TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A Project Proposal
On
"An Online Grocery Store"

Submitted to
Department of Statistics and Computer Science
Patan Multiple Campus

In partial fulfillement of the requriments for Bachelor Degree in Computer

science and Information Technology

Submitted By:
Student 1 , roll no
Student 2 , roll no
Student 3 , roll no

Under the Supervision of

Supervisors Name
Table of Contents
1 Introduction........................................................................................................................3
2 Problem statement..............................................................................................................3
3 Objectives...........................................................................................................................3
4 Methodology......................................................................................................................4
4.1 Requirement Identification.........................................................................................4
4.1.1 Study of existing system......................................................................................4
4.1.2 Literature Review................................................................................................4
4.1.3 Requirements Analysis........................................................................................6
4.2 Feasibility Study.........................................................................................................6
4.2.1 Technical Feasibility............................................................................................6
4.2.2 Operational Feasibility.........................................................................................6
4.2.3 Economic Feasibility...........................................................................................7
4.3 High Level Design of System.....................................................................................7
4.3.1 Methodology of the proposed system..................................................................7
4.3.2 System Flowchart................................................................................................8
4.3.3 Use Case Diagram.............................................................................................10
4.3.4 Description of algorithms..................................................................................12
5 Gantt chart.......................................................................................................................13
6 Expected outcome............................................................................................................13
7 References........................................................................................................................14
List of figures
Figure 1: Flowchart for users.....................................................................................................9

Figure 2: Flowchart for admin.................................................................................................10

Figure 3: Use case diagram for users.......................................................................................11

Figure 4: Use case diagram for admin.....................................................................................12

1 Introduction
Commerce is defined as the trading of goods and services with the goal of earning profits.
When the commerce shifts from physical to digital dimensions, it becomes electronic
commerce or in short, E-Commerce. Thus, electronic commerce is the process of buying and
selling of goods and services that takes place over a digital platform and the internet [1]. This
platform is a hub for every retailer, customer or business to buy or sell their goods. E-
commerce exists in many forms such as an online clothing store, online electronics store,
online services etc.

One of the popular form is online grocery store where customers or retailers buy grocery
products from the website and receives delivery of those goods right at their doorstep, saving
time and effort. The transaction for those goods takes place through digital payment gateway.
Online grocery store follows business to business and business to consumer model.

2 Problem statement
Due to price fluctuation and competitive market, a consumer might have to hop from one
shop to another in search of any product for a reasonable price. Sometimes shortage of a
product in the local store might force a consumer to travel long distances. This can be time
consuming and costly due to travel expenses. Also, consumers might not be able to shop as
much as they desired due to heavy weight of the product that they have to carry around from
one place to another which can be stressful and tiring. Consumers may also face situations
where they want to buy a product but are restricted due to shortage of cash.

3 Objectives
The main objective of an online grocery store is

 To create an e-commerce system for convenient shopping.

 To integrate digital payment in the e-commerce system.
4 Methodology
4.1 Requirement Identification
Requirement identification is the gathering of relevant requirement that will be used to
develop a system. There are different methods to gather requirement which includes studying
of existing system, interviews, questionnaires etc.

4.1.1 Study of existing system

The existing system follows a procedure where a customer must be physically available at
the store to make orders and buy it. The customer has to walk to the store and carry items in a
bag. If the customer doesn't find the item he/she is looking for or is not satisfied with the
pricing, he/she will have to walk to another shop and this can continue for a long time unless
the customer meets what he/she desires. This can be both time and energy consuming. In
current situation, where we are facing corona pandemic, this can be fatal.

4.1.2 Literature Review

Now a days, e-commerce sector plays a significant role both in developed and developing
countries. With the growth of the internet, the e-commerce sector has been booming with
every generation attracted towards the features, branding, and easiness to buy products more
than ever. Traditional ways of commerce required customers to be physically present at the
store to buy products. This allowed customers to travel distances, get to know the
shopkeeper, bargain for low prices and so on. However, e-commerce revolutionized the
traditional ways by allowing potential customers to inspect, select, buy and pay from any
location without having to be present physically.

Most businesses in developing countries are small or medium scaled. Advancement in

Information superhighway allows developing countries to reach out of their domain and have
global reach. This means, ecommerce can allow a business to grow in foreign countries as
well. Popular ecommerce platforms such as amazon.com, daraz.com, ebay.com etc. are able
to win trust of consumers due to motivating factors [2] such as:

Trust and loyalty

Being able to win the trust of consumers and staying loyalty to those consumers is one of the
motivating factor.
Ensuring online security

The ecommerce site should protect the critical information of the user such as credit card
details, address, phone number etc.

Cash back guarantee

The ecommerce business must guarantee the customers to provide full cash back on any item
that they want to return without any damage.

Discount and great offers

Discounts and offers are great way to attract customers into the business.

These ecommerce sites can provide advantages [2] over traditional commerce such as:

Comfort: If we need any household commodities or even anything, we can get it by sitting at
home on the click of our finger on the internet.

Time-saving: By using e-commerce sites, there is not a chance of waste of time and with the
help of online order, our necessary product will be delivered to our address.

Options, options, and options: Without visiting outside from one store to another, the
consumer can simply compare goods products or commodity. We can see who offer low
price for standard & branded goods and can have more option to choose from the websites.

Easy to compare: When the marketers place their products to the website, they make a
lucrative description of these products to compare them with other products, to let the
consumers know that they have the best option and come back for more.

Coupons and deals: Some online business company makes offers that we can’t refuse. Some
major sites sometimes offer up to 80% of discount.

Quality: Quality is a big fact on e-commerce, sometimes the product which is ordered from
online website will not be similar in quality. So the consumer should not touch the product or
make instant transaction until they delivered the product in door.

Thus, in the near future E-Commerce will be the leader with popularity and prosperity in e-
trade sector. From above discussion we can come to a conclusion that e-Commerce has
changed the business strategy and making life easier for the people of both developing and
developed countries.

4.1.3 Requirements Analysis

Requirements will be collected through interviews, Google searches, website visits and
friendly suggestions.

4.1.3.1 Functional Requirement

 This system should allow users to register and login
 This system should allow users to add products to the shopping cart or buy it through
online payment gateway.
 This system should allow users to receive notifications about new updates.

4.1.3.2 Non-functional Requirement

Availability

The system will be available for all the users from any geographical location.

Reliability

The system will be reliable as it uses encryption to protect user data.

User Interaction

Users will get an attractive and easy interface to interact with the system.

4.2 Feasibility Study

It is the study of how well the system will function under the given constraints. It studies
about how easy is it to build a system under given constraints. The constraints include
operational feasibility, economic feasibility, and technical feasibility.

4.2.1 Technical Feasibility

The system can be built using web development technologies such as HTML, CSS,
JAVASCRIPT, LARAVEL framework. Thus, it is technically feasible.

4.2.2 Operational Feasibility

Since the proposed system can be accessed using a web browser which is available in both
desktop computers as well as mobile devices, thus, it is operationally feasible.
4.2.3 Economic Feasibility
The system will be built using the tools that are freely available on the internet as well as
royalty free images, so, this system is economically feasible.

4.3 High Level Design of System

This shows the high level or abstract design of how the system will behave and how the users
can interact with it.

4.3.1 Methodology of the proposed system

The proposed system will be made using waterfall software development lifecycle model [3].
In this model, first the requirement is gathered from various sources, then the requirements
are analyzed, a design is developed, then the coding process starts. Finally, the developed
system is tested through various test cases. If all the test cases are fulfilled and passed, the
final system is set up for implementation.

4.3.2 System Flowchart

Figure 1: Flowchart for users

Start

No
Already have an account? Sign Up

yes

Login

Search for item

Add to cart
 Start

Insert username and

password
No
yes

Authenticated
?

Admin Home Page

Select Category

Insert, Read, Update, Delete

Products

Stop

Figure 2: Flowchart for admin

4.3.3 Use Case Diagram

Online Grocery Store

Search product

Login

Register

Users Users
Add to cart

Buy products

Contact company

Figure 3: Use case diagram for users

 Online Grocery Store

Create product

Display product

Update Product

Receive emails
Delete Product

Admin Receive Orders Admin

Create new categories

Figure 4: Use case diagram for admin

4.3.4 Description of algorithms
The system will use basic algorithms to implement recommendation systems.

Content-Based Filtering

Content-based filtering uses item features to recommend other items similar to what the user
likes, based on their previous actions or explicit feedback [4].

Include detail about content-based Filtering. Its Mathematical Equation.

Working of Content-Based Filtering

Step 1: Start

Step 2: Create a cookie

Step 3: Record the interaction of user with the items such as tags, item brand, item ratings
provided by the user, categories of items etc. and save it.

Step 4: Retrieve items that is similar in brand, tags, ratings, categories etc. that has been
stored in the cookie.

Step 5: Stop
5 Gantt chart

Table 1: Gantt chart for online grocery store system

No. of Weeks
Process
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Requirement
Gathering

Planning

Designing

Coding

Testing and
debugging

Implementation

6 Expected outcome
The system is expected to provide an easy to use interface for users to buy items and search
through the best deals for a best price.

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7 References

[1] Investopedia, "E-commerce," investopedia, [Online]. Available:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/ecommerce.asp. [Accessed 14 02 2022].

[2] N. N. Moon, S. Sultana, F. N. Nur and M. Saifuzzaman, "A literature review of the trend
of electronic commerce in Bangladesh perspective.," Global Journal of Management and
Business Research., vol. 17, no. 3, 2017.

[3] TutorialsPoint, "SDLC-Waterfall Model," TutorialsPoint, [Online]. Available:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/sdlc/sdlc_waterfall_model.htm. [Accessed 09 02 2022].

[4] Google, "Content-based filtering," google, [Online]. Available:

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/recommendation/content-based/basics.
[Accessed 09 02 2022].