Applying Electronic Commerce for a Proposed Virtual Organization

Abstract

Virtual organization is similar to traditional organization in principles, but is different in the ways it operates. It requires small creation costs compared to the traditional and it uses electronic commerce as the market place and distribution channel for its products and services.The aim of this article is to applying electronic commerce for a proposed virtual organization. The tools used to build an effective web application for virtual organization to provide virtual environment to the customers to do the transaction activities online include PHP, MySQL and Apache. HTML is used for displaying forms and tables and JavaScript is used for verification in client side. Finally, connecting it to 2Checkout.com company as a third party to perform the financial transactions in a secure manner.  The system has a protected database by encryption and password with simplified administration to manage all activities without the need for any experience in programming and designing. Using a trusted international electronic money transfer company can be an essential assuring step.

Keywords: Virtual Organization, Electronic Commerce, 2CO, Web application.