E-COMMERCE
How online shopping websites operates
- Adding to the cart: Enterprise/commercial database management systems are the core of online stores. They help keep track of the quantity of stock available, each user’s information and what products are added to each user’s cart. Oracle is the first commercial database management system, but MySQL is the most used among online stores. If you recall, MySQL is also used by social media sites, so to refresh your understanding click here to go back to that page.
- Paying: Paying for an online store is usually preformed by electronic fund transfer, which involves the transfer of money from the customer’s bank account to the store’s bank account using electronic devices. In this case, servers, software and credit/debit cards replace the act of physically going to the bank.
- Shipping software: Shipping software is used within the online store for creating and printing shipping labels, tracking information related to shipping and dealing with automated email. Some of these shipping software are:
- Solid commerce
- ShipHwack
- DispatchMAX
- Security: Online shopping websites are hosted on servers with firewall for security. They also have a LSS certificate to make sure every user’s personal information is secure during transactions.