UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING

CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY, PUNJAB

PROJECT SYNOPSIS
SEMESTER 3RD
MINOR PROJECT
SESSION: - 2021-2023

Under the Guidance of: Submitted By:

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

+91 847697227 Himanshu Relhan (21MCA2697)

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

UIC-Dept. Chandigarh University

 TITLE OF THE
PROJECT

E-Commerce
Web Application
 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

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.

Selection of best design and implementation plan

1. Objectives
You’ll outline your project objectives in step one of the implementation
process. Set your goals and decide what metrics your team will use to
measure to monitor progress. By clearly identifying your project objectives,
you and your team can measure progress and performance as you move
forward.

2. Scope statement
You’ll set the scope of your project in step two when conducting research.
Your project scope statement should outline the boundaries you’ve set for
your project and broadly define what goals, deadlines, and project outcomes
you’ll be working toward. Defining your project scope in the
implementation plan can help prevent scope creep when you’re farther along
in the project.

3. Outline of deliverables
Deliverables are the tangible goals of your project. Outlining
the deliverables you hope to create can serve as a resource when managing
time frames, delegating tasks, and allocating resources. 

4. Task due dates

Although the project timeline may change as your project progresses, it’s
important to clarify your expected due dates during implementation
planning. When you estimate task due dates, you can schedule milestones
around these due dates and plan for project completion. You will commonly
see Gantt charts used for strategic planning and implementation planning.
This is because Gantt charts display information in a follows a linear path,
similar to a timeline. 
5. Risk assessment
You’ll conduct your risk assessment in step three of the implementation
process. Whether you use a  risk register , SWOT analysis, or contingency
plan to identify risks, be sure to include these documents in your plan. That
way, others involved in the project can look through your findings and
potentially help you prevent these risks. 

6. Team member roles and responsibilities

You assigned roles and responsibilities to team members in step five of your
plan, and keeping a detailed record of what these are can hold everyone
accountable. Whether you use a RACI chart or another tool to clarify team
member roles, there should be a place in your plan for everyone to refer to in
case questions arise. 
Your implementation plan will likely be unique to the project you're working
on, so it may include other components not listed above. However, you can
use the six items above as your guide so you know your plan is
comprehensive.

Many aspects of project implementation overlap with strategic planning. As

a project manager, working on the project implementation plan while you
are also working on the strategic plan can help minimize the total time spent
on planning.
Another way to save time during the planning process is to house all of your
plans in a work management platform. When your project team is ready to
start the implementation process, everything is in one convenient place.

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