What does e commerce mean

E-commerce is simply all about selling things online.

E-commerce includes electronic money exchange, chain management, electronic marketplaces, network marketing, transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management, and automatic data collection systems. In doing so, information technologies are used including the Internet, extranets, e-mail, databases, electronic directories and mobile**.

With the rapid development of e-commerce, it not only includes the main connotation of shopping, but also includes ancillary services such as logistics and distribution.

E-commerce refers to a new type of business form that is carried out on both sides of the transaction without meeting each other in the collection environment of the Internet blockade and based on the reader server control method, so as to complete the online shopping of consumers, online trading between merchants and electronic payment and all kinds of business transactions, trading transactions, financial transactions and related comprehensive services.

E-commerce is a business activity centered on commodity exchange by means of information network technology.

E-commerce usually refers to a wide range of commercial activities around the world, in the open network environment of the Internet, buyers and sellers do not meet each other to carry out various business activities, to achieve consumers' online shopping, online transactions between merchants and electronic payment, as well as a variety of business activities, transaction activities, financial activities and related comprehensive service activities of a new type of business operation model.

E-commerce is a business activity carried out using microcomputer technology and network communication technology. There are many different definitions given by countries, scholars, and business people according to their own status and the different angles and degrees of participation in e-commerce. E-commerce is divided into:

ABC, B2B, B2C, C2C, B2M, M2C, B2A (i.e., B2G), C2A (i.e., C2G), O2O e-commerce model, etc.

At the same time, network marketing is also a product of e-commerce, and for network marketing, it is necessary to do a good job of network marketing plan before doing it, so as to facilitate the implementation of the plan.

E-commerce features:

From the meaning and development process of e-commerce, it can be seen that e-commerce has the following basic characteristics: universality, e-commerce, as a new type of transaction, will be production enterprises, circulation enterprises and consumers and ** into a network economy, digital survival of the new world.

Convenience: In the e-commerce environment, people are no longer limited by geography, and customers can complete the more complicated business activities in the past in a very simple way, such as all-weather access to account funds and information inquiry through online banking, and at the same time, the service quality of enterprises to customers can be greatly improved.

Integrity: E-commerce can standardize the workflow of transaction processing, and integrate manual operation and electronic information processing into an inseparable whole, which can not only improve the utilization rate of manpower and material resources, but also improve the rigor of system operation.

Security: In e-commerce, security is a critical core issue, which requires the network to provide an end-to-end security solution, such as encryption, signature, security management, access control, firewall, anti-virus protection, etc., which is very different from traditional business activities.

Coordination: business activities themselves are a kind of coordination process, it requires customers and the company, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers to coordinate, in the e-commerce environment, it requires banks, distribution centers, communication departments, technical services and other departments to work together, the whole process of e-commerce is often done in one go.

Integration: E-commerce takes the computer network as the main line, and has a high degree of integration of various functions of business activities, as well as a high degree of integration of all parties involved in business activities. The high degree of integration makes e-commerce more efficient.