Whois & Analysis for shipstation.com

E-commerce is a transaction of buying or selling online.

Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems.

Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web for at least one part of the transaction's life cycle although it may also use other technologies such as e-mail.

Order fulfillment (in British English order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer.

Sometimes Order fulfillment is used to describe the more narrow act of distribution or the logistics function, however, in the broader sense it refers to the way firms respond to customer orders.

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories.

It is the exchange of goods and services among nations of the world.

In most countries, such trade represents a significant share of gross domestic product (GDP).

While international trade has existed throughout history (for example Uttarapatha, Silk Road, Amber Road, scramble for Africa, Trail of tears, Atlantic slave trade, salt roads), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.

It postulates that in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good, or other traded item such as labor or liquid financial assets, will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded (at the current price) will equal the quantity supplied (at the current price), resulting in an economic equilibrium for price and quantity transacted.

Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo.

The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea, but is extended in American English to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well.

"Logistics", a term borrowed from the military environment, is also fashionably used in the same sense.