What are the main functions of e-commerce?

E-commerce can provide services in the whole process of online transaction and management, so it has many functions such as advertising, consultation and negotiation, online ordering, online payment, electronic account, service delivery, consultation and transaction management.

E-commerce will change the production mode of enterprises. As e-commerce is a quick and convenient way of shopping, consumers' personalized and professional needs can be presented to manufacturers through the Internet. In order to please customers and highlight the design style of products, many enterprises in manufacturing industry have developed and popularized e-commerce.

Internet itself has the characteristics of openness, globality, low cost and high efficiency, which has also become an inherent feature of e-commerce, greatly surpassing the value of e-commerce as a new form of trade. It will not only change the production and management activities of enterprises themselves, but also affect the economic operation and structure of the whole society.

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E-commerce is an important part of national economy and social informatization. Developing e-commerce is an important measure to promote industrialization by informationization, change the mode of economic growth, improve the quality and efficiency of the national economy, and take a new road to industrialization, which is of great significance to realizing the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way.

In recent years, with the development and popularization of information technology, China's e-commerce has developed rapidly, and its application has achieved initial results, which has promoted the development of national economic informatization.

However, compared with developed countries, China's e-commerce is still in its infancy, and there are still problems such as limited application scope and low level. The policy environment for promoting the development of e-commerce needs to be improved urgently.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-e-commerce