Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 24 ISSUE 1
Written by Elena COFAS

Developing a solid online presence for a business in the commercial sector is vital to both its survival and growth. The culmination of all elements, strategies, tactics, and effort exerted by a company in selling products reaches its completion only at the moment of finalizing the sale of the product. An e-commerce business relies on a web-centered information system, built around the website that includes the online store. The purpose of this article is to present an IT solution for creating an e-commerce website as a working tool that incorporates the desire of businesses, consumers, and management to limit costs while simultaneously improving the quality of products and increasing the speed of service delivery. The e-commerce platform presented in this work constitutes a modern solution for implementing an online store, intending to sell agricultural products and equipment. For database management, a relational open-source software, MySQL, has been chosen, preferred for its numerous advantages and its ability to run on almost all software platforms. For fast processing and easy page loading, PHP has been used, which is one of the most popular open-source programs and has the advantage of running on almost all operating systems. The website features a modularized structure, consisting of administration, authentication, payment, and order launch/cancellation modules. All these components contribute to the optimal functioning of the e-commerce application.

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