Briefly describe the advantages of e-commerce

At present, with the development of e-commerce, all walks of life have set foot in it. The advantages of e-commerce are as follows:

1. E-commerce electronizes and digitizes traditional business processes. On the one hand, replacing real logistics with electronic flow can greatly reduce manpower and material resources and reduce costs; On the other hand, it breaks through the limitation of time and space, so that trading activities can be carried out at any time and any place, thus greatly improving efficiency.

2. The openness and globalization of e-commerce have created more trade opportunities for enterprises.

3. E-commerce enables enterprises to enter the global electronic market at a similar cost, making it possible for small and medium-sized enterprises to have the same information resources as large enterprises and improving their competitiveness.

4. E-commerce redefines the traditional circulation mode, reduces intermediate links, and makes direct transactions between producers and consumers possible, thus changing the whole social and economic operation mode to some extent.

On the one hand, e-commerce breaks down the barriers of time and space, on the other hand, it provides abundant information resources, which provides more possibilities for the reorganization of various social and economic factors, thus affecting the economic layout and structure of society.

6. Interactivity: Through the Internet, merchants can communicate, negotiate and sign contracts directly, and consumers can also reflect their feedback suggestions on the websites of enterprises or merchants, and enterprises or merchants should timely investigate product types and service quality according to consumers' feedback to achieve benign interaction.

7. Market globalization. Anyone who has access to the Internet, whether in South Africa or North America, will be brought into a market and may become a customer of Internet companies.

Compared with traditional business forms, e-commerce has the following characteristics:

(2) Faster transactions. E-commerce can be transmitted instantly and processed automatically by computers all over the world without manual intervention, which speeds up the transaction.

(3) transaction virtualization. Trade through the computer Internet represented by the Internet, from initial negotiation and signing to ordering and payment. , through the computer Internet, without face to face, the whole transaction is completely virtualized.

(4) Low cost. Because business activities are carried out through the network, the information cost is low, and it can save transportation costs and reduce intermediary costs, so the cost of the whole activity is greatly reduced.

(5) Transparency of transactions. In e-commerce, the whole transaction process, such as negotiation, signing, payment and delivery notice, is displayed on the electronic screen, so it is more transparent.

(6) transaction standardization. The operation of e-commerce needs unified standards.

(7) continuity of transactions. Web pages on the Internet can provide 24-hour service. Anyone can inquire information from online enterprises at any time and find the answer to the question. The website of the enterprise becomes a permanent address, providing an uninterrupted source of information for users all over the world.