About the Book
Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. It is more than just buying and selling products online. It also includes the entire online process of developing, marketing, selling, delivering, servicing and paying for products and services. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily with widespread Internet usage. The use of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although it can encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices and telephones as well. A large percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically for virtual items such as access to premium content on a website, but most electronic commerce involves the transportation of physical items in some way. Online retailers are sometimes known as e-tailers and online retail is sometimes known as e-tail. Almost all big retailers have electronic commerce presence on the World Wide Web.
Electronic commerce is generally considered to be the sales aspect of e-business. It also consists of the exchange of data to facilitate the financing and payment aspects of the business transactions.
This book is your ultimate resource for Electronic commerce. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.
In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Electronic commerce right away, covering: Electronic commerce, 20North, 7C's of e-Commerce Customer Interface, AbleCommerce, Acquirer, Acquiring bank, Address Verification System, AdsML, Adult Check, Advance Ship Notice, Affiliate (commerce), Affiliate marketing, Agile Commerce, Allstar (fuel card), APazari Desktop, AS 2805, AspDotNetStorefront, Associate-O-Matic, AStore, Auction software, Authorize.Net, Automated Clearing House, Avactis, Awomo, Jay Baer, Bill Me Later, Bill2phone, Billpoint, Blind credential, Blum-Goldwasser cryptosystem, Boston Computer Exchange, Bots (edi), Bricks and clicks, Business Augmentation Services, Business-to-business, Business-to-consumer, Business-to-employee, Business-to-government, Business-to-manager, CA/Browser Forum, Camgirl, Card association, Card security code, Cart32, Centricom, Certificate-based encryption, ChamberSign, Click farm, Click fraud, The Cluetrain Manifesto, CommerceNet, Comparison of shopping cart software, Computer reservations system, Computer security, Confinity, Consumer privacy, Consumer-to-business, Consumer-to-consumer, Content delivery, Coupon Smarter, Customer Access and Retrieval System, Customer intelligence, Customer reference program, Customer relationship management, Customer to customer, CXML, Cyber Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Cyberservices, Debit card, Decoupled debit card, Delver (search engine), Demandware, DigiCash, Digital credential, Online distribution, Digital ticket, Digital wallet, Direct imports, Direct2Drive, Discovery shopping, Disintermediation, Document automation, Dot-com bubble, Drop shipping, Dynamic currency conversion, E-challan, E-commerce payment system, E-procurement, E-Services, E-taxes, Eagle Cash, EBay API, EBPP, Ecash, Ecommerce in India...and much more
This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Electronic commerce. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Electronic commerce with the objectivity of experienced professionals.
