TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title
Page
Abstract
Table
of Contents
Chapter
One
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Statement of Problem
1.3 Objectives of Study
1.4 Significance of Study
1.5 Limitation of Study
1.6 Definitions of terms
Chapter
Two –Literature Review
2.1
Advantages of Online Shopping
2.2
Disadvantages of Online Shopping
2.3
Types of Online Shopping
2.4
Online Shopping Security
Chapter
Three – Methodology and Analysis of the existing System
3.1
General Description of the existing System
3.2
Fact Finding Method Used.
3.4
Objective of the new System
3.5
Organizational Structure
3.6
Input Analysis
3.7
Process Analysis
3.8
Output Analysis
3.9
Problem of the Existing System
Chapter
Four – Design and Implementation of the new System
4.1
Design Standard
4.2
Input Design and Specification
4.3
Output Design and Specification
4.4
File Design
4.5
System Flow Chart
4.7
System Requirement
4.7.1
Hardware Requirement
4.7.2
Software Requirement
Chapter
Five
5.1
Summary
5.2
Conclusion
5.3
Recommendation
Appendices
ABSTRACT
An online bookstore is
an e-commerce website for selling books online. The project “design and implementation of an online bookstore
management system” aims at providing a platform that allows a
customer to search and purchase a book online or read a book online based
on the book’s title, author and subject. Among its functionalities include
catalog management, customer accounts, inventory management, order management,
product configurator and shopping cart. It provides the user with a catalog of
different books available for purchase in the store categorized under the
departments of Biochemistry, Engineering, Medicine, Mathematics, Pharmacy
and Computer science
and many more. Through a web browser a customer can search for a book by its
title or author, add to the shopping cart and finally purchase using credit
card transaction or other card transactions like Master card, Visa card or
Verve cards.
The system is
implemented using a backend database, and a web browser as the front end to the
client. Making use of the following tools: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
programming language, XAMPP, Apache, MySQL database management system and PHP
CURL, a user friendly, flexible and reliable website for online book
sales was developed.
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
With the development
and improvement of computer science, internet technology and database technology
are now used widely. Many people choose to shop online instead of
walking down to the traditional bookshop. The enterprise IT departments have
recognized advantages to the internet. E-commerce functionality is more and
more powerful. People freely shop at home so easily. Nowadays,
the bookstore websites
are often used as medium for selling and purchasing books online.
Registered customer can search for all the books they want to buy. Online bookshop
is an online web
application where a customer can purchase books online through a web
browser. The main aim of this project is to create a
website where a customer can visit and buy books online and have it
delivered to his or her doorsteps. The customers can search for a book by its
title, author ISBN (International Standard Book Number) and later can add to
the shopping cart and finally purchase using credit card transaction. The card
transaction can be either by visa card, verve card or credit card. The
administrator will have additional functionalities to the system than a common
user. Buying and selling of books online is an act
considered as Electronic commerce. The modern world is
surrounded by the technology and internet is the biggest invention of the world
which is a worldwide system of computer networks. In the network users at any computer can communicate with
the other if they have permission to get information from any other computer.
Today hundreds of millions of people worldwide are using internet and most
widely used part of the internet is the World Wide Web (www). It is basically a
system of internet servers that support specially formatted documents which is
formatted in a markup language called Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) that
supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files.
Web page is a document commonly written in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
that is accessible through the internet or other network using an internet
browser by entering a
URL address and many contain text, graphics and hyperlinks
to other web pages and files.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
There are many online businesses on the
internet. People have many choices to buy products through the internet. These
products include household equipment, electronics, clothing books and many
more. Now a day's people are so busy that they have no time to go to shopping
malls and buy the things they want. This was the problem primarily intended
for online shopping
to solve. That's why importance of online shopping is
increasing with the passage of time and one cannot deny this fact. Online shops
give you lot of discounts that you may not find by shopping at the physical
stores. Moreover, many online shops not only give you huge discounts
on different products but at the same time they provide convenience. Online shopping
not only save your time but it saves lots of your money by not going to visit
each shop and spend money on gas and patrol.
The hazzles of moving from bookshop to the other and not
finding the books you need is frustrating and time/resources consuming. This
system solves the issue of having to waste time and other precious resources in
search of a book.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF STUDY
The main objective of the
paper is to design and implement an online Bookstore with E-commerce Payment
Integrtions. The Electronic Book Shop focuses precisely on the following objectives:
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To enable readers/users have access to over 1,000 books from
anywhere.
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To
process data in possibly least amount of time.
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To
secure the information and obstruct the access of unauthorized persons.
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To
avail the information immediately in demand.
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To integrate a simple
payment integration to enable users to read or purchase books without stress.