Project summary

Stakeholder: An e-services provider on the Internet

Country: Belgium

Order-processing e-commerce site with a centralized shopping cart that enables static websites to sell their products online

Business Challenge / Situation

Many small businesses aspire to increase their market reach through setting up a site on the Internet. However, some of the companies don't have the adequate funds to build a full-fledged interactive web site. Also, some businesses don't want to invest a lot of money into start-up e-commerce projects.

Many businesses simply have static websites, where visitors can get contact information and a product catalog.

Our customer decided to help provide site visitors with technical abilities to order and buy products online.

The idea of our customer was to create a central order-processing site, to link the static sites of small businesses to such system, and to make the central processing system handle all online shopping operations for small business. In this case, smaller businesses with limited budgets won't need to spend money in order to build its own order-processing system.

Solution / Our approach

Our team responded to the customer's needs by creating a powerful order-processing site with central shopping cart.

From now on, every time an online shopper wants to buy some product item on the static site connected to the system, he or she clicks on a "Buy now" button for the specific product, and the program automatically transfers a shopper to the central order-processing site. On this site a client can fill out an order-form, pay for a product, and obtain comprehensive information on the due taxes, discounts available, and shipping costs.

A proprietor of the static site pays the customer a regular fee, which is considerably smaller than the cost of the interactive B2C site development.

Tools & Techniques & Environment

Linux, Solaris, J2SE, JSP, Rational Rose, Java Mail, J2EE, PL/SQL, Oracle 8i, Interbase, Informix, CloudScape

Value Received

Our customer benefits from obtaining a new source of revenue from providing a much demanded service.
Small web businesses benefit from getting a tool, enabling them to sell their products online.