E-Commerce in a Closed System: Development of an E-Marketspace for a University Community

E-commerce opens up the market to otherwise closed communities providing a market space for trade in contrast to the location dependent market place. A typical university typifies such a closed system, which is usually populated enough to benefit from a web-based application. This paper presents the design and implementation of an emarketspace for use in a university community. The methodology used for the design is the waterfall model. The system design was represented using a data flowchart and logical diagrams and implemented using PHP, CSS, HTML, Bootstrap and MySQL for the database query. (Key terms: closed system commerce, consumer to consumer, C2C, electronic commerce, e-commerce, emarketspace, university, web-based system)