uniform platform for information sharing as it depends heavily on personal communication. | E-Commerce provides a universal platform to support commercial / business activities across the globe. |
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