A Review & Development of E-Commerce Website

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A Review & Development of E-Commerce Website
Amandeep1, Ashwini Verma2, Satyam Chaudhary3, Vikram Thakur4
1,2,3,4Student, Dept. of Computer Science, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India
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Abstract - The Internet has been the greatest invention of
mankind which has changed the life of every individual on
this planet. Finally, long distances don’t feel so long and
everyone can keep in touch with anyone without any
boundaries. Every app which is mostly used on the internet
today is trying to reduce the distance from each other in one
way or another. From social media to online shopping every
app is trying to sell comfortableness to people from the
convenience of their homes. One Particular sector in which
players are working on this will always be e-commerce. The
main purpose of e-commerce is certainly to sell products at
very fair prices because the ease of doing business is
certainly a blessing in this busy world. With greater
penetration of smartphones and the internet growth of e-
commerce has been like never before. Moreover, this
business has contributed to the economy tremendously and
provided thousands of jobs all over the world.
Key Words: E-Commerce Website Development, Internet,
Self-service, m-commerce, Development.
1. INTRODUCTION
The Internet has been the biggest revolution for mankind
which has led to the development of some of the most
unrealistic development of technologies which was
deemed possible. The internet has broken barriers of
many things such as social media, entertainment, and
quite certainly e-commerce, and revolutionized the
process of doing business [1].
Ecommerce is the process of doing business on a network,
especially on the internet where a person who wants to
sell can gain exposure. The goal of eCommerce is to
provide comfort to the seller as well as the customer. In e-
commerce, a person can sit inside their house and list their
product and the customer doesn't matter where they are.
They can order the thing which will be delivered to their
home. The Online Shopping System helps in buying
products, products, and services online by choosing the
listed products from a website(ECommerce site). With the
development of e-commerce many things about online
businesses such as better infrastructure and better
technology. Moreover, e-commerce from mobile has been
a much bigger game changer as it has become much more
accessible [2].In this decade Ecommerce is moving to
customers centric and becoming more customizable with
help of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
E-Commerce is considered a paradigm shift for the
innovation it brought as it fulfilled the gap that was left by
traditional businesses such as low exposure and inability
to sell outside as they were limited with the technology,
money, and logistics. Moreover, it has also improved
relations between customers, product promotion, and cost
savings.
The key contribution of this paper is:-
● A review paper that dives into the depth of the
state of e-commerce around the world, especially
in India.
● A detailed explanation of the development of e-
commerce sites and technology is required.
The rest of this paper is formulated as follows: Section 2
presents a comparative analysis of the existing e-
commerce review papers. Section 3 describes the
objective of the project. Section 4 details the state and
growth of e-commerce in India. Section 5 provides the
process of developing an e-commerce website and the
process used by us .
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
In his research paper, Shoewu et al. [2] has suggested the
process of development of an eCommerce website with
the help of HTML,ASP.NET, and MYSQL and also advised
on security risks which can be critical while proposing the
website to the customer as it can be a major risk. He has
also proposed a detailed database design and what can be
included in the tables of the database in a detailed manner.
Aftab et al. [3] in his research paper has published the
review and state of e-commerce all around and helped us
understand the process of development of an e-commerce
website with the help of Javascript, HTML, and CSS. He has
also provided the payment solution for the proposed
website and concluded the paper with advice on the
improvement of the e-commerce industry in the coming
years .
Rajasekar et al. [4] in his research paper published the
impact of e-commerce in India, the timeline of
development, and shared the impact of e-commerce on the
economy and suggestions for improving the infrastructure
in India and has also shared the challenges faced by
companies in India.

Abdul. [6] in his research shared his view on the impact of
e-commerce in emerging economies such as India and
Bangladesh he has shared his view on the development,
growth, and challenges faced by e-commerce businesses in
this type of country and he has also shared his view the
benefit such reduced cost, faster transportation, and
better exposure through different seller can reach
especially in the emerging economy which this business
can provide in this type of economy.
Shahid et al. [7] in his paper shared his view on the
situation of commerce in this country and the fast
development of the infrastructure of e-commerce in this
country. He also shared the trend of buying the product by
users in this country.
3. ECOMMERCE IN INDIA
E-commerce is one of the fastest-growing technologies in
India. Many new companies have emerged which have
helped e-commerce to grow exponentially.E-commerce
which had a business of, merely 14 billion dollars in 2011
has grown more than six times in 2021 to 84 billion
dollars and is expected to grow more than twice in five to
six years.
3.1 Underlying Factors in E-Commerce
Higher penetration of internet and mobile services has
been a game-changer for India because of which more and
more people are joining as a customer every minute [8]. It
has been observed about 60-70 percent of shopping has
been done through smartphones in India. Currently, the
penetration of smartphones is at fifty percent which is
going to double in the next twenty years.Cash on delivery
is also one of the prominent underlying factors that have
contributed to the growth of the e-commerce industry in
India according to the times of India even in 2021 approx
fifty percent of payments in tier-1 cities of India are done
via cash on delivery whereas more than seventy percent
payments are done through cash on delivery through tier-
2/tier3 cities [11].
3.2 Growth of e-commerce in India
The Indian e-commerce industry is the fastest-growing e-
commerce industry in the world. It is expected to grow
more than twice by 2027 and is expected to become the
biggest eCommerce industry in the world by 2050.
Lucrative offers and cash on delivery have lured Indians
greatly to get invested in this industry while not meddling
with the trust of the people. Moreover, According to
ASSOCHAM apparel, jewelry and footwear are the most
purchased items through eCommerce in India thanks to
cheaper rates and doorstep delivery [4].
Table 1: Growth of market cap from 2015 to 2021 with
forecasting
Year Market Cap of
Ecommerce in
India(in billion US dollar)
2015 14
2016 14.6
2017 39
2018 21.9
2019 24.6
2020 30
2021 84
2025 188
2027 200
3.3 Challenges of e-commerce in India
With such astounding growth of e-commerce in India
there has been a growth of challenges which was faced by
companies in India which include [8].
● Connectivity - Many parts of India are still very
rural and delivery there is very far fetched
● Fraud - In recent years there has been an increase
in online fraud where some websites which
claimed to be something other have phished users
into logging their credit card information and
resulting in monetary fraud.
● Fake Products - There are hundreds of thousands
of sellers registered with different e-commerce
websites and it has become very difficult to
scrutinize all their products which has resulted in
many fake deliveries which do not have the
products which are promised.
● Missing Products - In recent years there has been
an increase in such cases where people are not
receiving products that they ordered which has
resulted in a loss of trust.
4. SYSTEM DESIGN
System design refers to the process and shaping of the
creation of an e-commerce website and modules that are
going to be used in the process of making the website i.e.,
Nodejs, HTML, CSS [3].

System Module Description:
1 Coding
2. Seller
3. Customer
4. Management
5. Delivery
4.1 Coding
Coding refers to the process of building a website that can
be later used to process the request of customers. It is a
standalone site that can handle multiple requests of
people at once so that the seller can fulfill the order [3].
4.1.1 HTML
The hyperText markup language is the skeleton of any
website that is to be created. It is used structurally to
devise a road to develop a site so that later designers can
use it to develop a better layout of the website. It can also
be used to separate different tags such as graphical
contents, hyperlinks, and words so that it does not cause
an entanglement later and can be separated easily [3].
4.1.2 CSS
Cascading Style sheets often referred to as CSS is a
formatting language that is used to standardize and
improve the quality of a website. While HTML lays the
skeleton of the website CSS can use those attributes and
improve the layout of the website [3].
4.1.3 JavaScript
JavaScript is a client-side rendering standalone
programming language that can be used in the backend as
well as frontend. The main purpose of the JavaScript in the
frontend is to provide more functionalities and make the
website much more dynamic which cannot be obtained
with HTML or CSS alone whereas in the backend it is used
to write API which is used to connect the backend with
frontend.
4.1.4 Node.JS
Node.js is a backend framework written in JavaScript
which is used to write the code for many asynchronous
networks in a website. It can serve multiple requests
synchronically where other frameworks use an os-based
concurrency model where threads are employed.
Node is directly uses I/O so the process never ends up
deadlocked except when it is explicitly using an
asynchronous library [4].
4.1.5 Database
When we consider mammoth e-commerce websites, data
can be huge, and every data like items list, customer info,
delivery address, etc. need to be stored in a database. A
Database is a place where information on all the things
associated with eCommerce is stored. Everything is stored
in the form of a table or key-value pair.
Databases can be of various types, but they are typical of
two types:
4.1.5.1 SQL Databases
SQL type databases are those databases in which data is
stored in the form of a table [3].
Ex- SQLite, MYSQL
4.1.5.2 NoSQL Databases
No SQL databases are typical databases in which data is
stored in the form of key-value pair [3].
Ex- MongoDB
4.2 CUSTOMER
The reason e-commerce boomed across the world is
because it was huge relaxation customers itself as the ease
of ordering something within a few clicks and it getting
reached in a week or so was the very big relaxation and
that has been a unique selling point of this kind of website
[6]. Customized advertising and increase in number of
sellers as well as variety of sellers which increased the
variety of products have also made the customer
experience very good more sellers with different price
segments have saved them from forming a monopoly
within the site and provided more option which in turn
provides more reasonable price and an experience of
negotiations for every customer gets far more opinion
than any shop in the world as eCommerce is the
combination of shops rather than being one [8].
Customers are the ultimate goal of any business to which
products are sold and with this ever-growing population
and life getting busier each day the demand for e-
commerce is increasing as time is something very limited
in this new generation[10].Also one of the most important
factor in a ecommerce website is customer engagement is
the emotional and ethical connection with company. Good
customer engagement means there wil be more customer
purchasing from that website and they will promote the
product more which will in turn benefit the company.
According to Rithika Sirvi her research paper she
mentioned the fact good customer engagement can boost
up to 24 percent sales of ecommerce websites.

Table 2: Growth of e-commerce customer base
Year Growth of Customer Base
World Wide in billions
2014 1.32
2015 1.46
2016 1.52
2017 1.66
2018 1.79
2019 1.92
2020 2.05
2021 2.14
4.3 DELIVERY
When e-commerce was established especially in a country
like India one of the major problems faced was delivering
products home to home as there was very little to no
infrastructure available lack of private players was a major
setback and government agencies were already
overloaded and less reliable to accommodate the demand
so the companies decided to lay there own infrastructure
which has been more than successful in fulfilling the
demand and also helped for cutting the cost [10].
Delivery is the final stage of the e-commerce system.
According to Jehangir in his research in 2017, he proposed
that 52 percent of people opt for home delivery keeping in
mind ease of home delivery from the shop and some of the
issue faced by the business and customer is Unavailability
of respondents, Cost of delivery and time of delivery as
most of the people are at work during a weekday during
the day [12].
Delivery is the most extensively demanded and important
job out of all the processes in e-commerce as it requires
extensive networking, logistics, and manpower support.
There is a need for extensive technology to track and
support the process and one of the biggest barriers is
international orders and their limitations [7]. A more open
environment could improve efficient access to global
networks for home-grown small businesses. Competition
between service suppliers can reduce prices and lift the
standard of services offered. A facilitative regulatory
environment can rapidly increase these trends and makes
the business case for operating in smaller or more remote
markets that way more appealing [3].
5. CONCLUSION
This research paper provides insight into the development
of e-commerce and some insight into the latest trend and
technology which attract customers and provide
management with some useful information on e-
commerce. While understanding the bits and pieces of
e-commerce we have also tried to understand complete
system design as well as the basics of the flow of
information of operating e-commerce.
A more sustainable way would be to develop e-commerce
and traditional business side by side because as the
population is increasing it would be very difficult to
accommodate the needs of such a vast and diverse
population with only E-commerce. With the increase of
penetration of mobile, there is going to be an indefinite
increase in usage of e-commerce throughout the world
which would push the limit of technology which would
again push the limit of firms to develop a safer and
compatible Environment.
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