In the past few years, the trend of online\nshopping has increased very fast giving the customers comfort and stuff at\ncheap rates. We all have been buying the products of our needs on e-commerce\nsites but have you ever wondered how it works? In this blog, we will discuss\nthe working of e-commerce sites with an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a guy who wants to buy shoes to gift\nhis friend but he doesn\u2019t have time to go to market so he turns on his laptop\nto order the shoes. While he was ordering the shoes his web browser was\ncommunicating back-and-forth over the Internet with a Web server that was\nmanaging the store’s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After he finalized the product, the webserver\nsent his order to the order manager, which is a central computer that looks\nover the order through every stage of processing from submission to dispatch.\nThe order manager then reaches out to the database to know if the product\nordered by the boy is in stock or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In case the product is not in stock, the stock\ndatabase system will place an order for the product being asked by the customer\nto the wholesalers or the manufacturers. This might include the communication\nwith the order systems that are placed at the headquarters of the manufacturer\nto know the estimated supply times as the customer is still sitting at his\nlaptop to place the order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After receiving the asked information back\nfrom the stock database system, an expected delivery date is suggested when the\nsupplies will be received from the manufacturer or the wholesaler. As the order\nmanager continues to assume that the product is in stock it carries on by\nprocessing it. After this, it communicates with a merchant system to take the\namount using the customer’s credit or debit card number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The merchant system then does some extra\nchecks with the customer\u2019s bank computer to process the payment. And once the\nbank computer confirms that the customer\u2019s account is having enough funds the\nmerchant system allows the transaction to go ahead. The funds do not completely\nget transferred until several days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After all this, the order manager verifies\nthat the transaction has been successfully processed and informs the Web\nserver. The customer then sees a web page saying that the order he placed has\nbeen confirmed and the transaction has also been completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now when the order has been successfully\nplaced and the amount has been received the order manager sends a request to\nthe warehouse asking to dispatch the product ordered to the customer. The\ndispatching company then collects the order and delivers it to the customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n