Business Case Analysis 'Electronic Payment Systems in Action ...

Bank charges 70000
Advertising 12000
Postage meters 2000
Adopting a standard
Total ongoing cost 157800
Analysis of Figures
The total estimated cost of cost of operation and maintenance for the Ecommerce for over
two years is $346, 659. Out of this, $188, 859 is the initial development cost and the rest;
$157,800 will be spent over the two years for maintenance of the system.
Fortunately for movie gallery, one of the EPS chosen (Papal) is very good and profitable;
there is no initial charge fee for papal implementation, the focus will be on the cost of
hardware and implementation which has already being gotten in the first year. Charges are
based on the percentage of sales made, meaning that movie gallery will really make a lot of
profit by the implementation of this payment system in the sense they make use of it without
paying initially. From the business background and motivation, it is observed that movie
gallery is a very big and successful company, even the percentage charges by papal will not
make any negative difference, rather more profit will be made in implementing this payment
system as customer trust has being won due to good information security system. The
ongoing cost for the system maintenance seems quite manageable, reason been that not
everything, (asset) that was used initially are been bought again, the entire have to focus on is
to maintain what has already been bought and a few more items perhaps.
The papal system is not only advantageous for movie gallery but to the customers alike,
reason been that they do not have to worry about someone having access to their credit card
information because, movie gallery implements the secure socket layer (ssl) in their server,
when they fill in their payment information, no one else knows it except Paypal, so this is
really secured and confidential
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