Design and Development of Affiliate Tracking Application for Real-Time Price Comparison on E-Commerce Platform

Abstract: There is a huge necessity of E-commerce websites in day to day life. The business-to-consumer aspect of e-commerce is the most visible business use of World Wide Web. Electronic Commerce, known as e-commerce which consists of buying/selling of products over Internet based on browser/server system. This paper focuses on the benefits of affiliate marketing as a tool for increasing business profitability. This paper is an attempt to compare the prices of the products from multiple E-commerce sites and display the least price of products from all available e-commerce sites. Thus it helps buying the products through the online shops such as flipkart, snapdeal, etc anywhere through internet by using an android device .It also resolves the problem of internal memory space of an android device.

Keywords: E Commerce, Affiliate marketing, Affiliate tracking, World Wide Web, JSON.