Online Shopping

Online Shopping is an electronic commerce application that businesses can use with each other or they can offer services or goods directly to the customers.

Online Shopping has benefits to the shop and even to the customer. Customers can visit different stores by using their PC's or any ICT device that can be connected to the Web, and they can easily compare the prices of different stores and even they can reserve the products. No need for them to stand in a queue to reach to the cashier, and they can shop around without spending time or money by travelling around different stores.

The pressure on the employee is less, because customers can shop online instead of going to the shop and waste time. It makes the stock and money control easier, there is no need to pay staff to price goods or to order stock.

To shop online, you have to:

1.      Choose an online store

2.      Create an account

3.      Choose the product(s) you want to buy

4.      Checkout

5.      Choose the method of payment

6.      Choose the delivery options

7.      Confirm the order

8.      Log off

Customers should be aware from the site they are using, they have to make sure that it is safe in order to prevent been stolen or hacked. To prevent this from happening the personal details should be encrypted (encoded) when they are transferred over the internet, and the shop network server will decrypt (decode) the data using the encryption key.