Definition: Electronic transaction

Category: OECD terminology

An electronic transaction is the sale or purchase of goods or services, whether between businesses, households, individuals, governments, and other public or private organisations, conducted over computer-mediated networks. The goods and services are ordered over those networks, but the payment and the ultimate delivery of the good or service may be conducted on or offline.

Include: orders received or placed on any online application used in automated transactions such as Internet applications, EDI, Minitel or interactive telephone systems (paragraph 148). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/oecd_measuring_information_society_2002.pdf