E-commerce (Electronic Commerce or EC) is the purchasing and offering of

merchandise and administrations, or the transmitting of trusts or information, over

an electronic system, principally the Internet. These business exchanges happen
either business-to-business, business-to-customer, buyer to-purchaser or shopper
to-business. The terms e-trade and e-business are frequently utilized reciprocally.
The term e-tail is additionally in some cases utilized as a part of reference to
value-based procedures around online retail.
E-business is led utilizing a mixed bag of utilizations, for example, email, fax,
online lists and shopping baskets, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), File Transfer
Protocol, and Web administrations. The greater part of this is business-to-
business, with a few organizations endeavoring to utilize email and fax for
spontaneous promotions (normally saw as spam) to buyers and different business
prospects, and additionally to convey e-pamphlets to supporters.

The advantages of e-trade incorporate its all day and all night accessibility, the
velocity of access, a more extensive choice of merchandise and administrations,
openness, and worldwide span. Its apparent drawbacks incorporate here and there
constrained client administration, not having the capacity to see or touch