Why a B2B ordering portal makes sense for Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a market of about 23 million people where B2B and wholesale portals are growing fast, with Ouagadougou as its capital.
Burkina Faso has one of West Africa’s fastest-growing mobile-money bases and a strong textile and shea economy. Reliable local delivery and French-language storefronts are decisive.
For a business in Burkina Faso, the opportunity is to own the customer relationship: your own B2B ordering portal keeps your margin, your data and your brand, while marketplaces and social channels become additional sales routes instead of the only one.
What makes a Burkina Faso store feel local
A store that works in Burkina Faso respects local habits as well as local law. These are the details we configure first.
Currency and pricing
Everything a Burkina Faso shopper sees — price, tax, delivery fee, refund — is in XOF, written the local way.
Language and content
We localise pages, emails and notifications into French, Mooré and Dioula where your audience needs it.
Local trust signals
We add the payment logos, courier names and policy pages shoppers in Burkina Faso recognise: Orange Money and Moov Money and delivery through Poste Burkina Faso.
Domain, phone and contact
Using .bf where it suits you signals a local business to shoppers and search engines. Contact buttons are pre-set with +226, so a customer in Burkina Faso taps once to call or message.
Custom-built for how you sell in Burkina Faso
Whatever your business sells in Burkina Faso, N&T Software designs and develops the B2B ordering portal and the matching mobile app exactly to your requirements — your catalogue, your prices, your payment and delivery rules.
In Burkina Faso we typically work with wholesalers, FMCG distributors, industrial suppliers and electrical and hardware traders, and with sellers in categories such as cotton and textiles, agri-products (shea, sesame), phones and electronics and fashion that have strong online demand in Burkina Faso.
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 Burkina Faso
These are the building blocks of a B2B ordering portal. We scope them with you, so you pay for what your Burkina Faso operation needs.
Business accounts
Registration, KYC and approval, company hierarchies, branches, buyers and approvers with their own permissions. Dashboards break sales down by product, customer and neighbourhood of Burkina Faso, so you see what to promote.
Contract pricing
Price lists by customer, group or territory, quantity slabs, pack sizes, minimum order values and negotiated rates. Storefront language, imagery and navigation are set up for Burkina Faso shoppers and available in French and Mooré.
Quick and bulk ordering
SKU-code entry, spreadsheet upload, saved lists, re-order from history and scheduled repeat orders. Bulk import and sync tools mean the Burkina Faso team never re-keys stock, prices or descriptions by hand.
Quotes and approvals
Request-for-quotation, counter-offers, purchase-order upload and multi-level approval before submission. Payment steps are built around Orange Money, Moov Money and Coris Money, the options shoppers here already trust.
Credit and payments
Online payment, credit limits, pay-later terms, outstanding statements and payment reminders where approved. Delivery can be booked through Poste Burkina Faso, DHL and Aramex or dispatched by your own riders around Burkina Faso.
Sales-team tools
Order on behalf of customers, territory assignment, visit notes and performance dashboards for representatives. Multiple stock points in Burkina Faso are supported, so a Burkina Faso order ships from the nearest one.
Industries in Burkina Faso we work with
Popular online categories in Burkina Faso include cotton and textiles, agri-products (shea, sesame), phones and electronics, fashion, cosmetics and building materials. In Burkina Faso, we most often build B2B and wholesale portals for:
Wholesalers
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for wholesalers in Burkina Faso, 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 Burkina Faso, connected to the systems you already use.
Dealer networks
Dealer networks get sales-team tools plus contract pricing workflows tailored to their operations.
Getting paid online in Burkina Faso
Checkout is where most online sales are won or lost. In Burkina Faso, customers expect to pay with Orange Money, Moov Money and Coris Money, and many also look for Visa and Mastercard, cash on delivery and bank transfer.
Gateway selection depends on your category and merchant approval; we connect the provider, reconcile payments, automate retries and refunds, and never store raw card data. Prices, taxes and refunds appear in West African CFA franc (XOF).
- Moov Money
- Bank transfer
- Coris Money
- Visa and Mastercard
- Cash on delivery
- Orange Money
Fulfilment options for Burkina Faso orders
Your B2B ordering portal can book shipments and share tracking with Poste Burkina Faso, DHL, Aramex, Local motorbike couriers and Bus-line parcel services, or route orders to your own riders and stores.
We set up shipping zones, cut-off times, free-shipping thresholds, cash-collection rules and returns so the promise on the product page matches what your team can deliver.
Owning your channel in Burkina Faso
Selling in Burkina Faso through Jumia (regional), Facebook Marketplace and local online classifieds gets you reach quickly, yet the buyer belongs to the platform, not to you.
Your B2B ordering portal becomes the hub: marketplaces and social shops become extra outlets fed from one catalogue, while repeat customers buy directly from you at better margins.
Rules Burkina Faso sellers must respect online
On tax: Burkina Faso charges 18% VAT, with a simplified regime for small taxpayers.
Customer data is handled with Law No. 001-2021/AN on protection of personal data, overseen by the CIL in mind, and the storefront follows the Consumer Protection Law and OHADA commercial rules.
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.
Android and iOS apps for your Burkina Faso business
In Burkina Faso, 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.
Push notifications can be timed to UTC+0 so offers reach Burkina Faso customers when they are awake, and the interface can run in French and Mooré.
- BI and reporting tools
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
- CRM and lead management
- Credit and payment gateways
- Logistics and freight partners
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho)
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- Warehouse and inventory systems
Integrations above are examples; we connect any system that offers a suitable API, database access or approved import and export process.
Launch roadmap and success metrics
We launch the journeys that create value first, then add depth. A typical roadmap for a B2B ordering portal in Burkina Faso:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Launch portal | Accounts, contract pricing, catalogue, ordering and ERP order sync. Configured for XOF, Orange Money and Poste Burkina Faso from the start. |
| Automate | Quotes, approvals, credit, statements and notifications. |
| Expand | Dealer and sales-rep apps, analytics and new territories. Reviewed against how Burkina Faso 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.
Working with our team from Burkina Faso
Our team covers UTC+0 — 5h 30m behind India (IST) — through three 8-hour shifts, so a Burkina Faso client always reaches someone during the local working day.
We work in English and can deliver storefront content in Mooré, Bissa and Dioula. NDAs are signed on request, and you get a named project lead plus direct access to the engineers building your B2B ordering portal.
Our head office is in Chhapi, Gujarat, with an office in Hyderabad and representation in Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia and Zambia; clients in Burkina Faso are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
