Why a B2B ordering portal makes sense for La Digue
La Digue is an island of the seychelles, where around 2,200 people live and shop, and one of the markets in Seychelles where we build B2B and wholesale portals.
Key sectors include tourism, crafts and hospitality, with business districts such as La Passe harbour and the village centre.
Logistics are supported by Inter-island ferries, which matters when you promise customers fast delivery.
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.
Shoppers and trade buyers in La Digue already compare options on their phones; a B2B ordering portal that loads fast, shows accurate stock and accepts Visa and Mastercard turns that research into orders.
What makes a La Digue store feel local
Conversion in La Digue depends on small local signals — the right currency, the right words and the right payment and courier names.
Currency and pricing
The store speaks Seychellois rupee: SCR amounts from product page to invoice, so La Digue buyers never convert in their heads.
Language and content
We localise pages, emails and notifications into Seychellois Creole, English and French where your audience needs it.
Local trust signals
Trust is local: familiar names such as Visa and Mastercard and Apple Pay and Google Pay and Seychelles Postal Services sit next to the buy button.
Domain, phone and contact
Using .sc where it suits you signals a local business to shoppers and search engines. Click-to-call and WhatsApp buttons use the +248 calling code so customers reach you without dialling errors.
Talent and partners nearby
With Local colleges close by, finding people to manage catalogues, content and support after launch is realistic in La Digue.
Designed to your requirements, not a template
Every NNT Mart B2B ordering portal in La Digue is engineered to the client's own brief — the web platform, the admin panel and, when you need one, a mobile application built for your workflow.
In La Digue we typically work with wholesalers, FMCG distributors, industrial suppliers and electrical and hardware traders, and with sellers in categories such as tourism products, seafood, fashion and electronics that have strong online demand in Seychelles.
Before any commitment you get a free requirements meeting, a demo built on your use case and a proposal priced to your budget.
Core modules we build for La Digue clients
These are the building blocks of a B2B ordering portal. We scope them with you, so you pay for what your La Digue operation needs.
Business accounts
Registration, KYC and approval, company hierarchies, branches, buyers and approvers with their own permissions. Storefront language, imagery and navigation are set up for La Digue shoppers and available in Seychellois Creole and English.
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 La Digue 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. Checkout is configured for Visa and Mastercard, Apple Pay and Google Pay and bank mobile apps.
Quotes and approvals
Request-for-quotation, counter-offers, purchase-order upload and multi-level approval before submission. Couriers such as Seychelles Postal Services, DHL and FedEx plug in alongside your own fleet for La Digue orders.
Credit and payments
Online payment, credit limits, pay-later terms, outstanding statements and payment reminders where approved. Inventory can sit in La Digue, in a partner warehouse or across Seychelles, with click-and-collect where customers want it.
Sales-team tools
Order on behalf of customers, territory assignment, visit notes and performance dashboards for representatives. Reports show which products, customers and areas of La Digue drive revenue.
Who we build for in La Digue
Popular online categories in Seychelles include tourism products, seafood, fashion, electronics, cosmetics and crafts. Local demand in La Digue is shaped by tourism, crafts and hospitality, so we often design catalogues and B2B ordering around those sectors. In La Digue, we most often build B2B and wholesale portals for:
Wholesalers
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for wholesalers in La Digue, 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 La Digue, connected to the systems you already use.
Dealer networks
Dealer networks get sales-team tools plus contract pricing workflows tailored to their operations.
Payments customers in La Digue expect
Shoppers in La Digue 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).
Business buyers around La Passe harbour often want invoices or bank transfer, while consumers lean on Visa and Mastercard. We support both flows.
- Apple Pay and Google Pay
- Cash on delivery
- Bank mobile apps
- Visa and Mastercard
- PayPal
- Bank transfer
Shipping, couriers and local delivery in La Digue
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 across La Digue.
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 — Inter-island ferries — makes regional and national dispatch from La Digue practical.
Your own store alongside local online classifieds and Facebook Marketplace
For a La Digue 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.
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.
Compliance built into your B2B ordering portal
On tax: Seychelles charges 15% VAT, with a turnover threshold of SCR 2 million for registration.
Customer data is handled with the Data Protection Act 2023, overseen by the Information Commission in mind, and the storefront follows the Consumer Protection Act 2010 and the Electronic Transactions Act.
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 La Digue.
Add a mobile app for La Digue customers
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 La Digue customers when they are awake, and the interface can run in Seychellois Creole and English.
- BI and reporting tools
- CRM and lead management
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho)
- Credit and payment gateways
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- Logistics and freight partners
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
- Warehouse and inventory systems
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 La Digue
We launch the journeys that create value first, then add depth. A typical roadmap for a B2B ordering portal in La Digue:
| 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 La Digue 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 La Digue
Our team covers UTC+4 — 1h 30m behind India (IST) — through three 8-hour shifts, so a La Digue 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; La Digue clients are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
