The case for a B2B ordering portal in Seychelles
Seychelles is a market of about 120,000 people where B2B and wholesale portals are growing fast, with Victoria as its capital.
Seychelles is Africa’s highest-income economy per person, driven by tourism and fisheries, with strong card use. Resort suppliers and island retailers use online stores to simplify purchasing across islands.
That is why more companies in Seychelles 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.
Localised for Seychelles, not translated into it
Conversion in Seychelles depends on small local signals — the right currency, the right words and the right payment and courier names.
Currency and pricing
Everything a Seychelles shopper sees — price, tax, delivery fee, refund — is in SCR, written the local way.
Language and content
We localise pages, emails and notifications into Seychellois Creole, English and French where your audience needs it.
Local trust signals
We add the payment logos, courier names and policy pages shoppers in Seychelles recognise: Visa and Mastercard and Apple Pay and Google Pay and delivery through Seychelles Postal Services.
Domain, phone and contact
A .sc domain (or your own) builds local trust and search relevance. Click-to-call and WhatsApp buttons use the +248 calling code so customers reach you without dialling errors.
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 Seychelles — tourism products, seafood, fashion and electronics — 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 Seychelles clients
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. Bulk import and sync tools mean the Seychelles team never re-keys stock, prices or descriptions by hand.
Contract pricing
Price lists by customer, group or territory, quantity slabs, pack sizes, minimum order values and negotiated rates. Checkout is configured for Visa and Mastercard, Apple Pay and Google Pay and bank mobile apps.
Quick and bulk ordering
SKU-code entry, spreadsheet upload, saved lists, re-order from history and scheduled repeat orders. Couriers such as Seychelles Postal Services, DHL and FedEx plug in alongside your own fleet for Seychelles orders.
Quotes and approvals
Request-for-quotation, counter-offers, purchase-order upload and multi-level approval before submission. Inventory can sit in Seychelles, in a partner warehouse or across Seychelles, with click-and-collect where customers want it.
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 Seychelles guide stock and marketing decisions.
Sales-team tools
Order on behalf of customers, territory assignment, visit notes and performance dashboards for representatives. Storefront language, imagery and navigation are set up for Seychelles shoppers and available in Seychellois Creole and English.
Getting paid online in Seychelles
Shoppers in Seychelles rarely abandon a cart over price alone — they leave when their usual method is missing. Here that means Visa and Mastercard, Apple Pay and Google Pay and bank mobile apps, then PayPal, bank transfer and cash on delivery.
We integrate suitable gateways and providers for your business category and merchant eligibility, handle payment status, failed-payment retries and refunds, and keep sensitive card data with the provider rather than on your servers. All amounts are shown in Seychellois rupee (SCR).
- Bank transfer
- PayPal
- Apple Pay and Google Pay
- Bank mobile apps
- Visa and Mastercard
- Cash on delivery
Shipping, couriers and local delivery in Seychelles
Your B2B ordering portal can book shipments and share tracking with Seychelles Postal Services, DHL, FedEx, Local couriers and Inter-island cargo boats, 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.
Compliance built into your B2B ordering portal
On tax: Seychelles charges 15% VAT, with a turnover threshold of SCR 2 million for registration.
Two frameworks shape the build: the Data Protection Act 2023, overseen by the Information Commission, and the Consumer Protection Act 2010 and the Electronic Transactions Act.
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.
Marketplaces vs. your own B2B ordering portal in Seychelles
For a Seychelles business, local online classifieds, Facebook Marketplace, Amazon (cross-border) and Instagram shops 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.
Businesses that use NNT Mart in Seychelles
Popular online categories in Seychelles include tourism products, seafood, fashion, electronics, cosmetics and crafts. In Seychelles, 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 Seychelles, 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 Seychelles, connected to the systems you already use.
Add a mobile app for Seychelles customers
Phones carry most traffic in Seychelles. 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+4 so offers reach Seychelles customers when they are awake, and the interface can run in Seychellois Creole and English.
- CRM and lead management
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
- Logistics and freight partners
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho)
- Credit and payment gateways
- Warehouse and inventory systems
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- BI and reporting tools
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
We launch the journeys that create value first, then add depth. A typical roadmap for a B2B ordering portal in Seychelles:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Launch portal | Accounts, contract pricing, catalogue, ordering and ERP order sync. Configured for SCR, Visa and Mastercard and Seychelles Postal Services from the start. |
| Automate | Quotes, approvals, credit, statements and notifications. |
| Expand | Dealer and sales-rep apps, analytics and new territories. Reviewed against how Seychelles 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
Our team covers UTC+4 — 1h 30m behind India (IST) — through three 8-hour shifts, so a Seychelles client always reaches someone during the local working day.
We work in English and can deliver storefront content in Seychellois Creole, English and 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 Seychelles are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
