Background of the project

Bangladesh is an overpopulated country, and the population growth is rising rapidly.

Especially the cities and towns are getting populated so rapidly day by day. For these reasons traffic
gridlock is increasing and becomes a curse for city dwellers. Going out for shopping is very hard for
them. The use and user of internet is also rising day by day. Nowadays, peoples are using internet for
communication, collaboration, and many other things that done online. Nowadays, E-Commerce has
become a famous phenomenon in the world. Online Shopping System is one kind of e-commerce.
The idea of online shopping mall originates from e-commerce. E commerce is in practice in
most of the developed countries of the world such as USA, UK, and Europe etc. where shopping
concept is changing from physical purchase to virtual buying. This way not only the customer has
more options but companies also enjoy an increase in their sale due to increased online outlet.
Online shopping is the process of buying goods and services from merchants who sell on the
internet through a website. Shoppers can visit this web based stores from their homes and shop as they
sit in the front of the computer. Consumers buy variety of items from online stores. Books, cloths,
shoes, household appliances, electronic appliances and many other 100’s of product’s consumers can
buy from online store.

Objectives
The main objective of online shopping is to provide a system which controls the selling of
items through online. The users will consume less amount of time through shopping online rather than
visiting the shop directly. The user can buy items sitting anywhere, any time around the world. It’s a
365/24 service. The transactions will be taken care by the system all the time. Storing of data is easy.
The system is user friendly and easy to use. All the important data will be stored in the database and it
avoids any miscalculation.

My Online Shopping project will fulfill the following objectives:

 To provide details information about various products in different category.
 Customer can purchase products online.
 Customer can sign up and become a member to get extra facilities.
 Customer can login to get various information about products and purchase the suitable
product with price and quality comparison.
 Customer can pay online, so security is must therefore online shopping provide secure
transactions. After sale shopping authority also provide after sales service if customer face
any problem.
 Users will get facility of cart system.
 They will get home delivery services of the product.
 There will be Email system to communicate with customer.
 Customer can chat with sales manager online and get current information about any product.
 There will be a search bar to search any product easily.

Feasibility study
A feasibility study is a preliminary investigation of a proposed system to decide whether the
system can run smoothly with the organization, will the organization realize the benefits that are
expected and to decide will the organization go for it. It can certainly run smoothly with any
organization and they will get expected benefits. Also the users will enjoy using this application,
make their life easy and save lots of time. The feasibility study can be performed in three ways such
as Operational Feasibility, Technical Feasibility and Economical Feasibility.

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Operational Feasibility
Operational feasibility criteria measure the urgency of the problem or the acceptability of a
solution (selection, acquisition and design phases). We measure operational feasibility with the use of
Unified Modeling Language (UML). The Unified Modeling Language is a standard language for
specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software systems, as well as for
business modeling and other non-software systems. The UML represents a collection of best
engineering practices that have proven successful in the modeling of large and complex systems. The
UML is a very important part of developing objects oriented software and the software development
process.

Technical Feasibility
Technical feasibility determines whether the work for the project can be done with the
existing equipment, software technology and available personnel. Technical feasibility is concerned
with specifying equipment and software that will satisfy the user requirement. This project is feasible
on technical remarks also, as the proposed system is more beneficiary in terms of having a sound
proof system with new technical components installed on the system. The proposed system can run on
any machines supporting Windows and Internet services and works on the best software and hardware
that had been used while designing the system so it would be feasible in all technical terms of
feasibility.

Economic Feasibility
Economic feasibility determines whether there are sufficient benefits in creating to make the
cost acceptable, or is the cost of the system too high. So this signifies cost-benefit analysis and
savings. On the behalf of the cost-benefit analysis, the proposed system is feasible and is economical
regarding its pre-assumed cost for making a system. We classified the costs of Online Shopping
according to the phase in which they occur. As we know that the system development costs are
usually one-time costs that will not recur after the project has been completed.

For calculating the Development costs we evaluated certain cost categories.

 Personal costs.
 Computer usage.
 Supply and equipment’s costs.
 Cost of any new computer equipment and software.

Implementation Cost
 Analysis of Online Shopping System.
 Core coding of the application.
 Database design. Front end design of all forms.
 Developing the business and database logic.
 Developing the test cases. Module level unit testing.
 Bug fixing and final release including server setup.

Timeline
This complete project can be completed in 2 months approximately. Following are the key
tasks involved in the project and I am giving the approximate weeks to complete-

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  Critical analysis of Online Shopping System using academic journals and articles and
this will take 1 week.
 UML modeling of the application will take 1 week.
 Database design which includes design of back end database and tables will take 1
week.
 Front end design of all the required forms and this will take 1 week.
 Developing the business and database logic and this will take 1 week.
 Development of test cases will take 1 week.
 Unit testing is done module level and this will take 1 weeks.
 Bug fixing and final release will take 1 week.

Technology to be Used

Technology

 Front end : HTML,CSS, JavaScript, JQuery.

 Back end : PHP, MySQL.

Software Configuration
 Operating System : Windows XP and higher
 Language : PHP
 Database : MySQL

Tools
 Notepad ++
 DREAM WEAVER
 PHOTOSHOP
 Hosting upload /FTP salute: FileZilla

Advantages of the Project

 Time saving.
 Low operational costs and better quality of services.
 Buying/selling 24/7.
 Faster buying/selling procedure, as well as easy to find products.
 It avoids a lot of manual work.
 User can easily access the system without much experience.

Conclusion
“Online Shopping System” application will be developed for human being to achieve
maximum efficiency in shopping online and to reduce the time taken to purchase items. It is designed
for people to shop online rather than searching for things by visiting the shop. It is a 365/24 service.
The system uses HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and jQuery as front end and MySQL as a back end for
the database. The system is strong enough to withstand regressive daily operations under conditions
where the database is maintained and cleared over a certain time of span. The implementation of the
system in the organization will considerably reduce data entry, time and also provide readily
calculated reports.