Network is a media without boundaries, and has the characteristics of global and non centrality. E-commerce, which is dependent on the Internet, has the characteristics of global and non centrality. Compared with the traditional trading methods, e-commerce is an important feature of e-commerce is a borderless transaction, the loss of the traditional exchange of geographical factors. Internet users do not need to consider cross-border products, especially high value-added products and services to the market.
For the network, the speed of transmission is independent of geographical distance. Traditional transaction modes, such as letters, telegrams and faxes, have different time differences between the sending and receiving of messages. In the electronic commerce, the information exchange, regardless of the actual time and space distance, one side sends the information and the other side receives the information nearly simultaneously, is just like in the life face-to-face conversation. Some digital products (such as audio-visual products, software, etc.) transactions can also be immediately cleared, order, payment, delivery can be completed in an instant.
Electronic commerce mainly adopts the paperless operation mode, which is the main characteristic of the transaction in the form of e-commerce. In electronic commerce, electronic computer communications records take the place of a series of paper transaction documents. The user sends or receives electronic information. Because the electronic information exists and transmits in the form of bits, the whole information transmission and reception process is realized without paper.