ONLINE SALES SYSTEM FOR KATHIRAVAN VIRTUAL DVD CENTER

Abstract

Kathiravan virtual DVD center is a growing company in Sri Lanka for selling DVDs to people at the cheapest rate and deliver the products to their home. Currently they provide the service only to Colombo and suburbs. They face lot of problems in doing the business activities manually. Doing these activities manually need considerable labour force, time, and reduces the revenue due to increased running cost. Further they also want to increase the customer circle. Therefore, it was decided to give them a solution through an online system to remove these problems & enlarge customer circle. There are mainly two sections in Kathiravan virtual DVD center s online system and their functions are considered when developing the system. First section is called as administrative section which has to be used by the administrative level person of the company to do the business activities such as handling the online purchases and delivery, generate reports and update the system(such as details of products, membership administration). The other section is called as customer section which has to be used by customers to do the online purchases, upgrade/renew membership, update profile etc. This online sales system was developed by PHP 5.0 and its database was implemented by MYSQL 5.0. Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0 was used as the development tool to implement the system. UML was used in the analysis and design activities. Online sales system introduced in this dissertation has removed the drawbacks of the manual activities at Kathiravan virtual DVD center. This has helped them to promote their businesses into the next level and enhanced their business opportunities.