What is e-commerce?

E-commerce is a form of buying and selling products or services online. This method allows financial transactions through electronic devices and platforms, such as computers and mobile phones. You search, compare prices, choose, pay and, within a given period of time, receive the product at home.

In the beginning, these operations were focused basically on tangible goods with products of low cost to the consumer, such as books, CDs and DVDs. Today, you can buy or sell almost anything over the Internet, from perfumes to luxury cars.