TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY

EVEREST INNOVATIVE
COLLEGE
 SOALTEEMODE, KATHMANDU
NEPAL

Lab Reports ON

E-COMMERCE
Date:- ……………………..  
Submitted By:                     Submitted To:
Name: Apeksha Kafle        Department of BCA
Roll No: 1                                       Vikram Yadav Sir
Faculty: Humanities
Year/Part: V
 UNIT-1
1. List out five E- Commerce websites of Nepal. Visit (browse) any two sites among them and study in
details their products, services, geographical area coverage, mode of payment, delivery process, e-
commerce etc. Note down and explain your findings.

Soln:- Five E-Commerce websites of Nepal are as follows:-

 Daraz.np.com
 Thulo.com
 Okdam.com
 Satodeal.com
 Gyapu.com

Daraz
Daraz Group is a multinational technology company that focuses on e-
commerce, logistics, payment infrastructure and financial services.
Products
Daraz had thirteen major product categories, 1,200 or so subcategories, and, in total, around
80,000 stock keeping units (SKUs), out of which around 20,000 SKUs were related to fashion.
Some of the catagories are mobile phones , latest gadgets, latest laptops, summer appliances,
cameras, computer components, women's fashion, men's fashion, online grocery store, online
bookstore, online automotive store etc
Services
Daraz is the ultimate Nepali e-Commerce website that offers a solution for all needs of the
customers. It has a wide and assorted range of products including clothing, electronics, mobile
phones, home and living, health and beauty and much more. Daraz strives to provide customers the
best shopping experience in Nepal. The online store is updated daily and new products are added
every day to cater to all your needs.
Geographical area coverage
Daraz was first launched in Pakistan as an online fashion retailer and later expanded
to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Myanmar as Daraz Group after a shift in its business model.
 Mode of payment
The following payment methods are used:-
 Credit/Debit Card (VISA/MasterCard)
 Daraz Wallet.
 Easypaisa Mobile Account (other than Digital Goods)
 JazzCash Mobile Account.
 Easy Monthly Installments.
 HBL Direct Transfer.
 COD ((Cash on Delivery) COD is for specific items & Cities)

Delivery process
Delivery process while ordering from Daraz has several steps such as; Ready to pick up from
seller, Rider is going for Pickup to Seller, Order received from Seller, Partial order received from
Seller, Ready for packaging, Partial order ready for packaging, packing complete, scheduled for
delivery, Partial order scheduled for delivery, Delivery complete, Delivery failed & returned,
Order cancelled.
Okdam
Products
There are products such as Electronics, Clothes, Furniture, Kitchen, Home Appliances etc. Best
Quality products are available at the affordable price at Okdam Online Store in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Okdam gives the access to everything ranging from Mobile, Electronic, CCTV
Cameras Fashion clothes, Home appliances and Kitchen appliances to organic coffee, green
tea products and much more.
Services
Okdam provide top quality products. It is easy to return products if the customers aren’t satisfied.
There is delivery all over Nepal. It provides the security of customers information. It keep up
appropriate physical, electronic and administrative techniques to close and secure your data by
avoiding unapproved access.
Geographical area coverage
It covers the area of whole Nepal.
Mode of payment
The following payment methods are used:-
 Credit/Debit Card (VISA/MasterCard)
 Esewa
 Khalti
 Fonepay
 Imepay
 Union Pay
 American Express
 COD ((Cash on Delivery) COD is for specific items & Cities)

Delivery process
Delivery process while ordering from Okdam has several steps such as; Ready to pick up from
seller, Rider is going for Pickup to Seller, Order received from Seller, Partial order received from
Seller, Ready for packaging, Partial order ready for packaging, packing complete, scheduled for
delivery, Partial order scheduled for delivery, Delivery complete, Delivery failed & returned,
Order cancelled.
 2.  Experiment using two or more than two sets of mobile sets:
Connect internet to all mobile sets (WIFI or data connection)
Enable GPS settings,
Trace the locations of mobile users keeping far away.

Soln:-
Participants:-
 Apeksha Kafle
 Udit Bhattarai
Steps
 Internet connected in both mobile sets.
 Then we enabled GPS (location) of our phone,.
 Go to Google map
 Go to Settings
 We shared link of our location through Gmail
 Another participant accepted request
 After accepting the location share of each other, we were able to see the location of our
friend.
UNIT-2
3. List the devices required to set up a wireless LAN. Discuss WLAN with a
diagram.

The key hardware components of a wireless computer network include 

 Adapters
 Routers
 Access points
 Antennas
 Repeaters

A Wireless network is a type of the computer network that uses the wireless connections for
connecting network nodes for data transfer. The wireless networks are very useful, inexpensive,
popular and widely used. They are easy setup and do not require the cables installation.
A wireless local area network (WLAN) links two or more devices using some wireless distribution
method and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider Internet. This
gives users the ability to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the
network. Most modern WLANs are based on IEEE 802.11 standards, marketed under the Wi-Fi
brand name. WLAN uses access points and routers to make a connection between devices. Wi-Fi
is an example of WLAN where devices are connected wirelessly within a limited range. WLAN is
made within home, office building, computer laboratory, school building or any college campus.
For using Wi-Fi, users need to enter a password for making a connection to the internet. Wi-Fi
connection is made either by using mobile hotspots or by using a wireless modem or wireless
router.

4. Visit the website of Nepal Telecom and discuss about their internet services to the
clients.

From the website of Nepal Telecom, we found out about different internet services.
The wireless internet services provided by NTC are:
 4G LTE Network

4G or LTE stands for a mobile communications standard intended to replace 3G, allowing
wireless Internet access at a much higher speed. 4G and LTE are two common terms used
for the same technology hence the terms are used interchangeably. As this technology
supports much higher speed than the previous technologies, the customer will feel better
internet browsing experience. Now, videos can be streamed without interruption and at higher
definition.

 EVDO Service
EVDO (Evolution Data Optimized), also known as CDMA2000 1xEvDO, is a
telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals,
typically for broadband Internet access. The EV-DO feature of CDMA2000 networks provides
access to mobile devices with downlink air interface speeds of up to 2.4 Mbit/s and uplink up
to 153 kbps with Rel. 0. Similarly the downlink and uplink air interface speed in Rev A is up to
3.1 Mbps and 1.8 Mbps respectively. Nepal Telecom is implementing EVDO service with 15
BTS in Kathmandu, Banepa and Pokhara. But now the EVDO network has spread throughout
the Country.

 WiMAX Service

Nepal Telecom (NT) launched the 4G WiMAX IEEE 802.16e service first time in Nepal. Nepal
Telecom proudly offers WiMAX broadband internet service with greater flexibility at
unmatched price offer. WiMAX service is available throughout the country within the tentative
2 km radius of the base station . NT as a market leader in Wireless Internet, will enhance its
service, coverage and quality by delivering next generation technology to the subscribers. We
will deliver high quality data and internet services and utilize the technology to encourage
social and economic growth. NT WiMAX enables broadband wireless anytime, anywhere
using any WiMAX enabled devices, whether it is a laptop, desktop modem, digital phone or
even a game device. Mobile WiMAX creates a seamless broadband environment at home, in
the office and on the move.

WiMAX CPE - Working Distance:

S.N. Device Distance from Base Station in Kilometer (Km)
1 USB Dongle 1

2 In Door Unit (ODU) 2

3 Out Door Unit (ODU) ~5

 NT Wifi

How to subscribe NT Wifi Hotspot?

Type WIFI10 or WIFI30 and send SMS to 1416 to subscribe for respectively 1 hour and 5
hours of NT Wifi Hotspot facility.

 How much does it cost?

It costs Rs.10 for 1 hour of service and Rs.30 for 5 hours of service. The price is exclusive of
applicable taxes.

The wireline internet services provided by NTC are:

 Fibre To The Home
 Available Services:

1. Broadband Internet

2. Voice Service

3. Television

 Dedicated Lease Connectivity

Nepal Telecom Internet service provides Leased Internet Connectivity over dedicated leased
lines. These are very economical means of having high-speed Internet access round the
clock. Require leased line modems at both ends of a physical leased line. Please download
the DATA/Internet/Intranet form and read the contract document and after duly filling it, send
it to lease@ntc.net.np Leased Internet Connectivity Rates per month for Symmetrical
Bandwidth.

 ADSL Service

This service is available in most of PSTN Offices. Broadband service is being provided
through the deployment of ADSL 2+ technologies, a type of digital subscriber line (DSL).

UNIT-3
5. Doing Google Search find out a case study of a company that has implemented Supply Chain
Management System or Customer Relationship Management System. What are the benefits the
company realized?

Soln:- For the research of supply chain management, I have taken Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart is
the largest retailer operating from 15 countries and according to them, Supply Chain management
is the main source through which their organization grows and achieves this status. As Wal-Mart
developed in the 1960s to 1980s, it started extracting the advantages from better transportation
facilities and the failure of it is contenders to respond to updates in enactment, for example the
evacuation of resale value upkeep, which had averted retailers from marking down stock (Andel,
1995).
Company Supply Chain Strategy:
According to the coverage of a recent event, it was announced by the management of Wal-Mart to
their suppliers that they can audit and disclose the costs of their products, in other words Wal-Mart
invited 100,000 corporates globally to audit and evaluate their environmental and social strengths
which could lead the relevant businesses to decrease their wastage after the evaluation and
improvise their returns. The corporate critics who always keep evaluating the strategies of Wal-
Mart praised the management of Wal-Mart for this act but they knew that Wal-Mart has a wider
goal behind this plan. Wal-Mart designs to consolidate information on water usage, environmental
friendly gas discharges, strong waste grounding, and worker morals into a database imparted
worldwide, which the group stated might be utilized to shape the first file of a feature's essence
cycle sway. Other than this Wal-Mart facilitates their customers in relevance to some categories of
products that they can evaluate that information by scanning them on the PDAs and evaluate the
given content on the packaging. Promoting this plan, Wal-Mart states that "A consumer will be
able to see the cotton farm, maybe even the farmer who raised the cotton," said John Fleming, the
company's chief merchandising officer. "The consumer of the future will be able to see, whether
from the sea or the ground, where that product came from."
Company Supply Chain Effectiveness:
Wal-Mart has become the largest retailer with the most rapid expansion in their discount provision
network and all of this has happened through proceeding in reducing the surplus costs in all their
operations and inhibiting the marginal expansions. All this has resulted in to an increase in their
net income by 25% that has been now $1.6 billion and 18% market share is possessed by the
discount department of their network.
Wal-Mart has been always stronger than its competitors as it has bonded the most powerful
relation with every kind of suppliers, though their always customizing operations and giving a
spacious platform to brands to market their branding and by consolidating with the industry on
individual level. Wal-Mart also looks after the demands of their customers; this also keeps an
efficiency level in their stocks and let the suppliers know about the sales of their products on run-
time. After an overall research it could be said that, Wal-Mart is able to lead the market of retail
business by possessing some qualities or strengths as compared to others. These strengths are that,
the supply chain dept. (Barry, 2006). of Wal-Mart keeps track of the demand of each product,
tracking their movement from other stores too which defines which region requires which sort of
product in which amount, by the deployment of a very effective information system that secures all
sort of transits and transactions, not only this but also analyses the sales, trend of customers in
reference to market information and also by becoming a middle party between the distributors and
the wholesale dealers. The growth and tremendous progress of Wal-Mart can be observed from the
following growth chart.
UNIT-4
6. Check and explain windows firewall settings in your desktop/laptop for the
protection of attacks.

Soln:- Firewalls are important because they have had a huge influence on modern security
techniques and are still widely used. They first emerged in the early days of the internet, when
networks needed new security methods that could handle increasing complexity. Most devices use
firewalls to inspect traffic and mitigate threats.  
A firewall establishes a border between an external network and the network it guards. It is
inserted inline across a network connection and inspects all packets entering and leaving the
guarded network. As it inspects, it uses a set of pre-configured rules to distinguish between benign
and malicious packets.

The term 'packets' refers to pieces of data that are formatted for internet transfer. Packets contain
the data itself, as well as information about the data, such as where it came from. Firewalls can use
this packet information to determine whether a given packet abides by the rule set. If it does not,
the packet will be barred from entering the guarded network. As a packet travels through the
network, it is reformatted several times to tell the protocol where to send it. Different types of
firewalls exist to read packets at different network levels.

7. Check, study and explain ‘BitLocker Drive Encryption’ provided by windows.

BitLocker is a security feature added in Windows Vista that protects a computer's file system.
BitLocker encrypts disk drivers and their contents. When encrypted, others cannot see your files
even if the computer had been stolen or the hard disk was taken. BitLocker also works on
removable storage drives. In order to access an encrypted drive, users must authenticate/login to
access the data.
 In addition to a login/password, a PIN or startup key can be used to prevent unauthorized access to
the data on the drive; on either type of drive (fixed or removable), users can login to BitLocker-
protected data by using a password or smart card.

The aim of BitLocker is to protect computers and drives against data breaches and intrusions. The
main benefits are:

 It encrypts your entire drive, providing a high-level of security using the TPM module.
 You can set up BitLocker to automatically save keys to Active Directory
 There are no additional licensing costs, as a native Windows function
 Negligible impact on read performance, and no impact on write performance
 Easy set-up

UNIT-5
8. List out different kinds of payment cards being used in the Nepalese market. Explain:
kinds of facilities available with the cards……

List of different kinds of payment cards being used in the Nepalese market:
I. Debit cards
 II. Credit cards
III. Foreign cards
IV. Prepaid cards
V. Electronic cards

1. Debit cards: If you have a savings bank account, the bank is likely to issue a debit card that is
directly linked to your savings account. Debit cards generally will have a credit network associated
with them like VISA or Mastercard. Having these credit networks printed on cards means that
there is the acceptability of debit cards as a form of payment in many countries, places.However,
using a debit card will not help build our credit score. Besides, you can also withdraw money from
ATM using your debit card.
2. Credit card: You can purchase goods and services at PoS terminals/e-commerce through credit
cards. These cards can help you build a good credit score if the bills are paid on time. You may use
these cards domestically and internationally (provided they are enabled for such use).While credit
cards can also be used to withdraw cash from an ATM, you must not do so because you are usually
charged a fee upfront based on the amount you withdraw. You can also transfer money to bank
accounts, debit cards, other credit cards and prepaid cards within India, subject to agreed limits and
conditions.

3. Prepaid card: The norm of prepaid cards depends on the issuer of such cards. Prepaid cards can
be open or semi-closed and can be used to withdraw cash from an ATM, purchase goods and
services at PoS terminals/e-commerce. You can also make domestic funds transfers, subject to
prescribed limits and conditions. While banks issue open system prepaid cards, semi-closed system
prepaid cards can be issued by the bank and non-bank entities.

4. Electronic cards: These cards can be considered debit cards issued in specific overdraft
accounts like personal loans without any specific end-use limitations. Banks have been allowed to
provide electronic cards to people having overdraft accounts to enable domestic digital
transactions. The norm of prepaid cards depends on the issuer of such cards. Prepaid cards can be
open or semi-closed and can be used to withdraw cash from an ATM, purchase goods and services
at POS terminals/e-commerce.
9. Research: “Emerging trends in online payment system in Nepal”.

Digital banking is a very recent phenomenon in Nepal. The era of modern banking in Nepal started
with Nabil Bank introducing credit cards in the early 1990s. Himalayan Bank introduced ATM and
Nepali credit card for the domestic market in 1995. In 2002, Kumari Bank introduced E-Banking
(Internet Banking) service for the first time in Nepal. Likewise, in 2004, Laxmi Bank introduced
SMS Banking (Mobile Banking) service for the first time in the country. In the early stage, digital
banking services were mainly used to check account statements only. Customers were not much
aware regarding the purposes of digital banking and how to use it. It took a long time for digital
banking technology to be adopted widely.

Digital Payment is definitely growing in popularity and is becoming a trend these days. The reason
is simple – convenience. In the era when businesses are shifting online, why not transactions!
Looking at the current scenario, it seems like digital payment platforms will take a notable uptake
after the lockdown. Both service providers and customers will consider adopting cashless
transaction methods. I don’t think that the market is currently overcrowded. If we focus on a
cashless economy, we haven’t yet explored its possibilities in many sectors. So far, the PSPs and
PSOs in existence are focusing more on the retail industry and maybe there’s noticeable
overlapping in this area. However, we still have entire, segregated, and untouched industries that
still need a lot of work in the field of digitization.

For now, the regulators need to drive their attention in preventing the overlap on the same set of
infrastructure and market. There are factors like interoperability and shared infrastructures that
could help prevent overcrowding. But, there’s no immediate need to point out the existence of
different digital payment platforms in the market. The main reason why people have purses or
wallets on them is to carry cash and cards. In a rather digital world, smartphones are likely to
replace them all. One’s identity to bank account information, everything will shift to an e-wallet.

A 100% cashless economy is still a far-fetched idea due to reasons like security and the digital
divide. But, it is not impossible if enough work is put into building the infrastructure and raising
awareness.