What is e-commerce for?

E-commerce is a commercial activity centered on commodity exchange by means of information network technology; It can also be understood as trading activities and related services in the form of electronic transactions on the internet, intranet and value-added network, which is the electronization, networking and informatization of all links of traditional commercial activities; Business activities based on the Internet all belong to the category of e-commerce.

E-commerce can provide online trading and management services. Therefore, it has various functions such as advertising, consultation and negotiation, online ordering, online payment, electronic account, service delivery, consultation and transaction management.

1, advertisement

E-commerce can publish all kinds of business information on the Internet with the help of enterprise's Web server and customers' browsing. Customers can quickly find the information they need with the help of online search tools, while businesses can use online homepages and e-mails to advertise around the world. Compared with all kinds of advertisements in the past, online advertisements have the lowest cost and the richest information for customers.

2. Consultation and negotiation

E-commerce can use non-real-time e-mail, newsgroups and real-time discussion groups to understand market and commodity information and negotiate transaction affairs. If there is further demand, you can also use online whiteboard meeting to exchange real-time graphic information. Online consultation and negotiation can go beyond the limitation of people's face-to-face negotiation and provide a variety of convenient forms of conversation in different places.

Step 3 order online

E-commerce can realize online ordering through interactive mail transmission in the Web. Online ordering usually provides very friendly ordering tips and interactive format boxes on the product introduction page. When the customer fills in the order, the system usually replies to the confirmation information form to ensure that the order information is received. The ordering information can also be encrypted, so that the business information of customers and businesses will not be leaked.