What is eCommerce?
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In simple terms ‘eCommerce’ refers to trading on the Internet. If your website generates sales, ‘eCommerce’, in its simplest form, has occurred. The trading system can become more refined, reaching proportions of an online shopping cart, where any number of items can be selected for purchase and the consumer commits to pay either on receipt or an invoice, on order delivery, or immediately by credit card.
The consumer browses the Internet to the merchant’s website and decides to purchase an item. The credit card details are received by an online transaction server in encrypted format. Once he has placed his order, the information moves through a private gateway to a processing network, where the issuing and acquiring banks complete or deny the transaction. This generally takes place in no more than 5-7 seconds.
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