What is the difference between commerce and e-commerce

The difference between commerce and e-commerce is as follows:

One, the concept is different

Commerce: commerce that is, commercial retail enterprises, commercial retail enterprises refers to the availability of merchandise business premises, counters, do not produce their own commodities, directly facing the final consumer of the commercial retail business, including department stores directly engaged in the sale of integrated goods, supermarkets, retail stores and so on. Including directly engaged in comprehensive merchandising department stores, supermarkets, retail stores, etc.;

E-commerce: e-commerce is the information network technology as a means to exchange goods as the center of business activities; can also be understood as in the Internet (Internet), the enterprise intranet (Intranet) and value-added network (VAN, Value Added) Network) on the electronic trading mode of trading activities and related services, is the traditional business activities of the various aspects of electronic, network, information technology.

Two, the platform is different

Commerce: commerce generally have their own corporate website;

E-commerce: e-commerce is generally divided into a lot of modes, both independent business e-commerce and centralized retail e-commerce.

Compared with commerce, e-commerce has the following advantages:

E-commerce will be the traditional transaction process electronically, data, a large number of human and material resources to reduce the transaction costs;

. E-commerce breaks through the limitations of time and space, so that trading activities can be carried out at any time and any place;

E-commerce has the characteristics of openness and globalization, which creates more trading opportunities for both sides of the transaction;

E-commerce provides a wealth of information resources, which makes the trading behavior more fair and transparent;

Good interactivity: through the Internet, merchants can communicate directly with consumers, consumers can also put their own ideas in time to feedback to the business, and the business can be based on consumer feedback in a timely manner to improve and enhance the quality of products or services.