E-PostOffice

 Abstract of the project:

The e-Post Office is the shopping portal of the world-renowned postal service on the Internet and an additional distribution channel. It sells Stamps, Postcards, Packets, and Cartons and has services like courier, registering for electricity vendors, selling mobile cards, etc.  Under this website many products and services can be ordered, that are also available in a "normal" branch.  The product prices are identical with the prices of their normal branches. 

The e-Post Office 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 postal service online quickly and comfortably.  Besides this, the e-Services offer new flexibility through e-Packet, the PICKUP order for packages over the Internet as well as the online forwarding order and storage order.  For the case of the absence or the move, one can let delegate here the after shipment of the postal service at another address or store the letter shipments.  The customers can register themselves and can be served individually.

Target groups of customer of the e-Post Office are predominantly little and middle-class business. The customers can have a payment alternative through credit card.  In order to use the load writing procedure, the customer registers itself in the e-Post Office and receives a login for its purchases name. You have to develop this website, which captures the above functionality. 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 Post Office needs to sell Stamps, Postcards & Envelopes 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.

    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.

    PROPOSED 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.

   MODULES:

The system after careful analysis has been identified to be presented with the following modules:

The modules involved are:                       

1. 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.

    Requirements:

Software Specification:

·         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

Hardware Specification:

·         PIV 2.8 GHz Processor and Above

·         RAM 512MB and Above

·         HDD 20 GB Hard Disk Space and Above