Introduction to E-commerce

E-commerce is not something that people are unfamiliar with nowadays. The first e-commerce transaction was made in 1994; a man used his creditcard to buy an album through the internet. Since then, e-commerce has already been introduced to the world. Moreover, the form of e-commerce has never stopped evolving. E-commerce used to refer to those companies who do their business through the internet, for example, Amazon and Alibaba. However, it has changed its way in which society sells goods and services now. E-commerce is not limited to those big companies anymore; instead, it refers to the transaction that is conducted through the internet in contemporary society.

By providing various irreplaceable advantages for either shop owner or customer, e-commerce has changed the whole retail industry. For example, e-commerce offers accessibility and convenience, a variety of choices, and the prices are lower to the users. As for shop owners, scalability and lower cost are the reasons that attract them when e-commerce is compared with brick-and-mortar stores. As a result, e-commerce users are springing up like mushrooms. Running an online shop and conducting e-commerce today is no longer a big business companies' patent; more and more individual sellers are running their own businesses on the Internet. As the world keeps changing every second, e-commerce will keep up its pace. The future of e-commerce is undoubtedly going to be full of exciting innovations for both companies and customers.