The ultimate purpose of establishing E-commerce is to develop business and application service. Although the Internet have advantages of unlimited time and space, most of E-commerce platforms just provide the function of browse for customers and accomplish any service related with capital and merchandise only by some means out of network owing to the lack of corresponding security, proper payment methods and perfect management mechanism.
The realization of E-commerce is in a progressive process. According to the current status of the enterprises, it is necessary to build a system containing the frame of the business, standardize the expansion of online business, supply consummated internet resources, security, safe online payment and effective managing mechanism, and actualize the share of the resources and the real E-commerce.
The establishment of trade norms
The regulations and principles of management and operations are trade norms needed to be established in practical manipulations. These trade norms are involved with many aspects described as below.
Member Registration Regulation: This charter describes how to register to be one member and also some details including duties, rights, interests of both sides, the service provided by system, member registration information, and some other necessary certification materials etc.
The service charge on the E-commerce platform: The charge will differentiate between members and non-members.
The transaction norms: The trade activities members will take should be consistent with relative regulations such as making honest orders, signing a legal contract and being responsible for any occurring matters.
Business process definition
A complete E-commerce platform should really realize the electronic activities of business behavior which are classified as several parts described below.
Information flow: Cause the trade activities can be accomplished by E-commerce platform rather than face-to-face exchange, there will be a lot of data exchange in E-commerce platform.
Capital flow: Online payment can be realized by Internet.
Distribution flow: As we know, goods distribution is always one of important factors that obstruct the further development of E-commerce in China. Now some feasible solutions can be recommended. Based on the branches scattered in all over the place, the professional companies mainly focusing on goods distribution can establish sales sites of E-commerce, which can constitute a broad sales network throughout the whole country. And the key of a successful E-commerce company is not whether it have a huge distribution net, but it should have a highly effective operation with low cost as well as the distribution net.
Configuration of Hardware Platform
Features
Minimum requirements
Core speed
2000 MHz * 2 (Dual-Core Xeon CPU)
Cache size
512 KB
Memory size
2048 Mb
Hard Disk Capacity
73.6G * 2 （ RAID1 Backup）
Network Adapter Type
10/100/1000M Adaptive Ethernet Adapter
Configuration of Software Platform
Network Operating Systems: Windows 2003 Server (recommended)
Client Operating System: Windows 98/20000 + IE5.5 or above
Web Server: IIS5.0 + .NET Framework (recommended)
Database System: SQL Server 2000(recommended)
Software Architecture
Nowadays, there are mainly two kinds of software architecture , Client/Server (C/S) and Brower/Server(B/S). And B/S is only the one we will support for specific requirements of developed project
Software development platform
So far there are only two kinds of web platforms for enterprises, .NET and J2EE. Considering the balance between price and performance, .NET, which is the most advanced and stable platform with great maturity, has become our development platform finally. Especially in these years, there are a great improvements in the security of .Net platform because of great efforts from Microsoft Inc. At present , about 30% American banking systems have had .NET platform as their final choices, which is based on the statistics analysis of investigations data that have been done.
Online payment platform and relative security
[safety]
There are security mechanisms separately located in network layer, system layer and application layer. And there is a powerful firewall in network layer, intrusion detection, anti-virus mechanism and defection scanning in system layer, and BJCA certificates plus application software protection in application layer.
Some sorts of bank cards which have been protected by SSL 128 bits encryption algorithm and SET(Security Electronic Trading) protocol in the electronic system center of banks have been supported in online payment platform, which can guarantee the security of E-commerce in additional to the bank cards which the capital electronic shopping mall’s payment platforms support use SSL128 spaces encryption algorithm and SET (security electronic trading) in the banks, so it guarantees the security of E-commerce in addition to more convenience for both sides. O the other side, the security framework of E-commerce platform is PKI (public key infrastructure), and the selected encryption algorithm that can be used to encrypt order information is MD5, thus all of them have ensured the confidentiality, authenticity, integrity and uniqueness of data transmission in the Internet.
[open]
Many different bank cards initiated by different banks have bee supported in E-commerce platform and can be used in different terminals. A successful case China Nstech have accomplished is the E-commerce platform of ShouXin Inc. which is an open system with 19 banks and more than 60 kinds of bank cards including 4 famous International credit cards supported. In a way, currently this is a very extensive E-commerce platform supporting the most kinds of bank cards in China.
Basic functions
Member management
There are three kinds of members, visitor, registered members and shopkeepers, who are involved in E-commerce. The functions of member management can realize member identification, modification of member profile, order checking and modifying and inquiry of historical records etc.
Visitor member, who can be unregistered ,can only browse some information in the shopping mall of E-commerce system, and not allowed to carry out any online transaction.
Registered members can do online transaction and also enjoy provided individualized and preferential services.
Shopkeepers have the rights to open shops on E-commerce platform, which help set up individualized shops.
Merchandise management
The classified merchandise can be convenient for visitors to search what they are interested in. And the uploaded pictures about goods can enable customers to have a look from different angels.
The displaying status of merchandises can be set as published, promotion, on sale or recommended, which can help customers browser listed merchandises.
The rank functions of software system can automatically list merchandises from high to low according to the favor extent, so customers can know more about merchandise information.
Online shop management
Members can establish shops on the E-commerce platform. The shopkeepers can sell products in the shops and give feedbacks to the customers who have left messages or comments in time.
Shopping cart management
A visual shopping cart can let your know the total price of your purchase at once, and also add or remove any goods in your cart
When customers have completed their shopping, the system will automatically generate orders containing customer profiles, products information, total prices, payment and distribution means , which will be sent to relative persons for further processing at real time.
The whole shopping process will become more perfect and convenient with more ease.
Order Management
The orders that have received validity checks can be generated automatically in the processing flow. If they are invalid, the system can give some prompt at once, otherwise it will send out emails to customers.
The administrators who have the permission of order management can see about any order information to prosecute g statistics data analysis.
The order with different statuses such as confirmation, paying, delivery, archiving, cancellation and so on, can be managed in an unstrained way and printed if necessary.
Payment management
If the order is valid, the next is to pay. And if it is invalid, what have bee done will be repeated.
There are server payment methods for customers mainly including remittance, payment after goods receptions, online payment and so on
The payers can take anyone as receivers of goods they have bought, and it will be very useful for delivering some specific goods such as flowers, gifts. The information of receivers will be automatically saved.
Statistics Management
Many required forms can be worked out by administrators based on comprehensive data analysis related with orders, payment and members.
