Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) e-commerce is characterized by the growth
of electronic marketplaces and online auctions. This growth of the dynamic-pricing
buying and selling at goods and services other than a list price has coincided
with the growth of electronic product catalogs that make it possible for
prospective buyers to peer into a supplier's inventory system.
C2C e-commerce produces electronic marketplaces in vertical industries,
where businesses can request for bid or bid for what they want from among
multiple suppliers. These verticals need not be related to computers and
electronics. Even heavy industry is increasingly turning to Internet auctions
and online stores to move surplus equipment and commodity merchandise.
Now, you can easily develop and participate in C2C e-commerce directly
on your own website. With C2C Classifieds Site Creator, you can develop
online Classifieds marketplace for any industry such as Semiconductor,
Computer, Medical or Telecommunication, allow related suppliers and corporate
purchasers to be linked together, and to conduct business-to-business level
trading directly on your website. You will be able to use the easy-to-use
web-based tool to design any C2C Classifieds website, based on your own
industry and its sub-categories. Your registered suppliers can post their
company links, products, and services directly through the web browser.
Interested members can browse and search for supplier company sites, as
well as services and products offered by them, either through auction or
fixed price selling in their respective selling community, such as online
auction house or online store.
As System Administrator, he can manage all registered
users through the web browser, monitor the posting goods and services in
the online marketplace, as well as design a Classifieds Site and sub categories
of the vertical.
Product & Supplier Search Engine
In the product and company supplier search engine, registered member
can search for products and services posted by suppliers, based on the
keyword. If ‘Fixed Price’ is selected as product format, only those ‘fixed
price’ goods and services will be displayed. ‘Fixed price’ goods and services
are sold in suppliers’ online stores at their list prices. “Auction’ goods
and services are listed by the suppliers in their respective auction houses
and have their ending dates of the offering. ‘Other’ is product format
which may include service quotation or wholesale goods which prices are
determined by the quantity of the order.
Clicking on the Product Name hyperlink will be connected
to the product site as specified by the supplier. The site could be the
auction site or online store, which sells the product or service at the
fixed price.
Supplier link is the home website of the supplier
where interested buyers can visit the site for information of more products
and services.
The format column lists auction, fixed price or other
format of the specific product, as indicated by the supplier during the
product posting.
In the price column, the products could be in dynamic
pricing if they are in Auction format, due to the bidding activities on
the current active auctions in their respective auction house. If it is
in ‘fixed’ format, the product is selling at its list price.
Only the ending date of products in Auction format
will be displayed. A normal auction should run from 2 to 14 days.
By searching for specific company based on the company
keyword, the search engine will list out all relevant companies or suppliers
who have signed up with the marketplace system. Clicking on the hyperlink
of the company will be connected to its home website where an interested
buyer could find more products or services as provided by this company.
Add Product/Service
Click on Add Product/Service link to add a new product
or service.
Registration
All new users are required to register as a member
before they can become the marketplace suppliers or users.
Administration
Administrator of the marketplace will be required
to log in to the administration section.
Editing Industry
Industry name will be displayed at the top of category
list. This is the industry name of the vertical, such as Software, Semiconductor,
Transportation, etc.
All the categories will be related to this industry
name.
Adding New Category
You can add a new category to your existing categories
for your specific vertical.
Type in the new category name and click ‘Add’ button
to add to the category list.
The administrator can also change the administration
info and password from this web system. Only administrator has the right
to remove registered user from the system database.
System Requirements:
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Local computer testing needed Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS, downloadable
from Microsoft.com or found in Windows 98 Installer CD) or Microsoft Internet
Information Server (IIS, pre-built in Windows NT).
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ISP’s Web hosting site on NT web server (with ODBC and ASP enabled.) for
actual C2C Auction system running.
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Disk space of 3MB or above.
Internet Explorer or Netscape 4.0 or above.
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