E-Commerce Web App for Shopping Needs

UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING
DIVISION- MCA/BCA/BSc(CS)
PROJECT REPORT
OCTOBER 2022
SEMESTER 3RD
MINOR PROJECT
SESSION: - 2021-2023
Under the Guidance of: Submitted By:
Mr. Ajay Yadav (Assistant Professor) Chandan Kumar (21MCA2648)
+91 8476972275 Himanshu Relhan (21MCA2697)
ajay.e13382@cumail.in Ritika Garg (21MCA2650)
UIC-Dept. Chandigarh University

TITLE OF THE
PROJECT
E-Commerce Web
Application
BONAFIDE CERTICATE
Certified that this project report E-commerce Web Application is the Bonafide
work of Himanshu Relhan(21MCA2697), Chandan Kumar(21MCA2648),
Ritika Garg(21MCA2650) who carried out the project work under my/our
supervision.
SIGNATURE SIGNATURE
MANISHA MALHOTRA PROJECT SUPERVISOR
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT Ass. Prof. AJAY KUMAR
YADAV
Submitted for the project viva-voce examination held

ON: 15/11/2001
INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL

EXAMINER
DECLARATION
I hereby declare that the project report entitled "E-Commerce Website
” was Submitted by me to the University Institute of Computing,
Chandigarh University, Gharuan. In partial fulfilment of the
requirement for the award of degree “MCA” is a bonafide project work
carried out by me under the supervision of “Assitant Professor Mr. Ajay
Kumar Yadav.” I further declare that the work reported in this project
has not been submitted and will not be submitted, either in part or in
full. For the award of any other degree or diploma in this institute or
any other institute or university.
Chandan Kumar
:-21MCA2648
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The goal was fixed, the moves were calculated and I moved full of enthusiasm,
figurant keen interested there were time, when it proved to be on uphill task, the
goal seeming beyond my reach. But as the work progressed my determination and
will power grow stronger and the completion of this work further confirmed my
belief that, “where there is a will there is a way”.
Foremost, I thank almighty God who gave me strength and power to choose and
complete my project Report on time. I take immense pleasure in thanking our
H.O.D Dr Manisha Malhotra Ma’am for permitting me to carry out this project
work. I wish to express my deep sense of gratitude to my professor MS Gurpreet
Kaur Ma’am for her able guidance and useful suggestions, which helped me in
completing the project work, in time.
I am thankful to my guide Mr. Ajay Kumar Yadav for her constant

encouragement and support to complete the project. She motivated me through her
personal and her “never say die” spirit. I specially would like to express my
gratitude and debtless to my friends someway or other and been linked with the
project from the one. I am also grateful to project lab for providing conductive
environment. I would also thank my parents for supporting me in this Project work.
Chandan Kumar
21MCA2648
TABLE OF CONTENT
Sr. No Topic
1 Title of project
2 Bonafide Certificate
3 Declaration
4 Acknowledgement
5 Abstract
6 Graphical Abstract
7 Introduction
8 Objectives of project
9 Requirement, planning Analysis
10 Literature Survey
11 Design Flow/Process
12 Result analysis and validation
13 Conclusion and future work
14 References
15 User Manual
2. INTRODUCTION OF
PROJECT: -
India is a developing country and Information Communication and technology are
playing their important roles in development of the country. By ecommerce we
mean buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the
Internet and other computer networks. In truth in India there is lot ecommerce
website but most of the website are not trusted and secure. With launch of these
services many new startups can easily sell their products and services online. These
services have lots of potential and we hope it will succeed and bring a change in the
Indian ecommerce field. There are big and old player like amazon, flipkart in India
which is already popular for its money transfer and online shops.
E-commerce is fast gaining ground as an accepted and used business paradigm.

More and more business houses are implementing web sites providing functionality
for performing commercial transactions over the web. It is reasonable to say that the
process of shopping on the web is becoming commonplace.
3. Client Identification and Recognition of Need
This project has been created for the people who wants to purchase/sell things
online very conveniently with best user experience without moving outside their
houses.
Already existing ecommerce platforms lack in delivering the best user

experience. Users need to talk to the support agent immediately at the time they
faced any issue while making payment, asking their queries about delivery etc.
and getting irrelevant products recommendation which, they never want to buy.
Many users don’t find ecommerce website color scheme good and cannot toggle
between dark mode and light mode according to their need. But this project
fulfills all their needs to become a best option for them for shopping.
The primary goal of this e-commerce website is to reach maximum customers at
the right time to increase sales and profitability of the business. Functions of e-
commerce include buying and selling goods, transmitting funds or data over the
internet.
Advantages of E-commerce :
 It provides 24x7 supports to its consumers. It provides the facility of placing
orders anytime, anywhere, or from any location. It automates the business of
enterprises and their process of providing services to their customers.
 It provides more options to its customers and gives a faster delivery of

products.
 Users can select cheaper and better options via e-commerce as it provides
more options to its customers.
 Before the final purchase of a product, a customer can see the reviews and
comments of a particular product and can also put their reviews and
comments about a product.
 It provides the information in an easy way, i.e., the information is not hard to
read. A customer can see the detailed information of a product within some
seconds instead of waiting for days.
 Because of e-commerce, the competition between the organization increases,

and as a result organization gives ample discounts to its customers.
Disadvantages of E-commerce :
 It does not have any universal standard for reliability and quality. And There
can be compatibility issues.
 Security is another concern of using e-commerce. We have seen security
breaches many times where the customer's information got stolen. Some of
the big concerns with customers include identity theft, credit card theft, etc.
 E-commerce uses a public key that is not secure.
 It is a major drawback in E-commerce that there is a lack of feel or touch of

products while purchasing them online.
 The cost of the creation and building of an e-commerce application may be

very high.
 It is hard to convince traditional users to purchase products online rather than

in physical stores.
 Sometimes, there is a risk of purchasing unsatisfactory products via E-

commerce
4.Recognition & Knowledge of Relevant

Contemporary Issues.
As we discovered most important features that are missing from e-

commerce platforms Nowadays are given below
 Live Chat: Live chat support is a way for customers to have real-time,
back-and-forth conversations with support agents. Using live chat software
embedded on a company’s website, customers can send their questions to
a person who can quickly reply to them in the same small window.
 User friendly UI: User Interface (UI) Design focuses on anticipating
what users might need to do and ensuring that the interface has elements
that are easy to access, understand, and use to facilitate those actions.
Interface elements include but are not limited to: Input Controls,
Navigational Components, Informational Components.
 User friendly Product search: Search is a very universal feature.
It’s a shortcut that allows the users to skip the line and directly get to the
information they desire, almost like teleportation within the realm of an
app.
 Customized Colors of the website: A user can choose the
color scheme of the website according to the its desire. And can also used
a toggle button to switch between dark mode and light mode.
 Relevant Product Recommendation: A product
recommendation is basically a filtering system that seeks to predict and
show the items that a user would like to purchase. based on data such as
customer attributes, browsing behavior, or situational context—providing
a personalized shopping experience.
5. Project identification
It is a process in the initiating phase of project life cycle for identifying a need,
problem, or opportunity.
a) Research / Planning: -
An important aspect of research is the collection and analysis of data. Data

collection is an important step in providing all the necessary information for project
planning. Depending on the purpose of the project, information may relate to
customers, competitors, products or services. Data analysis is the final step in
research. The data are evaluated project-related. We need to use analytics tools to
make it easier and fairer. The results of the analysis are checked and summarized in
direct relation to the planning of the project. Create a project planning strategy
based on your findings.
b) Preparation of website outline:
There are some basic principles when preparing a website outline:
– Brainstorm ideas and note down: You should gather ideas as much as possible.
They will be the materials for you to choose what is needed for the site outline and
the site-building.
– Organize the ideas: You will have to classify the ideas and group them into
categories and subcategories. From all the ideas, you will select the potential ones
and analyze them. Then, you group them into categories and subcategories.
Depending on the content you will generate from the ideas, you choose a logical
approach for your website outline.
c) Information Framework
Below are some notes for you when building an information framework:
– To identify the basis of your framework: Based on the website outline, you will
decide categories of information as the basis of the framework.
– To organize the categories into a diagram: You need to create a way to
represent the list visually. You can use a simple table, timeline, or a Venn diagram.
Organizing the list of categories will provide a more engaging way to understand
the content.
– To choose the suitable models: The type of model must be in terms of the type
of your website (e-commerce website, photo web, video web, blogs…)
d) Website Designing: -
After creating the website outline and information framework, implement Phase 4
of the Investment Project Phase: Website Design. First and foremost, you should
focus on how your website looks. This will determine if your website looks bad or
not. There are several factors to consider regarding appearance. Colors, fonts,
graphics, and content.
e) Construction:
After you have the design of the web, you will start the construction of the website.
In this phase, you will bring your design closer to reality. In this phase, you need to
make sure that your technology infrastructure and team members meet standards
and requirements.
Backend: This is the core structure of a website. It will determine what is your
website’s language (PHP, MY- SQL) to collect needed information from
databases, how to load a page when clicking a button, or send a new entry from
one of your contact forms to a program…
Frontend: This is what makes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript visible to the
customers. It will also make the contact forms appear on your website in suitable
fields (name, message, email fields).
Machine learning: - It will help user to buy products as per their interest easily
using recommendation system.
f) Migration and Launching:
This is the final phase of the project phase plan. In this phase, you bring your
website to life and make it accessible to your customers. Here are some tips for
migrating and launching your website.
– Notifying your visitors: Even though you have run a test of your website, check
all the errors, bugs, or shutdown can still arise. Therefore, you should notify your
visitors to ensure they know what to expect and when.
– Updating or migrating a little at a time: You should not migrate the entire
website at one time. After running tests, you should move your website one section
at a time. It will help you to minimize the risks of outage or issues.
– Not completing different migration types at the same time: You should
separately switch hosts and update your website’s layout. Do not do those tasks
together.
– Launching or migrating during a period of low traffic: They will go smoother

when you choose a suitable time (slower part of the day or overnight for
migrating). It will minimize the loading server. Your website will be faster by
search engines.
– Following a checklist: You should have a detailed checklist for the launch or
migration and follow it strictly. It will help you facilitate the process and avoid
skipping crucial steps.
g) Conclusion:
A project phase plan includes many important elements and certain complexities.
This requires careful preparation. There are 6 phases in the project phase plan and
all phases must be followed from start to finish. The six phases (each with its own
agenda of tasks and issues) are: research and strategy, website outline preparation,
information framework, website design, build and migration, and launch.
Collectively, these phases represent the paths of the project plan and are commonly
referred to as the "life cycle" of the project plan.
6. TASK IDENTIFICATION
1. Collect and Analyze The requirement
2. Set Scope & goals of project
3. Breakout Groups and distribute modules like….
Coding/Implementation, Testing, Monitoring
4. Set budget
5. Set deadlines.
6. Complete Project.
7. Timeline of the project

It is estimated that the said project will be completed in around 6 Weeks. From
project design to implementation and deployment on internet, this is categorized in
following list.
1. Project Planning and structure (1 Week)
2. Project Designing (2 Weeks)
3. Project Coding and testing (3 Weeks)
4. Deployment and Maintenance (Week 1)
8. Gannt Chart
9. Relevant Topics identified for Literature review

Internet has major influence on the globe because it can serve billions of users all
over the world. Thousands of local and global networks including private, public,
academic, business, and government networks, all contribute to the creation of the
Internet (Yongrui et al. 2014). Internet has opened the door for e-commerce. This
section provides a brief overview of e-commerce, including what it is and how it
differs from existing related ideas. The use of e-commerce is growing as a way to
conduct business (Ngai and Wat, 2002). The initial phase of conducting research
regarding e-commerce is to explain the e-commerce idea. Table 1 describes e-
commerce from diverse viewpoints.
E-commerce Website Research Literature Review:

An appropriate literature review is a vital part of every academic research
assignment. A related and effective literature review lays a strong groundwork for
progressing knowledge (Webster and Watson, 2002). The study shows that
deficiency of review articles has been obstructing the development of information
systems arena (Webster and Watson, 2002). A literature review can be conducted
in many ways; Figure 1 illustrates four methods of literature review: Narrative
Review, Descriptive Review, Vote Counting, and Meta-Analysis (King and He,
2005). These four methods are positioned on a qualitative-quantitative scale to
demonstrate their dissimilar concentrations).
10. Review of previous Solutions:
This study has a few limitations. First, the sample size was small and mostly based
on academic and refereed journal articles. The sample, therefore, might not reflect
the complete view and solid evidence regarding correlation among e-commerce,
culture, and website design. Second, no quantitative analysis was conducted to
back up the study. Third, the search criteria might be imperfect, because some
papers may not have the terms ‘e-commerce,’ ‘culture,’ ‘website design,’ or
‘narrative review’ in the abstract or keyword list, or the keyword list may be
missing. Finally, a narrative review method was used, so the review is mostly
dependent on the reviewer’s individual preferences. It is likely that two reviewers
could reach different conclusions from the same literature.
11. Summary of how reviewed literature helped in

defining problem statement.
Therefore, it will be best practice to consider some of the following issues when
designing an e-commerce website:
 Local cultural aspects to reflect the users’ emotions, thoughts, desires, and most
importantly the culture EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information
Systems
 E-commerce website should be presented in the consumer’s language to get

better response and visitors
 Types of advertisement placed on the ecommerce website need to be taken in

consideration
 Selecting appropriate culturally friendly colours when designing web page

because colours used on the web page have diverse emotional and social
consequences
 Understanding the local culture and customs when designing the e-commerce
website
12. Poblem Definition

a) Building trust with the user
b) Payment Processing
c) Inventory/stock updates
d) Shipping
e) Product reviews
f) Navigation to product pages
g) The shopping cart
h) Shareability of product pages
i) Easily available resources
j) SEO implications of product pages
k) Image compression and alt text
13. Goals and Objectives

Following are the marketing areas where we seek scope of e-commerce:
(i) Marketing, sales and sales promotion.
(ii) Pre-sales, subcontracts, supply.
(iii) Financing and insurance.
(iv) Commercial transactions – ordering, delivery, payment
(v) Product service and maintenance.

(vi) Co-operative product development.
(vii) Distributed co-operative working.
(viii) Use of public and private services.
(ix) Business-to-administrations
(x) Transport and logistics.
(xi) Public procurement.
(xii) Automatic trading of digital goods like games, learning material, songs and
music etc.
(xiii) Accounting and financial management.
(xiv) Legal advice
14. Feature / Characteristics Selection

In this article, we review some of the top eCommerce platforms and their
features and include a full list of standard eCommerce features for all online
stores and shopping cart platforms.
Many websites’ success is determined by the products offered and how well the
website is marketed, the features the website provides, and both the customer
and the website owner. As a business owner, it is essential to have the tools to
manage your website and that the administrative features fit with your business
processes. For example, if you offer payment terms to your customer, you’ll
need to be sure the platform you’re using gives you the ability to set a
customer’s credit limit. Before diving into an eCommerce project, think
carefully about the eCommerce features needed, or you’ll be regretting it
later!
The Most Important eCommerce Features Your Website

Needs Include:
 Content management capabilities
 Promotion & discount code tools
 An easy-to-use checkout
 SEO friendly code and layout
 Advanced eCommerce SEO capabilities
 Reporting tools & custom report features
 An integrated blog or articles section
 Email marketing features or integration
 Multiple payment options (Credit card, PayPal, PO, Terms, etc.)
 The ability to scale & add new eCommerce features
14. Constraint Identification:-

A. Regulations & Design constraints considered in design:
a) Building trust with the user

b) Payment Processing
c) Inventory/stock updates
d) Shipping
e) Product reviews
f) Navigation to product pages
g) The shopping cart
h) Shareability of product pages
i) Easily available resources
j) SEO implications of product pages
k) Image compression and alt text
B. Economic, environmental, health, manufacturability & safety constraints

One of the most common limitations in a business is economic constraints.
The definition of economic constraints is any external economic influence on a
business that is beyond the business's control. The main characteristic of economic
constraints is that they are external. This means that they exist outside the internal
business environment. Another characteristic is that the business has no control
over them and must learn to live with them.
Economic constraints examples are inflation, interest rates, and unemployment
rates. An increase in these rates will negatively affect a business. Inflation is a
severe concern in business because it makes investment decisions harder and leads
to cutbacks in customer spending, eventually reducing the profit margin of any
business. An increase in unemployment is also a drawback to any business because
it erodes the purchasing power of consumers. A high-interest rate is another
economic constraint that can affect a business in two ways. First, consumers with
bank debts will have less to spend because they have to pay more interest.
Secondly, companies with existing loans may have no option but to increase the
prices of their goods and services because they have to pay more interest.
we’ll cover the 10 most essential tips to protect your eCommerce website:
1.Choose the Right Hosting Service
2. Constantly Update Your Software
3. Use a Web Application Firewall
4. Enforce the Use of Strong Passwords
5. Enable Two-Factor Authentication
6. Adhere to PCI Compliance Standards
7. Install an SSL Certificate
8. Don’t Store Customers’ Sensitive Information
9. Make Regular Backups of Your Data
15. Analyze and feature finalization subject to

constraint:
1. HOME PAGE
2. USER’S LOGIN
3. USER PROFILE CREATION AND UPDATIONS
4. SERCHING PRODUCTS
5. PRODUCT DETAILS
6. ADD POST ON VARIOUS PRODUCTS
7. ADMIN LOGIN
8. ADMIN PAGE AND MANUPULATION ON USER ACCOUNT
9. USER DETAILS
10.ADMIN DETAILS
11.ADMIN REGISTRATION
10.PASSWORD CHANGE
11.ADD NEW SUBJECT
12. ADD PRODUCTS
13. LOG OUT
14. CONTENT READING
15. POSTING CONTENT
16. FEEDBACK FORM FOR THE CREATOR
17. MAP INTEGRATION
18. PASSWORD MANAGEMENT
15. Generate Multiple Design alternates:

1. Amazon
2. Flipkart
3. Factory.Com
4. Myntra
etc
16.Selection of best Design and implementation

plan:-
A good ecommerce website will come with features that will allow you to craft
websites with ease providing great usability and functionality. Lets take a look at
some of the features of best ecommerce websties which will allow to make an
informed choice while picking them:
 Modern Design with all the important features searching products, finding
different catergories, using live chatboats etcs.
 Ecoomerce design with multiple filters such as category, genders, qualities ,
brands location etc.
 Well documented code with access to all important HTML, CSS and JS Files.
Access to source files such as SCSS is a plus as it allows developers to easily
customize the look and feel for the template.
 Quality and dedicated supported that can be reached when you face difficulty in
using the Ecommerce template while building your own site with them.
DESIGN FLOW/PROCESS:-
First level DFD

Second level DFD

Third level DFD- ‘Admin Lab’
Add New Product
View Customer & Product

details
Change Payment setting
Change User Profiles

Profile
Cart
Mangement Products Contact User
with Logout
Search Review & Make

payment to buy Feedback
Edit Profile various
Form
Products
Upload See & add to About Product

profile cart for buy
picture
Logout
User Login
and Admin Lab
Resgister
Embedded
Contact
Map
Developer
System
RESULT ANALYSIS & VALIDATION:-
Front Page- ‘E-commerce Web app’

Footer- ‘Quiz Portal’

User Registration
User Login-
User Portal-
Contact Us-
Product Details
And add to cart
Payment System
FUTURE WORK:-
The project is based on the PHP platform, and it is created using

HTML, CSS, Java-script, and PHP in the Visual Studio IDE
before being delivered as a web page using the Apache Xamp
web server. This project Required some future work such as:
❖ Searching product for shopping

❖ Getting Genuine and affordable price
❖ Embed the map API with navigation and direction
❖ Chat-Bot API
❖ Going to use Machine Learning algorithms for
recommendation system.
❖ Machine learning will identify attackers and save user to be
get any type of harm.
IMPORTANCE OF E-COMMERCE:
Today, we can see e-commerce is becoming a part of study of almost all the
courses in management and commerce. It is an integral part of any book or
manuscript that is written on retailing, and it claims a significant share in this text
also. The reason behind this lies in the fact that e-commerce technology is different
and more powerful than any of the other technologies we have seen in the past
century. While these other technologies transformed economic life in the 20th
century, the evolving Internet and other ITs will shape the 21st century in many
ways. The foremost of these is the rise of a sizeable class of Internet-habituated
consumers, and then is the creation of an ecosystem essential for e-tailing’s
growth. In India’s case, both these factors are poised to fall into place rapidly.
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UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING

Under the Guidance of: Submitted By:

Mr. Ajay Yadav (Assistant Professor) Chandan Kumar (21MCA2648)

+91 8476972275 Himanshu Relhan (21MCA2697)

ajay.e13382@cumail.in Ritika Garg (21MCA2650)

UIC-Dept. Chandigarh University

Submitted for the project viva-voce examination held

INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL

I am thankful to my guide Mr. Ajay Kumar Yadav for her constant

E-commerce is fast gaining ground as an accepted and used business paradigm.

3. Client Identification and Recognition of Need

Already existing ecommerce platforms lack in delivering the best user

 It provides more options to its customers and gives a faster delivery of

 Because of e-commerce, the competition between the organization increases,

 E-commerce uses a public key that is not secure.

 It is a major drawback in E-commerce that there is a lack of feel or touch of

 The cost of the creation and building of an e-commerce application may be

 It is hard to convince traditional users to purchase products online rather than

 Sometimes, there is a risk of purchasing unsatisfactory products via E-

4.Recognition & Knowledge of Relevant

As we discovered most important features that are missing from e-

An important aspect of research is the collection and analysis of data. Data

b) Preparation of website outline:

There are some basic principles when preparing a website outline:

f) Migration and Launching:

– Launching or migrating during a period of low traffic: They will go smoother

2. Set Scope & goals of project

3. Breakout Groups and distribute modules like….

Coding/Implementation, Testing, Monitoring

7. Timeline of the project

1. Project Planning and structure (1 Week)

2. Project Designing (2 Weeks)

3. Project Coding and testing (3 Weeks)

4. Deployment and Maintenance (Week 1)

9. Relevant Topics identified for Literature review

E-commerce Website Research Literature Review:

10. Review of previous Solutions:

11. Summary of how reviewed literature helped in

 E-commerce website should be presented in the consumer’s language to get

 Types of advertisement placed on the ecommerce website need to be taken in

 Selecting appropriate culturally friendly colours when designing web page

12. Poblem Definition

k) Image compression and alt text

13. Goals and Objectives

(i) Marketing, sales and sales promotion.

(ii) Pre-sales, subcontracts, supply.

(iii) Financing and insurance.

(iv) Commercial transactions – ordering, delivery, payment

(v) Product service and maintenance.

(vii) Distributed co-operative working.

(viii) Use of public and private services.

(x) Transport and logistics.

(xi) Public procurement.

(xiii) Accounting and financial management.

(xiv) Legal advice

14. Feature / Characteristics Selection

The Most Important eCommerce Features Your Website

14. Constraint Identification:-

a) Building trust with the user

k) Image compression and alt text

B. Economic, environmental, health, manufacturability & safety constraints

1.Choose the Right Hosting Service