eCT: THE B2C E-COMMERCE TOOLKIT FOR THE WEBCOMFORT PLATFORM

Frederico de Carvalho Baptista, João de Sousa Saraiva, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva

2008

Abstract

Electronic commerce (e-Commerce) involves a complex set of business workflows regarding the buying and selling of products or services by means of electronic systems such as the Internet. e-Commerce applications can be supported, amongst other alternatives, by content management systems (CMS) through specific extensions. This paper presents the eCT extension, an e-Commerce extension developed on the top of the Web-Comfort CMS platform, whose main goals are: (1) adaptability to different contexts, such as different types of stores, countries, cultures or tax systems; (2) extensibility, due to the ease of development and addition of new functionalities; and (3) ease of installation and configuration, to fulfill different business requirements. This paper discusses the major technical details of the eCT, such as: (1) the product facet model; (2) the support to different e-commerce models; and (3) the support for different payment, shipping and taxing methods.

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de Carvalho Baptista F., Sousa Saraiva J. and Rodrigues da Silva A. (2008). eCT: THE B2C E-COMMERCE TOOLKIT FOR THE WEBCOMFORT PLATFORM . In Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-58-6, pages 225-228. DOI: 10.5220/0001907302250228


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ice-b08,
author={Frederico de Carvalho Baptista and João de Sousa Saraiva and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva},
title={eCT: THE B2C E-COMMERCE TOOLKIT FOR THE WEBCOMFORT PLATFORM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={225-228},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001907302250228},
isbn={978-989-8111-58-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2008)
TI - eCT: THE B2C E-COMMERCE TOOLKIT FOR THE WEBCOMFORT PLATFORM
SN - 978-989-8111-58-6
AU - de Carvalho Baptista F.
AU - Sousa Saraiva J.
AU - Rodrigues da Silva A.
PY - 2008
SP - 225
EP - 228
DO - 10.5220/0001907302250228