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Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet.

Electronic commerce also includes the entire online process of developing, marketing, selling, delivering, servicing and paying for products and services.

Usually, is related with e-payment in-which money transfer is occurred electronically. The majority of systems need made using a .

It is directly related to some sub tags as

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How do you detect Credit card type based on number?

I'm trying to figure out how to detect the type of credit card based purely on its number. Does anyone know of a definitive, reliable way to find this?
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Stopping scripters from slamming your website

I've accepted an answer, but sadly, I believe we're stuck with our original worst case scenario: CAPTCHA everyone on purchase attempts of the crap. Short explanation: caching / web farms make it impossible to track hits, and any workaround (sending…
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Payment Processors - What do I need to know if I want to accept credit cards on my website?

This question talks about different payment processors and what they cost, but I'm looking for the answer to what do I need to do if I want to accept credit card payments? Assume I need to store credit card numbers for customers, so that the obvious…
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Credit card expiration dates - Inclusive or exclusive?

Say you've got a credit card number with an expiration date of 05/08 - i.e. May 2008. Does that mean the card expires on the morning of the 1st of May 2008, or the night of the 31st of May 2008?
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Magento - Retrieve products with a specific attribute value

In my block code I am trying to programmatically retrieve a list of products that have a attribute with a specific value. Alternately if that is not possible how would one retrieve all products then filter them to just list the products with a…
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What is the best way to validate a credit card in PHP?

Given a credit card number and no additional information, what is the best way in PHP to determine whether or not it is a valid number? Right now I need something that will work with American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa, but it might be…
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Determine credit card type by number?

Can credit card type be determined solely from the credit card number? Is this recommended or should we always ask client for the type of credit card they're using? I Googled about it and found this algorithm: http://cuinl.tripod.com/Tips/o-1.htm ,…
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API For Direct Deposit (ACH, EFT, Whatever)

I'm looking for a way to automate a transfer from one bank account to another, without the end user having to login to something like paypal or amazon payments to complete the process (by transferring their on-line balance to their bank account).…
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Magento or Prestashop, which is better?

I want to find an ecommerce solution for my little shop. My friend tells me that Prestashop is very easy to use and develop modules for, but some say Magento is better. Can anybody tell me which is better for developing modules and why?
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Adding qty and add-to-cart in related products on product detail page for virtuemart 3 and display in linear fashion

I would like to know how to add qty , add-to-cart button and display them in a linear fashion on the vm3 product details page. I located a similar question here (Display pricing and add to cart button in related products Virtuemart 2.0), but none of…
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Symfony2 ecommerce bundles feedback

I'll shortly begin the development of an ecommerce site based on Symfony2. I'll use Symfony2 for those main reasons: I happen to know and like this framework The customer need is not a typical webstore, so webshops like Magento are probably not…
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WooCommerce - where can I edit HTML generated by hooks?

I'm new to WooCommerce. Anyhow, I want to create my own theme, so I followed the guidelines and copied accross the core template files to /mywordpresstheme/woocommerce/. That all works great and I'm editing the templates just fine. However, the way…
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How to create a custom admin page in opencart?

I want to know how to make a custom admin panel page in opencart. Requires login with the controller - the admin panel does not seem to use the same controller as the normal site. I know how to make custom pages with opencart (but this is not for…
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Designing a SQL schema for a combination of many-to-many relationship (variations of products)

I hope the title is somewhat helpful. I'm using MySQL as my database I am building a database of products and am not sure how to handle storing prices/SKU of variations of a product. A product may have unlimited variations, and each variation…
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e-commerce: Algorithm for calculating discounts

I'm in need of expert advice on a tricky matter. The scenario is: e-commerce web-site lots of products lots of discounts mixed on these products A product is identified by a unique ProductID and has a sales price. Very classic scenario. The…
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