E-Commerce including one term on “electronic commerce” has changed over time. Initially, electronic commerce is the trading activities that take advantage of commercial transactions, such as sending commercial documents like purchase orders electronically.
Later developed into an activity that have the more precise term is “Web commerce” (purchases of goods and services via the World Wide Web). At first when the web became famous in the society in 1994, many journalists predicted that e-commerce will become a new economic sector. So Between the era of 1998 and 2000 many businesses in the U.S. and Europe to develop the web site of this trade.
E-com, or Electronic Commerce is one of the rapidly growing technology in the business world and the internet’s. Penggunaann E-commerce system, actually may benefit many parties, both the consumer and the producers and sellers (retailers). For example for the consumer, using the E-Commerce can make shopping a short time. In addition, the price of goods sold through E-commerce is usually cheaper than the price in a store, because the distribution channels from producers of goods to the seller’s shorter than a conventional store.
In Indonesia, E-commerce system is less popular, because many internet users who still doubt the security of these systems, and their lack of knowledge about what the actual E-Commerce. So far, the official website which has been conducting e-commerce in Indonesia is RisTI Shop. RisTI, the Division of Research and Information Technology of PT. Telkom, providing e-commerce services for the provision of product information telecommunication equipment and non-telecom. Web has also supported the process of online transactions.