🛒 E-Commerce Website

A role-based E-Commerce platform with distinct functionality for guests, customers, multiple staff members, and a single manager. This application supports product browsing, shopping, reviews, user management, and an admin dashboard for internal operations. The project follows the MVC architecture (Model-View-Controller), utilizes OOP (Object-Oriented Programming), and implements JPA (Java Persistence API). The user interface is built using Bootstrap.

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👥 User Roles & Permissions

🔹 Guest

• Browse and search products
• Register as a customer

🔹 Customer

• Add products to cart and place orders
• Submit product reviews
• Customize personal profile

🔹 Staff

• Manage product listings (create, update, delete)
• View customer information
• Reply to customer reviews
• Customize own profile

🔹 Manager

• Access the manager dashboard
• All permissions granted to staff
• Manage staff accounts (create, edit, delete)
• Manage customer accounts (ban, delete, edit)
• Customize own profile

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🛠️ Features Overview

Feature	Guest	Customer	Staff	Manager
Browse/Search Products	✅	✅	✅	✅
Register/Login	✅	✅	✅	✅
Add to Cart	❌	✅	❌	❌
Place Orders	❌	✅	❌	❌
Manage Orders	❌	❌	✅	✅
Submit Reviews	❌	✅	❌	❌
Reply to Reviews	❌	❌	✅	✅
Manage Products	❌	❌	✅	✅
View Customers	❌	❌	✅	✅
Manage Staff	❌	❌	❌	✅
Manage Customers	❌	❌	❌	✅
Customize Profile	❌	✅	✅	✅

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📁 Project Screenshots