Why David businesses are investing in B2B and wholesale portals
David is a commercial centre in Panama where around 83,000 people live and shop, and one of the places where we build B2B and wholesale portals for local businesses.
Businesses here work in agribusiness and regional commerce; many are based around Downtown and agro-industrial areas.
Logistics are supported by Enrique Malek Airport, which matters when you promise customers fast delivery.
Panama is a dollarised logistics hub with the Canal and the Colón Free Zone. It is an ideal base for regional distribution and B2B commerce across Central America.
For a business in David, 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 David project
Conversion in David depends on small local signals — the right currency, the right words and the right payment and courier names.
Currency and pricing
Everything a David shopper sees — price, tax, delivery fee, refund — is in PAB, written the local way.
Language and content
Storefront copy, product pages and emails can run in Spanish and English, with local date and number formats.
Local trust signals
We add the payment logos, courier names and policy pages shoppers in David recognise: Yappy and Visa and Mastercard and delivery through Correos de Panamá.
Domain, phone and contact
Using .pa where it suits you signals a local business to shoppers and search engines. Contact buttons are pre-set with +507, so a customer in David taps once to call or message.
Talent and partners nearby
David draws on Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, which means plenty of local staff, interns and technology partners to run the store after launch.
Designed to your requirements, not a template
We do not hand David businesses a ready-made theme: we study how you sell, then build the online platform and Android/iOS app your customers and staff actually need.
In David we typically work with wholesalers, FMCG distributors, industrial suppliers and electrical and hardware traders, and with sellers in categories such as electronics, fashion, home and groceries that have strong online demand in Panama.
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 David
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. Product data imports from your existing sheets or ERP, so David teams do not re-type thousands of items.
Contract pricing
Price lists by customer, group or territory, quantity slabs, pack sizes, minimum order values and negotiated rates. Payment steps are built around Yappy, Visa and Mastercard and ACH transfers, the options shoppers here already trust.
Quick and bulk ordering
SKU-code entry, spreadsheet upload, saved lists, re-order from history and scheduled repeat orders. Delivery can be booked through Correos de Panamá, Aeropost and Uno Express or dispatched by your own riders around David.
Quotes and approvals
Request-for-quotation, counter-offers, purchase-order upload and multi-level approval before submission. Multiple stock points in Panama are supported, so a David order ships from the nearest one.
Credit and payments
Online payment, credit limits, pay-later terms, outstanding statements and payment reminders where approved. Revenue reports by product, repeat buyer and delivery area of David guide stock and marketing decisions.
Sales-team tools
Order on behalf of customers, territory assignment, visit notes and performance dashboards for representatives. Pages, search filters and wording are tuned to how people in David look for products, in Spanish and English if your audience needs it.
Who we build for in David
Popular online categories in Panama include electronics, fashion, home, groceries, beauty and duty-free goods. Local demand in David is shaped by agribusiness and regional commerce, so we often design catalogues and B2B ordering around those sectors. In David, 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 David, 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 David, connected to the systems you already use.
How David customers pay online
Checkout is where most online sales are won or lost. In Panama, customers expect to pay with Yappy, Visa and Mastercard and ACH transfers, and many also look for Nequi Panama, PayPal and cash on delivery.
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 Panamanian balboa (USD in circulation) (PAB).
Business buyers around Downtown often want invoices or bank transfer, while consumers lean on Yappy. We support both flows.
- Cash on delivery
- PayPal
- Visa and Mastercard
- Yappy
- Nequi Panama
- ACH transfers
Fulfilment options for David orders
Your B2B ordering portal can book shipments and share tracking with Correos de Panamá, Aeropost, Uno Express, DHL and local couriers, or route orders to your own riders and stores across David.
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.
Connectivity in the area — Enrique Malek Airport — makes regional and national dispatch from David practical.
David sellers: marketplace plus your own store
For a David business, Amazon (US cross-border), Encuentra24, Panafoto and Super 99 are useful shop windows — but fees, ranking changes and shared customer data limit how far you can grow on them alone.
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 David sellers must respect online
On tax: Panama charges ITBMS (sales tax) at 7% standard, with higher rates on alcohol and tobacco, and DGI electronic invoicing is being rolled out.
On privacy we design around Law 81 of 2019 on Personal Data Protection; on consumer rights the store reflects Law 45 of 2007 on consumer protection, enforced by ACODECO.
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 Panama.
Take your David store onto customers' phones
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 David time (UTC−5), in Spanish and English if you want.
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
- Credit and payment gateways
- Logistics and freight partners
- CRM and lead management
- BI and reporting tools
- Warehouse and inventory systems
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- 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.
A phased launch plan for David
Value first, depth later. For a B2B ordering portal serving David, the usual sequence looks like this:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Launch portal | Accounts, contract pricing, catalogue, ordering and ERP order sync. Configured for PAB, Yappy and Correos de Panamá from the start. |
| Automate | Quotes, approvals, credit, statements and notifications. |
| Expand | Dealer and sales-rep apps, analytics and new territories. Reviewed against how David 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
David runs on UTC−5, which is 10h 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 Spanish. 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; David clients are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
