Question

I am new to e-commerce, so not sure if I am using the correct term. The application I am working on will be having this feature where the clients will put some offers/deals for the users.

For example:

Some music institute might offer 1 week course with discount.
Some hotel might offer a DJ party with drinks and a mean with some discount.

My questions are:

For the above scenario what will be the business term used? Are they offers or deals or something else? Since I am not sure about the term so couldn't find any e-commerce framework.

What type of product this will be? As far as I know there are physical and digital products and I think this offers don't fall in any of these categories. So let's say a hotel renting a hall for party, what product is it?

Can you recommend any open source Java frameworks/applications specific for this or do I need an e-commerce framework and have to customize it for this requirement?

Answer 1

I would have written this in a comment, but I don't have enough reputation yet.

However, if I have understood your requirement correctly you would like to create an application in which different businesses will be offering different deals and users will be able to review them and buy them through something like a ticked they can printout afterward? Something like GroupOn at the UK? If this is the case you can search online-shopping engines for the platform you are going to build your application on. I think for anyone to be able to recommend a possible solution for building such application, I believe you should specify the platform you are targeting.

Hope this helps you get started!