electronic commerce (E-Commerce)
Definition
Business conducted through the use of computers, telephones, fax machines, barcode readers, credit cards, automated teller machines (ATM) or other electronic appliances (whether or not using the internet) without the exchange of paper-based documents. It includes activities such as procurement, order entry, transaction processing, payment, authentication and non-repudiation, inventory control, order fulfillment, and customer support. When a buyer pays with a bank card swiped through a magnetic-stripe-reader, he or she is participating in e-commerce.
electronic commerce (E-Commerce) is in the Banking, Commerce & Finance, E-Commerce and Internet & World Wide Web subjects.
electronic commerce (E-Commerce) appears in the definitions of the following terms:
authentication,
point and click agreement,
ad pages sold,
Open Financial Exchange (OPX),
aggregator model,
ACID qualities,
real time,
Extensible Markup Language (XML),
affiliate,
password
and
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