E-commerce refers to selling and buying of products and services via electronic mediums such as internet, computers etc. E-commerce has grown a big deal in popularity since its development and is now one of the primary modes of commerce and trading. The reason for this lies in the fact that it is easier, safer, popular, cheaper, and an exciting mode of trade.

That's why online transactions have increased in leaps and bounds over the years. It provides 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year medium of selling and purchasing goods and services as there is no weekends and holidays in this type of trade. Moreover in today's period of recession or economic downfall when most of the businesses have been severely affected resulting in loss of majority of their clients, e-commerce has a better role to play as it opens up the stock for a larger number of audience increasing its spread around the globe and not just limiting to a localized area. Also it reduces many of the expenses such as employees, land for a retail store etc. But to make full use of the potential and opportunities that e-commerce provides we require efficient e-commerce solutions.

For the perfect e-commerce system, one first of all needs to decide whether he wants the online store to consist only of a shopping cart or he wants the online store to be his entire site with the fuctions of shopping cart available to each and every page of the site.

We have two options: