Question

Give an example of each of the types of e-commerce from your own experience. Explain the transaction that took place and what makes it of a specific type.

Answer 1

The different types of Ecommerce are

• Business-to-Business (B2B)
• Business-to-Consumer (B2C)
• Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C)
• Consumer-to-Business (C2B)
• Business-to-Administration (B2A)
• Consumer-to-Administration (C2A)

B2B: business to business mainly for suppose in a organization with an e-commerce website only the specified wholesalers or retailers can log in and make an order. Ex: Walmart are the wholesalers so they have a portal for retailers so they can log in and make a bulk purchase.Ex2; online directories and product and supply exchange websites to initiate transactions through e-procurement interfaces.

B2C: Business to consumers intend transactions between business and customers directly Ex: AMazon, flipkart etc every customer can directly buy the goods through a platform you name it you get it.

C2C : Customer to customer in which bothe customers get in contact to sell there products or goods, some platform like OLX sell old products or new products specified by a consumer to other consumer can purchase this from their platform.

C2B : Consumer to business is the reverse phenomena of selling and buying products in this business get benefited by the consumers if any business need an website or any design elements it can hire through a person inturn pay for their service.

Business to Administration : there are dealings between companies and public administration. It encompasses different services, such as social security, fiscal measures, legal documents etc.

(C2A): In such type electronic transactions are between individuals and public administration,examples are distance learning, information sharing, electronic tax filing websites etc.