Presentation for bachelor's thesis project and proposed a business plan with a prototype which was a web application using PHP and MySQL.

1. COLLEGEHAAT
Relax and sell out…
WEB BASED APPLICATION USING PHP AND MYSQL
Mentor: Dr. Vinay Singh
Aakash Khandelwal (IPG2012-001)
Ayush Agrawal (IPG2012-020)
Rohit Nimiya (IPG2012-078)
ABV- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior

2. CollegeHaat
01
02
03
04
Inter/Intra college free
classified
e-commerce platform.
Books/notes
sharing platform
Sell and Advertise anything
Just via photo snapshot
Marketplace
for college students

3. E-COMMERCE
Shop a new
item
CreditsOrderCartAdd to Cart
Sell a
product Wishlist Wallet Invoice Payment

4. ECOMMERCE STATISTICS OF INDIA
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
15-24 yrs old
25-30 yrs old
35-44 yrs old
other
Demographic profile of Indian online user(as on
September 2013)
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
India’s eCommerce and eTail growth(in billions)
eTail eCommerce
5.3
0.6
7
1
9.5
1.5
12.6
2.3
16.4
3.5
21.3
6
3.8
0.4
Reference : PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited (PwCPL) Authored by: Jitesh Bijlani

5. LITERATURE
SURVEY
EBAY
OLX
BOOK-
ADDA
QUIKR
1. An online classifieds platform for selling used
goods.
2. site is now in over 90 countries and 40
languages with over 140 million unique
visitors per month.
3. The source of income for them are mainly
AdSense Ads / Google Ads, Sponsored Ads /
Banners and Premium Ads.
1. India’s leading cross category classifieds platform.
2. In 1000 cities in India and operates in over 10 categories
that include mobile phones, household goods, cars, real
estate, jobs, services and education.
3. Till date, Quikr has raised a total of $350 million from 7
funding rounds since its inception.

6. CMS
BACKEND
PLUGINS
FRONTEND
HTML
CSS
JAVASCRIPT
PHP
MYSQL
WORDPRESS
WooCommerceSocial Plugin
Ajax Search Order Tracking

7. HTML stands for Hyper Text
Mark-up Language and is generally
the basis for all the webpages you
see today. It defines elements on a
webpage
and tells browsers what to display,
how to display it, and where.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a
template language utilized for
portraying the look and arranging of a
record written in an imprint up
language
JavaScript is a client-side scripting
language. JavaScript lets the website
do things like validate forms, create
visual effects, etc. JavaScript is
mainly to program the behaviour of
web pages.
jQuery is a lightweight, "write less,
do more", JavaScript library.
jQuery takes a lot of common
tasks that require many lines of
JavaScript code to accomplish, and
wraps them into methods that you
can call with a single line of code.

8. php MySQL
PHP is a server side
programming language.
PHP is an effective
apparatus for making
dynamic and intuitive
Web pages. PHP is the
generally utilized, free,
and effective different
option for contenders, for
example, Microsoft's ASP.
It is an open-source RDBMS
that keeps running as a
server giving multi-client
access to various databases.
language for accessing and
manipulating databases. It
helps in creating ,inserting
,updating, deletion of
records from database.

9. IIITM Survey
100% Percentage of students aware with the term E-commerce.
93% Percentage of students are familiar with the free classified website OLX.
35% Percentage of students who purchase online frequently.
82% Percentage of students prefer to buy online due to large discount availability.
62% Percentage of students prefer to purchase second-hand items.
17% Percentage of students prefer to do online payment.

10. CONTENT MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. But in non-geek speak, it's probably the easiest and
most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today.
World's favourite
blogging software
More Than
68 MILLION WEBSITES
Powers sites such as:
The New York Times
CNN
Forbes
Reuters
Accommodates multiple authors
SEO capable
Expansive plugin library
Easy to customize
Flexible
User-friendly

11. Disadvantages of and
01 02 03
0504 06Lacks SEO
capability
Lacks quality
free Plugins
Steep learning
curve
Lacks Extraordinary
marking and outline.
Lacks Remarkable Category
pages
One of a kind pages
and ease of use

12. FEATURES OF COLLEGEHAAT
PAYMENT
METHODS
SEARCH
A
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
DETAILS
LOGIN
AND
REGISTRATION
CART
DETAILS
USERS’s
ACCOUNT

13. LOGIN AND REGISTRATION
A login or sign in alludes to the qualifications needed to get access to a record or other confined
range by Logging in.
When a client has signed in, they can then log out when access is no more required.
Registration is a strategy for authoritatively recording something. Generally something is enrolled to guarantee more rights,
or to ensure possession, or in light of the fact that the law says it must be enlisted to be utilized lawfully.
Forgot Password

14. USERS ACCOUNT
It refers to the user’s own profile where user can edit the details of his/her account like edit
wish list, view the list of orders made by him in past, edit his/her address, etc.
EDIT ADDRESSMY WHISHLIST
MY DOWNLOADS
MY ORDERS
EDIT ACCOUNT

15. SEARCH A PRODUCT
It is an important aspect as it helps a user in searching any product which he/she needs directly
instead of exploring the whole website. For searching, a user enters the required product name
and that product with some related products comes down in the form of a list.
The searching uses the AJAX technology, which is renowned for the method of exchanging data
with a server and updating parts of a webpage without reloading the entire page.
Search a product…

16. PRODUCTS DETAILS
PRODUCT
QUICK
VIEW
CATEGORIES
COMPARE
FULL
DETAILS
PRODUCT CATEGORY
PRODUCT RANGES
ADD TO WHISHLIST
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
COUPONS
RELATED PRODUCTS
REVIEW

17. CART DETAILS
User can simply add a product to cart the cart so that when he want to order different types of items
he can view all those items in his cart and order them .User can also vary the count of number of items
needed by him.
CART
DETAILS
PRODUCT
NAME
COST
REMOVE
ITEM
QUANTITY

18. PAYMENT METHODS
It comprises of all the payment options which user can select to order a product.
There are various options for payment like:
CASH ON DELIVERY
DIRECT BANK TRANSFER
CHEQUE PAYMENT
CREDIT CARD PAYMENT

19. POST A FREE AD
For those customers who want to sell their items.
Major components of the information provided by users are:
NAME EMAIL
PRODUCT CATEGORY
PRODUCT TITLE PRODUCT TAGS
IMAGES DESCRIPTION PRICE

20. PLUGINS
1. WOOCOMMERCE
WooCommerce is by far and away the most popular free ecommerce solution for WordPress. An e-commerce
toolkit that helps you sell anything. The world's favourite ecommerce solution that gives you complete control to
sell anything.
Sell anything, anywhere Ship anywhere Extensive payment options
Define style with Storefront Helps to control all things Extensions galore

21. PLUGINS
2. AJAX SEARCH
Ajax Search allows users to search products in real time.
It helps to improve user experience, which indirectly improve sales.
It creates a simple search box that shows users the instant search results.
Users can just enter a keyword for the WooCommerce product they are looking for and YITH
WooCommerce Ajax Search will spare them the nuisance to browse all WooCommerce categories one at a
time.

22. PLUGINS
3. ORDER TRACKING
An easy tool to manage order shipping information of the shop and to notify the customers about the shipping.
useful tool to make WooCommerce shop as complete as possible and offer our customers the best services.
4. SOCIAL PLUGIN
A plugin that permits users to login to e-business site through their Facebook or Twitter or Google account
Make life and shop management much easier, users feel more comfortable in accessing website, login is just a click far and their propensity to
purchase becomes much higher

23. PLUGINS
5. LIVE CHAT
An exceptional plugin to make clients feel comfortable as in a physical shop.
Can ask for information and get immediate feedback.
Users need human contact and live Chat can help them in overcoming the obstacle of the purchase
doubts.
Customization of the messages (welcome, greetings, offline, busy operators).
Availability of different tabs, multiple chats.

24. FUTURE WORK
As most of the big e-commerce websites are moving toward
mobile platform. CollegeHaat can also be brought to mobile
platform by developing the mobile application of CollegeHaat.
This gist of online shopping is set to see greater
heights in coming years. E-commerce has
changed the way business approach
globalisation .

25. CONCLUSION
A key outcome of the technology revolution in India has been
connectivity, which has fuelled unprecedented access to information.
The ecommerce industry in India may currently be behind its
counterparts in a number of developed countries and even some
emerging markets. However, with India’s GDP growth pegged at
6.4percent by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, it is
expected to grow rapidly.
Moreover, the Indian ecommerce industry
has access to funds from within the country and international
investors. Overall, the ecommerce sector is maturing and a number
of serious players are entering the market.
In India the market share is divided amongst several ecommerce companies, each
coming up with its own business model. As a result, customers have a
wide range of products and services to choose from.