The case for a B2B ordering portal in Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast is a market of about 31 million people where B2B and wholesale portals are growing fast, with Yamoussoukro as its capital.
Ivory Coast is West Africa’s second-largest francophone economy, with Abidjan a regional tech and trade hub and mobile-money penetration rising rapidly. Wave and Orange Money shape checkout expectations.
For a business in Ivory Coast, 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.
Local details we build into every Ivory Coast project
A store that works in Ivory Coast respects local habits as well as local law. These are the details we configure first.
Currency and pricing
Everything a Ivory Coast shopper sees — price, tax, delivery fee, refund — is in XOF, written the local way.
Language and content
Content can be produced in French, Baoulé and Dioula, so a Ivory Coast customer reads the store in the language they use at home.
Local trust signals
Badges for Orange Money and MTN MoMo, La Poste de Côte d’Ivoire delivery and clear return terms reassure first-time buyers in Ivory Coast.
Domain, phone and contact
Using .ci where it suits you signals a local business to shoppers and search engines. Click-to-call and WhatsApp buttons use the +225 calling code so customers reach you without dialling errors.
Designed to your requirements, not a template
Whatever your business sells in Ivory Coast, 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 Ivory Coast we typically work with wholesalers, FMCG distributors, industrial suppliers and electrical and hardware traders, and with sellers in categories such as cocoa and food products, fashion, phones and electronics and cosmetics that have strong online demand in Ivory Coast.
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 Ivory Coast
Nothing here is fixed: modules are switched on, reshaped or built from scratch around how your Ivory Coast business sells.
Business accounts
Registration, KYC and approval, company hierarchies, branches, buyers and approvers with their own permissions. Delivery can be booked through La Poste de Côte d’Ivoire, DHL and Aramex or dispatched by your own riders around Ivory Coast.
Contract pricing
Price lists by customer, group or territory, quantity slabs, pack sizes, minimum order values and negotiated rates. Inventory can sit in Ivory Coast, in a partner warehouse or across Ivory Coast, with click-and-collect where customers want it.
Quick and bulk ordering
SKU-code entry, spreadsheet upload, saved lists, re-order from history and scheduled repeat orders. Revenue reports by product, repeat buyer and delivery area of Ivory Coast guide stock and marketing decisions.
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 Ivory Coast search and buy, including French and Baoulé 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 Ivory Coast 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. Checkout is configured for Orange Money, MTN MoMo and Wave.
Checkout and payment methods for Ivory Coast
A store that serves Ivory Coast should let customers pay the way they do offline: Orange Money, MTN MoMo, Wave and Moov Money.
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.
- Cash on delivery
- Visa and Mastercard
- Moov Money
- Wave
- Orange Money
- MTN MoMo
Shipping, couriers and local delivery in Ivory Coast
Your B2B ordering portal can book shipments and share tracking with La Poste de Côte d’Ivoire, DHL, Aramex, Yango Delivery, Gozem and Local moto-couriers, 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.
Selling online legally in Ivory Coast
On tax: Ivory Coast charges 18% VAT (9% on certain items), with electronic invoicing (FNE) rolled out for businesses.
On privacy we design around Law No. 2013-450 on personal data protection, overseen by the ARTCI; on consumer rights the store reflects the Consumer Protection Law of 2016 and OHADA commercial rules.
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.
Your own store alongside Jumia Côte d’Ivoire and Glovo
Jumia Côte d’Ivoire, Glovo and local online classifieds are where many shoppers in Ivory Coast 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.
Industries in Ivory Coast we work with
Popular online categories in Ivory Coast include cocoa and food products, fashion, phones and electronics, cosmetics, home goods and building materials. In Ivory Coast, we most often build B2B and wholesale portals for:
Wholesalers
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for wholesalers in Ivory Coast, 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 Ivory Coast, connected to the systems you already use.
Dealer networks
Dealer networks get sales-team tools plus contract pricing workflows tailored to their operations.
Add a mobile app for Ivory Coast customers
In Ivory Coast, 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 Ivory Coast time (UTC+0), in French and Baoulé if you want.
- CRM and lead management
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho)
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- Logistics and freight partners
- BI and reporting tools
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
- Warehouse and inventory systems
- Credit and payment gateways
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 Ivory Coast
Value first, depth later. For a B2B ordering portal serving Ivory Coast, 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 Ivory Coast 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.
Support hours and communication for Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast runs on UTC+0, which is 5h 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.
We work in English and can deliver storefront content in French. 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 Ivory Coast are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
