PalitTayo An Online Trading System in the Philippines

Humans have learned to trade as a product of communication and to improve their social economic status. With the advent of technology, various methods was used to facilitate trading, specifically the use of internet, hence e-commerce also known as e-trade was introduced. In the Philippines, one common problem of available e-trade sites such as OLX.ph is the absence of social networking sites that allows community of traders to communicate, negotiate and eventually trade items. PalitTayo: An online trading system in the Philippines was designed to serve that purpose. The heart of the system is the provision of a social networking site that acts as a platform to come up with a community of Filipino traders online. The study used the waterfall methodology in developing the system. It used a combination of different programming languages such as CSS, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, JQuery, Adobe Photoshop, and DevPHP in creating the system. The system undergone system test through a test instrument formulated and verified by an IT expert using selected criteria such as reliability, response time and security. Test results showed that the system functioned accordingly and met expected results. To further assess the performance of the system, it undergone system evaluation using the TUP standard evaluation instrument for software materials. The system yielded an overall mean of 4.83 which means “Excellent”. This indicates that the developed system can be a good platform in which local traders can use to build a community of traders and successfully trade their items.

Keyword – PalitTayo, Online Trading, E- commerce, E-trade