DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF E-COMMERCE WEBSITE (A CASE STUDY OF ONLINE GROCERY STORE)

The Internet-based electronic commerce environment has been widespread developed, which provides consumers with a convenient platform to search for information interact with retailers and purchase products online. The aim of the study is to design and implement a web based software that will eradicate the problems or the existing E-Commerce Website System stated above. The motivation that led to the implementation of the proposed system is that alot of customers have to queue for a long period of time before getting their desired product or goods from the grocery seller, which makes shopping within the store very stressful, and the customers have to spend all their time just to purchase an item in the store shop which is not right, all because of the manual approach towards grocery shopping. The methodology adopted in this study is the structure system analysis and design methodology (SSADM) which is a technical approach for analyzing and designing an application or system by applying object oriented programming as well as visual modeling throughout the software development process. The programming language used is HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, SQL and JQUERY. The reason why web programming languages was used is because, it is platform independent and it is a web based application. Based on the findings of this study, recommendations made are that formal analysis and design were used to give adequate understanding to the object-oriented technique used. The major quest is to ease the problem and stress encountered in customer’s grocery shopping experience and keeping records of stock list, customer lists, sales volume, and summary report. The expected result is a web based E-Commerce software that will apply cyber security features to the e-Commerce application for a grocery store online shopping and also updates new products like grocery items and other related items online.