What Is E-commerce And What Are Different Types Of It?

The E-commerce (electronic commerce) is way to carry out business or financial transactions or deals over internet. Internet is a fast way to communicate with consumers or other business parties. This trend of online transactions is becoming popular now days. This is used to make deals and even payments online. Different web sites are there, where any body can make order and buy the products.

There are different types of E-commerce which are mostly used.
These types can be described as:
1. Business-to-consumer
2. Consumer-to-consumer
3. Business-to-business
The business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce is used by business entities to sell the products and services to the general people or end users. The user can visit the website to see different products available and can make orders.

The consumer-to-consumer or C2C e-commerce is also a common type.
The type of commerce is mostly used in online auctions , where someone (not any business entity) display  his/her items to sell and some one who want to purchase these item offers bids online.In the third type of e-commerce that is business-to-business or B2B,
Two business parties deals with each other. For example online recruiting, online advertisements etc.

All about an E-commerce.With the change in technology, modes of business are also changed and E-commerce is one of them. "When you buy or sell you products through electronic media through an internet, or other type of computer network it is known as an E-commerce.An online business required online marketing, online transactions, security, and advertisement like offline business. An E-commerce has two important factors for survival successful business.

Technological factor important for every business as it involves, strong analysis of market research, skillful management team fully equipped with all the aspects of information technology, provision of reliability and security.Customer oriented factor, which relates to satisfaction and attraction to the users, provide value to customers, provide good services, for more interest to customers provider incentives in the form of free coupons and gifts,.
Besides it has some problems at the time of establish as if not all the products are able to sale over internet, you need a website for creating E-business, problems in predicting environmental changes in economical world, overestimation of resources like hardware, liveware, and business structure.

To start you business you need:
• You need a computer system to mange information of your business and keep updating the records, hardware software.
• Internet resource or intranet system
• You need skillful liveware to control mange, and build the websites.
• Computer and internet security is required for EDI electronic interchange system fro making online transactions.
• Building strong electronic business structure includes special managing team.
• Interactive advertisement and online stores.

Types of E-commerce
There are four types of internet business namely:
1. B2B (Business-to-Business) when different companies doing business with each other's just like buying or selling goods. distributors and sellers.
2. B2C (Business-to-Consumer) when business is doing in terms of selling to the public like product catalogs to purchase products without human need or sales man.
3. C2B (Consumer-to-Business)in such case customer directly contact with business vendors by posting his project with set budget online so that the need companies review his project and contact directly.

4. C2C (Consumer-to-Consumer) the best examples for such business are the sites offering free classifieds, auctions, and forums where individuals can buy and sell thanks to online payment systems like PayPal where people can send and receive money online with ease. EBay's auction service is a great example of where person-to-person transactions take place everyday. These are recognized and authenticated companies.
There are also G2G-government private websites, G2E-government to employee, B2G-business to government, C2G and G2C – citizens to government includes taxations, national registrations, and license issue, also included in E-commerce.

Given an example for each type of e-commerce

Government to government e commerce