What is e-commerce? What is an online merchant?

There is no essential difference between e-commerce and online merchants. Internet merchants are businesses that only use the Internet to do business, including e-commerce. They all use the Internet to operate, and they all use the advanced Internet as a tool to operate their business. The slight differences are as follows:

Different concepts

1. E-commerce is a business activity centered on commodity exchange by means of information network technology; It can also be understood as trading activities and related services conducted on the Internet, Intranet and VAN (Value-added Network), which are electronic, networked and informationized in all aspects of traditional business activities.

2. At first, online merchants refer to those network service providers (access providers, ISP, ICP, application platform providers, etc.). Nowadays, online merchants refer to individuals who use e-commerce tools to conduct business activities on the Internet, including entrepreneurs, businessmen and individual shopkeepers.

Appear at different times

1. E-commerce has been produced since the birth of the Internet.

2. Online merchants are a group of businessmen with epoch-making characteristics that formally surfaced in 2004.