Interesting Facts

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown dramatically since the spread of the Internet. A wide variety of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although it can encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail as well. e-commerce is buying things from the internet but many people are unsure about its reliabilty as there are many unreputable vendors.

A small percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically for "virtual" items such as access to premium content on a website, but most electronic commerce involves the transportation of physical items in some way. Online retailers are sometimes known as e-tailers and online retail is known as e-tail. E-commerce or electronic commerce is generally considered to be the sales aspect of e-business.

Ashop commerce is helping a great deal in the field of ecommerce with it's ecommerce software (the shopping cart software)as I have already said in one of my previous posts.AshopCommerce shopping carts are integrated with all major banks, gateways and third party processors including PayPal (full functionality integration). This helps the users since all will not have their accounts in the same bank.