From the course: Shared Economy for iOS Development

Overview of shared ecommerce - iOS Tutorial

From the course: Shared Economy for iOS Development

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Overview of shared ecommerce

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- [Instructor] As with any big project, the first thing we want to do is just dive in and start coding, right? Nah, just kidding. The idea of Shared Ecommerce involves a few core concepts we need to identify as we'll use them in this course. The term itself implies a couple of things, ecommerce, we're making money, and shared, we're sharing it. Isn't that sweet? On one side, we have someone with a need, like someone who needs a ride home, and on the other side, they offer the service, like Uber, or Lyft, or our app. The commerce part is that the person getting the ride, pays for the ride. But there's something else needed in the middle, the service to bring those two people together, and take the money. For that service, they also need to be paid, and that's the shared part. So, we need to allow people to create accounts as a service provider, and as a service consumer, or customer, the one who pays. We also need to set up a database to house the data, the service or product data, requests for services or products, request fulfillment, payment, order updates, and tracking. It depends on the type of app you need, but the concepts are fairly similar. So, that's the basic breakdown of the moving parts. Next, we'll start looking at some details.

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