Implementation of A Multivendor E-commerce

Website
Safwan Hossain, ID:1610027042* , Akiba Mehzaveen Mon, ID:1511938642**, Rakib Hasan, ID:1611083043***

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University

Block-B, Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh

*
safwan.bokaul@northsouth.edu,**akiba.mehzaveen@northsouth.edu,***rakib.hasan05@northsouth.edu

Abstract— E-commerce website is a vital platform II. METHODOLOGY

nowadays for online businesses. In this era of internet e- We are working on the implementation of a multivendor e-
commerce is growing at a high rate keeping the growth of commerce website. The methodology we are following to
online businesses. Still the proliferation of an e-commerce
build-up the website is waterfall methodology 2. It is the most
website in the under developed world is not that great and
there is a lot to desire for. This paper outlines different conventional software development methodology. We used
aspects of developing an e-commerce website and the this methodology due to its plan-driven approach or process3.
optimal solution to the challenges involved in the
developing one. The entire development is primarily
divided into two parts- the front-end development and the
back-end development. The database design is also
discussed with an emphasis on its relational connectivity.

Keywords—business, e-commerce, front-end

development, back-end development, database..
I. INTRODUCTION Figure: Waterfall Model
Electronic commerce or e-commerce1 refers to a wide range of
online business activities for products and services. It is Our project work is mainly divided into two sections and
mainly associated with online buying, selling, exchanging under those section there are some other subsections.
products over the internet. E-commerce in Bangladesh actually A. Front-end development
started in the year of 1999 based in USA with some non-
In the front-end development 4 part we used CSS 5, Bootstrap6
resident Bangladeshis. The popularity of online business is
and HTML7. Front-end development part is basically how the
increasing day by day in our country. Selling different kinds of
website design will be how it will look mainly the GUI 8 part is
products in online seemed more profitable than in the regular
done so far. We used HTML for making the structure or
market. Nowadays in our country a large group of young
sections in the website such as Home, Shop, Shopping-cart,
people started self-employment online business. This website
etc. We used CSS and bootstrap for the design work especially
named BD MART is an e-commerce platform. It offers
we created custom code using CSS and BootstrapCDN 9 for
business a whole range of opportunities, from marketing
enabling users to load CSS.
opportunities to increasing product ranges to generate more
sales. With an optimized and well developed website users can B. Back-end development
not only achieve these goals but also offer their customers a
In the back-end development10 part we used PHP11 for creating
convenient service which may easily boost up the business.
the links which connects each section of the website the PHP
work is still undergoing.

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 III. RESULT AND DISCUSSION ER-Diagram:
A. Result
So far we have implemented the design or theme work and
basic structure of the website. The user interface part is
completely working and functional and all the links including
dummy links are working properly. Our whole website is
divided into two version one is static version12 and another one
is dynamic version13. The work of the static version is basically
the designs and theme works such as the creations and designs
of the section such as from top bar to footer of the website.
B. Discussion
Through the work we have faced some difficulties regarding
the HTML codes and also with the CSS work that how the
design or the interface of that website should be. At some part
every functionalities was not working properly such as going
to an option like ‘Home’ from another option ‘Shop’ was not V. FUTURE WORK
working because of the file creation under a particular section. In the upcoming session we are going to start implementation
Finally the functionalities are working properly and the of the dynamic version of our website. We will work using
website is running according to the planning. PHP to create links of each and every section working with
one another and obviously there will be a database for our
website which we will also create and through those links we
IV. DIAGRAMS are going to connect the database with our website.

Administrative Functions: Our future plan with this website is to create a new online
shopping platform through this website people and also the
vendors will be benefitted. First of all our main focus will be
to gather the existing vendors throughout the country and we
will also offer new vendor to start their business. Gradually we
will start to work with the international online e-commerce
platforms.

We will buy a domain for our website for hosting and start a
business which will bring the whole marketplace at doorsteps.
We will follow some steps to upload our website:

 We will pick a reliable web hosting company.

 We will choose our website upload method. File
Transfer Protocol (FTP) 14.
 We will upload our website file using a web browser.
 Then we will move the website files to the main root
directory.
 We will import our database.
 Then the website will be ready to work.

VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We are really grateful because we managed to complete our
CSE499A project within the time given by our supervisor Dr.
K.M.A. Salam (KAS) sir. This project cannot be completed
without the effort and co-operation from our group members,
Group members- Safwan Hossain, Akiba Mehzaveen Mon
& Rakib Hasan. We also sincerely thank our supervisor Dr.
K.M.A. Salam sir for the guidance and encouragement in the
finishing this project and also for the help when we needed
any support. Last but not least we would like to express our
gratitude to our friends and respondents for the support and
willingness to spend some times with us to fill in the
questionnaires.
<https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.4/getting-started/introduction/>
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VII. CONCLUSION
As the world is largely dependent on e-commerce system
nowadays this system will be so much effective. In this era of
technology a large group of people started to use online
platforms for shopping. Using this website users will be
benefitted in many ways they will be able to purchase their
desired product and also they will be benefitted because they
will be able to use this website to sell or exchange their used
products in a better way. Finally the vendors will be benefitted
using this website. They will be able to reach all over the
country and also they will be able to achieve their goals.
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