DESCRIPTION:

ABSTRACT
E-Gift Shoppy is a very important feature used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online, similar to the US English term ‘shopping cart’.

The business-to-consumer aspect of electronic commerce (e-commerce) is the most visible business use of the World Wide Web. The primary goal of an e-commerce site is to sell goods and services online. E-commerce is fast gaining ground as an accepted and used business paradigm. More and more business houses are implementing web site providing functionality for performing commercial transactions over the web. It is reasonable to say that the process of shopping on the web is becoming commonplace.

This project deals with developing an e-commerce website for online different types of gifts. It provides the user with a catalog of different types of gifts available for purchase in the store. In order to facilitate online purchase a shopping cart is provided to the user. The system is implemented using a 3-tier approach, with a backend database, a middle tier of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and ASP.NET, and a web browser as the front end client. The E-Gift Shoppy project has been developed to allow business grows larger and faster. This site will let customers to view and order products online from any part of the world. The site sells different types of. Under this website many products and services can be ordered.

The E-Gift Shoppy is extended for all time through new items and administrations so as to offer an item portfolio relating to the market. Private client and business clients can arrange the chose results of the E-Gift Shoppy Service online rapidly and easily.

Target gatherings of client of the E-Gift Shoppy are tremendous. The clients can have an installment choice through charge card as it were. So as to utilize the heap composing strategy, the client registers itself and gets a login for its buys name. It is an Internet application.

INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT

The objective of this project is to develop a general purpose e-commerce store where any product (such as Birthday, Festival Gifts etc.) can be bought from the comfort of home through the Internet. However, for implementation purposes, this paper will deal with an online E-Gift Shoppy.

The E-Gift Shoppy is a virtual store on the Internet where customers can browse the catalog and select products of interest. The selected items may be collected in a shopping cart. At checkout time, the items in the shopping cart will be presented as an order. At that time, more information will be needed to complete the transaction. Usually, the customer will be asked to fill or select a billing address, a shipping address, a shipping option, and payment information such as credit card number. An e- mail notification is sent to the customer as soon as the order is placed.

Electronic Commerce (e-commerce) applications support the interaction between different parties participating in a commerce transaction via the network, as well as the management of the data involved in the process.

PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT

The E-Gift Shoppy needs to sell different types of products to customer living in any part of the world. The website will show all products in categorized manner. Customer can browse any product for its price and other details and can order the product. Orders needs to accompany with shipping & billing details. Customer has to pay order amount online through credit cards. Products can be managed by operators from admin panel. Operator can be created by admin. Admin can keep track of orders through admin panel.

The main purpose of the system is to enable customers to browse and order from any part of the world and hence increasing business scope.

PROBLEM IN EXISTING SYSTEM

• The existing system is manual system. Needs to be converted into automated system.
• Risk of mismanagement of data.
• Less Security.
• No proper coordination between different Applications and Users.
• Fewer Users – Friendly.
• Accuracy not guaranteed.
• Not in reach of distant users.

SOLUTION OF THESE PROBLEMS

1. The development of the new system contains the following activities, which try to automate the entire process keeping in view of the database integration approach.
2. User friendliness is provided in the application with various controls.
3. The system makes the overall project management much easier and flexible.
4. There is no risk of data mismanagement at any level while the project development is under process.
5. It provides high level of security with different level of authentication.
6. Users from any part of the world can make use of the system.
7. New system will process accurate results.
8. New system will be much better in performance as compared to existing one.

Modules

1. Registration Module
2. Products Browse Module
3. Products Search Module
4. Shopping cart Module
5. Shipping & Billing Module
6. Payment Module
7. Admin User Management Module
8. Admin Catalog Management Module
9. Admin Order Management Module

Hardware Requirements

Processor : Pentium-IV 2.6GHz
Hard Memory : 40GB
Ram : 1GB

Software Requirements

Back End : Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Operating System : Windows XP
Language : C#