eCommerce works through a series of steps utilizing website code, the database

E-commerce (Electronic Commerce) or is the business, or commercial transaction, that involves the transfer of information across the Internet.

Typically, e-commerce business models can be divided into six major types: Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to-Consumer (B2C), Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C)

• Online shopping for retail sales direct to consumers via Web sites and mobile apps, and conversational commerce via live chat, chatbots, and voice assistants.
• Providing or participating in online marketplaces, which process third-party business-to-consumer or consumer-to-consumer sales.
• Business-to-business buying and selling.
• Gathering and using demographic data through web contacts and social media.
• Business-to-business (B2B) electronic data interchange.
• Marketing to prospective and established customers by e-mail or fax (for example, with newsletters).
• Engaging in pretail for launching new products and services.
• Online financial exchanges for currency exchanges or trading purposes.

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E-commerce is the activity of buying and selling

Modern e-commerce typically uses the internet for at least one part of a transaction's life cycle. It may also use other technologies such as e-mail. Typical e-commerce transactions include the purchase of online books (Amazon) and music purchases (music from iTunes Store) and to a less extent customized/personalized online liquor store inventory services.