Why a B2B ordering portal makes sense for Sheki
Sheki is a commercial centre in Azerbaijan where around 68,000 people live and shop, and one of the places where we build B2B and wholesale portals for local businesses.
Historic silk and tourism town — a business base that increasingly wants to sell online rather than through calls, messages and spreadsheets.
Azerbaijan's online market is concentrated in Baku but growing in regional cities. Instalment card payments drive electronics and appliance sales.
Shoppers and trade buyers in Sheki already compare options on their phones; a B2B ordering portal that loads fast, shows accurate stock and accepts Visa and Mastercard turns that research into orders.
Localised for Sheki, not translated into it
Conversion in Sheki depends on small local signals — the right currency, the right words and the right payment and courier names.
Currency and pricing
Everything a Sheki shopper sees — price, tax, delivery fee, refund — is in AZN, written the local way.
Language and content
Storefront copy, product pages and emails can run in Azerbaijani and Russian, with local date and number formats.
Local trust signals
Trust is local: familiar names such as Visa and Mastercard and Birbank and Kapital Bank apps and Azerpost sit next to the buy button.
Domain, phone and contact
Using .az where it suits you signals a local business to shoppers and search engines. Click-to-call and WhatsApp buttons use the +994 calling code so customers reach you without dialling errors.
A B2B ordering portal built around your Sheki business
Your B2B ordering portal is planned, designed and coded for your business model — not adapted from someone else's — and it can ship with a customer or staff mobile app on day one.
Typical clients include FMCG distributors, industrial suppliers, electrical and hardware traders and medical and institutional suppliers. Categories that sell especially well online in Azerbaijan — electronics, fashion, home appliances and groceries — get catalogue structures and filters designed for them.
We start with a requirements meeting, show you a working demo within 24 hours, and only then propose scope, milestones and budget.
Features of your B2B ordering portal in Sheki
Nothing here is fixed: modules are switched on, reshaped or built from scratch around how your Sheki business sells.
Business accounts
Registration, KYC and approval, company hierarchies, branches, buyers and approvers with their own permissions. Couriers such as Azerpost, CDEK and Wolt plug in alongside your own fleet for Sheki orders.
Contract pricing
Price lists by customer, group or territory, quantity slabs, pack sizes, minimum order values and negotiated rates. Stock can be held in Sheki or anywhere in Azerbaijan, with pickup and local-delivery options where they make sense.
Quick and bulk ordering
SKU-code entry, spreadsheet upload, saved lists, re-order from history and scheduled repeat orders. Reports show which products, customers and areas of Sheki drive revenue.
Quotes and approvals
Request-for-quotation, counter-offers, purchase-order upload and multi-level approval before submission. Storefront language, imagery and navigation are set up for Sheki shoppers and available in Azerbaijani and Russian.
Credit and payments
Online payment, credit limits, pay-later terms, outstanding statements and payment reminders where approved. Catalogues come in from spreadsheets, ERP exports or supplier feeds, so your Sheki team keeps its current way of working.
Sales-team tools
Order on behalf of customers, territory assignment, visit notes and performance dashboards for representatives. Checkout is configured for Visa and Mastercard, Birbank and Kapital Bank apps and Tamkart instalments.
Checkout and payment methods for Sheki
A store that serves Sheki should let customers pay the way they do offline: Visa and Mastercard, Birbank and Kapital Bank apps, Tamkart instalments and cash on delivery.
We integrate suitable gateways and providers for your business category and merchant eligibility, handle payment status, failed-payment retries and refunds, and keep sensitive card data with the provider rather than on your servers. All amounts are shown in Azerbaijani manat (AZN).
- Visa and Mastercard
- MilliÖN terminals
- Cash on delivery
- Tamkart instalments
- Birbank and Kapital Bank apps
Fulfilment options for Sheki orders
Your B2B ordering portal can book shipments and share tracking with Azerpost, CDEK, Wolt, Bolt Food and local couriers, or route orders to your own riders and stores across Sheki.
Delivery rules can price by distance, weight, postcode or zone, offer same-day slots in dense areas, and switch on pickup points or click-and-collect where customers prefer them.
Compliance built into your B2B ordering portal
Tax basics: Azerbaijan VAT is 18%, with cashback incentives for consumers who pay electronically.
On privacy we design around the Law on Personal Data (2010); on consumer rights the store reflects the Law on Consumer Rights Protection and the Law on Electronic Commerce.
We build the technical controls — tax-inclusive pricing, compliant invoices, consent banners, terms and return pages, data-access roles and audit logs. We are not a law firm, so final legal and tax positions should be confirmed with your own adviser in Azerbaijan.
Sheki sellers: marketplace plus your own store
Selling in Sheki through Umico, Tap.az and Kontakt Home gets you reach quickly, yet the buyer belongs to the platform, not to you.
With your own B2B ordering portal you keep the customer data, set the offers and the packaging, and still push stock to marketplaces from a single admin.
Who we build for in Sheki
Popular online categories in Azerbaijan include electronics, fashion, home appliances, groceries, beauty and furniture. Historic silk and tourism town — which shapes what local businesses need online. In Sheki, we most often build B2B and wholesale portals for:
Wholesalers
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for wholesalers in Sheki, connected to the systems you already use.
FMCG distributors
FMCG distributors get contract pricing plus quotes and approvals workflows tailored to their operations.
Industrial suppliers
We map how industrial suppliers sell today and digitise it end to end — from enquiry and order to payment, dispatch and repeat purchase.
Electrical and hardware traders
For electrical and hardware traders, we usually start with credit and payments, then add warehouse and inventory systems once orders are flowing.
Medical and institutional suppliers
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for medical and institutional suppliers in Sheki, connected to the systems you already use.
Dealer networks
Dealer networks get sales-team tools plus contract pricing workflows tailored to their operations.
Mobile commerce in Sheki
In Sheki, shoppers browse on phones first. A dealer and sales-representative app lets buyers re-order in seconds, scan products, check statements and receive scheme announcements, while reps take orders at the counter even with patchy connectivity.
One backend serves the website and the apps, and the apps ship under your own Google Play and App Store accounts — so what you change once appears everywhere.
Order alerts, offers and abandoned-cart reminders go out on Sheki time (UTC+4), in Azerbaijani and Russian if you want.
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- BI and reporting tools
- Credit and payment gateways
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho)
- Warehouse and inventory systems
- CRM and lead management
- Logistics and freight partners
Integrations above are examples; we connect any system that offers a suitable API, database access or approved import and export process.
From first demo to growth in Sheki
We launch the journeys that create value first, then add depth. A typical roadmap for a B2B ordering portal in Sheki:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Launch portal | Accounts, contract pricing, catalogue, ordering and ERP order sync. Configured for AZN, Visa and Mastercard and Azerpost from the start. |
| Automate | Quotes, approvals, credit, statements and notifications. |
| Expand | Dealer and sales-rep apps, analytics and new territories. Reviewed against how Sheki customers actually buy. |
Success is measured on order-entry time, share of orders placed online, order accuracy, days sales outstanding, repeat-order frequency and sales-rep productivity — tracked on a dashboard you can see from launch day.
Time zones, language and support
Sheki runs on UTC+4, which is 1h 30m behind India (IST). With three 8-hour shifts we are available 24×7, so meetings, demos and urgent fixes happen in your working hours.
Project communication is in English; storefront content can be produced in Azerbaijani. You get a named lead, direct engineer access and an NDA if you ask.
Our head office is in Chhapi, Gujarat, with an office in Hyderabad and representation in Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia and Zambia; Sheki clients are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
