E-Commerce

E-Commerce ( Electronic Commerce/EC)

Electronic Commerce is buying or selling of goods or service, transmission funds or data over the electronic network, primarily the internet.  These business transactions occur both as a business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer to consumer or consumer-to-business. The term e-commerce and e-business are often used interchangeably. Electronic Commerce is very use full now because many people doing online shopping especially people in the big city. People doing online shop because it is practical and simple so many people like it. Many product to when you visit Electronic website like Lazada, Buka lapak , etc. could be a reference for consumers and add the desire to buy a product.

History of E-Commerce

         Electronic commerce can be search to the 1960s, when company started doing their businesses using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to share document to other companies. In 1979, ASC X12 has developed by American National Standards institute and to be as universal standard for company share their businesses document through electronic network. In 1980s, individual user to sharing each other is grew up. In 1990s, E-bay and Amazon appear and now most people in the world Now many people do online shopping with a variety of reasons and one of them as simple and practical.

Advantages and Disadvantages

• Advantages
1. Easy to manage a business
2. Faster buying/selling product, as well the product can easy to find
3. Customers easy to select product
4. Simple and practical
5. Low operational cost and best quality service
• Disadvantages
1. No guarantee quality of product
2. Unpredictable effect on the total process
3. Bad sites just want to eat customer money
4. Many Hacker look for opportunities