Software development for a modern E-shop in Bangladesh

Abstract

The subjeet that is expected to influence the future growth of the Internet and other forms of interaetive communication is electronic commerce. This application of information technology perhaps best embodies the explosion of commercial interests on the so-called "information highway." There is a great opportunity for Bangladesh to enter thc markct of clectronie eommerce. Some entrepreneurs from Bangladesh have already started electronic commerce through e-shop. But existing systems for modern e-shop need a lot of features to attract people for online shopping. The existing systems miss some basic and advanced functionality which should be present in any modern e-shop. In this work, ten popular e-shops in Bangladesh studied based on their functionality. This work attempts to identify the different shortcomings of the e-shops of Bangladesh compared to the most popular e-shops and then addresses these shortcomings in the proposed software. Online shopping is analyzed based on customcr's experience. How customer's shopping decision is influenced by the presence of different functionality of modem e-shop is also analyzed. Model of a modern e-shop is developed based on these studies. This project also suggests a prototype of modem e-shop with all the basic functionality and some advanced lunetionality found in today's most popular e-shops. The developed software is eost effective, flexible and reliable and able to serve the online shopper properly. This software is a guideline to the business people who wants to expand their business through the Internet.