ABSTRACT

 A virtual marketplace is a huge online market where third-party sellers or even individual businesses can sell or resell their products over electronic systems such as the internet and other computer networks. It is an electronic-marketplace (e-Marketplace) based on the internet where companies execute economic transactions. Such e-Marketplaces can be used to purchase materials that are direct or indirect and can be further categorized as vertical or horizontal eMarketplaces. Motivation came as a result of the needfor a system where customers can search for certain goods and services without making expenses and the needfor an online information system for customers. The objectives of this research work are to; design a virtual marketplace system where manufactures can sell goods and services; to analyse some of the problems associated with the existing system; to design and implement a system where prospective customers can search for goods and services online. Several research methodologies were considered in the course of this work. Collection of data was done, data were investigated and analysed. PHF and HTML were used as the suitable technologies for the programming and, MySQL server as the database.