The case for a B2B ordering portal in Makati
Makati is a highly urbanized city in metro manila, philippines, with a population of roughly 310,000, and one of the markets in Philippines where we build B2B and wholesale portals.
The local economy is driven by financial district and corporate HQs, and commercial activity concentrates around the Makati Central Business District.
Logistics are supported by Close to NAIA, which matters when you promise customers fast delivery.
The Philippines has more than 1 million registered MSMEs, 99.6% of all businesses (Department of Trade and Industry). Filipino shoppers are among the most social-media-active in the world and rely heavily on GCash and Maya. Clear delivery estimates across the islands build confidence.
That is why more companies in Makati are moving from phone, WhatsApp and spreadsheet orders to a proper B2B ordering portal — one place where products, prices, payments, orders and customers are managed together.
What makes a Makati store feel local
A store that works in Makati respects local habits as well as local law. These are the details we configure first.
Currency and pricing
Prices, taxes, shipping and refunds are shown in Philippine peso (PHP), formatted the way Makati customers read them.
Language and content
Storefront copy, product pages and emails can run in Filipino and English, with local date and number formats.
Local trust signals
Trust is local: familiar names such as GCash and Maya and J&T Express sit next to the buy button.
Domain, phone and contact
Using .ph where it suits you signals a local business to shoppers and search engines. Contact buttons are pre-set with +63, so a customer in Makati taps once to call or message.
Talent and partners nearby
Makati draws on Asian Institute of Management, which means plenty of local staff, interns and technology partners to run the store after launch.
Custom-built for how you sell in Makati
Makati businesses tell us what they sell and how they want to sell it; our engineers turn that into a custom B2B ordering portal, an admin system and a mobile app shaped around their operations.
Typical clients include FMCG distributors, industrial suppliers, electrical and hardware traders and medical and institutional suppliers. Categories that sell especially well online in the Philippines — fashion, beauty, electronics and mobiles and groceries — 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.
What your B2B ordering portal includes
Nothing here is fixed: modules are switched on, reshaped or built from scratch around how your Makati business sells.
Business accounts
Registration, KYC and approval, company hierarchies, branches, buyers and approvers with their own permissions. Pages, search filters and wording are tuned to how people in Makati look for products, in Filipino and English if your audience needs it.
Contract pricing
Price lists by customer, group or territory, quantity slabs, pack sizes, minimum order values and negotiated rates. Bulk import and sync tools mean the Makati team never re-keys stock, prices or descriptions by hand.
Quick and bulk ordering
SKU-code entry, spreadsheet upload, saved lists, re-order from history and scheduled repeat orders. Payment steps are built around GCash, Maya and cash on delivery, the options shoppers here already trust.
Quotes and approvals
Request-for-quotation, counter-offers, purchase-order upload and multi-level approval before submission. Shipping rules can use J&T Express, LBC Express and Ninja Van as well as your own delivery staff in Makati.
Credit and payments
Online payment, credit limits, pay-later terms, outstanding statements and payment reminders where approved. Stock can be held in Makati or anywhere in Philippines, with pickup and local-delivery options where they make sense.
Sales-team tools
Order on behalf of customers, territory assignment, visit notes and performance dashboards for representatives. Revenue reports by product, repeat buyer and delivery area of Makati guide stock and marketing decisions.
Businesses that use NNT Mart in Makati
Popular online categories in the Philippines include fashion, beauty, electronics and mobiles, groceries, home and health. Local demand in Makati is shaped by financial district and corporate HQs, so we often design catalogues and B2B ordering around those sectors. In Makati, 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 Makati, 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 Makati, connected to the systems you already use.
Getting paid online in Makati
A B2B ordering portal for Makati must support the way people here actually pay: GCash, Maya, cash on delivery, InstaPay/PESONet bank transfer, Visa and Mastercard and over-the-counter (7-Eleven CLiQQ).
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 PHP — card details stay with the provider.
Zone-based payment rules let you offer different options for the Makati Central Business District than for outer parts of Makati.
- InstaPay/PESONet bank transfer
- Cash on delivery
- Over-the-counter (7-Eleven CLiQQ)
- GCash
- Maya
- Visa and Mastercard
Shipping, couriers and local delivery in Makati
Your B2B ordering portal can book shipments and share tracking with J&T Express, LBC Express, Ninja Van, Flash Express, PHLPost and Lalamove, or route orders to your own riders and stores across Makati.
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 — Close to NAIA — makes regional and national dispatch from Makati practical.
Owning your channel in the Philippines
For a Makati business, Shopee, Lazada, TikTok Shop and Zalora are useful shop windows — but fees, ranking changes and shared customer data limit how far you can grow on them alone.
With your own B2B ordering portal you keep the customer data, set the offers and the packaging, and still push stock to marketplaces from a single admin.
Rules Makati sellers must respect online
For Makati sellers, tax first: Philippine VAT is 12%, and the 2024 law on digital services requires foreign digital providers to charge VAT.
On privacy we design around the Data Privacy Act of 2012, enforced by the National Privacy Commission; on consumer rights the store reflects the Consumer Act and the Internet Transactions Act of 2023, which created the E-Commerce Bureau.
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 Philippines.
Android and iOS apps for your Makati 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+8 so offers reach Makati customers when they are awake, and the interface can run in Filipino and English.
- CRM and lead management
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho)
- Credit and payment gateways
- Warehouse and inventory systems
- BI and reporting tools
- Logistics and freight partners
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
Value first, depth later. For a B2B ordering portal serving Makati, the usual sequence looks like this:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Launch portal | Accounts, contract pricing, catalogue, ordering and ERP order sync. Configured for PHP, GCash and J&T Express from the start. |
| Automate | Quotes, approvals, credit, statements and notifications. |
| Expand | Dealer and sales-rep apps, analytics and new territories. Reviewed against how Makati 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.
How Makati clients work with us
Our team covers UTC+8 — 2h 30m ahead of India (IST) — through three 8-hour shifts, so a Makati client always reaches someone during the local working day.
Project communication is in English; storefront content can be produced in Taglish, Filipino and English. 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; Makati clients are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
