Optimization of an Online Food Ordering System
CHAPTER ONE
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The aims and objectives of this system include;
- Developing an e-food ordering system
- Studying previous work on the proposed topic and looking for ways to improve them.
- Optimizing the system to include multiple payment gateway
- Implementing security standards with the system
- Creating the system which can also give suggestions to guest users
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
This chapter examines in detail, the history and developments made in the e-commerce sector, through e-payment systems, previous research work on this subject, the characteristics, models, architectures and limitations as pointed out by various scholars and researchers. This will provide the ground work for figuring out an efficient way to implement an online food ordering/restaurant system
OVERVIEW OF E-COMMERCE SYSTEMS
The technologies that e-commerce systems seem to be based on were developed roughly in the 1960s with the development of the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). This technology was designed to allow companies carry out electronic transactions. This standard was used and modified in some form or another up through the 1990s when the real implementation of online payment systems for e-commerce began. Michael Aldrich in 1979 came up with the idea of online shopping when he was on a stroll in a supermarket with his wife. He connected a domestic television and a computer with telephone lines so as to start selling groceries online via this model. This basically was the groundwork for more advanced implementation of the online shopping systems. In 1981, the first Business to Business online shopping was implemented by Thomson Holidays whereby they picked up 66 travel agents from around England and connected them. These agents were able to extract data online and understand what was available from the Thomson Brochure so as to serve customers instantly.
The Minitel was invented in France in 1982 by a telecom company which has since been considered as the most happening pre-World Wide Web online service. Users of this service had a privilege of making online purchases, check phone directories, chat with each other and basic search.
In England, Tesco pioneered the concept of Online Shopping Basket or Online Trolley in 1984 and is referred to as the first Business-to-Consumer online shopping system. In April of that year, CompuServe released Electronic Mall which is almost like the ecommerce of today. In 1987, SWREG was released as the first online software store which helped developers sell their software online.
The World Wide Web era ushered in some improvement in the e-commerce world. Back then, NSFNET was the backbone of the Internet, but it wasn’t available for commercial use. It was in the year 1991 when the NSF (National Science Foundation) cleared the way for the commercial use of NET. This was considered to be a major boost for the e-commerce industry and its future growth.
Studied patterns on NSF back bone network state that the traffic jumped to over 1 trillion bytes per month in the year 1991 itself after it was opened for commercial use. By 1996 there were over 10 million hosts online and by then the Internet was now a global phenomenon.
It was also in the year 1991 itself when University of Minnesota launched “gopher”, the first point-and-click based browser that could be used to navigate files on the Internet. At times this has been tagged as the birth of Internet. Gopher was originally designed to ease campus communication.
Netscape launched encryption certificate in 1994 and it became the trustworthy means of transmitting data over the Internet.
Certificates gave the browsers a chance to trust a source before displaying its data and sharing personal information. Something that helped the end consumer shower more interest on the Internet and indirectly on e-commerce transactions.
The year 1994 also marked the launch of Yahoo! although the domain was registered later in the year 1995. This truly gave the Internet and e-commerce a completely new direction.
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
This chapter reviews how the existing system works as well as how to produce a better alternative for its improvement. The relationship among actors, entities, platform and information flows within the organization is very important. In a nutshell, system investigation and analysis studies an existing system with the view of improving on it or developing an entirely new system to replace the existing one. The major task here is to design a new system using tested and trusted development methods that is as efficient and probably more efficient than the existing one. The software development model is the Waterfall model.
FACTS FINDING
Fact finding is an approach taken to acquire data about a specific or subject with the aim of analyzing and synthesizing the analyzed data to come up with a better system. Fact finding for this study was done by examining related publications, research work, journals and books.
CHAPTER FOUR
IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS
INTRODUCTION
This chapter discusses the deployment and testing of the optimized online food ordering system after the design and development. The Hardware and Software Requirements as well as Development tools are identified in this chapter.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 SUMMARY
An online payment system was developed in this project and integrated with an e-commerce platform, specifically an online food ordering system equipped with multi-integrated payment gateway capabilities with the view to embrace technology in our everyday life. The system was able to register customers and store their information and enabling login to place food orders and buy on the platform. There is also an option for payment on delivery.
This project also explored the potential fraud prevention aspects of an ideal e-payment system in order to provide a reliable method of transaction. This then emphasizes the need for a robust and well maintained online ordering system and increases the level of trust between buyers and sellers on the online market.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, the online food ordering system development is providing a way to practice commerce effectively and reduce the cost, slow nature and labour of the traditional methods. However, we have been able to integrate the level of trust in the traditional physical commercial sector with the ease brought about by the World Wide Web.
RECOMMENDATION
For future works, improvements can be made in terms of user identification and verification. Data security, data retrieval and fraud detection and reporting should be a vital consideration in development of any further web based ordering or generally e-commerce systems.
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