What is the essence of e-commerce?

The essence of e-commerce is business rather than technology.

1, EC and EB are electronic transactions and electronic commerce respectively. The difference is that EB includes EC, that is, e-commerce includes electronic transactions. E-commerce system consists of five parts: user authentication center, bank merchants and logistics.

2. There are two kinds of e-commerce platforms: horizontal and vertical, in which horizontal refers to a highly targeted network, such as China Professional Network, and horizontal refers to a more comprehensive network platform, such as Tokyo Taobao. The difference between e-commerce and traditional commerce: E-commerce is a process of e-commerce accompanied by the emergence of the Internet, which pays more attention to the business processes of buyers and sellers. Compared with traditional commerce, e-commerce provides buyers with more choices. E-commerce allows customers to decide how much information they need, and its benefits will benefit the whole society, but some business processes may never use e-commerce.

3. As e-commerce is a relatively comprehensive emerging business activity, involving a wide range, the three areas in urgent need of standards are the basic functional data and themes of the user interface.