Online shopping is often a solitary activity, unlike shopping in a brick and mortar store, where people have a choice of going shopping together with others. Users have to depend on other social media channels, if at all they try to interact and share their virtual shopping experience.
Our solution aims to develop a software product which makes online shopping a social activity, where two users share a common cart and can interact with each other using a chat functionality, while knowing the online activity of each other via events.
Our ShopSocial e-commerce application aims to provide the following basic features:
- Allow users to add a buddy to shop together by sharing their browsing activities and share a common shopping cart.
- Provide a text-based chat option to the user to chat with his/her buddies.
- Allow individual users to browse, select and order products on the website.