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SHOP-ONLINE: A PROPOSED E-COMMERCE SITE

AND INVENTORY SYSTEM FOR BAHANDI

PASALUBONG CENTER

A Thesis Proposal Presented to the Faculty

of the Department of Information Technology

College of Engineering

Eastern Visayas State University

Tacloban City

In Partial Fulfilment of the

Requirements for the Degree

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

by

Adrian E. Mas

Jeffrey J. Cañanes

Roy H. Zacarias

March 2013
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APPROVAL SHEET

This system entitled “SHOP-ONLINE: A PROPOSED E-COMMERCE

SITE AND INVENTORY SYSTEM FOR BAHANDI PASALUBONG CENTER”
prepared and submitted by Adrian E. Mas, Jeffrey J. Cañanes and Roy H.
Zacarias in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of
Science in Information Technology has been examined and is recommended for
acceptance and approval for ORAL EXAMINATION.

JESSIE R. PARAGAS, MSIT

Adviser

Approved by the members of the Evaluation Panel on Oral Examination

with a grade of ______________________________________.

ORAL DEFENSE PANEL

DEBORAH G. BROSAS, MSIT LYRA K. NUEVAS, MST-CS

Panelist Panelist

ERIC O. STA. SINGH

Lead Panelist

Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

degree BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

DANILO B. PULMA, D.M.

Dean, College of Engineering

LYRA K. NUEVAS, MST-CS

Head, Information Technology Department

June 2, 2013
Date of Oral Examination
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The proponents would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude to the

following who have been instrumental in the completion of this study:

The personnel and producers of the Bahandi Pasalubong Center for

providing the necessary data and information crucial to the development of the

proposed online shop portal;

Mr. Jessie Paragas, the proponents’ thesis technical adviser for his

untiring support and motivation;

The members of the oral defense panel: Mr. Eric O. Sta . Singh, Mrs.

Deborah G. Brosas and Mrs. Lyra K. Nuevas for their constructive criticisms,

recommendations and suggestions;

Families, friends and classmates, for their presence and unwavering

support;

And to the Almighty God, for everything.

ADRIAN E. MAS
JEFFREY J. CAÑANES
ROY H. ZACARIAS

June 2013
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

TITLE PAGE i

APPROVAL SHEET ii

ACKNOWLEDGMENT iii

TABLE OF CONTENTS iv

LIST OF TABLES vi

LIST OF FIGURES vii

CHAPTER

I INTRODUCTION
a. Background of the Study …………………………………… 2

b. Statement of the Problem …………………………………... 6

c. Objectives of the Study …………………………………….. 7

d. Significance of the Study …………………………………… 8

e. Scope and Limitation of the Study …………………………. 9

f. Definition of Terms …………………………………………. 10

II METHODOLOGY

a. Review of Related Literature and Studies ………………….. 16

b. Conceptual Framework …………………………………….. 25

c. Documentation of Current System …………………………. 26

c.1. Description of the Current System ………………… 26

c.2. Personnel/Equipment Used by the Current System ... 27

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CHAPTER Page

d. Data Gathering Procedures ………………………………… 27

III REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS SPECIFICATIONS

a. Answer and Explanations of the Statement of the Problem … 28

b. Answer and Explanations to the Objectives of the Study ….. 30

c. Results, Explanations and Analysis of the Data Gathered …. 31

d. Over- All Analysis of the Proposed System ……………….. 32

e. System Design Specification ……………………………….. 37

f. Hardware Requirements ……………………………………. 39

g. Software Requirements …………………………………….. 40

h. Human Resource Complement ……………………………... 40

IV SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS

a. Summary ……………………………………………………. 41

b. Conclusions ……………………………………………..….. 42

c. Recommendations ………………………………………….. 43

Bibliography ………………………………………………………………. 44

Appendices

Letter to the Thesis Language Adviser …………………………………. 46

Letter to the Thesis Technical Adviser …………………………………. 47

GANTT Chart …………………………………………………………… 48

Screenshots ……………………………………………………………… 49

Source Codes ……………………………………………………………. 63

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure Page

1 Modified Waterfall Model 12

2 Conceptual Diagram of the Study 25

3 Context Diagram of the Proposed System 33

4 Main Module 34

5 Home Module 35

6 Login Module 36

7 Hierarchical Chart of the Proposed System 37

8 Home Page 47

9 Log-in Form 48

10 Registration Form 49

11 Processed Foods Sub-Category 50

12 Handicrafts , Gift Wares and Holiday Decors 51

13 Organic, Herbal and Natural Products 51

14 Beverages Product Sub-Category Page 52

15 Organic, Herbal and Natural Products Sub-Category Page 52

16 Handicrafts, Gift Wares and Holiday Decors Sub-Category Page 53

17 Post Harvest Facilities and Food Processing Equipment Product

Sub-Category Page 54

18 Fish/ Seafood Products Page 55

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Figure Page

20 Bagoong Product Description Page 56

21 Bagoong Product Image Page 57

22 Shopping Cart Page 58

23 Product Categories 60
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Chapter I

INTRODUCTION

Virtually every business, government and private-owned are going hi-tech these

days. Many businesses expect most people to know the basics of information and

communications. This expectation drove the business community to consider other means

of conducting business with the clients considering the availability of several

technologies. Among these technologies is the Information and Communication

Technology (ICT). This technology comprises of tools such as software and hardware

computer components that facilitate the storage, retrieval and dissemination of data and

information over a wide range of business stakeholders.

Based on the foregoing statement, Information can be best described as the use of

computer hardware and software to gather, transfer or store information.

Communications technology refers to systems used for communication, which includes

telephone, radio, fax, television, email, cell phones and instant messaging. Together, both

fields are simply referred to as "ICT" or Information and Communications Technology.

ICT is often broken into two major groups: "traditional computer-based technologies"

and "digital communication technologies." Examples of traditional computer-based

technologies are accounting programs and word processors. Digital communication

technology covers everything from the Internet to satellite linkups.

Organizations rely on ICT systems to boost productivity, reduce costs and make

better decisions. One example is a database software allowing companies to quickly

process massive amounts of information about their customers. They can then use data on
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the customers' shopping habits to design a better marketing plan. Another use of ICT in

boosting the profitability of online business is the built-in advertisement of products

allowing more customers from both local and international to have a glimpse of what the

business is all about. These are just but few of the many justifications online shopping

stores can offer to business establishments that patronize these technologies.

Before the advent of the foregoing computer-based and digital communication

technologies, business establishments who sell products and the likes solely rely on the

works of business experts to interpret customer shopping trends occurring in their stores.

In turn, these experts, or even the owners themselves heavily depend on loads of paper

works such as those that detail periodic sales, inventories among others for them to

analyze and arrive at some sales pattern or customers’ shopping habits. Evidently, these

tedious processes of identifying trends, set aside, carefully skimming through all the

necessary documents, are very prone to sluggish outputs, if not miscalculations. The

onset of online shopping or e-commerce not only resolved most, if not all, of the

predicaments of the classic shopping scheme but also widened the scope of shoppers

from one localized physical store to “cloned”, “distributed stores” that can easily be

accessed by most of its customers over the Internet. Gone are the long queues of lines and

the need to travel just to avail one’s needed shopping items.

For these reasons, the proponents of the study considered the proposition of an

online e-commerce and inventory system for Bahandi Pasalubong Center as an extension

to its current manual store situated in DZR Airport at San Jose, Tacloban City. The

proposed system will form part of the business scheme of the establishment thus will

operate in consonance to the business undertakings of the physical store, that is, all
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transactions in the latter will be reflected in the inventory and sales records of the

proposed online store with inventory system.

a. Background of the Study

Eastern Visayas with its three island groups of Leyte, Samar and Biliran, is

endowed with abundant and wide selection of raw materials. For the past sixteen (16)

years, aggressive product development clinics have been initiated by public and private

entities to harness these resources into globally competitive manufactured goods. In

tandem with product development clinics is the marketing of products, offering it to a

wider market base. This gave birth to the conduct of regional exhibit of Eastern Visayas

aptly dubbed “Treasures”. Initially organized by the Department of Trade and Industry in

1989, Bahandi is now a major annual marketing event for the manufacturing sector of

non-traditional goods.

By year 2000, the 79 active exhibitor-producers of Bahandi were organized into

an association now known as the Bahandi Producers Association of Eastern Visayas

(BPAEV). This move of the Department of Trade and Industry to relinquish the conduct

of trade exhibit to BPAEV was to empower producers to collectively charter their own

marketing activities. Bahandi has carved a niche in the calendar of national trade events

and BPAEV, as an association, only need to strengthen and nurture the advantage

established in the past. However, Bahandi as a marketing event is conducted only once a

year and there is a need to sustain the presence of the manufacturers in the local and

national market. The setting-up of a “pasalubong” center or souvenir and gift shop in the

premier gateway of Eastern Visayas responds to the need for a continuous showcase and

marketing of the products created by the BPAEV producers.

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The project mainly aims to strengthen and sustain the presence of BPAEV

producers in the local and domestic market all year round. The shop shall effect a

continuous product development on the part of the producers to be consistent with the

quality of goods sold. This will also encourage producers how to utilize of indigenous

raw materials prodigiously taking into consideration the ecological impact of operating

the enterprise. This marketing activity shall secure income and employment in the rural

communities and its contribution to the poverty alleviation program of the government.

Initially, BPAEV planned to have the soft opening of the pasalubong center in October

2005, however, due to financial constraints and the busy schedule of producers who were

joining a couple of trade fairs, it was moved to November which was again postponed to

December 27, 2005. Grand opening was then scheduled on January 26, 2006 to fit in the

availability of expected guests. Prior to the opening of the pasalubong center which was

from December 27, 2005 to January 25, 2005, the center gathered a sales amounting to

Php66,219.00. The amount exceeded its targeted 2,000 average daily sales.

As scheduled, the grand opening of the pasalubong center was held on January

26, 2006. The grand opening was made possible in cooperation with the Department of

Trade and Industry, Office of the Hon. Congresswoman Remedios L. Petilla and the

Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. However, despite the support of numerous

government agencies and influential government officials, the pasalubong center seemed

to be behind the ICT trend in conducting its business to its patrons. There is only one web

site that advertises the pasalubong center’s products under the Product Portal of Eastern

Visayas (http://web.evis.net.ph, September 2012) and it is not even maintained by the

center itself. The said site features other products coming from other producers that are
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not even members of BPAEV. Although, the center’s revenue is beyond question, the

possibilities of advertisement optimization thus greater profitability can be attained

through the adaptation of the current ICT trend.

Buying patrons personally go to the center to purchase items or for those product

consignments with associated contact numbers of the producers, the buyers may opt to

establish a direct contact with the latter. The purchasing scheme follows the traditional

methodology of trading between two concerned parties. The buyer gives an appropriate

amount as exacted to the seller of the products with an anticipation that the products are

not defective nor deviate from its purported characteristics. While the said trading

scheme poses no threat to the business state of profitability, product selling is limited to

the store itself and as previously mentioned, buying patrons have to personally carry out

the transaction with the store. Furthermore, interested parties from distant places like

those outside the region are hindered in availing some products considering the time and

travelling costs it will incur on their part.

On the other hand, the shop carries out its product inventory activities manually.

Consigned products are recorded in logbooks and product sales are documented in a

separate logbook as well. The shop and the BPAEV members, which are also the shop’s

product suppliers, set up a date for collecting sales and reclaiming defective products

twice a month, mostly on the 5th and 25th day of the month. Since both the shop and the

members/suppliers carry out recording separately, record discrepancies occur during

inventory periods. In view of the foregoing statement, the proponents of the study

decided to take into consideration the development of an online store and inventory
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system for Bahandi Pasalubong Center as an alternative product selling methodology to

the current physical store.

b. Statement of the Problem

The study aimed to identify the resources that will be needed in expanding the

marketability of the Bahandi Pasalubong Center through the creation of an online

shopping site and inventory system that will cater to the needs of its patrons.

Specifically, the study sought to answer the following queries:

1. What are the constraints and limitations of the current manual procedures in the

Bahandi Store involving:

 product advertisement and selling; and

 product inventory

2. What alternatives can be formulated to resolve the constraints and limitations in

the current manual procedures of the Bahandi Store involving:

 product advertisement and selling; and

 product inventory

3. What are the requirement specifications for the development of an e-commerce

site or online shopping portal and computerized inventory scheme for the Bahandi

Pasalubong Center?

4. Is there really a need to develop an online shopping system and computerized

inventory system for the Bahandi Pasalubong Center?

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c. Objective of the Study

The main objective of the study is to identify the necessary resources prerequisite

to the development of an adjacent online shopping store for the Bahandi Pasalubong

Center and demonstrate logical justifications for its development.

Specifically, the study aims to achieve the following objectives:

1. develop a web-based system that will allow the customers of the Bahandi

Pasalubong Center to transact or shop online and carry out product purchase payments

through the PayPal payment gateway;

2. develop a web-based module that will allow the center to advertise its products

effectively through a built-in product image gallery page supplemented with significant

product information;

3. develop a web-based module that will allow particular personnel of the

Bahandi Pasalubong Center to carry out product inventory procedures and automated

monitoring of products coming in and going out of the center;

4. develop a web-based module that will continuously accept feedbacks,

suggestions and queries from system users to facilitate further modifications and

enhancements needed by the online shop portal and inventory system of the Bahandi

Pasalubong Center; and

5. implement the online shop portal and computerized inventory system for the

Bahandi Pasalubong Center.

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d. Significance of the Study

The study is deemed directly or indirectly significant to the following individuals

or group of individuals:

Local Government Unit. The study will provide insights to concerned

government agencies and officials regarding the many possibilities of assisting small

business entrepreneurs through a number of options like the implementation of ICT tools

and techniques to optimize product advertisement and consequently maximizing business

profitability.

BPAEV Policy Makers. The study will facilitate the formulation of effective

policies that consider the advantages of ICT in ensuring good revenues for the business.

More or less, these policies will be innovative in nature in as much as the business is

concerned.

Bahandi Pasalubong Center Producers or BPAEV Producers/Members. The

study will encourage the BPAEV producers/members to employ the use of ICT tools and

techniques to amplify the business productivity. The study would also serve as an eye-

opener to the vast possibilities ICT can offer to improve ways of conducting business.

Similar Business Establishments. The study will provide similar business

establishments ideas on improving the ways business transactions are carried out. This, in

turn will pave the way for countless significant business prospects to be considered such

as employing more innovative advertisements (cross-online shop advertisements).

Customers. The proposed system which is purportedly the outcome of the study

will provide the customers more chances of availing their products through online
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transactions. Greater savings is at hand since travel expenses will be replaced with

cheaper shipping fees and PayPal payment charges.

Proponents. The proposed study will serve to harness the system development

skills of the proponents at the same time allowing them to fulfill one of the requirements

for their degree. It will also serve as one of their persistent legacies to their alma mater.

Future Researcher. The study would serve as a reference material to concepts

related to the subject at hand. Moreover, the study will facilitate the identification of the

necessary features for an enhanced similar web-based application.

e. Scope and Limitations of the Study

The study will include the business establishment Bahandi Pasalubong Center

situated at the premier gateway of Easter Visayas, the Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport. It

will also include products that are consigned and for sale in the center and excludes those

products that are not provided by its registered producers/members. The study will not

include other similar souvenir shops, within and outside the locality of Tacloban City.

However, the consigners or BPAEV members will be included in the gathering scheme of

the study for products’ descriptions and pricing for the finalization of the proposed online

Bahandi Pasalubong Center and Inventory System.

The design of the proposed web-based system will include and is limited to the

web pages minimally typical for online e-Commerce sites for similar products. Moreover

the study will also include the development of a computerized inventory system

alongside the e-Commerce site. The web pages for the e-Commerce site will initially

include the Home Page, Products Gallery Page, Online Shopping Cart Page and Other

Info. The proposed system will provide online registration for frequent customers who
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can avail special discounts and promotional packages. The proposed system will also

include a module that will allow the customers to pay purchased products through PayPal

payment gateway. However, it will not include payments through credit cards of any

kind. Moreover, although site visitors can transact with the online shop, personal

discounts and promotional packages are not available for them.

The development of the proposed web-based system will use the PHP server-side

scripting language and the client-side Javascript scripting language. To mimic the

desktop look and feel, the proponents will be considering the use of the client-side

scripting framework, the jQuery, to improvise the behavior of the application’s web

pages. Moreover, AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript) will also be utilized to augment

further the desktop-like experience of its prospective users. On the other hand, data

persistent will be sustained by MySQL, a powerful Relational Database Management

System owned and maintained by Oracle, one of the software business giants.

The study is limited to the business establishment Bahandi Pasalubong Center

situated at the premier gateway of Eastern Visayas, the Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport.

f. Definition of Terms

eCommerce. E-commerce (electronic commerce or EC) is the buying and selling

of goods and services on the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. In practice, this

term and a newer term, e-business, are often used interchangeably. For online retail

selling, the term e-tailing is sometimes used (http://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/e-

commerce).

Inventory. The raw materials, work-in-process goods and completely finished

goods that are considered to be the portion of a business's assets that are ready or will be
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ready for sale. Inventory represents one of the most important assets that most businesses

possess, because the turnover of inventory represents one of the primary sources

of revenue generation and subsequent earnings for the company's shareholders/owners.

Online Shopping. Is a commerce methodology by which the proposed system is

founded featuring goods that are advertised and sold over the shop’s web portal. The

online shopping module of the proposed system is synchronized with the physical store

readily reflecting product sales and inventory status.

PayPal. Is a global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers

to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to

paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders.

Shop Portal. Is a term, generally synonymous with shopping gateway, for a

World Wide Web site that is or proposes to be a major starting product selling/buying site

for users when they get connected to the Web or that users tend to visit as an anchor site

to sell/buy products online.

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Chapter II

METHODOLOGY

Like the traditional software development, the process of web site development

can also be divided into different life cycle steps. This can help to format the proponents

effectively, and the standards and procedures can be adopted to achieve maximum

quality. This section explains the steps of development which can be possibly arranged as

a process of web engineering. Please note though that throughout this manuscript’s

portion, the words web sites, web applications, web based applications and

Intranet/extranets are interchangeable and likewise, the word client or clients would

pertain to the Bahandi Pasalubong Center administrators.

Requirement
Analysis

System Design

Implemen-
tation

Testing

Installation

Maintenance

Figure 1. Modified Waterfall Model

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Figure 1 shows the Modified Waterfall System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

model used by the proponents in developing the proposed SHOPONLINE: A Proposed e-

Commerce Site and Inventory System for the Bahandi Pasalubong Center. The model is

composed of six (6) phases whereby the proponents utilized varying resources

prerequisites to the completion of the proposed system such as (1) Requirement Analysis,

(2) System Design, (3) Implementation, (4) Testing, (5) Installation, and (6)

Maintenance. Each phase of the development process comprises of several steps and

procedures which in turn consist of sub-processes and operations. The Modified

Waterfall model is a sequential development model that allows phase iterations

purportedly to initiate patch ups on overlooked features from previous development

phases.

Requirement Analysis. During this phase the proponents define what data the

system must produce and what transformations of that data the proposed system must be

able to do. Moreover, this phase also describes how fast the proposed system must

perform the data transformations, how much it must transform and any limitations on the

amount of utilization of the agents or resources used to support the transformation (e.g.,

amount of machine time, amount of disk space). Basically, it is during this phase that

system attributes such as usability, reliability, availability, serviceability, localization,

portability, maintainability, security, testability and extendibility are clearly defined or

given emphasis. This is the most crucial phase of the development life cycle because it is

on this phase that the foundations of the proposed system are laid out.

System Design. It is during this phase that the requirement specifications defined

in the previous SDLC phase are transformed into logical and physical designs. These
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designs are composed of the web pages for the e-commerce site of the Bahandi

Pasalubong Center, the logic implemented behind the interactions between the proposed

system users and the web pages or graphical user interfaces and the data layer responsible

in providing and maintaining data persistence to the proposed system. The logical designs

define the over-all flow of the proposed system with relation to the data and information

being concurrently handled. The physical designs comprise of the page layouts and

animations that the user interface should consider to augment the effectiveness of the

system and user interactions.

Implementation. This phase involved the transformation of the designs into set

of instructional codes that can be executed by the computer to carry out a specific task or

routine for the proposed system. Most contemporary design implementations follow the

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) approach in the transformation process. This

approach represents the concrete and abstract entities involved in the proposed system as

objects with their corresponding attributes and behaviors. Examples of concrete entities

or objects in the proposed system are the online shop’s customers and the site

administrator or inventory personnel. As far as the proposed system is concerned, abstract

entities may include online shopping cart and product inventory.

Testing. The objects with their attributes and behaviors are required to be tested

to ensure that the proposed system’s desired outcomes or outputs are obtained. The

process of testing is mostly accompanied by the debugging process; a means of looking

out for syntactical or logical errors in the proposed system. Although, most Integrated

Development Environment (IDE) for web-based application development feature built-in

or plugged-in debuggers, resolving out logical errors are still under the lookout of the
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developers. Moreover, the testing phase involve three (3) testing processes; unit testing,

integration testing and the system testing. Unit testing involves the separate assessment of

individual objects or utility functions/procedures functionalities. Integration testing

assesses the functionality of a particular routine that is composed of several objects

and/or utility functions or procedures. System testing involves the confirmation that the

proposed system as whole has met all the requirements identified or defined during the

pre-development process.

Installation. As far as the proposed system is concerned, installation involves the

uploading of all the necessary files (i.e., scripts, images or configurations) into a file host

server. This phase also involves the database objects installation process which includes

tables, views, stored procedures/functions, triggers, cursors among others. These database

objects are used by the proposed system to facilitate data persistence throughout the

system. Most often, database installations are facilitated with the use of third party

software such as PhPMyAdmin and MySQL WorkBench.

Maintenance. This phase obviously involves activities that are meant to preserve

and uphold the conforming functionalities of the proposed system. System modifications

may be carried out during this phase as may be deemed necessary to cater to the transient

demands of the system users. This phase also considers the implementation of user

support modules such as system user manuals and help documents. User trainings and

seminars may be considered as far as effective usage of the inventory module of the

proposed system is concerned.

Generally, as previously mentioned, the iterating flow lines depicted in the

Modified Waterfall SDLC Model indicates that a particular development phase can “go
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back” to one of its previous phases to accomplish overlooked tasks or processes in that

particular phase. This system development paradigm addresses the fact that some tasks in

some phases are at times not readily apparent to the developers for some reasons. The

iterative approach of the model allows the developers to move back to a particular

development phase to address that overlooked task or routine. Somehow, this system

model facilitates the deliberation of user feedbacks through one of the proposed system’s

built-in module which can be used to remove or modify misbehaving routines or features

and develop further system enhancements.

a. Review of Related Literature and Studies

At present, there are a number of websites that cater to the shopping needs of

virtual customers over the Internet. These shop portals are equipped with unique

shopping and product advertisement features that allow their respective patrons to browse

for products’ images, gather product information, accumulate products in a virtual

shopping cart and conduct payment transactions utilizing online payment gaetways such

as PayPal and other credit card companies online. Search engines are also provided to

enable browsing individuals to look for specific items or products in the shop portal.

Product categories and subcategories facilitate product oragnization thus avoiding

confusions among web-surfers or customers brwosing for particular products. Most of the

online shops featured in this review of related literature also higlight the use of electronic

e-mail invoice which can be sent to both the customer and the store thereby avoiding

misunderstanding in the business process. The following sections addresses these

websites with their acompanying site details and features.

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Local Studies

Everything In Budget

Everything in Budget has been

online and running as a blog since

July 2010. Without being a year old,

the site has already received rave

reviews from its subscribers and web

visitors for their very detailed and

helpful information about great deals,

sales and other promotions that caters

to everyone who are on a budget.

The site is the first-ever site to cover Group Buying deals in the Philippines and

until now it completely lists down all the daily deals available. The site covers everything

that needs budgeting, from Airline Seat Sale to Concert Tickets, Auctions to Group

Buying deals, Mall and Warehouse Sales, Hotel Accommodations, Events and many

more. Most of the time, the foregoing information gets posted first in this site.

(http://everythinginbudget.blogspot.com/, September, 2012)

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PhilShopping.com

PhilShopping.com is an online

shopping gateway developed by Filipino

Internet shoppers who have merged to

establish a legitimate company that aims

to provide a safe, convenient and reliable

Philippine-based Internet shopping

website for consumer goods and services.

Its vision is to be demonstrably

the best and most trusted Internet-based

retail company in the Philippines. In order

to achieve this, it has to consistently

adopt an objective attitude towards change and meet future challenges by getting the best

out of leading brands in establishing a unique portfolio of consumer products and

services; utilizing more innovative approaches to secure Internet purchases and product

delivery; continuously developing its professional competence, service quality, operating

efficiency, responsible corporate citizenry, stakeholder relationships and overall growth

and stability; and setting the appropriate strategic direction for the company.

(http://www.philshopping.com, September, 2012)

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I-Supreme

The i-Supreme store is a 100%

fully online retail portal. All transactions

are done via the internet and the products

are delivered either via email (for digital

products) or via courier (for tangible

products). The i-Supreme store was

launched on January 15, 2012. Its digital

products cater to customers in 200

countries worldwide while its tangible

products at first will cater to the residents

of the Republic of the Philippines. Later on

as it grows it will open the doors for its

tangible products outside of the

Philippines.

As the technology landscape keeps on improving so will the store keeps on

finding ways to make its customers’ online shopping experience remarkable and

enjoyable. The products the customers see in its catalogue are but a few of its initial

offering. The online store will keep on adding products to its inventory as their primary

goal is to make the i-Supreme store the customers’ one stop shop for all their wellness

needs.

(http://www.pinoywealthsys.i-supreme.com, September, 2012)

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www.MerkadoNetwork.com

Merkado Network was started in April

14 2008 and re-launched in June 2009 to help

with the needs of its merchant partners. Since

then Merkado Merchant has successfully

opened online business in the Philippines and

foreign countries. Merkado Network (formerly

shop.ronoliverclarin.com) is an online

marketplace which helps the diverse

community to have one network for the merchants and the online shoppers. It offers lots

of marketing opportunities. The company has strengths in e-Commerce field, focused on

exclusive sales and customer service. (http://www.merkadonetwork.com

, September, 2012)
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BayaniStore.com

The BayaniStore.com have been in

the Balikbayan business for almost two

decades. It claims to know the great lengths

that Filipinos around the world go through to

help their loved ones back home.

BayaniStore.com was created to make this

process more convenient, faster, and more

secure.

BayaniStore.com is a Philippine

company based in the United States. With its

years of experience, the company is able to get

a grasp on what is being sent back home. Its

product line contains top sent items on almost

any Filipinos list. It also includes items that most Filipinos want to ship but can’t. Like

easily breakable items such as chips, glassware, and electronics. All its products originate

from the U.S. and therefore comply with the highest U.S. standards, regulations, and/or

safety requirements. It does not sell refurbished items, used items and damaged items.

(http://bayanistore.com, September, 2012)

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Foreign Studies

EBay

The online auction website

was founded as AuctionWeb in San

Jose, California, on September 5,

1993 or 1994, by French-born

Iranian-American computer

programmer Pierre Omidyar (born

June 21, 1967) as part of a larger personal site that included, among other things,

Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus. One of the first items sold on

eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83.

In November 1996, eBay entered into its first third-party licensing deal, with a

company called Electronic Travel Auction to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane

tickets and other travel products. Growth was phenomenal; in January 1997 the site

hosted 2,000,000 auctions, compared with 250,000 during the whole of 1996. The

company officially changed the name of its service from AuctionWeb to eBay in

September 1997. Originally, the site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group,

Omidyar's consulting firm. Omidyar had tried to register the domain name echobay.com,

but found it already taken by the Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, so he

shortened it to his second choice, eBay.com. (http://www.ebay.com, September, 2012)

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Amazon.com

Amazon.com is an American

multinational electronic commerce

company with headquarters in Seattle,

Washington, United States. It is the

world's largest online retailer. The

company also produces consumer

electronics—notably the Amazon

Kindle e-book reader and the Kindle

Fire tablet computer—and is a major

provider of cloud computing services.

Amazon has separate retail websites for the following countries: United States,

Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and China, with

international shipping to certain other countries for some of its products. It is also

expected to launch its websites in Poland, Brazil, Netherlands and Sweden.

Jeff Bezos incorporated the company (as Cadabra) in July 1994, and the site went

online as amazon.com in 1995. The company was renamed after the Amazon River, one

of the largest rivers in the world, which in turn was named after the Amazons, the

legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology. Amazon.com started as an

online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software,

video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry.

(http://www.Amazon.com, Septmber, 2012)

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Swatch

In the mid-seventies, the Swiss watch industry

was in the midst of its worst crisis ever. Technologically

speaking, the Japanese competition had been outclassed

in 1979 with the launch of the "Delirium," the world´s

thinnest wristwatch with a limited number of

components. But the event that marked the upturn in the

industry´s fortunes was the founding of SMH, the Swiss

Corporation for Microelectronics and Watchmaking

Industries. And its answer to the crisis was Swatch-a slim plastic watch with only 51

components (instead of the usual 91 parts or more) that combined top quality with a

highly affordable price. It first went on sale in 1983. Since this time, it has gone on to

become the most successful wristwatch of all time, and The Swatch Group, the parent

company, is the largest and most dynamic watch company in the world.

For many years, new developments have been taking place alongside the standard

Swatch watch in plastic-from Irony (the metal Swatch) to the Swatch SKIN Chrono (the

world's thinnest chronograph) to Swatch Snowpass (a watch with a built-in access control

function which can be used as a ski pass at many ski resorts throughout the world), and

Swatch Beat (featuring the revolutionary Internet Time). Outstanding technical

capabilities and advances in the fields of science and technology were already proven by

Swatch during its role as the Official Timekeeper in several Olympic Games and Ski and

Snowboard World Cup competitions. (http://www.swatch.com, September, 2012)

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b. Conceptual Framework

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

 Products Information  Update product  Sales

 Products sales and information Reports
consignment policies  Update product sales  Inventory
 Products Inventory  Check and validate stocks Reports

Figure 2. Conceptual Diagram of the Study

Figure 2 is the conceptual diagram of the proposed ONLINESHOP: A Proposed

e-Commerce and Inventory System for the Bahandi Pasalubong Center. The diagram

outlines the preferred approach carried out by the proponents to realize the proposed

online shop system. The concept’s Input Module comprises of data that facilitate the

definition of the preliminary phase of SDLC which is the Requirement Analysis. These

data are processed in the Process Module which is responsible in the execution of the

other phases of SDLC along with complementary implementation of additional

requirements resulting from user feedbacks and e-commerce site creation policies and

bylaws. The Output Module presents the realization of the proposed ONLINESHOP: A

Proposed e-Commerce Site and Inventory System for the Bahandi Pasalubong Store.
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c. Documentation of Current System

The documentation of the current system presents the description and the

personnel or equipment used in the current trading scheme of Bahandi Pasalubong

Center. This section also presents the procedures involved in the selling, advertising and

inventory of products consigned to the above business entity. Generally, the current

system involving product selling, advertisement and inventory of the Bahandi Pasalubong

Center is performed manually. These include store activities such as recording of newly

arrived consignment products, daily arrangement of product displays, recording of daily

sales into record log books and accepting orders from the store’s walk-in customers.

c.1. Description of the Current System

At present, the Bahandi Pasalubong Center sells and displays its products

inside the shop. Some are displayed on shelves, like the delicacies and

condiments, and some products are displayed right on the store front such as

home decors (i.e., native lamp shades, mats, caps, vases among others.). The shop

receives consignments from its suppliers which are also members of BPAEV, the

shop’s founding organization, and hands over the sales twice a month, mostly on

the 5th and 25th day of the month. The current product inventory process includes

the recording of consigned products from the different suppliers, sold items,

stocks on hand per kind of product, defective products subject to be returned back

to their respective consigners, reserved and ordered products, products scheduled

for delivery, and returned or replaced products. The recording media used by the

shop are record logbooks and other writing and recording materials. The two

personnel hired by the shop owner are responsible in carrying out the shop’s
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manual sales and inventory process. They are also responsible in making the

proper arrangements of the products display to make them more appealing to the

buying public.

c.2 Personnel/Equipment Used by the Current System

At present, Bahandi Pasalubong Center employs two (2) personnel to cater

to the needs of its customers. Log books are used to record transactions which

include details such as the name of customer, date of transaction, number of sold

items with their corresponding unit prices and sub-total and the total payable

amount. It is deemed necessary by the establishment that aside from the official

receipts issued, all transactions be recorded so as to facilitate the identification of

probable business patterns for future marketing planning and strategies. A

telephone line and a mobile phone are provided for allowing on-the-line

transactions. Aside from the foregoing recording materials and communication

gadget mentioned, no other equipment is employed by the business establishment.

d. Data Gathering Procedure

A number of data gathering procedures have been carried out by the proponents

so as to amass information crucial to the study. The said procedures include, but are not

limited to, personal interviews, direct observation and online searches for related

documents over the Internet. Personal interviews are used to elicit data pertaining to the

different products sold by the business establishment, the time of the day when there are

more or less customers and the most sought-after products for a particular period of the

year. Direct observations facilitated the proponents to examine the flow of business

transactions conducted by the establishment with its customers.

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Chapter III

REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS SPECIFICATIONS

This chapter discusses the answers and explanations to the sub-topics in Chapter 1

such as the Statement of the Problem and the Objectives of the Study. It also presents and

explains the results of the data gathered and their analysis. This chapter also elaborates

the overall analysis of the proposed system based on the data flow diagrams and the

system flowcharts of the current and proposed systems. Moreover, system design

specification is also presented in this chapter. The design specification is based on the

Hierarchical Input Process Output (HIPO) chart of the proposed system which

graphically represents the general functionalities of the proposed system. Additional

topics are also given emphasis on this manuscript section such as the required hardware

and software in developing the system and the manpower requirement for the operational

proposed system.

a. Answer and Explanations of the Statement of the Problem

Based on the results of the data gathering procedures carried out by the

proponents, the following resources are considered to resolve the constraints and

limitations of the current manual sales and inventory system employed by the Bahandi

Pasalubong Center:

Since the proposed system includes the computerization of the current inventory

system of the concerned business establishment, the store should be equipped with one

(1) set of computer for carrying product inventory processes. The computer is also used
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to perform modifications of products displayed online as well as making modifications on

some related data such as information for each product featured online.

Online store/shop policies and bylaws should also be considered with the online

store implementation. This also includes the setting up of online payment schemes with

the assistance of online payment gateways such as PayPal to allow online payment of

business transactions. This makes possible for the inclusion of an online shopping cart for

the proposed system which would allow customers to purchase products online. Although

the online transaction will incur additional charges such as shipping fees and payment

gateways service charges, the customers will be able to avoid travelling expenses, effort

and time if the transaction will be carried out personally.

The following are the constraints and limitations of the current manual sales and

inventory system employed by the Bahandi Pasalubong Center:

1. Product consignment monitoring and stock counting is very tedious and prone

to record discrepancies;

2. Products subject to expire needs a constant monitoring;

3. Record logbooks are subject to wear outs and at times may be misplaced;

4. Products display is crowded and are not categorically arranged which makes it

hard for the consumers to look for a specific product without the help of a shop sales

representative;

5. Product information and pricing are not readily available to the customer; and

6. Consigners have difficulty in tracking the sales status of his/her consigned

products;
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Among the alternatives that could be considered to resolve the constraints and

limitations of the current manual sales and inventory system of the Bahandi Pasalubong

Center is the implementation of an online shopping portal and a computerized inventory

system. The requirement specifications needed to transform the functional specifications

of the current manual sales and inventory system include the inclusion of an online

shopping cart, a gallery of products with their corresponding information, a built-in

inventory system that is capable of effectively managing consigned products, and a

routine that tracks the expiration dates of products that are subject to expire.

The implementation of the requirement specification will be facilitated through

the utilization of several computing resources such as hardware, software and networking

protocols. Considering the constraints and limitations of the current manual sales and

inventory system employed by the Bahandi Pasalubong Center, the implementation of an

online shopping portal for the said business establishment is deemed justifiable.

b. Answer and Explanations to the Objectives of the Study

The main objective of the study is the development of an online shopping portal

and computerized inventory system that will address the problems encountered in the

manual system.

To ascertain the foundations for the development of an adjacent online shopping

store for the Bahandi Pasalubong Center, the proponent conducted several data gathering

procedures through personal interviews, direct observations of the sales and inventory

processes of the shop, and related documents from books, articles and those that are

downloaded from the Internet.

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c. Results, Explanations and Analysis of the Data Gathered

The number of online shopping websites is getting bigger and bigger. However,

many online stores invested a lot of money and human resource in setting up websites,

but the outcome does not meet their expectation. Sellers have to learn the influence of

website design quality on customers in order to overcome the issue. When customers

browse a website, first thing that affects their interest is the website’s appeal. If a website

is not attractive, customers would not want to browse it. According to the factor of

unique design, the proponents learned that if the design of a website is unique, customers

would feel more curious and fresh about the website. A website can also combine

featured pictures, making unique website scenario and leaving customers good

impression of the website while using it.

The appearance, the interface design, and color application of a website are all

factors which determine if a website can attract customers. Besides, website appeal has

significant influence on customer trust and purchase experience when browsing the

website (Chen and Chang, 2003). Among factors of website functions, the ease of use

affects customers’ mood of browsing the website. If the website can provide guidance to

customers for using the website and increase convenience of searching information,

customers can sense the usability of the website. Interaction between a website and

customers can impress customers. Although buyers and sellers can only communicate

through the website, if a seller’s response meets customers’ expectation, they usually can

increase customer satisfaction and purchase intention. Website can also use e-paper or

massage board to respond to customers’ questions, which also increases the interaction

between buyers and sellers. Other than improving website quality, sellers should also
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learn how to invest their resources in order to increase customer satisfaction, trust, and

commitment.

d. Over-all Analysis of the Proposed System

The proposed e-Commerce Site for Bahandi Pasalubong Center will be composed

of a number of components consistently adhering to the principles of a good website

design presented in the Results, Explanations and Analysis of the Data Gathered section

of the research manuscript. Based on the current needs and business scope of the business

entity concerned, the following conveys the preliminary outcome for the functional

analysis of the proposed system: (1) the focus of the proposed e-commerce site is

product search and online buying, (2) product content experience is unique for each

user, (3) the proposed ecommerce site creates sales incentives by giving “Why shop

with us” reminders, (4) products are given much exposure as possible by providing

product image galleries, (5) the site doesn’t make the user feel as some

products/services are being forced on them, (6) the site has important sections easily

accessible at the appropriate time, and (7) the site makes the shopper feel

comfortable and in control at all times.

The proposed ecommerce site will have a consistent interface theme in all the

pages. The theme will be based on the categories of products currently being sold in the

physical store. Since it is the products that should be given emphasis in the proposed

ecommerce, product galleries should be interesting enough for the user. This will be

facilitated through the inclusion of an interactive image gallery with the utilization of a

client-side scripting framework, the jQuery, along with its asynchronous execution

capabilities of sending and receiving content requests to and from the server.
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stock out Employee in-

threshold charge of
products
inventory stock out alert

backorder pre-order backorder limit

limit limit notification pre-order limit
notification
add
updated product
product product selection details
product catalog inventory payment details
details

SHOPONLINE: A
Proposed e-
Commerce Site and
Admin Inventory System for Customer
Bahandi Pasalubong
Center
billing
statement
product catalog
list payment receipt
confirmation
email

Bahandi Pasalubong Center

0
Database

login account
going into the
registration system
details
user ID &
password going out of the
login session id system

Figure 3. Context Diagram of the Proposed System

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System Flowchart of the Proposed System

[1] Home
Start
[2] Login
[3] Register
[4] Bahandi Products
[5] About Us
Make selection
[6] Contact Us
(sel) [7] Search

True S1
sel=1 Home

False

True S2
sel=2 Login

False

True S3
sel=3 Register

False

True Bahandi S4
sel=4
Products

False

True S5
sel=5 About Us

False

True S6
sel=6 Contact Us

False

True S7
sel=7 Search

False

End

Figure 4. Main Module

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S1

[1] Processed Food

Display [2] Home Style and Living
Welcome Screen [3] Beverages
[4] Organic, Herbal and Natural Products
Make Selection
[5] Handicrafts, Gift Wares and Holiday Decors
(sel)
[6] Post Harvest Facilities and Food Processing Equipment

True Processed
sel=1 S1.1
Food

False

True Home Style

sel=2 S1.2
and Living

False

True
sel=3 Beverages S1.3

False

True Organic,
sel=4 Herbal and S1.4
Natural
Products
False

True Handicrafts,
sel=5 Gift Wares and S1.5
Holiday Decors
False

True Post Harvest

sel=6 Facilities and S1.6
Food
Processing
False
Equipment

End

Figure 5. Home Module

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S2

Enter user id and Bk

password

Verify Password Bahandi

Database

User ID and True

User U
Password verified?

False

Try again? True Bk

False

End

Figure 6. Login Module

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e. System Design Specification

The proposed ecommerce for Bahandi Pasalubong Center features the following

functionalities:

Product Search and Online Purchasing. Users of the site can perform searches

for a particular product. Search filters could be defined so as to speed up the search

process and display only related items. Online purchase allows users to place their

selected items in the shopping for processing.

Categorized Items Display. Products of the proposed ecommerce site will be

displayed in a categorized manner to make easy for the user/customer to browse for

specific product selection.

Recommended Items Based on Prior Activity. This feature necessitates the

cookies be allowed in the client browser where the user is on. This will allow the web

application to fetch for product based on product browsing history of the user. This

features simply anticipates browsing patterns of the current user/customer.

Various “Why Shop With Us” Reminders. These are little reminders which can

be found in the little corners of the page to give the users/customers justifications in

shopping with the site. This will display various guarantee statements, discount packages

and purchase rebates that could be available for some specific period of time.

Prices Compared to Suggested Retail. The Bahandi Pasalubong Center also

accepts bulk orders from their customers. While the products’ retail prices are already

reasonable, bulk orders will give the customers the privilege of availing more discounts.

The pages in the proposed ecommerce site for the Bahandi Pasalubong Center

include the following:

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Home Page. The home page will give visitors an overview of our services.

Products List. This page will give an overview of the site’s products.

Product Image Gallery. This page will allow the user to individually browse for

the site’s products.

Products Detail Pages. For each product there will be two pages. The first will

provide a detailed summary of the product including prices and photographs. The second

will contain a detailed specification.

On Line Shop. Basic shopping card features for Each product page will to have a

link that will allow visitors to place an order on-line.

About Us. Details about the business entity and its personnel.

Contact Us. Full contact details including a map.

Site Map. A site map should be provided showing the structure of the site and

linking to every page on the site.

f. Hardware Requirements

The following table shows the minimum hardware requirements required to

develop the proposed system:

Areas Minimum Specification Recommended Specification

Processor Intel Pentium 4 "E" 520 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Prescott,2800/200,P35,533, Socket Kentsfield,2400/266,P35,800,
775,12K?Ops+16 kB, 1 MB Socket 775,32+32kB,8 MB or
higher

Computer Ultra 512 MB PC2700 DDR CORSAIR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-

Memory 333MHz Memory Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC
3200) Dual Channel Kit or higher
Hard Drive WD Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB Seagate Barracuda Green
Desktop Hard Drive - 3.5", SATA, ST2000DL003 2TB 5900 RPM
7200RPM, 16MB Cache 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
or higher
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g. Software Requirements

The following are the software requirements in developing the proposed e-

commerce site for Bahandi Pasalubong Center:

Areas Recommended Software

Operating System Windows XP or higher
Integrated Development Delphi for PHP Development, Macromedia
Environment (IDE) Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Web 4
Script Editor Notepad++
Browser Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8
Relational Database MySQL Server Community Edition
Management Server (RDMS)
Database Management MySQL WorkBench, PHPMyAdmin
Web Server Apache
Word Processor MS-Word
Graphics /Image Processor Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Paint

h. Human Resource Complement

There are basically two types of users for the system: the system administrator

and the customers. The system administrator will be in-charge in the maintenance of

products being sold online. He/she also has the privilege to cancel customer accounts as

may be deemed necessary. He is also responsible in managing product sales and

inventory, both offline and online.

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Chapter IV

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATION

This section presents the summary, conclusion and recommendation of the study.

The summary review the main points of the study in relation to the proposed online e-

commerce with inventory system for the Bahandi Pasalubong Center situated at Daniel Z.

Romualdez Airport, San Jose Tacloban City. The conclusion presents the assumptions

devised by the proponents based on the findings of the study. This sub-section justifies

the implementation of the proposed online e-commerce as an alternate online store for the

physical store located at the heart of the abovementioned local public airstrip. The

recommendation conveys key concepts to the extension of the current study into further

related studies so as to make room for overlooked features and discover feasible

enhancements to the proposed system.

a. Summary

Among the constraints and limitations of the current manual procedures in the

Bahandi Store that are involved in product advertisement, selling and inventory include

the following:

 Product consignment monitoring and stock counting is very tedious and

prone to record discrepancies;

 Products subject to expire needs a constant monitoring;

 Record logbooks are subject to wear outs and at times may be misplaced;
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 Products display is crowded and are not categorically arranged which

makes it hard for the consumers to look for a specific product without the

help of a shop sales representative;

 Product information and pricing are not readily available to the customer;

and

 Consigners have difficulty in tracking the sales status of his/her consigned

products.

The best alternative realized by the proponents to resolve the constraints and

limitation mentioned beforehand is the implementation of an online shopping portal with

inventory system as an alternative shopping location for the customers. The online shop

also caters to the needs of the consigners for monitoring and conducting their own

inventory of their consigned products.

The proponents utilized several resources that included computing resources

comprising of system development theories, principles, techniques and other third-party

business tools such as payment gateways for online business transactions.

b. Conclusion

Based on the findings of the study, the implementation of an alternative online

shop for the Bahandi Pasalubong Center resolves most of the constraints and limitations

apparent in the physical store.

The proponents further concluded that the while the alternate online shop for the

Bahandi Pasalubong Center settles a number of business issues, the profitability and

maintenance of good rapport between the customers and the center is stabilized.
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c. Recommendations

The study recommends the conduct of further researches related to the resolution

of the constraints and limitations apparent in the current business strategy employed by

the Bahandi Pasalubong Center so as to include other features and strategic business

strategies that will alleviate, if not eradicate, the said constraints and limitations.
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APPENDICES
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APPENDIX A

Letter to the Thesis Language Adviser

Republic of the Philippines

Eastern Visayas State University
Tacloban City

July 5, 2012

Mrs. Enriqueta Santo

Faculty
Dulag EVSU Satellite Campus-CAS Department
Dulag, Leyte

Ma’am:

Greetings!

As part of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology subject IT412L, Software Project 1,
we are conducting a thesis study on “SHOP-ONLINE: A Proposed e-Commerce Site and Inventory System for
Bahandi Pasalubong Center”.

With this regards, we would like to request from you to be our Thesis Language Adviser for the whole school year
2012-2013. We are looking forward for your approval on this matter.

Thank you!

Respectfully yours,

ADRIAN MAS

JEFFREY CAÑANES

ROY ZACARIAS

Noted by:

MR. JESSIE PARAGAS

Thesis Technical Adviser

Recommending Approval:

MRS. LYRA K. NUEVAS

Head, IT Department

o0o CERTIFICATION o0o

The undersigned is the authorized person giving permission/authority to the students whose name appeared above to
make the said proposal for the purpose.

Approved:

Mrs. Enriqueta Santo

Faculty, Dulag EVSU Satellite Campus-CAS Department
Dulag. Leyte
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APPENDIX B

Letter to the Thesis Technical Adviser

Republic of the Philippines

Eastern Visayas State University
Tacloban City

July 5, 2012

Mr. Jessie Paragas

Faculty
EVSU-IT Department
Tacloban City

Sir:

Greetings!

As part of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology subject
IT412L, Software Project 1, we are conducting a thesis study on “SHOP-ONLINE: A Proposed
e-Commerce Site and Inventory System for Bahandi Pasalubong Center”.

With this regards, we would like to request from you to be our Thesis Technical Adviser for the
whole school year 2012-2013. We are looking forward for your approval on this matter.

Thank you!

Respectfully yours,

ADRIAN MAS

JEFFREY CAÑANES

ROY ZACARIAS

Noted by:

MRS. LYRA K. NUEVAS

Head, IT Department

Approved by:

MR. JESSIE PARAGAS

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APPENDIX C

GANTT Chart of Activities

2012 2013
ACTIVITIES June July August September October November December January February
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

1. Formulation of the Title

of the Study

2. Requirement Analysis
Phase

3. System Design Phase

4. Implementation and Unit

Testing Phase

5. Integration and System

Testing

6. Operations and
Maintenance
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APPENDIX D

Screenshots

Figure 8. Home Page

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Figure 9. Log-in Form

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Figure 10. Registration Form

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Figure 11. Processed Foods Sub-Category

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Figure 12. Handicrafts , Gift Wares and Holiday Decors

Figure 13. Organic, Herbal and Natural Products

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Figure 14. Beverages

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Figure 16. Home Style and Living

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Figure 17. Shopping Cart Page

 63

Figure 18. Products Inventory

 64

Figure 19. Add Products Page

 65

Figure 20. Contact Us

 66

Figure 21. Search Products Page

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Figure 22. Payment

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Figure 11. Products Categories