Categories: ecommerce

What are primary architectural components of an ecommerce system?

Following are some of the primary architectural components of an ecommerce system:

Functional
- Customer Profile
- Catalogs
- Pricing
- Shopping Cart
- Checkout
- Order
- Payment (Integration with multiple payment systems)
- Shipping (Integration with multiple shipping system)
- Fulfillment (Integration with external fulfillment systems)
- Campaigns (Promotions & discounts)
- Products Search
- Products reviews and ratings
Non-functional
- Content Management
- Reports (Sales, web usage, user)
- Multi-channel
- Analytics

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I have been recently working in the area of Data analytics including Data Science and Machine Learning / Deep Learning. I am also passionate about different technologies including programming languages such as Java/JEE, Javascript, Python, R, Julia, etc, and technologies such as Blockchain, mobile computing, cloud-native technologies, application security, cloud computing platforms, big data, etc. I would love to connect with you on Linkedin. Check out my latest book titled as First Principles Thinking: Building winning products using first principles thinking.