Chapter 1-On Line Shop

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Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Online shopping is a growing area of technology. Establishing a store on the Internet,

allows for retailers to expand their market and reach out to consumers who may not otherwise

visit the physical store. The convenience of online shopping is the main attraction for the

consumers. Unique online payment systems offer easy and safe purchasing from other

individuals. Electronic consumers exhibit different buying behaviors such as; cart abandonment.

The benefits of shopping online also come with potential risks and dangers that consumers must

be aware of. In the future, we can expect online stores to improve their technology tremendously,

allowing for an easier and a more realistic shopping experience.

Shopping on the Internet is more like flicking through a catalogue than heading down to

your local high street. You use your computer to browse through screens showing things you can

buy and once youve chosen what you want, you usually pay by credit or debit card and the

goods get delivered to your home.

With the Internet covering the whole world, the number of online shops is endless. These

days you can buy almost anything online. Most high street shops have Internet sites so instead of

visiting one of their stores you can buy everything from furniture and clothes to CDs and books.

The major supermarkets and chemists have Internet sites too, which means you can pick up most

things you need for your home without ever having to leave it. There are also many Internet

retailers that only sell things online so you can buy goods that your local shops dont stock. You

can buy things like train and plane tickets, holidays, insurance policies and, depending on where

you live, you can even order a pizza online. Its also possible to buy and download music, films
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and games straight to your computer and you can upload your digital photos to have them turned

into prints and albums.

Online stores are usually available 24 hours a day, and many consumers have Internet

access both at work and at home. A visit to a conventional retail store requires travel and must

take place during business hours.

Bricks and clicks stores offer the ability to buy online but pick up in a nearby

store. Many stores give the consumer the delivery company's tracking number for their package

when shipped, so they can check its status online and know exactly when it will arrive. For

efficiency reasons, online stores generally do not ship products immediately upon

receiving an order. Orders are only filled during warehouse operating hours, and there may be

a delay of anywhere from a few minutes to a few days to a few weeks before in-stock

i tems are actually packaged and shipped. Many retailers inform customers

how long they can expect to wait before receiving a package, and whether or

not they generally have a fulfillment backlog. A quick response time is sometimes an

important factor in consumers' choice of merchant. A weakness of online shopping is that,

even if a purchase can be made 24 hours a day, the customer must often be at home

during normal business hours to accept the delivery. For many professionals this can be

difficult, and absence at the time of delivery can result in delays, or in some cases,

return of the item to the retailer.
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Background of the Study

Like many online auction websites, many websites allow small businesses to create and

maintain online shops (ecommerce online shopping carts), without the complexity that involved

in purchasing and developing an expensive stand alone ecommerce software solutions.

Online shopping is a form ofelectronic commerce whereby consumers directly buy

goods or services from a seller over the Internet without an intermediary service. An online shop,

eshop, e-store, Internet shop, webshop, webstore, online store, or virtual store evokes the

physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or shopping

centre.

Customers are attracted to online shopping not only because of the high level of

convenience, but also because of the broader selection, competitive pricing, and greater access to

information. Business organizations seek to offer online shopping because it is much lower cost

compared to bricks and mortar stores, offers access to a worldwide market, increases customer

value and builds sustainable capabilities.

Designers of online shops are concerned with the effects of information load - whether

consumers can be given too much information in virtual shopping environments. Information

load is a product of the spatial and temporal arrangements of stimuli in the web store. Compared

with conventional retail shopping, the information environment of virtual shopping is enhanced

by providing additional product information such as comparative products and services as well

as various alternatives and attributes of each alternative, etc.
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Statement of the Problem

The purpose of the study is to develop a simple Online Shop. More specifically, this

studies attempt to seek answers to the following specific inquiries:

1. What will be the flow of the Online Shop?

2. What are the programming languages used? Why?

3. What are the advantages of the online shopping for the costumers?

4. What are the risks of online shopping in contrast to the advantages?

Objectives of the Study

The specific objective of this study is to make a simple online shop without any

sophisticated features and stuff. The shop has admin page where the shop admin can create

categories, add products, etc. and the shopper pages (a.k.a. the shop itself) where all the shopping

takes place. Particularly this study is intended to:

1. To know how the online shop work.

2. To know the programming language used.

3. To know how to avoid the risk during online shopping.

Significance of the study

This section will provide brief description on the various significances of the study given

the three categories Educational, Technological and Economic.

To students. The study serves the students as their reference or guide in creating their

program. It will also help students taking computer related courses to identify the best

programming language to use.


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To teachers. The study will help teachers to have a deeper understanding to the said

programming languages. By this study they will come up with easier and powerful program.

To future researcher. The study wills benefits and the future researcher as their guide.

The study can also open in development of this study.

Scope and Limitationof the Study

The study only focused on the development of the online shop and it works how it

benefits to the shoppers and it advantages and disadvantages of the online shopping. The study

does security and authenticity of the product offered on line. You understand a product just

through pictures, the seller's products description, this you may can't very comprehensive

understanding of the real products, but now there are many high reputations online. Enter the

website you need before choosing and buy goods, first you have to check the vending company

and the creditworthiness of individuals. In on-line shopping you have a lot of choice and it's save

money and time to a large extent.

Definition of Terms

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METHODOLOGY

The proponent planned thoroughly and carefully to develop a simple yet unique,

convenient, user friendly on-line shop program. We make our design suits our goal, to be make

competitive application with the other online shop in the internet. An adequate solution has been

made to meet the goals of the study.

Planning Phase the proponents will identify the problems that on-line shopping is

encountering. They gather data about online shop by conducting internet

research & reading books.

Analysis Phase the proponents will analyze and understand the problem by reviewing and

studying all the details and information that have been gathered. Then form

some certain questions.

Design Phase the proponents will design what they think is the best solution. Then

development of procedures and designing the GUI and databases of the

program are being constructed.

Development Phase the proponents lays out the final design of the program as well as

determines a more specific set of environmental requirements needed and run

it the internet.

Implementation Phase testing the program in the web and gather feedback from the user and

modify if necessary.

Review of Related Literature and Studies


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Factors influencing online shopping intention and attitude toward online shopping have

been researched and documented in the context of traditional consumer literature

Online shopping offers the customer a large search space, which can be attractive but

overwhelming. When shopping for a differentiated rather than commodity product the situation

is amplified, because the online shopper considers several relevant dimensions not only price,

but also quality and other attributes. Despite advances in online shopping technology, some

researchers have expressed doubts regarding the viability of online shopping for differentiated

goods. Some argue that the Web is simply too passive and indirect to engage shoppers.

One ambitious solution to online shopping challenges us to develop our simple

application that counters the threats in online shopping research were Internet has transformed

many aspects of life, but perhaps none more so than how we shop for goods and services on line.

While its still nice to stop by a store to touch and see products, the convenience of online

shopping cant be beat. And for some services, such as booking travel or buying concert tickets,

the ability to do so online has made the process much easier and more efficient. One of the great

benefits of online shopping is the ability read others reviews of a product, be they experts or

simply fellow shoppers.

Online reviews and peer recommendations also played a key role for shoppers

researching future purchases of consumer electronics, cars and travel, and 40 percent of online

shoppers indicate they would not even buy electronics without consulting online reviews first.

With the flourishing numbers of online merchants, people nowadays have various choices to do

their shopping. Big companies such as eBay and amazon.com have introduced many value added

features to help the customers to decide what to shop for. With features such as price

comparison, product photos and user reviews, consumers can shop easily and smartly without


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even going to the stores and having such a hard time looking for the products they want. All they

have to do are just browse for the product they want in the website and within a few mouse

clicks they are off. Such simplicity of software is what makes online shopping appealing for

consumers.

Theoretical Framework

The following should be followed to be fully understood in developing the system:

1. Writing a program is an integral thing to consider. It is to have a thorough

understanding of the problem and carefully planned approach in solving the

predicament and in documenting a program. In this aspect the system required the

assistance of a program to as PhP and MySQL.

2. The PhP was the language use in its front view of the proposed system; basically PhP

Stands for "Hypertext Preprocessor." (It is a recursive acronym, if you can understand

what that means.) PHP is an HTML-embedded Web scripting language. This means

PHP code can be inserted into the HTML of a Web page. When a PHP page is

accessed, the PHP code is read or "parsed" by the server the page resides on. The

outputs from the PHP functions on the page are typically returned as HTML code,

which can be read by the browser. Because the PHP code is transformed into HTML

before the page is loaded, users cannot view the PHP code on a page. This make PHP

pages secure enough to access databases and other secure information. An MySQL

referred to as the back end of the system, it is where all data are inputted, stored and

retrieved using PhP. The flow of our proposed system is executed by the use of this

software.
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The proponents used a user friendly design that can be operated easily. The program

consists of the following:

Categoryproduct categories. The categories will only two level deep, the reason is to

reduce the number of clicks required by a visitor when browsing category.

Productwhere the products name, image and thumbnail, for now the product can only

have one image.

Costitems currently put by the customer

Userthe user or admin account currently all user is an admin and all can do everything

to the shop

Order the shipping and payment information that the customer provided during

checkout is including the shipping cost.

HP and MySQL: The Well-Matched Couple

As noted previously, one of the most important factors driving PHPs popularity over the

last couple of years has been its support for a variety of databases, including MySQL, mSQL,

Oracle and Microsoft Access. By simplifying and streamlining database access, PHP enables

developers to build complex data driven web applications while enjoying short development

cycles.

Support for MySQL has been available in PHP since version 3x and has gradually

improved over subsequently releases. PHP 5.0 promises even better integration with the latest

version of MySQL: the new MySQL extension in PHP 5.0 provides developers with both

function and objectoriented APIs to common MySQL functions, and includes support for new

and upcoming MySQL features like transactions, stored procedures and prepared statements.


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