The case for a custom e-commerce platform in Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands is a market of about 611,000 people where custom e-commerce platforms are growing fast, with Honiara as its capital.
Commerce in the Solomon Islands is concentrated in Honiara, with demand rising as mobile coverage improves. Order-and-collect models are practical.
For a business in Solomon Islands, 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.
What makes a Solomon Islands store feel local
Conversion in Solomon Islands depends on small local signals — the right currency, the right words and the right payment and courier names.
Currency and pricing
Everything a Solomon Islands shopper sees — price, tax, delivery fee, refund — is in SBD, written the local way.
Language and content
We localise pages, emails and notifications into English and Solomon Islands Pijin where your audience needs it.
Local trust signals
We add the payment logos, courier names and policy pages shoppers in Solomon Islands recognise: Visa and Mastercard and bank transfer and delivery through Solomon Post.
Domain, phone and contact
Using .sb where it suits you signals a local business to shoppers and search engines. Click-to-call and WhatsApp buttons use the +677 calling code so customers reach you without dialling errors.
Designed to your requirements, not a template
Whatever your business sells in Solomon Islands, N&T Software designs and develops the custom e-commerce platform and the matching mobile app exactly to your requirements — your catalogue, your prices, your payment and delivery rules.
In Solomon Islands we typically work with enterprises with complex catalogues, multi-brand groups, businesses outgrowing SaaS platforms and companies migrating legacy stores, and with sellers in categories such as groceries, phones, hardware and fashion that have strong online demand in the Solomon Islands.
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 custom e-commerce platform includes
Nothing here is fixed: modules are switched on, reshaped or built from scratch around how your Solomon Islands business sells.
Custom workflows
Product configurators, made-to-order flows, approvals, contracts and industry-specific rules. Bulk import and sync tools mean the Solomon Islands team never re-keys stock, prices or descriptions by hand.
Headless architecture
API-first commerce with a fast front end, so web, app, kiosk and marketplace channels share one backend. Checkout is configured for Visa and Mastercard, bank transfer and mobile money.
Multi-entity operations
Multiple brands, companies, warehouses, currencies and tax registrations on one platform. Couriers such as Solomon Post, DHL and local delivery plug in alongside your own fleet for Solomon Islands orders.
Deep integrations
ERP, PIM, WMS, CRM, POS, accounting and legacy systems with reliable, monitored data sync. Multiple stock points in Solomon Islands are supported, so a Solomon Islands order ships from the nearest one.
Migration
Move from older platforms with product, customer and order history, SEO-safe redirects and parallel runs. Reports show which products, customers and areas of Solomon Islands drive revenue.
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 Solomon Islands look for products, in English and Solomon Islands Pijin if your audience needs it.
Payments customers in Solomon Islands expect
Shoppers in Solomon Islands 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.
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 Solomon Islands dollar (SBD).
- Bank transfer
- Visa and Mastercard
- Cash on delivery
- Mobile money
Fulfilment options for Solomon Islands orders
Your custom e-commerce platform can book shipments and share tracking with Solomon Post, DHL and local delivery, 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 custom e-commerce platform
On tax: Solomon Islands is moving from goods tax and sales tax to a VAT regime; confirm current rates with the IRD at implementation.
On privacy we design around general constitutional protections; no dedicated data-protection act yet; on consumer rights the store reflects the Consumer Protection Act and price-control regulations.
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.
Solomon Islands sellers: marketplace plus your own store
Selling in Solomon Islands through Facebook Marketplace and local stores gets you reach quickly, yet the buyer belongs to the platform, not to you.
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.
Who we build for in Solomon Islands
Popular online categories in the Solomon Islands include groceries, phones, hardware, fashion, home and fishing equipment. In Solomon Islands, we most often build custom e-commerce platforms for:
Enterprises with complex catalogues
We map how enterprises with complex catalogues sell today and digitise it end to end — from enquiry and order to payment, dispatch and repeat purchase.
Multi-brand groups
For multi-brand groups, we usually start with multi-entity operations, then add PIM and DAM once orders are flowing.
Businesses outgrowing SaaS platforms
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for businesses outgrowing SaaS platforms in Solomon Islands, connected to the systems you already use.
Companies migrating legacy stores
Companies migrating legacy stores get deep integrations plus performance and security workflows tailored to their operations.
Regulated sectors
We map how regulated sectors sell today and digitise it end to end — from enquiry and order to payment, dispatch and repeat purchase.
High-traffic retailers
For high-traffic retailers, we usually start with custom workflows, then add identity and SSO once orders are flowing.
Add a mobile app for Solomon Islands customers
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.
Order alerts, offers and abandoned-cart reminders go out on Solomon Islands time (UTC+11), in English and Solomon Islands Pijin if you want.
- SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and Odoo ERPs
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Identity and SSO
- PIM and DAM
- POS and store systems
- Search engines (Elasticsearch, Algolia)
- BI and data warehouses
- WMS and 3PL 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 Solomon Islands
We launch the journeys that create value first, then add depth. A typical roadmap for a custom e-commerce platform in Solomon Islands:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| Foundation | Architecture, core commerce, priority integrations and migration. Configured for SBD, Visa and Mastercard and Solomon Post from the start. |
| Differentiate | Custom workflows, configurators and automation. |
| Optimise | Performance, new channels, apps and continuous enhancement. Reviewed against how Solomon Islands 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
Solomon Islands 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 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 the Solomon Islands are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
