E-Commerce Applications Development

INTRODUCTION

This course focuses on electronic commerce applications, technologies, and tools which are used to conduct business on the World Wide Web. This course is all about learning basics of developing an E-commerce website. It covers every step of the design and building process involved in creating powerful, extendable e–commerce site. Based around a real–world example involving a web site selling Products, you'll learn how to create and manage a product catalog, build and integrate a shopping cart, and process customer accounts and Stripe/credit card transactions. This course focuses on electronic commerce applications, technologies, and tools which are used to conduct business on the World Wide Web. It reviews foundations of e-commerce, its infrastructure, current business models in business-to-customers (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) transactions, security and quality assurance. After Completion of the subject student should able to understand the basic concepts and technologies used in the field of management information Systems.

COURSE CODE: CSEC-6105

CREDIT HOURS: 03

PREREQUISITES: None

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course the students will be able to:

Explain the concept of ecommerce and its revolution.
Explain the infrastructure of the Internet and how the various elements contribute to the marketing distribution solutions.
Explain and develop solutions for implementing an ecommerce site.
Evaluate a payment system for a site.

TEXT BOOK:

Peacock, M. (2010). PHP 5 e-commerce development: create a flexible framework in php for a powerful e-commerce solution. Birmingham: Packt Pub.

COURSE CONTENTS

An overview of E-commerce
Planning an E-commerce framework
Products and categories
Product variations and user uploads
Enhancing the user experience
Creating the shopping basket and managing its content
The checkout and order processing
Shipping methods, shipping costs, shipping rules, tracking, and tax calculation
Discounts, vouchers, and referrals: discount codes, purchasable voucher codes, referrals
Checkout process consideration, order process review, authentication and confirmation
Taking payment for orders: payment system and gateway, online and offline payments
User account features: user account area, changing details, viewing & managing orders
Administration: managing products, categories, orders, customers, refunds, shipping, etc.
Deploying, security, and maintenance
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