Online Book Store
Project Proposal
Submitted By
Zahid Aziz
BC190403165
Introduction:
In this era, e-commerce has changed the way users access and purchase products,
with online bookstores becoming a popular choice for book readers around the
world. With the fast growth of online shopping, an online bookshop offers easy
access, allowing users to browse, purchase, and receive books directly to their
doorstep or in the form of digital file as pdf.
We are building an online store of digital and physical books for book readers with
some convenient features so that the reader will get it easily.
The Online Book Shop project aims to create a complete solution for book retail in
the marketplace.
Scope:
Project includes designing and developing an online bookstore platform that allows
users to browse, search and purchase books conveniently. Some features will
include user registration, searchable categories, personalized book
recommendations, a shopping cart and checkout with multiple payment options.
1. User Roles and Access
Customers: Users can browse main categories and sub categories, search, and
purchase books. Users will have access to features such as registration, login,
profile management, shopping cart, and order history.
Admin: The admin/admins will have a dashboard for managing inventory,
viewing orders, monitoring user activity, and generating reports about
searches and trending books. Admins will also be able to add, edit, or delete
books listing in categories and sub categories.
Background:
The rise in online buyers and stores are telling us that the e-commerce users are
increasing day-by-day. It effected the way we shop. And the book industry is also
changing in this era. People need their purchases to come to their doorstep easily
and in less time rather than going into market physically and buying their desired
book. And most of the time, their required book is not available in their area.
In this situation, people prefer online searching their desired book and ordering it to
their door step or in digital form. To solve this problem, there is need to create a
book store for digital and physical books.
There are a few book stores which lacks some features we are adding to our
store.
Wordery
https://www.wordery.com
Wordery is a book store basically have an organized book catalog and simple
shopping cart. It does not have a personalized recommendation system and
user reviews system.
Better World Books
https://www.betterworldbooks.com
This store has a basic catalog. it does not have a personalized recommendation
page and user review system on each product page.
Objectives:
2. Main Features
User Account Management: Users can create account, log in, manage
personal details, and reset passwords if needed.
Book Categories and Search: The system will display categories and
subcategories of books, allowing users to search and filter books by various
genre, author, title, language, and price range.
Shopping Cart and Checkout: Users can add books to the shopping cart,
view the total amount, and proceed to checkout.
Order Management: Users will be able to view their purchase history and
order details in their accounts.
Secure Payment Gateway: We will add a secure payment gateway for
handling online transactions, supporting standard payment methods like bank
debit cards, credit cards, Easypaisa, Jazzcash. So everyone can easily buy
books from store.
Books Recommendation: A recommendation Page will suggest books to
users which are top trending or most purchased books.
Review and Rating System: Users can leave reviews and rate books they
have purchased, helping other users to make decision easy.
Stock Management: In system, admin will add the quantity of physical
copies for each book and when it comes to end, the system will tell admin
about those book to be ending soon.
Customer support: A feedback and support system will be available for
users for returns and queries.
Motivation:
1. Demand: In this era of internet, there is a huge demand for online retailing
of books which is increasing day by day because of increasing numbers of users of
internet. There is a lack of convenient stores for books specially in Pakistan. Users
can shop from anyplace, anytime, anywhere. Even if a customer gets a digital
version of the demanded book, their problem is solved.
2. Wide Range: There is a wide range of books exists out there. It is almost
impossible to make available all the demanded books. So all the stores have very
few common books. So there is a big room for us to create a store to cover that
demanded books to make them available for all.
3. Niches: There is a growing opportunity to create specialized online
bookstores for specific genres, rare books, or regional literature which can be a new
thing in the market.
