An E-commerce site is any web site offering pre-sale support, products for sale or after sales service and backup. Examples of popular online shopping sites that display this are:
eBay
Amazon
Argos Online
Topman Clothing Online
Features of E-commerce sites
Online Payment
Easy to use homepage and navigation options with links
A page providing help for customers
An link providing store information, including how to find local stores
A bold search facility
Contact information
Images of the products on offer
Review of the products
An alternative to the product
Checkout
Shopping basket
Secure password, verify identification
Delivery options input
Tabs providing links to other pages of the site
PayPal
A good example of an E-commerce business is PayPal, this operates to help people make payments online in a secure manner. It is a new way to pay for products and payments, instead of cheques and always typing in card details. Paypal is free to create and to buy products, but they take a small percentage commission when selling. Paypal is involved with lots of various website as an optional purchase choice, but it is heavily linked with ‘Ebay’.
Security
Website security is vitally important, the customers have got to have trust in the website otherwise they wont purchase. An unprotected website could be liable to hackers, viruses and identity theft. Most websites are genuine and can be trusted though, but the most risk is found throughout online banking sites.
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