Development of E-Commerce-Based Online Web Application for COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

A grocery shop is a retailing shop where a general range freshly packed food products are available. On an everyday life people have to use a grocery shop to get their livelihood items. To buy the necessary products people visit a grocery shop, collect the products from different shelves and then pay for the item and proceed. But many times this process does not seem very convenient. People nowadays are very busy. In their busy schedule they always forget to make time for grocery shopping. Some people try to avoid it because of traffic jam, just to avoid gathering of people. Moreover, in this global COVID-19 pandemic it can turn into a life threat for a person or family as well as a nation. Considering all the issues and reasons behind the issues we think online grocery store can be the best solution to all the problems. This paper presents the development of web-based online grocery store where people can do shopping using a computer or a smart phone sitting at their home very easily. Though online shopping has been known as a rapidly growing business, and although online grocery shopping has not followed these same growth patterns in the past, it is now being recognized for its potential. There will be an admin panel and a user panel. Users have to use a Gmail to log in and create an account to do shopping. Admin always use their Gmail to maintain the product availability, the website, the customers and more. This system is user friendly and it can make people life very easy, safe and time-saving specially in the e-commerce demanding period of this COVID-19 crisis.