E-commerce refers to the purchasing and selling of goods and services over electronic networks. There are four main types of e-commerce: business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer-to-business, and consumer-to-consumer. E-commerce provides advantages like increased sales, decreased costs, and access to global markets, but also faces disadvantages such as not all people having internet access or trust in online financial transactions. Overall, e-commerce is still developing to improve security and efficiency as applications have existed since the 1970s.

1. E-COMMERCE

3. Meaning of E-commerce
It is the purchasing ,selling
and exchanging of goods and
service over computer
networks through which
transaction or term of sale are
performed electronically.

4. BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
1.email
2.online shopping
3.online banking
4.electronic tickets
5. teleconferencing

5. Types of commerce
Business-to-business (B2B)
Business-to-consumer (B2C)
Consumer-to-business (C2B)
Consumer-to-consumer (C2C)

6. Business-to-business:-
Companies doing business with each
other such as manufactures selling to
distributors and wholesalers selling to
retailers. Pricing is based on quantity of
orders and is often negotiable.

7. Business-to-consumer:-
Business selling to the
general public typically
through catalogs utilizing
shopping card software.

8. Consumer –to-business:-
 A consumer posts his project with a set budget
online and with in hours companies review the
consumer’s requirement and bid on the
project.
The consumer review the bids and selects
the company that will complete the project.
Hence, empowers consumer’s around the
world by providing the meeting ground and
platform for the such transactions.

9.  Consumer-to-consumer:-
There are many sites offering free
classifieds auction, and forum’s where
individuals can buy and sell things to
online payment system line payable.
 Where people can send and receive
money online with ease, buy’s auction is
a great, e.g. of where person to person
transaction take place everyday since
1995.

10. Concept of e-commerce
 Retail spending
 Online taxation
 Emerging markets
 Who stands to gain
 Who stand to lose

11. Advantages of e-commerce
 Increase sales
 Decrease costs
 Reach to global market
 Opportunity for customers to compare
goods
 No need of physical company setup

12. Disadvantages of e-commerce
 E-commerce that the internet has still
not touched the lives of a great number
of people, either due to the lack
knowledge or trust.
 A large number of people do not use the
internet for any kind of financial
transaction.
 E-commerce is that it is not suitable for
perishable commodities.

13. Conclusion
• E-Commerce refers to all forms of business activities
across the internet. This can include E-tailing, B2B,
intranets and extranets, online advertising, and simply
online presence of any form that are used for some type
of communications.
• E-Commerce has several advantages and
disadvantages as indicated in these papers.
• E-Commerce applications that are started in early
1970’s need to be still developed in terms of security
and efficiency.
• For the developing country like our India advancement
in e-commerce is a challenge to compete with the
developed countries.