E-commerce is a transaction of buying or selling online. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web for at least one part of the transaction’s life cycle although it may also use other technologies such as e-mail.
Essential Skills & Abilities
- Understand major ecommerce platforms
- Understand the issues around migration of ecommerce platforms
- Understand the scalability issues associated with ecommerce platforms
- Identify payment gateways and relevant business models
- Identify top WordPress ecommerce plugins
- Evaluate ecommerce providers based on capabilities and pricing
- Prepare a set of metrics to evaluate ecommerce effectiveness