Electronic Commerce
Categories of Electronic Commerce
Business-to-consumer(B2C)
Business-to-business(B2B)
Consumer-to-consumer(C2C)
Business-to-government(B2G)
B2C
Selling products or services to individual consumers. For example Walmart.com sells merchandise to consumers through its web site.
B2B
Selling products or services to other businesses. Example is Grainger.com sells industrial supplies to large and small businesses through its web site.
C2C
Participants in an online marketplace can buy and sell goods to each other. Because one party is selling, and thus acting as a business, this book treats C2C transactions as part of B2C electronic commerce. The popular platform right now is FB marketplace and eBay.com.
B2G
Businesses sell goods or services to governments and governments agencies. The example is CA.gov procurement site allows businesses to sell online to state of California.
