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Today, information and communications technology (ICT) has been the axis of economic, social and cultural development in different countries. ECommerce is an outcome of ICT revolution in economic fields. The rise of the Internet and its commercialization in recent decades has transformed traditional methods of commerce. ECommerce has revolutionized the methods and practices of the past trade and also has achieved speed and economization the best way possible. In electronic environment there is no geographical distance or time and space limits and commercial transactions are carried out on the basis of electronic information. Removing the boundaries facing international trade, eCommerce accelerate global commerce trend. It benefits from such economic advantages such as market expansion, reduction of product source prices, promotion of productivity, reduction of transaction costs and reduction of inflation and it plays a vital role in an endogenous economic growth.
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