Development Of An Online Cashless Payment System For Small Scale Businesses:- Eleje Desmond N

ABSTRACT ix With the emergence ofa cashless society which involves electronic transaction and the risk involve carrying cash which lead to theft, lose and stress formed the basis ofthis project, which is aimed therefore at developing an electronic model to replace the existing physical wallet, with its notes, coins, photos, plastic cards, loyalty cards etc. The aim of this project is to develop an online cashless payment system for a small scale businesses, where customers registers and create an account with them, thereby giving them avenue to shop without them carrying physical cash. The methodology adopted is structured System analysis and design methodology, it was chosen because it provides clear-cut steps in moving between the phases from the beginning to the end of the systems development life cycle. This project work will be designed using Adobe macromedia Dreamweaver as the IDE (Integrated Development Environment), Elypertext Pre-processor (PHP) was used to connect the text field to database; JavaScript was used to validate text fields and MYSQL for the database creation and management to enhance security ofthe system.