DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINESHOPPING CART SYSTEM FOR AN ONLINE STORE(CASE STUDY OF FURMAK FARM)

ABSTRACT
This research work “Design and implementation of computerized shopping cart
system for an online store, a case study of Furmak Farm”. This research work was
undertaken to solve the various challenges encounter in showcasing and delivering
goods and services to different client around the globe. Where every business
transaction involves an on presence for transaction to be successfully executed.
Most shops are experienced some draw back in their operation due to the current
shopping system (manual shopping) which are: Lack of accuracy in customer’s
record, slow in processing customer’s records, lack of proper accountability and
does not give a customer the incredible convenience to shop at any time of the day
due to the limited working hours. There is a need to change from manual way of
shopping to a computerized way, where customers can browse through the internet
and the system administrator to approve requests shoppers can buy products
anywhere and a database that will maintain the products detail information. The
system will be a web-based application and will be implemented on a relational
database system (MySQL). Html (hypertext markup language), CSS (cascading
style sheet) and Java Script will be used to design the web-user interface, php
(hypertext pre-processor) will be used as the serve- side script language to link the
interface and the database and Ajax technology for automation of the cart system.