How would you define e-business?

E-business (electronic business), derived from such terms as "e-mail" and "e-commerce," is the conduct of business on the Internet, not only buying and selling but also servicing customers and collaborating with business partners.

Are you doing e-business?
Is your business doing e-business? Here's a checklist to find out. If you can say yes to any of these, then you are doing e-business.

We communicate with customers, clients or suppliers via email.
We send emails to other businesses to order products and services.
We sell our products or services via our website.
We use the Web to find information, such as prices, phone numbers, reviews of products.
We use the Web for research, such as the latest industry trends.
We use our website to provide information about our products and services.
We use our website as a means of managing the information in our business.
No level of e-business is necessarily better than any other level. Some businesses don't need a website but deal all day with other businesses and customers online via email and an e-marketplace (see the Improving section for more detail). Other businesses have a website that helps them sell their products all around the world. It's up to each business to determine what level of e-business is right for them. The Planning section of the e-buisnessguide helps with this decision-making.

The difference between e-business and e-commerce
The term e-commerce has a narrower meaning than e-business. It refers to using the Internet to order and pay for products or services. So e-commerce is a sub-set of e-business.

E-commerce happens when a consumer orders a product from a business and pays for it either when they receive the product or directly online at the time of ordering. It happens when a business pays another business via its website for supplies.

E-commerce refers specifically to the paying for goods and services, whereas e-business covers the full range of business activities that can happen or be assisted via email or the Web.

Business that trades via Internet.

the buiseness activites
that exchange of goods and services and money through means and methods that are specially developed for this purpose
like credi cards, vouchers,online markets, Atms etc