Why San-Pédro businesses are investing in B2B and wholesale portals
San-Pédro is a place in bas-Sassandra, ivory coast, home to about 391,000 people, and one of the markets in Côte d'Ivoire where we build B2B and wholesale portals.
Cocoa export port — a business base that increasingly wants to sell online rather than through calls, messages and spreadsheets.
Côte d'Ivoire is francophone West Africa's largest economy, with Abidjan as a regional hub. Wave and Orange Money checkout in French are essential.
Shoppers and trade buyers in San-Pédro already compare options on their phones; a B2B ordering portal that loads fast, shows accurate stock and accepts Orange Money turns that research into orders.
Localised for San-Pédro, not translated into it
Conversion in San-Pédro depends on small local signals — the right currency, the right words and the right payment and courier names.
Currency and pricing
Prices, taxes, shipping and refunds are shown in West African CFA franc (XOF), formatted the way San-Pédro customers read them.
Language and content
Content can be produced in French, so a San-Pédro customer reads the store in the language they use at home.
Local trust signals
We add the payment logos, courier names and policy pages shoppers in San-Pédro recognise: Orange Money and MTN MoMo and delivery through La Poste de Côte d'Ivoire.
Domain, phone and contact
Using .ci where it suits you signals a local business to shoppers and search engines. Contact buttons are pre-set with +225, so a customer in San-Pédro taps once to call or message.
Custom-built for how you sell in San-Pédro
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 Côte d'Ivoire — fashion, phones and electronics, beauty 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.
Core modules we build for San-Pédro clients
These are the building blocks of a B2B ordering portal. We scope them with you, so you pay for what your San-Pédro operation needs.
Business accounts
Registration, KYC and approval, company hierarchies, branches, buyers and approvers with their own permissions. Shipping rules can use La Poste de Côte d'Ivoire, DHL and Yango Delivery as well as your own delivery staff in San-Pédro.
Contract pricing
Price lists by customer, group or territory, quantity slabs, pack sizes, minimum order values and negotiated rates. Stock can be held in San-Pédro or anywhere in Côte d'Ivoire, 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 San-Pédro drive revenue.
Quotes and approvals
Request-for-quotation, counter-offers, purchase-order upload and multi-level approval before submission. Content and design can follow how customers in San-Pédro search and buy, including French where you need it.
Credit and payments
Online payment, credit limits, pay-later terms, outstanding statements and payment reminders where approved. Product data imports from your existing sheets or ERP, so San-Pédro teams do not re-type thousands of items.
Sales-team tools
Order on behalf of customers, territory assignment, visit notes and performance dashboards for representatives. Customers in San-Pédro can pay with Orange Money, MTN MoMo and Wave, with receipts and refunds handled in the same admin.
Who we build for in San-Pédro
Popular online categories in Côte d'Ivoire include fashion, phones and electronics, beauty, groceries, home and baby products. Cocoa export port — which shapes what local businesses need online. In San-Pédro, we most often build B2B and wholesale portals for:
Wholesalers
For wholesalers, we usually start with contract pricing, then add ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho) once orders are flowing.
FMCG distributors
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for FMCG distributors in San-Pédro, connected to the systems you already use.
Industrial suppliers
Industrial suppliers get quick and bulk ordering plus credit and payments workflows tailored to their operations.
Electrical and hardware traders
We map how electrical and hardware traders sell today and digitise it end to end — from enquiry and order to payment, dispatch and repeat purchase.
Medical and institutional suppliers
For medical and institutional suppliers, we usually start with sales-team tools, then add credit and payment gateways once orders are flowing.
Dealer networks
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for dealer networks in San-Pédro, connected to the systems you already use.
Payments customers in San-Pédro expect
A B2B ordering portal for San-Pédro must support the way people here actually pay: Orange Money, MTN MoMo, Wave, Moov Money, Visa and Mastercard and cash on delivery.
Provider approval, settlement time and fees differ by business type, so we shortlist gateways with you, then wire up status updates, refunds and reconciliation in XOF — card details stay with the provider.
- Wave
- Visa and Mastercard
- Orange Money
- Cash on delivery
- MTN MoMo
- Moov Money
Fulfilment options for San-Pédro orders
Your B2B ordering portal can book shipments and share tracking with La Poste de Côte d'Ivoire, DHL, Yango Delivery and local couriers, or route orders to your own riders and stores across San-Pédro.
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.
San-Pédro sellers: marketplace plus your own store
Jumia Côte d'Ivoire, Jiji and Yango Deli are where many shoppers in San-Pédro start, which is why sellers list there. The trade-off is commission, limited branding and rules the platform can change overnight.
NNT Mart gives you a channel you own: your domain, your customer list, your pricing and your brand. Where it helps, we connect product feeds and orders from marketplaces so stock stays in sync and your team works from one dashboard.
Rules San-Pédro sellers must respect online
Ivorian VAT (TVA) is 18% standard, with a reduced 9% rate for some goods.
Customer data is handled with Law No. 2013-450 on the protection of personal data, overseen by ARTCI in mind, and the storefront follows Law No. 2016-412 on consumption and Law No. 2013-546 on electronic transactions.
Our job is the engineering: price display with tax, invoice numbering, cookie and marketing consent, return and terms pages, role-based access and logs. Legal and tax conclusions stay with your own adviser in Côte d'Ivoire.
Add a mobile app for San-Pédro customers
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.
Apps are published under your own developer accounts and share the same backend as your B2B ordering portal, so offers, stock and orders are always consistent between web and mobile.
Order alerts, offers and abandoned-cart reminders go out on San-Pédro time (UTC+0), in French if you want.
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- Logistics and freight partners
- CRM and lead management
- Credit and payment gateways
- BI and reporting tools
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho)
- Warehouse and inventory systems
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
Integrations above are examples; we connect any system that offers a suitable API, database access or approved import and export process.
How we phase your B2B ordering portal
Value first, depth later. For a B2B ordering portal serving San-Pédro, the usual sequence looks like this:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Launch portal | Accounts, contract pricing, catalogue, ordering and ERP order sync. Configured for XOF, Orange Money and La Poste de Côte d'Ivoire from the start. |
| Automate | Quotes, approvals, credit, statements and notifications. |
| Expand | Dealer and sales-rep apps, analytics and new territories. Reviewed against how San-Pédro customers actually buy. |
We track order-entry time, share of orders placed online, order accuracy, days sales outstanding, repeat-order frequency and sales-rep productivity on a live dashboard from day one, so San-Pédro results are visible, not promised.
Working with our team from San-Pédro
Our team covers UTC+0 — 5h 30m behind India (IST) — through three 8-hour shifts, so a San-Pédro client always reaches someone during the local working day.
Project communication is in English; storefront content can be produced in French. 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; San-Pédro clients are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
