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A
A cyber mall is a system with sales products, a means of choosing products, and a way for connecting the first two. It is the new e-commerce whereby the user can purchase items at the comfort of their home and have it delivered to them (Lin-Hendel, 2009).
There are several types of cyber malls, including the shopping cart model and the portal model. The shopping cart model, a buyer, can select products from several suppliers and can manage and purchase several items at a go. example amazon.com
In the portal model, the user can search for the product through a search engine, and it shows several distributors of a single item . an example being google.com.
Firstly one should be able to shop using their mobile phone. This is since more than 50 % of all purchases are made through the mobile phone. Therefore, the website must be easily navigated through the mobile phone. Secondly, one should have an easy check out process; therefore, it should have good usability and functionality(Zainudin, 2010). Moreover, one should easily and securely sign up into the site to ensure users don’t get bored when using lengthy procedures in signing up. Furthermore, products should have clear pictures that show the potential buyer what he or she is purchasing.have a well-defined return policy, proper and concise product description, and finally, a bright design with intuitive navigation.
The reason why transaction processing systems cannot have downtime is that they form the foundation of the business. All jobs depend on income and proper representation of what they earn in comparison to the expenditure. If payments are not processed in real-time, the transaction process would be lengthened, leading to loss of income (Mori, T. 1989).imagine if a client must waste valuable time. It is estimated that if it takes more than an hour to process or approve the purchase of fewer than twenty dollars, there is a 70% probability that the buyer will cancel the transaction. (Jih, W. J. 1990) exceptionally if the product price os lows, it, however, increases with the amount of money being transacted.
The management information system provides information.
There are several kinds of management information system reports, including sales reports typically prepared by marketing and sales division, it gives an analysis of products sold in different geographical areas. The sales division uses it as it shows the difference between actual sales and budgeted sales(Lim, K. 2016). Secondly, we have a production report created by the manufacturing division because of shows production targets achieved by the production department and its variation to its actual to budgeted production achievement. Funds flow statement that is prepared by the accounting department indicates sources of funding and their application areas during any period in time. Finally, we have the cost reports by their respective departments, indicating costs as per each department.
Decision support systems is a computer-aided system helping management in making decisions by combining modeling systems to human intelligence to come up with informed choices (Alyoubi, B. A. 2015). For example, in a decision support system designed to manage inventory, one can evaluate a stock in an enterprise and optimize its use to where it will serve the most good. Another instance is using it for sales optimization and projecting sales, these systems nan analyze data in sales while predicting future outcomes, they can detect patterns, and thus, one can plan accurately based on the data.
B
The e-commerce website we will be designing will be a business to business website B2B meaning it will enable transaction between activities such as producer to wholesaler and wholesaler to retailer it is between companies rather than individuals(Liang, R., Wang, J., & Zhang, H., 2017).E-commerce infrastructure is the software and hardware required to accommodate the e-commerce platform.one may get a hosted platform where your host is in charge of security and so on or self-host e key infrastructures that necessary to support such applications are networks, Web server support and software, Web servers, Web page design, electronic catalogs, and Internet access components.
Hardware:
A Web server hardware platform is a major component of the E-commerce infrastructure on which the performance of the whole E-commerce application depends. Servers, proxy servers, load balancing systems. Firewalls, encryption devices, and interactive voice response units, etc. For this e-commerce, we will use the Dual Intel Xeon
Dual Intel® Xeon® 2 x E5-2620V2 2.10 GHz
8 vCore
2 x 1000GB HDD
32GB RAM
Electronic payment system
We will give the software in the order of how it operates in the payment process after a buyer clicks the buy button. We will use infusion soft, which is involved in taking the payment. Secondly, we will use the payment gateway software authorize.net, and the payment processor or merchant account card connects. We will use this specific process with this software WordPress website framework, which we will acquire from a hosting company. We will also use woocommerce which is a plugin working together with WordPress to integrate to WordPress market place to give our website the e-commerce structure allowing us to add products and services and images and it also helps majorly in setting individual price points for each product in our company store it also enables us to plugin the payment gateway .we will also use a payment gateway which plugs it into woocommerce gateway it securely takes credit cardholder data from the buyer sending it to the processing company, we will also use a merchant account which connects to the e-commerce gateway we will use card connect. And finally, we will have our bank account linked to the merchant account, which receives the money sent by the buyers.
software
The software we will be using will be WordPress. With support apps such as communications, contacts, and marketing apps. This is because this software enables social bookmarking with social icons including twitter tweets and facebook likes and share that bring more traffic to the website.it also allows search engine optimization page analysis that generates reports and helps avoid non- search engine friendly mistakes. It also has an email cloacker that protects my email address from auto-bots. It also creates a mobile website, so it is approachable through pc and mobile devices for more exposure. It also allows one to insert multiple pages and quick pages in few clicks saving time.
hardware
Dual Intel Xeon
Dual Intel® Xeon® 2 x E5-2620V2 2.10 GHz
8 vCore
2 x 1000GB HDD
32GB RAM
So the question is why do I want to use these components the 8 core will enable the computer to work properly as it has to deal with both the systems operating system as well as the website itself as well as the components the computer will be using.the two terabytes of data may be in excess but also it will be hosting the database of the data it will be hosting this is because the database will consume a lot of content. The new products also will have ample accommodation space.32 gigabytes of memory will also seem to be in excess. Still, we are in agreement that website applications are memory hungry. Moreover, 16 gigabytes could also work, but if we require this website to be relevant in the next four or more years, the improvements and new advancements will be still used. The operating system updates and software updates will surely be in the safe with this ram space.
software
Software this software we will be using will have an SSL certificate that ensures that the data is safe from anyone who tries to hijack it in transit or to try to steal the data in it.it also enables easy for one to insert new products fast and easily.
Transaction process
This transaction process is the most efficient and the best as it enables one to use credit cards, which account for up to 70%. This means that this method is fast and secure. While considering the process shown above, this process occurs within seconds; therefore, making the transactions fast and the transaction completes in seconds .it is also reliable since it deals with the users’ bank account and charges a small transaction fee, which is cheap considering the efficiency of the transaction.
References
Lin-Hendel, C. (2009). U.S. Patent No. 7,574,381. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Mori, T. (1989). U.S. Patent No. 4,877,947. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Alyoubi, B. A. (2015). Decision support system and knowledge-based strategic management. Procedia Computer Science, 65, 278-284.
Liang, R., Wang, J., & Zhang, H. (2017). Evaluation of e-commerce websites: An integrated approach under a single-valued trapezoidal neutrosophic environment. Knowledge-Based Systems, 135, 44-59.
Zainudin, N. M., Ahmad, W. F. W., & Nee, G. K. (2010, June). Evaluating C2C e-commerce website usability in Malaysia from the users’ perspective: A case study. In 2010 International Symposium on Information Technology (Vol. 1, pp. 151-156). IEEE.