The shopping cart is a piece of software that acts as an online store's catalog and ordering process. It is used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online.
And there are some other reasons, which lead to the decision for a web site:
- E-commerce has become the best trend in the market.
- Online business would reach customers easily.
- The track of all deals done will be recorded, and a large amount of customer details can be grabbed.
- And owners can concentrate solely on online business so the need of other resources such as physical locations can be reduced.
- Home delivery of products would bring in more customers.
This project will be a fully automated online mobile shop with a discussion forum to allow members and experts on mobile phones to discuss about the various features of mobiles and related issues and to read reviews on mobile phones by experts.
The other features of the project (website) are given below in detail:
- It will display all the mobile phone details to the customers without any staff interactions.
- Guests can become members on the site and get the advantages of the site.
- Members will be able to purchase phones via the shopping cart, paying online.
- The products ordered online would be delivered to the customer-requested place.
- Members will be able to rate phones.
- Pictorial information of the phones will be available on site.
- The Discussion forum will allow users to discuss about mobiles on the site.
- No intermediate staff required for helping customers in purchasing products. Things are automated.
- Administrators and staff will add new products, edit, update, and delete phone and other details.
- The transactions will be tracked via the administrator’s control panel.
- When a user will purchase a mobile, an automated email will be sent to the administrator and the customer.
- Administrator will send alerts to the members about the latest mobiles on the site automatically.
Tools used in Online Mobile Store:
- A web server which supports ASP.Net v 1.1. Example: IIS 6.0
- Visual Studio 2005
- SQL Server 2000
- HTML
- JavaScript
- CSS
- Intel Pentium 4 1600 GHz processor, 512 MB of Memory.
- An Operating system reliable for a web server with all the security updates installed.
- A Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server
