Electronic commerce is a hot topic.
Many businesses are trying to figure out what e-commerce is all about. This is still a new venture for most, but standards are now well-established in support of electronic commerce. Internet commerce enables vendors to extend their Web presence, by creating Web stores that display product and service catalogs, shopping cart functionality, and a variety of secure payment options. In the latter case, the vendor can maintain control of their Web store by using their local Web store client application. In such a case, then vendor can dial in to their hosted Web store to download orders and make changes to store items.