What is Ecommerce?

         To many people the term Ecommerce or Electronic Commerce means shopping on a part of the Internet known as the World Wide Web which is true but there are two key elements that are always forgotten when Ecommerce is talked about. The two elements that go along with Ecommerce are, Business-to Business Ecommerce and Buisness-to Consumer Ecommerce. These two elements are very improtant on understanding how Ecommerce works in the real world.

         The fisrt key element in Ecommerce is Business-to Business Ecommerce or in short terms B2B Ecommerce. B2B Ecommerce is when online buisnesses buy supplies or materials from one another. For example if there was an online company that sold radios the company might have to buy materials for their radio such as speakers or other materials that are needed to make the radio. These kind of purchases are calle B2B becasue the puchases or transactions are made between two online businesses.

         The other key element in Online Ecommerce is called Business-to-Comsumer Ecommerce or for short B2C Ecommerce. B2C Ecommerce is when a customer buys something on the Web from an online company. For example, Ebay.com, is a great form of B2C because people are buying things directly from that company. To sum it up, any kind of website that is selling anything to people besides the people from other companies, is known as B2C.