E-Commerce Website for Online Nursery Store Plants & Accessories

Online Nursery Store overcomes lots of challenges when compared to an offline store. A separate website for plants and their accessories helps customers to view various kinds of products. It offers all the required features to the customers that let them buy, rate, and leave comments on all the products that are available in the store. Therefore, the idea of Blooming Delights An E-Commerce Website is to provide features to customers like view descriptions, compare prices, can comment on customization ideas, and can follow planting tips that promote gardening. The website recommends customers with the most purchased products, highest-rated products, and recently added products. A chatbot is developed that answers product or order-related queries to customers. After the order is placed, an order confirmation report can be viewed by the client for review.

Problem statement:

Many people want to buy plants and are directly concerned with the nursery store. But sometimes people do not know specific information about certain plants and the seller does not have technical skills. Build an online nursery store website so that customers can compare prices, view descriptions, and add reviews to a product that helps the customers for a pleasant shopping experience. After the order is placed, an order confirmation report can be viewed by the client for review.

Objective:

The main objective of this E-Commerce Website project is to create an online nursery store website that helps customers compare prices, view descriptions, can comment on customization ideas, and can follow planting tips that promote gardening. Customer service is essential. So, each customer should have a pleasant shopping experience. For this, customer queries are answered with the help of a chatbot.

Proposed system:

Our Online Nursery Store website consists of two different logins customer and admin. The features of our website are as mentioned below:

CUSTOMER

  • Buy Products
  • Rate Products
  • Comment Products
  • View his own profile
  • View his own purchases history
  • Create favorite products list
  • Can change his own avatar

ADMIN

  • Add products to the website
  • Edit products on the website
  • Delete products on the website
  • Edit/Delete inappropriate user comments

Activity Diagram:

Activity diagram

REQUIREMENTS

Software requirements:

Visual Studio Code
Dialogflow (For the integration of Chatbot)
MEAN Stack

1) Mongodb
2) Express JS
3) Angular
4) Node JS

Hardware Requirements:

Intel core i5 processor
RAM 4GB
Hard Disk Drive 1 TB

Functional Requirements:

USER:

R1: Registration
Description: To enter the site user has to register first. Requirements of registration are name, email, password, and, security check details.
Input: User Details.
Output: Filled registration details.
Processing: User details are checked with the database to avoid duplicate login. Password constraint is checked as per validation.

R2: User Login
Description: The system provides the facility to login into the system.
Input: Enter user email and password.
Processing: The system will check the input of the user and if valid then login is done. Otherwise, the user will be asked to re-check his/her credentials.

R3: Forget password
Description: The user can reset the password.
Input: Email ID and security check details.
Output: The user can update the password.
Processing: The data will be updated in the database

R4: Purchase products
Description: Customers can select a product.
Input: Search for an item.
Processing: Any product will be selected and displayed.

R5: Comments
Description: Customers can post and view comments.
Input: Customers have to post his/her comments.
Processing: The system will add data to the database.

R6: Logout
Description: The system provides a facility to log out from the site.
Input: Select the logout option.
Output: Logout from the system.
Processing: The user will be logged out.

ADMIN:

R1: Admin Login
Description: The system provides the facility to login into the system.
Input: Enter user email and password.
Processing: The system will check the admin’s input; if valid, then login is
done. Otherwise, the admin will be asked to re-check his/her credentials.

R2: Add Products
Description: Admin can add a product.
Input: Enter the product details.
Output: Added product is displayed under entered category.
Processing: The system will add the product to the database.

R3: Edit /Delete Products
Description: The admin can edit or delete a product.
Input: Enter the product details.
Processing: The system will make the changes in the database.

R4: Delete Comments
Description: Admin can delete inappropriate comments.
Output: Deleted comments are not displayed.
Processing: The system will make the changes in the database.

R5: Logout
Description: The system provides a facility to log out from the site.
Input: Select the logout option.
Output: Logout from the system.
Processing: The admin will be logged out.

Non-Functional Requirements:

Performance Requirements

The system needs to be reliable.
If unable to process the request, then an appropriate error message will be displayed.
Web pages are loaded within a few seconds.

Safety Requirements

The details need to be maintained properly.
Users must be authenticated.

Security Requirements

After entering the password and user id the user can access his/her profile.
The details of the user must be safe and secure.

CONCLUSION & FUTURE SCOPE

Blooming Delights is an online nursery store website, that provides a platform to buy seeds, plants, tools, and different related products. It offers all the required features to the customers that let them buy, rate, and leave comments on all the products that are available in the store. The description of each product is available to soothe the selection. Hence, Customers can compare prices, can comment on customization ideas, and can follow planting tips that promote gardening. The future work of this project is to improve various categories, add different kinds of payment modes, and send order-related updates by E-mail or SMS.

Online E-Commerce System Project Using HTML 5, CSS 3, NodeJS and ExpressJS

Purpose

  1. To develop an online e-commerce system that will provide a platform for customers and sellers to meet and sell and purchase items. The Online e-commerce system shall accomplish the following as of achieving the major goal:
  1. To build a user-friendly business website, where users will be able to search for any product which is available nearby or anywhere in the world. By using an Online e-commerce system, it will be easy for sellers to sell products and save time and money. Doing business through this application will help to reach a maximum of customers and sellers. Creating a panel where a seller is able to upload their product’s full details and a customer can view and make a purchase as per their wish.
  1. To implement the system and check if it actually is able to provide benefit to the people.

Scope

The scope of this application is to build a user-friendly e-commerce website, where users will be able to purchase any product which is available on the website. By using the e-commerce system, it will be easy for sellers to make a sale and save time and money. Doing business through this application will help us reach a maximum of sellers and customers globally.

General Objective

To develop an online e-commerce system that will provide a forum for sellers and customers to interact with each other, and sell and purchase items.

Specific Objectives

  1. Create an online platform where sellers post items for sale through the online system.
  1. Create a panel where a customer can view products from a seller and make purchases and do payments through online payment systems, and later submit reviews about the service.

ER Diagram:

Data Flow Diagram:

UML Diagram:

Modules Description

Sign Up

1. It is used to register or to create a new account for a particular website.
2. It also allows the user to be a part of the website and also provides all the services of the website.

Log in

1. It is used to open a session with an account that is already created.
2. It is successful when your credentials (i.e., username and password) match with what is already stored in a database. This is called authentication.
3. It makes the site personalized for you.

About

1. This module gives an overview of the website.
2. It shows the website’s business, values, and commitments and its management.

Contact

This module allows the users to ask any queries related to their property or anything.

Search

This module is used for searching the posted auctions

Add Product

This module helps in posting Auctions

Product Function

1. Enable the customers to view posted products in their locality and also globally.
2. Enable the creation of accounts and logging in to the accounts
3. Enable users to log out of their accounts
4. Provide an interface for the seller to view the transactions, and add sellers and products to the system.
5. The seller should also have accounts where they will receive customer orders and respond to them.

Modules 

  • Login and new registration
  • Search: The search page will help users to search for the desired items using the search box.
  • Contact: This module will help users to contact the seller in case of any queries or issues that arise.
  • Add Product: This module will help the seller to add new products to the system

Summary

This NodeJS-based website is a reliable web application that saves time and money. This must be implemented in most of the information technology industries. It is user-friendly software, through which users can easily interact and easy to search for and buy products. This turns out to be great usage.

With the rapid growth of the internet and the world wide web, everything is going online. This website is developed by keeping in mind the easiness of interaction by the users so that they get a very user-friendly environment while surfing the website. Such compatibility of this website enables it to attract users to visit the website more frequently

The system is capable of maintaining details of various users, sellers, and products and storing all day-to-day transactions. The central concept of the application is to allow customers to search, compare and purchase products using the internet. The information pertaining to the products is stored on a NoSQL database on the server side. The Server process the customers and the orders and stores them in the database. 

Future involvement with the project

We will keep on improving our project in the future by adding more and more modules in the system as per the needs of the users. 

Limitations

Our project was limited in time and cost which is a limitation. If provided with more time and cost, we would have done better using the better infrastructure.

We developed the project on a local offline server, though we could have used an online one if provided with more cost.

Hardware & Software Used

Hardware

1. HP Notebook
2. i5 10th Gen CPU
3. 8GB RAM
4. 512GB SSD

Software

1. Visual Studio Code
2. Postman
3. NodeJS
4. ExpressJS
5. Google Firebase
6. AWS
7. HTML 5, CSS 3 & Javascript.