Online Group Buying System (Joining Buying Group & Buying (E-cart))

Chen, Wei Sheung (2020) Online Group Buying System (Joining Buying Group & Buying (E-cart)). Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

This project is one of the partial fulfilments of the requirement for Bachelor of Information System (Hons) in Enterprise Information Systems. This project allows the consumers to enjoy a discounted group price if they are willing and able to achieve a required group size and coordinate their transaction time. (Pubsonline.informs.org, 2019) Basically, this project is to create a website for an online group buying system. Online group buying system is a system that provides daily discounts for various services and products. (Researchgatenet, 2019) The area that covered in this project including of membership, store, product, delivery, customer service, payment, joining group purchasing and e-cart. In this joining group purchasing and e-cart module, it allows the consumers to join into a purchasing group and have a discounted price for the product that they wish to buy. It also allows the consumers to add the product that they wish to buy in to the e-cart. This project is designed by using the PHP language and MySQL for the database and the researches is using to identify what the user needs and meet the market requirement. This project is uses to inspect how the product price is increases or decreases base on the number of consumers that had joining into the purchasing group. The development phase for this project is base on the SDLC phase which that include the Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing and Maintenance phases. The outcome of this project is a website that encourage bulk-buying. The strength is that the consumer is able to buy the product that they wish to buy in a lower price and the weakness is that the consumer may cannot purchase the product as they wish because of didn’t fulfilled the required group size in a given of time. Nowadays, the online group buying system are just starting to be use in some of the country, it is still not general in worldwide. So, it should be disseminated to all the country in order to bring a new market value to the globalization.