Title: Building an E-commerce website

Subject: E-business
Masters of business administration
Session: 2009-2011

Submitted By: Javeria Amin

Roll no: 09
MBA
4th Semester

Submitted to: Sir khurram Siddique

Department Of business Administration

Minhaj University Lahore
th
Date: 10 jan 2011.
Contents:
1. Introduction

a. Website name

b. Type of E-business

c. E-Business Model:

d. Revenue Model:

2. Data flow diagram

3. System Analysis

4. Objectives Of Business:

5. System Functionalities:

6. Information Requirement:

7. System Design

8. Logical Design:

9. Physical Design

10. Building a Website:

11. Hardware System

12. Software System

13. Cost Table

INTRODUCTION:
FashionStyle.com is one of the best boutiques for female dresses. FashionStyle.com is a place for
a variety of female dresses at reasonable prices. As a boutique, FashionStlye.com is intensely
focused on meeting the demands of females and building strong lasting relationship with its
customers.

Enjoy shopping at FashionStyle.com

Website name:
www.FashionStyle.com

E-Business Type:
Type of E-business is B2C (Business to Consumer).

E-Business Model:
E-tailer is the business model of FashionStyle.com.

Revenue Model:
Sale is the revenue model of FashionStyle.com.

Data Flow Diagram:

Customer Visit Website

Input

Processing

Output

Leave Website
SYSTEM ANALYSIS:
The following is the system analysis of FashionStyle.com.

Objectives Of Business:
Objectives of FashionStyle.com are;

1. Become a worldwide known boutique.

2. Build strong lasting relationship with its customers.

3. Cheapest price shopping place.

4. Provide high quality products.

5. Available for its customers 24hours.

System Functionalities:
FashionStyle.com will have the following system functionalities;

• Homepage

• My account

• Catalog

• Product detail

• Shopping cart

• Shipping information

• Order total.

• Billing information

• Final order

• About us.

• Contact us.

• FAQ.

Homepage:
Homepage will be the main page of FashionStyle.com which will provide information regarding
the following options;

 My Account

 About us.

 Contact us.

 Catalog.

Homepage image is attached below

My Account:
My account function will give opportunity to its customer to log in to their profile or to create
there profile. On my account option following page will appear
If the customers are not registered then they have to fill this form to get membership.

If not registered then;

Member Profile:
Registration and log in will lead to member profile where the member can view cart, past orders
list, update account, edit shipping addresses and option of log out.
Catalog:
Catalog will help the customer to look for the products. Catalog will display the following
categories;

 Shalwar Kamiz

 Casual Dresses

 Party Dresses

 Wedding Dresses

 Sarees

 On sale

 New Arrivals

Catalog image is attached below:

Product Detail:
Once the product is selected from the catalog, the following product information will be
displayed.

Shopping Cart:
Shopping cart function will help the customers to select the item for checkout process and it will
carry the following information.
Checkout:
Checkout will lead to provide information regarding accounts information and then to billing and
shopping information. Checkout page snapshots are attached below:
Shipping Address:
Shipping address option will carry all the information related to the shipment of the product
provided by the customer. Snapshots are below;
Order Total:
Order total reveal the total amount of the order including the shipment cost and the tax. Snapshot
is below;

Billing Information:
Billing information carries the information related to the bill of the product which will be filled
out by the customer for payment. Snapshots are attached below;
Final Order:
Final order will help the customer to review all the details to avoid errors, then the customer will
submit order by clicking submit order.
About Us:
About us option will help the visitor or customer to know about FashionStyle.com, as it provide
information related to FashionStyle.com.

Contact Us:
Contact us option will provide the information to the customers or visitors about the location of
FashionStyle.com and there contact.
FAQ:
FAQ section will contain all the answers of the questions which the customers mostly asked.
Information Requirement:
FashionStyle.com will produce the following information;

 Customers information

 Order details

 Member profile

 Graphic catalog.

Customer Information:
Customer information will be saved in log book in which all the information related to the visit
of customers, how long they stayed, what they mostly purchased etc will be maintained.

Order details:
Order details will help the management to maintain records of the old orders. Order number, date
of order, order status etc, all will be recorded in order detail.

Member Profile:
Member profile will be for the customers. They can view there cart, update shipping addresses,
can view old orders and also they can change password and can update account. Members profile
will help the management to get the details of the members and to offer them special member
offers which the business will offer later.

Graphic Catalog:
Graphic catalog will help the customers in shopping. They can easily select a product from the
catalog by the help of graphic images.
SYSTEM DESIGN:

System design contains logical design and physical design.

Logical Design:

Diagram # 1:

Diagram # 3 Website My Account

Diagram # 2

Hom
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Databa
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Catalo
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Databas
Product e
detail
Custome
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Shopping Databas
Cart e

Order
Continue Checkou Databas
Shopping t e

Shipping
Information

Order
Total

Billing
Information

Confirm
Order

Order
Delivery
 Diagram # 2:
Server
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My
Account

Sign Sign
In up
Custome
Customer Registration r
Profile Form Databas
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Customer
Profile

View Past Update Shipping Change Log

Cart orders accoun Address Passwor Out
t es d
Catalo
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Catalog
Databas
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Diagram # 3:

Hom Server
e Databa
se

About Contact FAQ

Us Us

Physical Design:

HTML HTML
Website Custom

UNIX OS

APACHE Web
Server
Optipl
ex MySQL
Server database
Suit
E-Catalog

Zen Cart
Building a Website:

There are three methods of building a website;

 In-house method.

 Out sourcing.

 Co-location.

Co-location:
We will use the co-location method for our website.
Nexlinx will provide its services for maintenance and Hosting of website at Rs.6000 per month.

Hardware System:
1. Server Suit Base OptiPlex 780 Desktop by dell

2. PROCESSOR Intel® Pentium® Dual Core Processor E5700 (3.00GHz, 2M,

800MHz FSB).

3. MEMORY(RAM) 1GB DDR3 Non-ECC SDRAM, 1333MHz, (1 DIMM)

4. MODEM V.92 56 Kbps Data Fax PCI Modem

5. MONITOR Dell E Series E1910 19in Wide Monitor, VGA/ DVI

6. HARD DRIVE 250GB 7,200 RPM 3.5" SATA, 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive with NCQ
and 8MB Cache

7. VIDEO CARD Integrated Video, Intel® GMA 4500, DisplayPort/ VGA

8. KEYBOARD Dell USB Entry Keyboard

9. MOUSE Dell MS111 USB Optical Mouse

Software System:
The following are the software configuration;

SOFTWARES NAME REASON TO USE

1. Operating System UNIX License free

2. Web Server Apache License free and

easily available

3. Database MySQL License free and

easily available

4. Catalog E-Catalog v1.6.1 High quality

5. Shopping Cart Zen Cart v1.3.9h License free

6. Email Server SurgeMail v5.0e4 License free

Cost Table:

SOFTWARES COST
1. UNIX Operating System Free

2. APACHE Web Server Free

3. MYSQL Database Free

4. SurgeMail server Free

5. e-catalog Rs.2550 per month

6. Zen Cart v1.3.9h Free

HARDWARES
8. Optiplex 780 Desktop Server Suit Rs.54655

9. Modem V.92 56 Kbps Data Fax PCI Rs.2210

OTHERS
10. ISP Nexlinx Rs.6000 per month

11. Domain Name Rs.2000 per month

 IP Address

TOTAL Rs.67415

Total budget for this project implementation was Rs.100,000. Current setup of FashionStyle
costs Rs.67415