Why Lomé businesses are investing in B2B and wholesale portals
Lomé is a capital and largest city of togo, where around 2.2 million people live and shop, and one of the markets in Togo where we build B2B and wholesale portals.
The local economy is driven by port logistics, transit trade, banking, textiles and services, and commercial activity concentrates around the Grand Marché, Kodjoviakopé and the Port of Lomé.
Logistics are supported by Gnassingbé Eyadéma International Airport and the Port of Lomé, which matters when you promise customers fast delivery.
Togo’s Lomé port and the famed Grand Marché textile traders make it a regional trade hub, while T-Money and Flooz are lifting mobile commerce. Wholesale and retail sellers benefit from digital catalogues.
That is why more companies in Lomé 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 Lomé, not translated into it
A store that works in Lomé respects local habits as well as local law. These are the details we configure first.
Currency and pricing
The store speaks West African CFA franc: XOF amounts from product page to invoice, so Lomé buyers never convert in their heads.
Language and content
Content can be produced in French, Ewe and Kabiyé, so a Lomé customer reads the store in the language they use at home.
Local trust signals
We add the payment logos, courier names and policy pages shoppers in Lomé recognise: Flooz (Moov Money) and T-Money and delivery through La Poste du Togo.
Domain, phone and contact
A .tg domain (or your own) builds local trust and search relevance. Click-to-call and WhatsApp buttons use the +228 calling code so customers reach you without dialling errors.
Talent and partners nearby
Lomé draws on University of Lomé, which means plenty of local staff, interns and technology partners to run the store after launch.
Custom-built for how you sell in Lomé
If you run a business in Lomé and want to sell online, we build an e-commerce platform and mobile application to your exact requirements, from the first product page to the last delivery update.
Typical clients include FMCG distributors, industrial suppliers, electrical and hardware traders and medical and institutional suppliers. Categories that sell especially well online in Togo — textiles and fashion, phones and electronics, agri-products and cosmetics — 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 Lomé business sells.
Business accounts
Registration, KYC and approval, company hierarchies, branches, buyers and approvers with their own permissions. Delivery can be booked through La Poste du Togo, DHL and Aramex or dispatched by your own riders around Lomé.
Contract pricing
Price lists by customer, group or territory, quantity slabs, pack sizes, minimum order values and negotiated rates. Stock can be held in Lomé or anywhere in Togo, with pickup and local-delivery options where they make sense.
Quick and bulk ordering
SKU-code entry, spreadsheet upload, saved lists, re-order from history and scheduled repeat orders. Dashboards break sales down by product, customer and neighbourhood of Lomé, so you see what to promote.
Quotes and approvals
Request-for-quotation, counter-offers, purchase-order upload and multi-level approval before submission. Content and design can follow how customers in Lomé search and buy, including French and Ewe where you need it.
Credit and payments
Online payment, credit limits, pay-later terms, outstanding statements and payment reminders where approved. Bulk import and sync tools mean the Lomé team never re-keys stock, prices or descriptions by hand.
Sales-team tools
Order on behalf of customers, territory assignment, visit notes and performance dashboards for representatives. Customers in Lomé can pay with Flooz (Moov Money), T-Money and Visa and Mastercard, with receipts and refunds handled in the same admin.
Businesses that use NNT Mart in Lomé
Popular online categories in Togo include textiles and fashion, phones and electronics, agri-products, cosmetics, building materials and food. Local demand in Lomé is shaped by port logistics, transit trade, banking, textiles and services, so we often design catalogues and B2B ordering around those sectors. In Lomé, we most often build B2B and wholesale portals for:
Wholesalers
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for wholesalers in Lomé, 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 Lomé, connected to the systems you already use.
Dealer networks
Dealer networks get sales-team tools plus contract pricing workflows tailored to their operations.
Checkout and payment methods for Lomé
A store that serves Lomé should let customers pay the way they do offline: Flooz (Moov Money), T-Money, Visa and Mastercard and 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 XOF — card details stay with the provider.
Business buyers around the Grand Marché often want invoices or bank transfer, while consumers lean on Flooz (Moov Money). We support both flows.
- Visa and Mastercard
- Bank transfer
- Flooz (Moov Money)
- Cash on delivery
- T-Money
Delivery and fulfilment from Lomé
Your B2B ordering portal can book shipments and share tracking with La Poste du Togo, DHL, Aramex, Gozem and Local moto-couriers, or route orders to your own riders and stores across Lomé.
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 — Gnassingbé Eyadéma International Airport and the Port of Lomé — makes regional and national dispatch from Lomé practical.
Owning your channel in Togo
Jumia (regional), Facebook Marketplace and local online classifieds are where many shoppers in Lomé start, which is why sellers list there. The trade-off is commission, limited branding and rules the platform can change overnight.
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 Lomé sellers must respect online
Togo charges 18% VAT, with a simplified regime for small taxpayers.
Two frameworks shape the build: Law No. 2019-014 on the protection of personal data, overseen by the IPDCP, and the Consumer Protection Law and OHADA commercial law.
We build the technical controls — tax-inclusive pricing, compliant invoices, consent banners, terms and return pages, data-access roles and audit logs. We are not a law firm, so final legal and tax positions should be confirmed with your own adviser in Togo.
Add a mobile app for Lomé 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+0 so offers reach Lomé customers when they are awake, and the interface can run in French and Ewe.
- Warehouse and inventory systems
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Zoho)
- Credit and payment gateways
- Accounting and e-invoicing
- Logistics and freight partners
- WhatsApp and SMS notifications
- BI and reporting tools
- CRM and lead management
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 Lomé
We launch the journeys that create value first, then add depth. A typical roadmap for a B2B ordering portal in Lomé:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Launch portal | Accounts, contract pricing, catalogue, ordering and ERP order sync. Configured for XOF, Flooz (Moov Money) and La Poste du Togo from the start. |
| Automate | Quotes, approvals, credit, statements and notifications. |
| Expand | Dealer and sales-rep apps, analytics and new territories. Reviewed against how Lomé 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 Lomé clients work with us
Lomé runs on UTC+0, which is 5h 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.
We work in English and can deliver storefront content in 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; Lomé clients are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
