2021-2022| By: Soham manjrekar, Aadarshkumar Sharma ,

Mohammed Baquir Sayed, Suchit Prashant Sawant

E-Commerce Website
Using Django
 Rizvi College of Engineering
Department of Computer Engineering
Mini Project Synopsis Report
on

E-Commerce Website

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements

of the Mini-Project 1B of Second Year of
Bachelors of Engineering
by

Soham Shrikant Manjrekar (UIN:201P018)

Aadarshkumar Sharma (UIN:201P026)

Mohammed Baquir Sayed (UIN:201P055)

Suchit Prashant Sawant (UIN: 201P040)

………….……………………………………………..
Guide:
Prof. Anupam

University of Mumbai

2021-2022
 ABSTRACT

In today’s fast-changing business environment, it’s extremely important to be able to respond

to client needs in the most effective and timely manner. If your customers wish to see your business
online and have instant access to your products or services.

Online Shopping is a lifestyle e-commerce web application, which retails various fashion and
lifestyle products (Currently Men’s Wear). This project allows viewing various products available
enables registered users to purchase desired products instantly. This project provides an easy access to
Administrators and Managers to view orders placed.

In order to develop an e-commerce website, a number of Technologies must be studied and

understood. This is a project with the objective to develop a basic website where a consumer is
provided with a shopping cart application and also to know about the technologies used to develop
such an application. This document will discuss each of the underlying technologies to create and
implement an e-commerce website

Online Shopping play a great importance in the modern business environment. La BELLE Fashion
Store has opened the door of opportunity and advantage to the firms. This paper analyzed the different
issue of online shopping. The research aims to provide theoretical contribution in understanding the
present status of online shopping. The Study Discuss the consumers’ online shopping behaviors.
Paper also identifies the problems face by the consumers when they want to accept internet shopping.
Present paper is an expressive study based on the detailed review of earlier pertinent studies related to
the various concepts of online shopping to discover the concept of online shopping. Solitude and
safety risk emerge regularly as a reason for being cautious about internet shopping. Shopping
convenience, information seeking, social contact, and diversity affects the consumer attitude towards
online shopping. The impossibility of product testing, problems with complaints, product return and
missus of personal data are the main doubts regarding on-line shopping

Keywords: Python, Django, MySQL, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, ecommerce, Bootstrap 3,

 Certificate

This is to certify that the project synopsis entitled “E-commerce website” has been submitted by
Soham Shrikant Manjrekar, Aadarshkumar Sharma, Mohammed Baquir Sayed and Suchit Sawant
under the guidance of Prof. Anupam in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of the
Degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai.

Certified By

Prof. ____________ Prof. ______________

Project Guide Head of Department

Prof. ____________ Prof. ______________

Internal Examiner External Examiner

 Index
Sr. No Title Page No.

1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………2

1.1. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

1.2. ABBREVIATIONS

2. LITERATURE SURVEY……………………………………………...4

2.1. INTRODUCTION

2.2. SURVEY OF EXISTING SYSTEM

2.3 IMPORTANCE OF ONLINE SHOPPING

2.4 PROBLEMS OF ONLINE SHOPPING

2.5 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

2.6. THE SOLUTION

2.7. SCOPE AND LIMITATION

2.8. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

2.9. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

3. PROPOSED SYSTEM………………………………………………...10

3.1. FLOWCHART

3.2. DETAILS OF HARDWARE &SOFTWARE3.4. DESIGN DETAILS

3.3. APPROACH

3.4. DATABASE STRUCTURE

3.5. ONLINE SHOPPING APPLICATION

4. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN…………………………………………22

4.1. GANTT CHART

4.2. COST OF PROJECT

FUTURE SCOPE………………………………………………………...............19

ADVANTAGES OF ECOMMERCE…………………………………………….19

DISADVANTAGES OF E-COMMERCE………………………………………..20

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…………………………………………………………21

CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………….21
REFERENCES………………………………………………………………….…21

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 1) INTRODUCTION
An E-commerce website requires appropriate strategy of successful design and
implementation. Everything is required to plan from scratch to end of website. The e-commerce
sector is seen the exponential growth thus a new option will easily part of this regatta of
commercial website. The e-commerce website will feature the online shopping facility of various
fashion products under a single web space. The proposed web application will allow business
personnel to make their total business using it and increase their reachability thousands of times
more than today they have, over the internet. It will allow multiple shopping vendors to sale their
products online. The product management in the system will be done in the form of categories.
The safety of information is the main requirement of the system and will be handling according
to that. To formulate this project first task is to do is cost estimation. For probabilistic
assessment of the project cost estimation is required. Cost estimation covers the accurate;
estimations of cost and effort required for the project. As a project manager and developer as
well, it’s is estimates are defined to early stage in the project. Cost estimation in application
development project includes the set of procedures and techniques that will be utilized, required
to produce by organization for development. The available resources of a company are also
affecting the cost estimation. It will be very complex project. To demonstrate knowledge learnt
in class, tech communities and online materials, I will undertake the entire project alone even
though it requires a team of 4. It will take time of 3months to get the shape or get the basic
structure. The environment variants depend on the further requirements of the ecommerce web
application.

GitHub Project Link: https://github.com/sohammanjrekar/E-commerce-Website.git

1.1. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The main objective of the study is to develop an online ecommerce system. The system

aims to achieve the following objectives:

• To design an online ecommerce system.

• To provides a solution to reduce and optimize the expenses of customer order management

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• To create an avenue where people can shop for fashion products online.

• To develop a database to store information on fashion products and services

1.2. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Terminology Meaning

ERD Entity Relationship Diagram

DBD Database Diagram

DFD Data Flow Diagram

HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

SQL Structure Query Language

DBMS Database Management System

IDE Integrated Development Environment

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 2) LITERATURE SURVEY

2.1. INTRODUCTION

Literature review is an expressive study based on the detailed review of earlier pertinent
studies related to the various concepts of online shopping to discover the concept of online
shopping. It highlights the status of online shopping, importance and problems of online
shopping, factors affecting online shopping and a critical review of the privacy and security
issues in online shopping.

2.2. SURVEY OF EXISTING SYSTEM

Online buying behavior is affected by various factors like, economic factors,

demographic factors, technical factors, social factors, cultural factors, psychological factors,
marketing factors and legislative factors. Customers choose an online-shop mainly based on
references, clarity terms of delivery, graphic design and additional services. Problematical
customers read discussions on the Internet before they spend their money on-line and when
customers are incapable to purchase the product fast and with no trouble they leave online-shop.
Kotler, (2003) described Consumer buying method as learning, information-processing and
decision-making activity divided in several consequent steps: Problem identification,
Information search, Alternatives evaluation, Purchasing decision, post-purchase behavior.
Euthymia identified the main constituent of the online shopping experience as follows: the
functionality of the Web site that includes the elements trade with the site’s usability. the
emotional elements planned for lowering the customer’s hesitation by communicating trust and
credibility of the online seller and Web site and the content elements charges for getting their
products. The first is to write the expected delivery date of the order, customers are willing to
wait for their orders but want to know just how long that force is. Timely coming of product
shipment encourages shoppers to recommend an online retailer. Consumers also want to track
updates and delivery notifications to understand when their package is incoming. Online
shoppers want flexibility in their shipping, mainly the ability to give special delivery instructions

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or schedule a delivery time. Customers are also wanting to get the address changing option for
filling the wrong address when they are purchasing online.

2.3 IMPORTANCE OF ONLINE SHOPPING

Ling, said that customers can take enjoy online shopping for 24 hour per day. Consumers can
purchase any goods and services anytime at everywhere. Online shopping is user friendly
compare to in store shopping because consumers can just complete his requirements just with a
click of mouse without leaving their home. Online shopping has some advantages like below

• Save the Time of the consumers.

• They can purchase any time anywhere

• They can compare the price with the others retailers very easily.

• Compare the advertising price and actual price

• They can easily track their product

• They can use cash back policy

• They can purchase the product from the foreign marketers.

2.4 PROBLEMS OF ONLINE SHOPPING

Online shopping problems are great barrier to the online purchase aim of customers.
General problems include prospect of having credit card. The obscurity to confirm the reliability
of the provide goods and the risk to buy a product that it would not value as much as customer
pay for it. Aftersales problems, involved difficulty to change not working product with a new
one and products warranty are not assured. Online shopping has various disadvantages:

• The customers can not touch and fell of the products when they want to Purchase.

• Some time delivery time is so much late

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• Some time they will pay the shipping charges so why the cost of the product may increase.

• Lack of personal attention by the sellers. More chance to fraud.

• Security of internet banking password and credit card password

• Lack of quality

2.5 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Traditionally, customers are used to buying the products at the real, in other words,
factual shops or supermarkets. It needs the customers to show up in the shops in person, and
walk around different shopping shelves, and it also needs the owners of shops to stock, exhibit,
and transfer the products required by customers. It takes labor, time and space to process these
operations. Furthermore, the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a lot of changes in our
lifestyle, people fearing to get outside their homes, transportation almost shut down and social
distancing becoming all the more important. Big to small scale business that relied on the
traditional incur a lot of consequence due to the lockdown issues. Some tend to more towards
using social media platforms like Facebook to sell their product. However, the social media
platforms have been beneficial for marketing purposes alone but leaves the whole task of
customer and massive order management via direct messaging (DM), which takes a lot of time
to respond to all customers. In addition, everyone tends to use social media, posing a great
challenge to differentiate between scammers (fraudsters) and legit sellers.

2.6. THE SOLUTION

Ebuy is an Online shopping system provides a solution to reduce and optimize these
expenses. Authorized Customers do not need to go to the factual shops to choose, and bring the
products they need by hands. They simply browse their Personal computers or cell phones to
access shops, and evaluate the products description, pictures on the screen to choose products. In
addition, the owners of the shop do not need to arrange or exhibit their stocks products. They just
input the description, prices of products, and upload their pictures. Simply, both customers and
shop owners do not need to touch the real products in the whole process of shopping, and

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management. In the end the logistic center will distribute the products required by customers, or
products ordered by shop owners to their locations. The customers are able to track the status of
their orders until delivery, after which they can leave a review of the type of service they
received. The payment and products’ quantity will be saved in database through the data flow.
These shopping, management and distribution processes greatly simplify and optimize the retail
business.

2.7. SCOPE AND LIMITATION

Every project is done to achieve a set of goals with some conditions keeping in mind that
it should be easy to use, feasible and user friendly. As the goal of this project is to develop an
online Ecommerce system, this system will be designed keeping in mind the conditions (easy to
use, feasibility and user friendly) stated above. It may help in effective and efficient order
management.

In every shot time, the collection will be obvious, simple and sensible. It is very possible
to observe the customer potentials and purchase patterns because all the ordering history is store
in the database. It is efficient managing all the operations of an online store within a single
platform. The project aims to automate the business process of Ebuy ecommerce system. The
proposed project would cover:

Customer Side

• Customer can view/search products without login.

• Customer can also add/remove product to cart without login (if customer try to add same
product in cart. It will add only one)

• Customer can check their ordered details by clicking on orders button.

• Customer can see the order status (Pending, Confirmed, Delivered) for each order

• Customer can send feedback to admin (without login)

Administrator Side

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• Admin can provide username, email, password and your admin account will be created.

• After login, there is a dashboard where admin can see how many customers is registered, how
many products are there for sale, how many orders placed.

• Admin can add/delete/view/edit the products.

• Admin can view/edit/delete customer details.

• Admin can view/delete orders.

• Admin can change status of order (order is pending, confirmed, out for delivery, delivered)

• Admin can view the feedbacks sent by customers

2.8. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The research method used for this project work is quantitative research reviews the
current system, provide its description, identifying the discrepancies and eventually giving a
suitable solution. Therefore, the method used in the design and collections of information from
various sources are as follows:

• Studying the present system in detail and the organizational style.

• Knowing and understanding the input and output processes of the existing system.

2.9. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

With the aid of an efficient information system, fashion associations can be able to react

quickly by giving out information about changes in the market and latest trends to the public. An

online application not only saves time and money, but also minimizes administrative efforts and

cost. It provides an avenue to market products to a whole new audience. Here are benefits of
having

an Ebuy ecommerce system;

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• Easy advertisement of new products and services

• Saves time on the part of the buyer due to the fact that they can do transactions for any

product or make enquiries about any product or services provided by a company anytime

and anywhere.

• It creates an avenue for expansion to national and international markets.

• An online fashion brochure system improves the brand image of a company.

• It aids a fashion company in providing better customer service.

• It helps to simplify business processes and make them faster and more efficient.

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 3) PROPOSED SYSTEM

3.1. FLOWCHART

3.2. DETAILS OF HARDWARE &SOFTWARE

Project Prerequisites

We will use the following technologies:

I. Front-end technologies:
a) HTML: displays content on web page
b) CSS: creates beautiful styles
c) Bootstrap: html, CSS, and JavaScript framework used to build responsive websites.
d) JavaScript: adding functionality
II. Back-end technologies:
a) Python: programming language.
b) Django framework: web development framework

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 III. Database Language: MySQL
IV. Used Technology: GitHub , VSCode, Xampp
V. Operating System: Windows 7 and above
VI. Browser: Any browser and IE 8 and above.
VII. Processor: A single-core 2GHz processor
VIII. RAM: 512 Mb and above

3.3. APPROACH

 Create Normal Project: Open the IDE and create a normal

project by selecting File -> New Project.
 Install Django: Next, we will install the Django module
from the terminal. We will use PyCharm integrated
terminal to do this task. One can also use cmd on
windows to install the module by running python -m pip
install django command
 Check Installed Django version: To check the installed
Django version, you can run the python -m django -
version command as shown below.
 Create Django Project: When we execute django-admin
startproject command, then it will create a Django project
inside the normal project which we already have created
here. django-admin startproject ProjectName.
 Check Python3 version: python3 –version
 Run Default Django webserver:- Django internally
provides a default webserver where we can launch our
applications. python manage.py runserver command in
terminal. By default, the server runs on port 8000. Access
the webserver at the highlighted URL.

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3.4. DATABASE STRUCTURE

3.5. ONLINE SHOPPING APPLICATION:

Anyone can view Online Shopping portal and available products, but every user must
login by his/her Username and password in order to purchase or order products. Unregistered
members can register by navigating to registration page. Only Admin will have access to
modify roles, by default developer can only be an ‘Admin’. Once user register site, his default
role will be ‘User’. 6.1 HOMEPAGE: The Home Screen will consist of screen were one can
browse through the products which we have on our website

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Web Pages details:
 Home Page
 AboutUs Page
 productview Page
 ContactUs Page
 Admin Page
 Track
 Checkout Page
 Login Page

3.5.1. Shop Home Page

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3.5.2. shop product page: This page consists of product details. This page appears same for
both visitors and users

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3.5.3. Shop Track Page

3.5.4. Contact Us Page: Visitors and Registered users can contact website owners or
administrators from here

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3.5.5. Shop checkout page

3.5.6. ABOUT US PAGE: This page describes about website and owners

3.5.7. Admin Page:

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3.5.8. Login Page:

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 4) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
4.1. GANTT CHART

4.2. COST OF PROJECT

Cost of project is approx. Rs. 0 because we use free hosting and domain no buy any template or
logo. But in future upgrade cost of website is follows:
Domain Name Rs. 199-1000
Website Hosting Rs. 2000-10000
Website Theme Rs. 0-8000
Mobile Responsive Rs. 1000-5000
Logo Rs. 500-6000
Images Rs. 500-2000

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 FUTURE SCOPE
In terms of the future of e-commerce in the 21st century, experts predict promising and
wonderful figures. In the foreseeable future, e-commerce will be confirmed as a significant
device of sale for the products and enterprises. Successful e-commerce will become the thought
which will be inseparable from the web because e-shopping is becoming more and more well-
known and normal. In this way, prevailing to future trends, e-commerce will have huge
potential development in sales and advancement.
Each year, there is a constant development in e-commerce deals. The volumes of sales
for the online store are a lot higher than the block and mortars. To the present day, the internet
sales blast the establishment for a magnificent e-commerce future. To draw in more customers,
owners won’t just have to increase the number of services available to them yet, in addition,
have to give more consideration to such elements like design, great presentation, etc.

ADVANTAGES OF ECOMMERCE
1. A Larger Market
eCommerce permits you to reach customers everywhere throughout the nation and
around the globe. Your customers can make a purchase anywhere and anytime, especially more
people are getting used to shopping on their mobile devices.
2. Customer Insights Through Tracking and Analytics
Whether you’re sending guests to your eCommerce website through SEO, PPC
advertisements or an old-fashioned postcard, there is an approach to follow your traffic and
customers’ entire user journey to get bits of knowledge into keywords, user experience,
marketing message, valuing strategy, and the sky is the limit from there.
3. Fast Response to Consumer Trends and Market Demand
The streamlined coordination’s, especially for merchants who do “outsource,” permit
businesses to respond to market and eCommerce trends and consumer demands in a nimble
manner. Merchants can likewise create advancements and deals on the fly to pull in customers
and generate more sales.
4. Lower Cost

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 With the advance in eCommerce stage technologies, it has become very easy and
affordable to set up and keep up an eCommerce store with a low overhead. Merchants no longer
have to spend a large budget on TV promotions or announcement, nor stress over the expense
for personnel and real estate.
5. More Opportunities To “Sell”
Merchants can just provide a limited measure of data on an item in a physical store.
Then again, eCommerce websites permit the space to include more data, for example, demo
videos, reviews, and customer testimonials to help increase conversion.

DISADVANTAGES OF E-COMMERCE
1. Lack of Personal Touch
Some consumers value the personal touch they get from visiting a physical store and
interacting with sales associates. Such personal touch is especially significant for businesses
selling top of the line items as customers need to purchase the merchandise as well as have a
great experience during the process.
2. Lack of Tactile Experience
Regardless of how well a video is made, consumers despite everything can’t contact and
feel an item. Not to mention, it is anything but an easy feat to deliver a brand experience, which
could often include the sense of touch, smell, taste, and sound, through the two-dimensionality
of a screen.
3. Price and Product Comparison
With online shopping, consumers can compare numerous items and locate the lowest
price. This forces numerous merchants to compete on price and reduce their overall revenue.
4. Need for Internet Access
This is pretty self-evident, however, remember that your customers do need Internet
access before they can purchase from you! Since numerous eCommerce stages have features
and functionalities that require fast Internet access for ideal customer experience, there’s a
chance you’re excluding guests who have moderate connections.
5. Credit Card Fraud
Credit card extortion is a real and developing problem for online businesses. It can lead
to chargebacks that result in the loss of revenue, penalties, and a terrible reputation

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 CONCLUSION
The project entitled ecommerce website system was completed successfully. The system
has been developed with much care and free of errors and at the same time it is efficient and
less time consuming. The purpose of this project was to develop a web application for
purchasing items from a fashion shop. This project enabled me gain valuable information and
practical knowledge on several topics like designing web pages using html & CSS, usage of
responsive templates, designing of full stack Django application, and management of database
using MySQL. The entire system is secured. Also, the project helped me understanding about
the development phases of a project and software development life cycle. I learned how to test
different features of a project. This project has given me great satisfaction in having designed
an application which can be implemented to any nearby shops or branded shops selling various
kinds of products by simple modifications. However, it was very challenging learning and
developing an application using a new technology

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We are extremely thankful to our guide Prof. Anupam Choudhary for guidance and review of
this paperwork.

REFERENCES
[1] Python Documentation — https://docs.python.org/3/
[2] Django Documentation — https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/
[3] Git Documentation — https://git-scm.com/doc
[4] Bootstrap:https://getbootstrap.com/

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