Why Peru businesses are investing in custom e-commerce platforms
Peru is a market of about 34 million people where custom e-commerce platforms are growing fast, with Lima as its capital.
Peru's Yape and Plin wallets have made instant payments mainstream, and online shopping grew sharply after 2020. A virtual Libro de Reclamaciones is legally required on every store.
For a business in Peru, the opportunity is to own the customer relationship: your own custom e-commerce platform keeps your margin, your data and your brand, while marketplaces and social channels become additional sales routes instead of the only one.
Localised for Peru, not translated into it
Conversion in Peru depends on small local signals — the right currency, the right words and the right payment and courier names.
Currency and pricing
Everything a Peru shopper sees — price, tax, delivery fee, refund — is in PEN, written the local way.
Language and content
Storefront copy, product pages and emails can run in Spanish and Quechua, with local date and number formats.
Local trust signals
Trust is local: familiar names such as Yape and Plin and Serpost sit next to the buy button.
Domain, phone and contact
A .pe domain (or your own) builds local trust and search relevance. Contact buttons are pre-set with +51, so a customer in Peru taps once to call or message.
Designed to your requirements, not a template
If you run a business in Peru 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 multi-brand groups, businesses outgrowing SaaS platforms, companies migrating legacy stores and regulated sectors. Categories that sell especially well online in Peru — electronics, fashion, home and beauty — 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 Peru clients
Each module below is configured — or custom-developed — to your requirements. You choose what launches first and what follows in later phases.
Custom workflows
Product configurators, made-to-order flows, approvals, contracts and industry-specific rules. Catalogues come in from spreadsheets, ERP exports or supplier feeds, so your Peru team keeps its current way of working.
Headless architecture
API-first commerce with a fast front end, so web, app, kiosk and marketplace channels share one backend. Customers in Peru can pay with Yape, Plin and Visa and Mastercard, with receipts and refunds handled in the same admin.
Multi-entity operations
Multiple brands, companies, warehouses, currencies and tax registrations on one platform. Shipping rules can use Serpost, Olva Courier and Shalom as well as your own delivery staff in Peru.
Deep integrations
ERP, PIM, WMS, CRM, POS, accounting and legacy systems with reliable, monitored data sync. Stock can be held in Peru or anywhere in Peru, with pickup and local-delivery options where they make sense.
Migration
Move from older platforms with product, customer and order history, SEO-safe redirects and parallel runs. Dashboards break sales down by product, customer and neighbourhood of Peru, so you see what to promote.
Performance and security
Caching, CDN, load testing, security hardening, audit logs and cloud infrastructure as code. Pages, search filters and wording are tuned to how people in Peru look for products, in Spanish and Quechua if your audience needs it.
Checkout and payment methods for Peru
Checkout is where most online sales are won or lost. In Peru, customers expect to pay with Yape, Plin and Visa and Mastercard, and many also look for PagoEfectivo cash codes, bank transfer and cash on delivery.
Gateway selection depends on your category and merchant approval; we connect the provider, reconcile payments, automate retries and refunds, and never store raw card data. Prices, taxes and refunds appear in Peruvian sol (PEN).
- Bank transfer
- Visa and Mastercard
- Cash on delivery
- Yape
- PagoEfectivo cash codes
- Plin
Delivery and fulfilment across Peru
Your custom e-commerce platform can book shipments and share tracking with Serpost, Olva Courier, Shalom, Urbaner, Chazki and DHL, 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.
Selling online legally in Peru
Peruvian IGV is 18% (including the municipal promotion tax), and SUNAT electronic receipts are mandatory.
Customer data is handled with Law 29733 on Personal Data Protection and its 2024 regulation in mind, and the storefront follows the Consumer Protection and Defence Code (Law 29571), enforced by INDECOPI, including the Libro de Reclamaciones (complaints book).
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.
Peru sellers: marketplace plus your own store
Mercado Libre, Falabella and Ripley are where many shoppers in Peru start, which is why sellers list there. The trade-off is commission, limited branding and rules the platform can change overnight.
Your custom e-commerce platform becomes the hub: marketplaces and social shops become extra outlets fed from one catalogue, while repeat customers buy directly from you at better margins.
Businesses that use NNT Mart in Peru
Popular online categories in Peru include electronics, fashion, home, beauty, groceries and toys. In Peru, we most often build custom e-commerce platforms for:
Enterprises with complex catalogues
For enterprises with complex catalogues, we usually start with headless architecture, then add SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and Odoo ERPs once orders are flowing.
Multi-brand groups
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for multi-brand groups in Peru, connected to the systems you already use.
Businesses outgrowing SaaS platforms
Businesses outgrowing SaaS platforms get multi-entity operations plus migration workflows tailored to their operations.
Companies migrating legacy stores
We map how companies migrating legacy stores sell today and digitise it end to end — from enquiry and order to payment, dispatch and repeat purchase.
Regulated sectors
For regulated sectors, we usually start with performance and security, then add search engines (Elasticsearch, Algolia) once orders are flowing.
High-traffic retailers
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for high-traffic retailers in Peru, connected to the systems you already use.
Mobile commerce in Peru
Because the platform is API-first, customer, staff and partner mobile apps can be added at any point without rebuilding the backend.
Apps are published under your own developer accounts and share the same backend as your custom e-commerce platform, so offers, stock and orders are always consistent between web and mobile.
Push notifications can be timed to UTC−5 so offers reach Peru customers when they are awake, and the interface can run in Spanish and Quechua.
- SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and Odoo ERPs
- WMS and 3PL systems
- Search engines (Elasticsearch, Algolia)
- PIM and DAM
- Identity and SSO
- POS and store systems
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- BI and data warehouses
Integrations above are examples; we connect any system that offers a suitable API, database access or approved import and export process.
How we phase your custom e-commerce platform
Value first, depth later. For a custom e-commerce platform serving Peru, the usual sequence looks like this:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Foundation | Architecture, core commerce, priority integrations and migration. Configured for PEN, Yape and Serpost from the start. |
| Differentiate | Custom workflows, configurators and automation. |
| Optimise | Performance, new channels, apps and continuous enhancement. Reviewed against how Peru customers actually buy. |
Success is measured on page load and API response times, uptime, order-sync accuracy, manual-work hours saved, release frequency and total cost of ownership — tracked on a dashboard you can see from launch day.
Time zones, language and support
Peru runs on UTC−5, which is 10h 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 Quechua, Aymara and Spanish. NDAs are signed on request, and you get a named project lead plus direct access to the engineers building your custom e-commerce platform.
Our head office is in Chhapi, Gujarat, with an office in Hyderabad and representation in Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia and Zambia; clients in Peru are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
