ONLINE FURNITURE SHOP SYSTEM

(CASE STUDY: BUGEMBE FURNITURE SHOP)

BY

GUMA ALIHAJ SALIM

BU/UG/2017/1856

0786046953/0757644065
[email protected]

A Project Report Submitted To the Faculty of Science and Education

For The Study Leading To Partial Fulfillment Of The

Requirements for the Award of the Degree Of

Bachelor of Science and Education Of

Busitema University

Supervisor

Dr. Angole Richard Okello

Department Of Computer Studies

Faculty of Science and Education

December, 2020.
 DECLARATION
I GUMA ALIHAJ SALIM Reg. No. BU/UG/2017/1856 hereby declare that this Project Report
is original and has not been published and/or submitted for any other degree award to any other
University before.

Sign: ……………………………………….

Date: --------------------------------------------

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 APPROVAL
This Project Report was been under my supervision and has been successfully completed

Signed : ……………………………………………Date : ……………………………………..

Dr Angole Richard Okello

Head Of Department (H.O.D)

Department of Computer studies

Faculty of Science and Education

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 DEDICATION
This project work is dedicated to the ALMIGHTY GOD (ALLAH) for making me being able to
start up and successfully finish in sound health. Also to my parents as well for being supportive
in the cause of this project work both financially and spiritually, to all believers for the moral
support and the spiritual support with the sincere prayers they made for me to attain this success
and to my brother, sisters, close friends and to my dear lecturers for being supportive and kind to
me during the cause of this project work.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
My sincere gratitude goes to THE ALMIGHTY GOD for his abundant mercies, guidance and
protection over me throughout the course of my project work.

All thanks to my adorable parents Mr. SALIM SULAIMAN, Mrs. SAUDA SALIM and Mr.
TOKO MANSUR for their profound help and support during the course of this project work.

I really would say words are not enough to express my profound gratitude to my Supervisor Dr
ANGOLE RICHARD OKELLO who is also the Head of Department of Computer Studies, all
the Lecturers in the Department of Computer Studies as well as the Non-teaching Staffs of the
Department of Computer Studies especially the Lab Technician for their support and inspiration
in one way or the other. May God bless you abundantly (Amen).

Thanks to my brothers, sisters, family as a whole and all my friends for their unconditional. All
thanks to my sincere colleagues in the computer class and the whole fraternity of Nagongera
Campus for their immense contribution and unconditional support throughout the course of my
project work. May God in his Devine favor bless you all (Amen).

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
DECLARATION ........................................................................................................................... i
APPROVAL .................................................................................................................................. ii
DEDICATION ............................................................................................................................. iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT........................................................................................................... iv
LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................................ x
LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................................... xi
LIST OF APPENDICES ............................................................................................................ xii
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................... xiii
ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................ xiv
CHAPTER 1 .................................................................................................................................. 1
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................1

1.1 Background of the Study .........................................................................................................1

1.2 Problem Statement ..................................................................................................................3

1.3 Purpose of the study ................................................................................................................3

1.4 Specific Objectives of the study ...............................................................................................3

1.5 Significance of the study ..........................................................................................................4

1.6 Scope .......................................................................................................................................4

1.6.1 Content .............................................................................................................................4

1.6.2 Time ..................................................................................................................................5

1.6.3 Area ..................................................................................................................................5

CHAPTER 2 .................................................................................................................................. 6
LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................................................ 6
2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................6

2.2 Information System .................................................................................................................6

2.2.1 Management information system (MIS) ............................................................................6

2.2.2 Sales and Marketing Systems ............................................................................................7

2.2.3 Online Shopping System ...................................................................................................7

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 2.2.4 Online Furniture shop system ...........................................................................................9

2.3 Methodology review ...........................................................................................................9

2.3.1 Information system methodology .................................................................................... 10

2.3.1 Online shopping system methodology.............................................................................. 10

2.3.3 Online Furniture Shop methodology ............................................................................... 11

2.3.4 Choice of Methodology.................................................................................................... 11

2.4. System Design and Implementation review........................................................................... 11

2.5 System Testing and validation review .................................................................................... 13

2.6 Summary of the literature review .......................................................................................... 13

CHAPTER 3 ................................................................................................................................ 15
METHODOLOGY ..................................................................................................................... 15
3.1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 15

3.1.2 Research Design .............................................................................................................. 15

3.2 Study area ............................................................................................................................. 16

3.3 Study Population and Sampling ............................................................................................ 16

3.3.1 Study population ............................................................................................................. 16

3.3.2 Units of Analysis ............................................................................................................. 16

3.4.1 Data Collection................................................................................................................ 17

3.4.2 Types and Sources of Data .............................................................................................. 17

3.4.3 Data Collection Methods ................................................................................................. 17

3.5.1 Validity and Reliability Issues ......................................................................................... 17

3.5.2 Data Analysis Methods .................................................................................................... 18

3.6 System Design........................................................................................................................ 18

3.6.1 Architecture Design ........................................................................................................ 18

3.6.2 Program Design .............................................................................................................. 18

3.6.3 Data Storage Design ........................................................................................................ 19

3.7 System development methodology by RAD with prototyping ................................................ 19

3.7.1 Research process ............................................................................................................. 20

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 3.8 System Implementation and testing ....................................................................................... 20

3.8.1 Tools and Techniques...................................................................................................... 21

3.8.2 System ............................................................................................................................. 21

3.8.3 System Testing ................................................................................................................ 21

3.8.4 Potential outcomes .......................................................................................................... 21

3.9 Ethical considerations............................................................................................................ 22

3.10 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................... 22

CHAPTER 4 ................................................................................................................................ 23
FIELD STUDY ............................................................................................................................ 23
4.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 23

4.2 Background study (current system) ....................................................................................... 23

4.2.1 The strengths of the furniture shop ................................................................................. 24

4.2.2 The weaknesses of the furniture shop .............................................................................. 24

4.3 Requirements of the proposed system.................................................................................... 25

4.3.1 Functional requirements ................................................................................................. 25

4.3.2 Non-Functional Requirements ........................................................................................ 28

4.3.3 Hardware, Software and programming Languages requirements ................................... 28

4.4 system design ......................................................................................................................... 29

4.4.1 System Architecture ........................................................................................................ 29

4.4.2 Context flow diagram ...................................................................................................... 30

4.4.4 System Data flow chart diagram ..................................................................................... 32

4.4.5 System modeling using User-case .................................................................................... 33

4.4.6 Activity Tables ................................................................................................................ 34

4.5 Database Design .................................................................................................................... 37

CHAPTER 5 ................................................................................................................................ 39
IMPLEMENTATION ................................................................................................................ 39
5.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 39

5.2 Main Page (Home page) ........................................................................................................ 39

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5.3 Admin Login Page ................................................................................................................. 39

5.4 Admin Main page (Admin area) ............................................................................................ 40

5.4.1 Insert New Product page ................................................................................................. 41

5.4.2 All Products report ......................................................................................................... 42

5.4.3 Insert New Category ....................................................................................................... 42

5.4.4 All Categories Report ...................................................................................................... 43

5.4.5 Insert New Brand ............................................................................................................ 44

5.4.6 All Brands Report ........................................................................................................... 44

5.4.7 Customers Report ........................................................................................................... 45

5.4.8 Orders Report ................................................................................................................. 46

5.4.9 Payments Report ............................................................................................................. 46

5.4.9 Admin Logout ................................................................................................................. 47

5.5 Customer Main page ............................................................................................................. 47

5.5.1 Cart Checkout Form ....................................................................................................... 50

5.5.2 Customer Login Form ..................................................................................................... 50

5.5.3 Customer Signup Form ................................................................................................... 51

5.5.5 Payment and order confirmation and Transaction id generation page. ........................... 53

5.5.6 Customer Order Details Page.......................................................................................... 53

5.5.7 Change Password Form .................................................................................................. 54

5.5.8 Reset Password Form ...................................................................................................... 55

5.6 Contact Us Page .................................................................................................................... 56

5.7 Database Main Design ........................................................................................................... 58

5.7.1 Admins Table .................................................................................................................. 58

5.7.2 Brands Table................................................................................................................... 58

5.7.3 Cart Table....................................................................................................................... 59

5.7.4 Categories Table ............................................................................................................. 59

5.7.5 Orders Table ................................................................................................................... 59

5.7.6 Payments Table ............................................................................................................... 60

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 5.7.7 Products Table ................................................................................................................ 60

5.7.8 Customer user info Table. ............................................................................................... 61

CHAPTER 6 ................................................................................................................................ 62
DISCUSSIONS, CONCLUSION, AND RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................ 62
6.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 62

6.2 Discussions ............................................................................................................................ 62

6.2.1 Requirements determination ........................................................................................... 62

6.2.2 Design of the system ........................................................................................................ 63

6.2.3 Implementation of the system. ......................................................................................... 63

6.2.4 Testing and Validation of the functionalities of the system .............................................. 63

6.3 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................. 63

6.4 Recommendations ................................................................................................................. 64

6.5 Limitations and The future work of the system.................................................................. 64

6.5.1 Limitations ...................................................................................................................... 64

6.5.2 Future work .................................................................................................................... 65

References ....................................................................................................................................... I
Appendices ................................................................................................................................... III

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LIST OF TABLES
Table 3.1 Showing the sample size of the population meant to be used

Table 4.1 Main Page

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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 2.1 RAD Methodology
Figure 4.1 System Architecture
Figure 4.2 Context Diagram
Figure 4.3 O-Level Data Flow Diagram
Figure 4.4 Admin and Customer Side DFD
Figure 4. 5 Data flow chart diagram
Figure 4. 6 User-case Diagram
Figure 4.7 Entity Relationship Diagram

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LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix A: Open ended Interview questions and Answers
Appendix B: Short Questionnaire

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

RAD Rapid Application Development

HTML Hypertext Markup Language

CSS Cascading Style Sheets

TV Television

U.S United States

U.S.A United States of America

GUI Graphical User Interface

MS-DOS Microsoft Disk Operating System

ICT Information Communication Technology

GB Gigabytes

RAM Random Access Memory

JSP Java Server Pages.

SQL/sql structured query language

C# C sharp

GHz Gigahertz

UML Unified Modeling Language

DFD Data Flow Diagram

FSMS Furniture Shop Management System

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 ABSTRACT
It is well known that online shop system is seen as a form of electronic commerce which allows
customers to directly buy goods or services from the seller Via Internet using a web browser.
This Report in title "Online Furniture Shop System" discusses on an online shop that allows the
customers to access and purchase the furniture available in Bugembe furniture shop online and
also allows Shop management add new varieties of furniture on cart instantly. There are 2 main
modules in this system, which are Admin/manager and Customer modules. The problem of the
study is that shop mainly uses manual system for carrying out their activities such as Bugembe
furniture sales, record keeping and also expensive and unreliable means of advertising the
business such as Radio, TV and paper adverts. As a result customers face a lot of challenges in
accessing the available furniture on store and also spends a lot of money and time coming to
check and purchase the goods and as well the shop manager spends a lot of money on adverts.
The purpose of the study was to develop an online furniture shop system which allows the
customers to access and purchase the furniture available in Bugembe furniture shop online and
also allows Shop management add new varieties of furniture on cart instantly. The methodology
considered qualitative approaches/method for data collection where Interview and Direct
observation were used therefore Sampling considered was purposive and the data was analyzed
by conscientious method (going with the majority) and presented descriptively using written
communication. The design and implementation methodology used was RAD having 5 phases
which are capture requirements, Quick Analysis and design, build prototype, customer
evaluation of the prototype and develop the final product. Some design and implementation tools
such Sublime Text editor for coding, PHP as the main programming language and Wampserver
and Webserver for the database were used. The results of the study were obtained through
developing an online furniture shop system that was tested both during and after the
implementation and both the functional and nonfunctional requirements were in place. Finally
the system was successfully completed with all the functionalities abled and deployed since 85%
of the users agreed that the system performs its function. Therefore my recommendation goes to
the student to do further research on the system, the government to license the system, to the
users that the system can be elsewhere to do any other business apart from furniture shop.

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