E-commerce consists of the buying and selling of goods and services, or the transmitting of funds or data
over electronic systems
is the buying and selling of goods and services, or the transmitting of funds or data
, over an electronic network, primarily the Internet. These business transactions occur either business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer-to-consumer or consumer-to-business. The terms e-commerce and e-business are often used interchangeably. The term e-tail is also sometimes used in reference to transactional processes around online retail.