An E-Commerce Control Unit for Addressing Online Transactions in Developing Countries: Saudi Arabia—Case Study

Online transactions play an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Recently, online shopping has dramatically expanded not only in small and medium enterprises, but also among individual internet users who use social media as online trading platforms. While there are several online-shopping platforms in Saudi Arabia, they are still facing critical obstacles that challenge customers, businessmen, and organizations. This paper presents a smart control unit that could help address current challenges facing e-commerce and suggest recent government legislation dedicated to governing and simplifying online transactions to make them more reliable, faster, secure, and competitive.