Why a B2B ordering portal makes sense for Auki
Auki is a place in malaita province, solomon islands, where around 6,811 people live and shop, and one of the markets in Solomon Islands where we build B2B and wholesale portals.
Malaita provincial capital — a business base that increasingly wants to sell online rather than through calls, messages and spreadsheets.
Commerce in the Solomon Islands is concentrated in Honiara, with demand rising as mobile coverage improves. Order-and-collect models are practical.
That is why more companies in Auki 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.
Local details we build into every Auki project
Conversion in Auki depends on small local signals — the right currency, the right words and the right payment and courier names.
Currency and pricing
Prices, taxes, shipping and refunds are shown in Solomon Islands dollar (SBD), formatted the way Auki customers read them.
Language and content
Storefront copy, product pages and emails can run in English and Solomon Islands Pijin, with local date and number formats.
Local trust signals
Trust is local: familiar names such as Visa and Mastercard and bank transfer and Solomon Post sit next to the buy button.
Domain, phone and contact
Using .sb where it suits you signals a local business to shoppers and search engines. Contact buttons are pre-set with +677, so a customer in Auki taps once to call or message.
Designed to your requirements, not a template
Every NNT Mart B2B ordering portal in Auki 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.
Typical clients include FMCG distributors, industrial suppliers, electrical and hardware traders and medical and institutional suppliers. Categories that sell especially well online in the Solomon Islands — groceries, phones, hardware and fashion — 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
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. Dashboards break sales down by product, customer and neighbourhood of Auki, so you see what to promote.
Contract pricing
Price lists by customer, group or territory, quantity slabs, pack sizes, minimum order values and negotiated rates. Pages, search filters and wording are tuned to how people in Auki look for products, in English and Solomon Islands Pijin if your audience needs it.
Quick and bulk ordering
SKU-code entry, spreadsheet upload, saved lists, re-order from history and scheduled repeat orders. Product data imports from your existing sheets or ERP, so Auki teams do not re-type thousands of items.
Quotes and approvals
Request-for-quotation, counter-offers, purchase-order upload and multi-level approval before submission. Customers in Auki can pay with Visa and Mastercard, bank transfer and mobile money, with receipts and refunds handled in the same admin.
Credit and payments
Online payment, credit limits, pay-later terms, outstanding statements and payment reminders where approved. Delivery can be booked through Solomon Post, DHL and local delivery or dispatched by your own riders around Auki.
Sales-team tools
Order on behalf of customers, territory assignment, visit notes and performance dashboards for representatives. Stock can be held in Auki or anywhere in Solomon Islands, with pickup and local-delivery options where they make sense.
Checkout and payment methods for Auki
Shoppers in Auki rarely abandon a cart over price alone — they leave when their usual method is missing. Here that means Visa and Mastercard, bank transfer and mobile money, then cash on delivery.
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 SBD — card details stay with the provider.
- Cash on delivery
- Visa and Mastercard
- Bank transfer
- Mobile money
Delivery and fulfilment from Auki
Your B2B ordering portal can book shipments and share tracking with Solomon Post, DHL and local delivery, or route orders to your own riders and stores across Auki.
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.
Rules Auki sellers must respect online
For Auki sellers, tax first: Solomon Islands is moving from goods tax and sales tax to a VAT regime; confirm current rates with the IRD at implementation.
Customer data is handled with general constitutional protections; no dedicated data-protection act yet in mind, and the storefront follows the Consumer Protection Act and price-control regulations.
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 Auki.
Auki sellers: marketplace plus your own store
For a Auki business, Facebook Marketplace and local stores are useful shop windows — but fees, ranking changes and shared customer data limit how far you can grow on them alone.
Your B2B ordering portal becomes the hub: marketplaces and social shops become extra outlets fed from one catalogue, while repeat customers buy directly from you at better margins.
Who we build for in Auki
Popular online categories in the Solomon Islands include groceries, phones, hardware, fashion, home and fishing equipment. Malaita provincial capital — which shapes what local businesses need online. In Auki, we most often build B2B and wholesale portals for:
Wholesalers
Wholesalers get business accounts plus quick and bulk ordering workflows tailored to their operations.
FMCG distributors
We map how FMCG distributors sell today and digitise it end to end — from enquiry and order to payment, dispatch and repeat purchase.
Industrial suppliers
For industrial suppliers, we usually start with quotes and approvals, then add CRM and lead management once orders are flowing.
Electrical and hardware traders
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for electrical and hardware traders in Auki, connected to the systems you already use.
Medical and institutional suppliers
Medical and institutional suppliers get credit and payments plus business accounts workflows tailored to their operations.
Dealer networks
We map how dealer networks sell today and digitise it end to end — from enquiry and order to payment, dispatch and repeat purchase.
Take your Auki store onto customers' phones
In Auki, 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.
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 Auki time (UTC+11), in English and Solomon Islands Pijin if you want.
- Logistics and freight partners
- BI and reporting tools
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
- CRM and lead management
- Credit and payment gateways
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho)
- 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.
From first demo to growth in Auki
Value first, depth later. For a B2B ordering portal serving Auki, the usual sequence looks like this:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Launch portal | Accounts, contract pricing, catalogue, ordering and ERP order sync. Configured for SBD, Visa and Mastercard and Solomon Post from the start. |
| Automate | Quotes, approvals, credit, statements and notifications. |
| Expand | Dealer and sales-rep apps, analytics and new territories. Reviewed against how Auki customers actually buy. |
We track order-entry time, share of orders placed online, order accuracy, days sales outstanding, repeat-order frequency and sales-rep productivity on a live dashboard from day one, so Auki results are visible, not promised.
Working with our team from Auki
Auki runs on UTC+11, which is 5h 30m ahead of 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 English. 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; Auki clients are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
