E-Gift Shoppe

1.    Title of the Project: E-Gift Shoppe

2.    Abstract:

E-Gift Shoppe is a very important feature used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online, similar to the US English term ‘shopping cart’.

The business-to-consumer aspect of electronic commerce (e-commerce) is the most visible business use of the World Wide Web. The primary goal of an e-commerce site is to sell goods and services online.

E-commerce is fast gaining ground as an accepted and used business paradigm. More and more business houses are implementing web site providing functionality for performing commercial transactions over the web. It is reasonable to say that the process of shopping on the web is becoming commonplace.

E-Gift Shoppe is a very important feature used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases any products online.

This project deals with developing an e-commerce website for online different types of gifts. It provides the user with a catalog of different types of gifts available for purchase in the store. In order to facilitate online purchase a shopping cart is provided to the user. The system is implemented using a 3-tier approach, with a backend database, a middle tier of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and ASP.NET, and a web browser as the front end client.

The E-Gift Shoppe project has been developed to allow business grows larger and faster. This site will let customers to view and order products online from any part of the world. The site sells different types of.  Under this website many products and services can be ordered.

The E-Gift Shoppe is expanded permanently through new products and services in order to offer a product portfolio corresponding to the market.  Private customer and business customers can order the selected products of the E-Gift Shoppe Service online quickly and comfortably.

Target groups of customer of the E-Gift Shoppe are huge. The customers can have a payment option through credit card only.  In order to use the load writing procedure, the customer registers itself and receives a login for its purchases name. It is an Internet application.

Users of the system: Customer is the user of the system. An administrator of the website is the super user. When the user types in the URL of the website, a Welcome page is shown which has a menu on the left hand side, a banner at the top and any related links to other sites. This site contains an online catalog for the user. User has to login to Welcome Page before ordering anything. Login functionality should check the authenticity of the user from the database.

PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT

The E-Gift Shoppe needs to sell different types of products to customer living in any part of the world. The website will show all products in categorized manner. Customer can browse any product for its price and other details and can order the product. Orders needs to accompany with shipping & billing details. Customer has to pay order amount online through credit cards. Products can be managed by operators from admin panel. Operator can be created by admin. Admin can keep track of orders through admin panel.

The main purpose of the system is to enable customers to browse and order from any part of the world and hence increasing business scope.

3.     EXISTING SYSTEM

·         The existing system is manual system. Needs to be converted into automated system.

·         Risk of mismanagement of data.

·         Less Security.

·         No proper coordination between different Applications and Users.

·         Fewer Users - Friendly.

·         Accuracy not guaranteed.

·         Not in reach of distant users.

4.    PROPOSED SYSTEM

The development of the new system contains the following activities, which try to automate the entire process keeping in view of the database integration approach.

1.    User friendliness is provided in the application with various controls.

2.    The system makes the overall project management much easier and flexible.

3.    There is no risk of data mismanagement at any level while the project development is under process.

4.    It provides high level of security with different level of authentication.

5.    Users from any part of the world can make use of the system.

6.    New system will process accurate results.

7.    New system will be much better in performance as compared to existing one.

5.    MODULES:

. Registration Module

2. Products Browse Module

3. Products Search Module

4. Shopping cart Module

5. Shipping & Billing Module

6. Payment Module

7. Admin User Management Module

8. Admin Catalog Management Module

9. Admin Order Management Module

Entities Involved in the Project:

1)    Customer

2)    Product

3)    Website Administrator

4)    Operator

5)    Order

Customer: The target user of the system. A Customer is responsible for registering them to the site, browsing site, placing orders and making payments.

Product: Product is the entity, a customer looking for. A Product will be sold to the customer.

Website Administrator: An entity responsible for managing users, roles and roles privileges.

Operator: Operator is a person (entity) responsible for managing products and orders.

Order: Order is an entity which describes the business transaction.

6.    REQUIREMENTS:

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

·         PIV 2.8 GHz Processor and Above

·         RAM 512MB and Above

·         HDD 20 GB Hard Disk Space and Above

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

               

·         WINDOWS OS (XP / 2000 / 200 Server / 2003 Server)

·         Visual Studio .Net 2005 Enterprise Edition

·         Internet Information Server 5.0 (IIS)

·         Visual Studio .Net Framework (Minimal for Deployment)                          

·         SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition