E-COMMERCE PLATFORM IN SUDAN

Abstract

E-commerce has become an economic necessity and a way of life in the global and Arab trading and business environment. The Arab countries are experiencing growth in e-commerce following the tremendous progress in various fields of technological life and the emergence of the so-called information technology, which in turn helped the spread of electronic commerce. Individuals purchase the goods and services they need from their homes without bearing any kind of costs. There are many systems based on e-commerce, and one of the most common of these systems isOdoo, whereit has several units, including an e-commerce module with integrated connectivity with the necessary trading units such as the procurement unit, the sales unit, the warehouse unit and the accounts unit, offering a full solution for the electronic procurement process. Perhaps of the existence of the integrated e-commerce unit in odoo, it suffers some shortcomings when used in Sudan because the payment process is not completed until the end because the payment gates available in it cannot be used in Sudan at present due to some political obstacles. This project aims to establish a platform to enable the purchase process from selecting products and adding them to the shopping basket and even the payment process, in addition to a new payment interface linked to the payment gateway in Sudan, which is the National Switch of Sudan. The platform tries to help people who want to make a purchase through the Internet 'by providing many products from different companies so that they can compare between them and choose the most suitable for their needs at the suitable price for them without any trouble or increase in costs. The platform also helps merchants to display their products. The platform also helps traders in organizing their work in terms of inventory management, purchasing, sales and account management. The platform also helps merchants to provide them with sales reports that reflect customer needs