B2B (
business to business ) ecommerce is companies doing business
with each over the internet.
B2b is the exchange of services,
information or products between two companies over the internet.
The evolution of the Internet for ecommerce exchange of goods
or information between businesses is forecast to exceed the e-business
done in the traditional business to consumers web site.
b2b Ecommerce web sites are designed
to accommodate other companies and their employees to import,
export and display their products online through an exclusive
web entrance or password protected extranet. This is the equivalent
of a 24/7 product display in a trade booth. B2b
ecommerce web sites are usually transparent to the general public as to how
the functionality of what is going on in the background. Sometimes,
an apparently simple web site can be a complicated piece of ecommerce
software in the backend.
B2b
ecommerce web sites are still in the evolutionary stages
as far as it definition of terms. The b2b ecommerce design
should however contain certain elements to prove successful.
Below is a profile on a ecommerce web site design company and
how it has used b2b ecommerce solutions for it's clients.
B2B web design Profile
WPX
Web Design Studio, a Multimedia Marketing
ecommerce web design Company in Langley BC, Canada ( A suburb of
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) that specializes in Web
development for ecommerce.
WPX Web Design has developed b2b
ecommerce sites with unique features such as Dealer logins,
where a dealer of certain products can have their dealers login
using a username and password which then allows the dealers
to see dealer pricing on products as they continue to view
the merchants product catalog. Viewers of the web site who
are not Dealers can also see the catalog of products and descriptions
but are not able to see the prices. In some cases the dealers
can have pricing and or products that is completely targeted
to them. Each dealer could theoretically see a different price
and or a different product line.
Another B2B ecommerce web function that
WPX Web Design has implemented is for online merchants to have
distributors of their products with retail shopping carts and
in a private area of the web site have a wholesale shopping cart
solely for the distributors.
We will feature a Daily B2B ecommerce web site
with an explanation of what's under the hood.
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