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E-commerce covers the range of online business activities for products and services, both business to business and business to customer, through thr internet. This statement breaks e-commerce into 2 categories.

ü online shopping
ü online purchasing

If we go to a shopping mall and look for a shirt, we may go into several stores. Our shopping habbits include checking the quality, sizes, colours, and prices of different shirts at different stores. When a decision is made, we place the shirt that we chose in our shopping cart and continue shopping. When we are done, we go to the counter to pay for it. To pay for your shirt, you could provide the cashier with your credit card. E-commerce uses shopping metaphors to deine the process of gathering product information and purchasing those products through the internet. We are actually doing online shopping when reviewing products on the internet. When we are done with online shopping and decide to buy, we can click a purchase button and moved to an online purchasing site. We need to give our shipping address and credit card number in order to complete the transaction.