The case for a B2B ordering portal in Lyon
Lyon is a commercial centre in France home to about 519,000 people, and one of the places where we build B2B and wholesale portals for local businesses.
Key sectors include healthcare, biotech and industrial software, with business districts such as Part-Dieu, Confluence and Gerland.
Logistics are supported by Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport, which matters when you promise customers fast delivery.
France has more than 4 million enterprises, almost all of them SMEs (INSEE). French shoppers are loyal to brands that offer pick-up-point delivery, CB payments and instalments. French-language UX and transparent return conditions are critical for conversion.
Shoppers and trade buyers in Lyon already compare options on their phones; a B2B ordering portal that loads fast, shows accurate stock and accepts Cartes Bancaires (CB) turns that research into orders.
What makes a Lyon store feel local
Conversion in Lyon depends on small local signals — the right currency, the right words and the right payment and courier names.
Currency and pricing
Everything a Lyon shopper sees — price, tax, delivery fee, refund — is in EUR, written the local way.
Language and content
Content can be produced in French, so a Lyon customer reads the store in the language they use at home.
Local trust signals
Badges for Cartes Bancaires (CB) and Visa and Mastercard, La Poste Colissimo delivery and clear return terms reassure first-time buyers in Lyon.
Domain, phone and contact
A .fr domain (or your own) builds local trust and search relevance. Click-to-call and WhatsApp buttons use the +33 calling code so customers reach you without dialling errors.
Talent and partners nearby
With Université de Lyon and INSA Lyon close by, finding people to manage catalogues, content and support after launch is realistic in Lyon.
Designed to your requirements, not a template
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 France — fashion and luxury, beauty and cosmetics, home and DIY and electronics — get catalogue structures and filters designed for them.
Before any commitment you get a free requirements meeting, a demo built on your use case and a proposal priced to your budget.
Features of your B2B ordering portal in Lyon
Each module below is configured — or custom-developed — to your requirements. You choose what launches first and what follows in later phases.
Business accounts
Registration, KYC and approval, company hierarchies, branches, buyers and approvers with their own permissions. Checkout is configured for Cartes Bancaires (CB), Visa and Mastercard and PayPal.
Contract pricing
Price lists by customer, group or territory, quantity slabs, pack sizes, minimum order values and negotiated rates. Couriers such as La Poste Colissimo, Chronopost and Mondial Relay plug in alongside your own fleet for Lyon orders.
Quick and bulk ordering
SKU-code entry, spreadsheet upload, saved lists, re-order from history and scheduled repeat orders. Stock can be held in Lyon or anywhere in France, with pickup and local-delivery options where they make sense.
Quotes and approvals
Request-for-quotation, counter-offers, purchase-order upload and multi-level approval before submission. Revenue reports by product, repeat buyer and delivery area of Lyon guide stock and marketing decisions.
Credit and payments
Online payment, credit limits, pay-later terms, outstanding statements and payment reminders where approved. Storefront language, imagery and navigation are set up for Lyon shoppers and available in French.
Sales-team tools
Order on behalf of customers, territory assignment, visit notes and performance dashboards for representatives. Product data imports from your existing sheets or ERP, so Lyon teams do not re-type thousands of items.
Payments customers in Lyon expect
A B2B ordering portal for Lyon must support the way people here actually pay: Cartes Bancaires (CB), Visa and Mastercard, PayPal, Alma and Oney instalments, Apple Pay and SEPA transfer.
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 EUR — card details stay with the provider.
Business buyers around Part-Dieu often want invoices or bank transfer, while consumers lean on Cartes Bancaires (CB). We support both flows.
- Visa and Mastercard
- PayPal
- Apple Pay
- Alma and Oney instalments
- Cartes Bancaires (CB)
- SEPA transfer
Shipping, couriers and local delivery in Lyon
Your B2B ordering portal can book shipments and share tracking with La Poste Colissimo, Chronopost, Mondial Relay, DPD France, Relais Colis and GLS, or route orders to your own riders and stores across Lyon.
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.
Connectivity in the area — Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport — makes regional and national dispatch from Lyon practical.
Compliance built into your B2B ordering portal
French TVA is 20% standard with reduced 10%, 5.5% and 2.1% rates; e-invoicing obligations are being phased in for French businesses from 2026.
Two frameworks shape the build: the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy rules on cookies and marketing consent, enforced by the CNIL, which is particularly active on cookie consent, and the EU Consumer Rights Directive (14-day withdrawal right), the Digital Services Act and, from June 2025, the European Accessibility Act for online shops, the Code de la consommation and the AGEC anti-waste law on packaging and product information.
Controls we implement include compliant invoices, consent capture, policy pages, restricted staff access and audit trails. Please confirm the final legal and tax position with a local adviser in Lyon.
Owning your channel in France
Many Lyon sellers already list on Amazon.fr, Cdiscount, Fnac Darty, Leboncoin, Vinted and ManoMano. Those channels bring traffic, but they also take commission, control the customer relationship and change rules without notice.
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.
Businesses that use NNT Mart in Lyon
Popular online categories in France include fashion and luxury, beauty and cosmetics, home and DIY, electronics, food and wine and second-hand goods. Local demand in Lyon is shaped by healthcare, biotech and industrial software, so we often design catalogues and B2B ordering around those sectors. In Lyon, 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 Lyon, 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 Lyon, connected to the systems you already use.
Android and iOS apps for your Lyon business
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+2 so offers reach Lyon customers when they are awake, and the interface can run in French.
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
- CRM and lead management
- Warehouse and inventory systems
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- Credit and payment gateways
- Logistics and freight partners
- BI and reporting tools
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho)
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 Lyon
Value first, depth later. For a B2B ordering portal serving Lyon, the usual sequence looks like this:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Launch portal | Accounts, contract pricing, catalogue, ordering and ERP order sync. Configured for EUR, Cartes Bancaires (CB) and La Poste Colissimo from the start. |
| Automate | Quotes, approvals, credit, statements and notifications. |
| Expand | Dealer and sales-rep apps, analytics and new territories. Reviewed against how Lyon 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 Lyon
Lyon runs on UTC+2, which is 3h 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 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; Lyon clients are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
