Design of an Online Community-Driven Marketplace portal for Cultivated Plants with Learning Materials Integration

Abstract

Plant enthusiasts in the Philippines calling themselves "plantitos" and "plantitas" started to take over social media feeds such as Facebook and Instagram but they may find it difficult to grow their own plants or maintain indoor plants at home. Due to this situation, the researchers have suggested the development of a platform in which users can have access to a wide array of information regarding plants and learn on how to maintain them, as well as to have the opportunity to buy or sell plants in a consumer-to-consumer marketplace. This research provides an understanding on the effectiveness of the development of a B2C e-commerce website with plant filtering and learning materials to aid plant enthusiasts in their cultivating plants journey. Findings show on the evaluation of the answers of the respondents that the developed system is a more notable and viable choice by how it stands out in error-handling, system design, and as well as other key features. Additionally, intensive research and analysis is recommended when inserting values into the database to improve reliability on the results returned by the website based on the user input.