BuyLow: A Platform Design for Online Goods and Services Trading Platform in the Philippines

This study focuses on the business design model covering the creation and developing the BuyLow: Goods and Services Trading Platform in the Philippines. BuyLow aims to provide an alternative e-commerce approach to typical marketplace where customers meet to exchange their goods and services without any currency. In a common scenario the amount goods and services purchased are also paid by manufactured goods or offered services. BuyLow offers exchange of goods and services in a much safer and reliable way. Buylow also offers a platform where people can trade not just physical product but also digital services such as animations, video editing, digital art and other modern digital products that can be stored electronically. BuyLow can be a game changer in the e-commerce industry in the Philippines because it utilizes unused item from each user in exchange for possible useful items from other users. The BuyLow business model is based on subscription and advertisements. For free users they can only post up to 4 items per day and can transact up to 8 trades per day, after the quota (for free users) certain features will be disabled such as ability to post item for trade, accept trade proposal or submit trade proposal to other users, but can also do monitoring of exisiting trades. BuyLow can be a game changer in the e-commerce industry in the Philippines because it utilizes unused item from each user in exchange for possible useful items from other users. With the use of AI and Machine Learning the success of the system can be greatly improve by producing new and accurate data about the system environment.