"When you’ve said e-commerce you’ve said it all"
The phenomenon of conducting any sorts of transactions with the help of electronic communication technology such as the Internet, e-books, e-mail, extranets, mobile phone , and databases if popularly known as “E-Commerce”.

Basic E-Commerce	Advanced E-Commerce	Customized E-Commerce
• Payment Integration • Admin Control Panel • Content Management • Picture Uploads • Customizable Product Display	• Shipping Management • User Access Control • Multi-tab goods Details • Enabling Build-to-order Facility	• Shipping Management • User Access Control • Multi-tab goods Details • Enabling Build-to-order Facility

Major components of this service include:

• Electronic funds transfer
• Online transaction processing
• E-marketing, online marketing
• Supply chain management
• Electronic data interchange (EDI)
• Automated data collection systems
• Automated inventory management systems

The online transactions that occur can be anything ranging from selling, buying, distributing, and marketing of products over the internet. Basically any type of transactions between companies and customers (B2C) and between companies (B2B) can be categorized under E-commerce.

Different web applications that facilitate these transactions include:

• Email
• Instant messaging
• Shopping carts
• Web services
• UDDI
• FTP
• EDI

Basically any commercial transaction carried using internet can be referred in relevancy to "Consumers who made an online purchase in the past three months are more than 80% likely to make another purchase in the coming three months." - Consumer Internet Barometer.

"E-Commerce’ Or ‘E-Business :"
An E-commerce site in its simplest form can act as a pamphlet with a phone no. thus giving the customer an opportunity to know more about the product and buy it. In its complex form such types of sites can range all the way to a real time credit and processing site where customer can purchase downloadable goods and receive them right there right then!!! E-Commerce is one perspective of World Wide Web that has witnessed a fast growth over past few years. With no. of internet users increasing at a fast pace the no. of people buying and selling goods on-line has also increased enormously. "