Definition of E-Commerce

My Defenition of E-Commerce...

The ability for to buy and sell goods via online payment and inventoring through a website.

Three alternative defentions (and sources)...

E-commerce is the buying and selling of good or services via the internet, and the transfer of money and data to complete the sales. It’s also known as electronic commerce or internet commerce. The Future of E-Commerce

E-commerce, in full electronic commerce, maintaining relationships and conducting business transactions that include selling information, services, and goods by means of computer telecommunications networks. Britannica

E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. Wikipedia

Other words / terms from research...

• Ecommerce includes services and information, not just goods!


• Business to Business (B2B), Business to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Consumer (D2C), Consumer to Consumer (C2C)


• E-commerce originated as a way to exchange business documents, such as orders or invoices between suppliers and customers, in 1949 in Berlin with a system of ordering goos via telex. Britannica


• EDI: Electronic Data Interchange is the concept of businesses electronically communicating information that was traditionally communicated on paper.