Bibliobazaar - Ecommerce Book Selling Website

Bibliobazaar is an e-commerce book-selling website developed using Django, designed to provide a seamless experience for buying and selling books online. This README provides an overview of the project, its features, and how to set it up.

Features

1. User Authentication:

   • Users can register and login

2. Book Catalog:

   • Browse and search a wide selection of books.
   • View book details, including title, author, price, and description.
   • Click on a book to get the detailed description of a book.

3. Shopping Cart:

   • Add books to the shopping cart.
   • Update cart contents (add or remove items).
   • Calculate the total price of items in the cart.

4. Checkout:

   • Secure checkout process for customers.
   • Enter shipping details and payment information.

5. Payment Integration:

   • Integration with Razorpay for secure and convenient payments.
   • Supports various payment methods.

6. Request a Book:

   • Users can request books that are not available on the website.
   • Admin can review and add requested books to the catalog.

7. Buy and Sell Used Books:

   • Users can sell their used books to Bibliobazaar.
   • Customers can purchase used books from other users.

Getting Started

Follow these steps to set up and run Bibliobazaar on your local environment:

1. Clone the repository

2. Create a virtual environment and activate it:

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Payment Integration with Razorpay:

   • To enable payment integration with Razorpay, you must have a Razorpay account.
   • Obtain your Razorpay API credentials and paste them in the settings.py file.

5. Run database migrations:

   python manage.py makemigrations
   python manage.py migrate

6. Create a superuser account:

   • You can log in as a superuser to manage the app using the Django admin panel.

   • Use the following command to create a superuser account:

     python manage.py createsuperuser

   • You can access the Django admin panel by visiting http://localhost:8000/admin/ after starting the server.

7. Start the development server:

   python manage.py runserver

8. Visit http://localhost:8000/ to explore and use the Bibliobazaar website.