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Online shopping is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the internet. An , , or evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or in a shopping mall. Home Shopping is popular mainly because of its speed and ease of use. Some issues of concern can include fluctuating exchange rates for foreign currencies, local and international laws and delivery methods.

Price comparison

An advantage of shopping online is being able to use the power of the internet to seek out the lowest prices for items or services. For example if you are buying a digital camera you should enter "digital camera" into a search engine or a price search engine. Most price search engines have the advantage of store ratings and reviews. Getting the lowest price is important but it is more important to make sure the merchant or store you are purchasing from is reputable.

Steps when buying online

Browse product categories using a web browser

Put items into virtual shopping cart (or market basket).

Just as in a physical store viewing the contents of the cart can be done at any time.

Quantaties of products can be changed or deleted.

Checkout

Log in or register by choosing a username and a password.

Enter personal data.

Billing address

Shipping address (can be different from the billing address)

Phone number

E-Mail address (usually optional)

Choose means of payment

Choose delivery speed and method mail, courier and logistics service, etc.)

Confirm order

After editing the personal data a confirmation page is displayed so that the online shopper can approve, change or abort the order.

Logout

In addition to a shopping cart system a recurring user could be recognized again by storing a "Cookie" on his computer. That way he can purchase an item by just clicking on it without having to login and enter the credit and shipping information again. Amazon.com was granted the United States Patent Number 5,960,411 for this method - the famous Amazon "One-Click Patent".

Means of payment

Online shoppers commonly use their Credit card for making payments, however some systems enable users to create accounts and pay by alternative means, such as

* Debit card

* All kinds of Electronic money, Ecash (or digital money)

* Cash on delivery (C.O.D.)

* Cheque

* Money transfer / delivery on payment

* Postal money order

Once a payment has been accepted the goods or services can either be downloaded from the internet or delivered to the consumer via traditional means.

Security issues

*User and payment data is encrypted by Secure Sockets Layer when it is transferred on the Internet.

*Quality seals can be placed on the Shop webpage if it has undergone an independent assessment and meets all requirements of the company issuing the seal. The purpose of these seals is to increase the confidence of the online shoppers, the existence of many different seals foils this effort to a certain extent.

*Privacy of personal information is a big issue. In spite of Privacy Guidelines of the OECD, for example, privacy violations still occur and hamper eCommerce from developing to its full potential.

Setting up a shopping cart system

* Simple systems allow the offline administration of products and categories. The shop is then generated as HTML files and graphics that can be uploaded to a webspace. These systems don't use an online database.

* A high end solution can be bought or rented as a standalone program or as an addition to an Enterprise_resource_planning program. It is usually installed on the company's own webserver and may integrate very well into the existing Supply chain so that ordering, payment, delivery, accounting and warehousing can be automated to a large extent.

* Other solutions allow the user to register and create an online shop on a web portal that hosts multiple shops at the same time.

* open source can be adapted and installed on a webspace.

* There are also commercial systems that can be tailored to ones needs so that the shop does not have to be created from scratch. By using a framework already existing, software modules for different functionalities required by a webshop can be adapted and combined.

History

* 1990: Tim Berners-Lee wrote "The WorldWideWeb browser" using a NeXT computer.

* 1994: Netscape released the Navigator browser in October under the code name Mozilla. Pizza Hut offered pizza ordering on its Web page. The first online bank opened. Attempts to offer flower delivery and magazine subscriptions online. "Adult" materials were also commercially available very soon. Netscape 1.0 in late 1994 introduced SSL encryption that made transactions secure.

* 1995: Jeff Bezos launched Amazon.com and the first commercial 24 hr. internet only radio station "Radio HK" started broadcasting. Dell and Cisco began to aggressively use Internet for commercial transactions.

* 1996: eBay was founded.

* 1998: Electronic postal stamps can be purchased and downloaded for printing from the Web.

* 1999: business.com was sold for US $7.5 million (purchased 1997 for US $150,000) The peer-to-peer filesharing software "Napster" was launched.

* 1999: The UK's first graphical Internet shopping mall was launched.

* 2000: The dot-com bust.

* 2001: Merger of AOL and Time Warner.

* 2003: Amazon.com: first-ever full-year profit.

News

Online Shoe Retailer Tracks Summer Footwear Trends to Simplify Online Shoe Shopping (PRWeb) </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script>
Online shoe retailer, www.Elotta.com, simplifies the summer shoe shopping experience for buyers looking for the hottest footwear trends for this summer by collecting and using sales data to rank popular brands and styles. (PRWeb Jul 30, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RmFsdS1NYWduLU1hZ24tU3F1YS1UaGlyLVplcm8= </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script>

Threat to bomb Karachi shopping centre (IANS via Yahoo! India News) </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script>
Karachi, July 30 (IANS) An anonymous letter apparently by Islamist extremists has threatened that a prominent shopping area in this city would be blown up if it wasn't closed down by Sep 27. </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script>

Online Shoe Retailer Tracks Summer Footwear Trends to Simplify Online Shoe Shopping (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script>
Online shoe retailer, www.Elotta.com, simplifies the summer shoe shopping experience for buyers looking for the hottest footwear trends for this summer by collecting and using sales data to rank popular brands and styles. </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script>

'Tis the shopping season (San Gabriel Valley Tribune) </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script>
With summer almost over, the back-to-school-shopping season - the mad rush to purchase as many binders and pencils and solid-colored shirts as possible - begins. </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script>

Bahrain: Shopping, fun top the list (Zawya) </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script>
Shopping and entertainment are the main purposes rather than archeological sites and the culture of the countries Bahrainis visit, according to a recent study for 302 individuals by the Bahrain Centre for the Studies and Research. </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script> </script>

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