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# Glossary of Online Sales 20 Common eCommerce Terms
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3PL is a service delivered by third-party businesses that allows you to outsource operational logistics from warehousing, all the way through to the delivery and fulfillment services.

3PL (Third Party Logistics)

Occurs when a shopper adds items to their cart then leaves the site without making a purchase. Sending abandoned cart emails can help retailers win back this business. A cart is considered abandoned 30 minutes after the visitor leaves the site without purchasing.

Abandonment

A process that every credit card company implements in their system which allows them to verify whether the billing addresses of your customers match the addresses on their credit card statements.

Address Verification Service (AVS)

The process when your customer’s credit card issuer confirms that the mode of payment is valid by determining that the cardholder has sufficient funds to perform the transaction and allows a payment transaction to proceed.

Authorization

A COS is basically a CMS (Content Management System), but optimized to deliver customers the most personalized web experience possible. It is a holistic solution designed to help you manage your website and other components of digital marketing all together in one system.

Content Optimization System (COS)

A digital wallet (or e-wallet) is a software-based system that securely stores users' payment information and passwords for numerous payment methods and websites. It’s a service that allows a customer to pay through a payment provider without entering their credit card information i.e. Apple Pay, PayPal or AliPay.

Digital Wallet

Dropshipping is a type of eCommerce arrangement where the retailer does not keep goods in stock, but instead the goods are directly shipped from the manufacturer to the retailer or customer.

Dropshipping

E-commerce analytics is a system or tool that allows online retailers to understand their user’s behaviour. Onsite, eCommerce analytics can tell where visitors came from, how much time they spent looking at a particular product, where they spend most of their time, and much more.

Ecommerce Analytics

It is a comprehensive software platform used to help a business run more efficiently and effectively, by automating core processes such as taking orders from customers, managing financial records, updating inventory after each sale, and anticipating labor needs based on the level of orders received.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)

All steps involved in receiving, processing, packaging and shipping orders to customers. In eCommerce terminology, fulfillment is also called as Order fulfillment.

Fulfillment

The system collects information about correlation between products and about customers' behaviour in order to generate high quality recommendation models to telling the customer what they might like, based on their purchase patterns.

Intelligent Product Recommendation Systems

It’s a list of products and their types currently in stock, waiting to be sold. Inventory list can contain SKU, barcode, tracking information, quantity, and locations of each item which is stocked.

Inventory

An inventory management system is a combination of technology (hardware and software), processes and procedures that control the monitoring and maintenance of products movements.

Inventory Management System

Marketing automation sends personalized marketing messages based on a customer's activity and preferences to brings him closer to making an initial purchase or even upgrading. This is an integral component of Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

Marketing Automation

It is also called as Fulfillment and reffers to all steps involved in receiving, processing, packaging and shipping orders to customers.

Order Fulfillment

Order Management System is the application that enables online merchants to process, track, and organize orders.

Order Management System

A set of requirements to ensure that customers’ credit card information is protected when stored, processed, or transmitted, That requirements are maintained through a set of strict regulations merchants and payment service providers must follow to collect and transfer credit card information.

Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance

This is a software that facilitates payment transaction by transferring information within banks and transmits responses like transaction approved or declined. Payment Gateway helps to protect sensitive information by encrypting the data they transmit to merchants and payment processors.

Payment Gateway

It is an online a third party service for accepting electronic payments by using various payment methods like credit card, direct debit, bank transfer, and real-time bank transfer based on online banking.

Payment Service Provider

That's an app being used on tablets and smartphones, or any other device to sell in person and accept payments.

Shopify POS, Shopify Point of Sale

An eCommerce shopping cart refers to the place which allows a customer to add and store all products intended to be purchased.

Shopping Cart

A unique alphanumeric identification code for each product or service which helps track movement of inventory.

SKU (Stock Keeping Unit)

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