For the development of an e-commerce website you will need a frontend and backend of the website. The front end of the website is where all the information put into the backend will show such as product information, price, product description, sliders, banner, promotional offer and any other visual features, nothing can be edited in the front end and thus is viewed by customers.

The backend of a website is where all the confidential information is store as well as the data for the frontend such as customer details, payment information, sales figures, reports, analytics and other variables.

The front and backend of the websites are place on developement software such as wordpress, magento, google services, however, all of this software cost money which when starting out a business can be very costly.