A B2C e-commerce that enables Egyptian customers to buy brand-name products confidently from authorized distributors.
- Enhanced user search experience by implementing full-text search, achieving a 25x speed increase using an inverted index. (See Case study)
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the system should allow users to proceed as customers or sellers.
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users can sign up/log in using their emails.
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for a customer to place orders the system should store these information:
- his Egyptian phone number.
- his pickup address(Governate, city, street, house or apartment number)
- a payment method.
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for a seller to activate his account he should provide:
- his Egyptian national ID.
- his Egyptian phone number.
- the brand name (the system should provide the seller with available brands on typing and the seller can enter a brand that does not exist in the list)
- the authorization document.
- A bank account to receive funds
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reviewers then review sellers' applications and accept or cancel them. If the brand provided does not exist, the reviewer should ask his supervisor to add the brand.
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supervisors add/remove reviewers to the system, assign sellers' applications to the reviewers, and add brands.
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managers add/remove supervisors, activate/deactivate sellers(if a seller sells a fake product to customers), and deal with third-party shipping companies.
- sellers should provide for each product these information: (title, category, sub-category, brand, album, description)
- customers can ask questions about products and sellers can reply to them.
- sellers can display specific questions and answers on the product page.
- verified purchasers can add reviews to the products.
- customers can search for products using relevant words that may exists in products' titles, descriptions, brand name, or category.
- customers can filter products by price range, brand name, or product availability
- customers can sort products by price(low-to-high or high-to-low), average customers reviews, or featured
