E-commerce - what is that?

 

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E-commerce is also known by other names such as electronic commerce or internet commerce, which involves buying and selling services or products using the internet. It also needs us to send the payment or data online to accomplish the transaction. Usually, it is used to sell physical products online but it can also be a commercial transaction (Shopify, 2021). There are also different types of e-commerce, such as:

- Business to consumer (B2C)

- Business to business (B2B)

- Consumer to consumer (C2C)

- Consumer to business (C2B)

Examples of the E-commerce:

- retail

- dropshipping

- wholesale

- crowdfunding

- subcribtion

- digital products

- physical products

- services

(Shopify, 2021)

References:

Shopify. 2021. Ecommerce Definition - What Is Ecommerce. [online] Available at: <https://www.shopify.com/encyclopedia/what-is-ecommerce> [Accessed 15 January 2021].