The case for a shopping app in Craiova
Craiova is a commercial centre in Romania where around 234,000 people live and shop, and one of the places where we build mobile commerce apps for local businesses.
Romania has SMEs make up 99% of all businesses in the European Union (European Commission). Romania's online market is growing fast, but cash on delivery is still widely used, so flexible payment rules are essential. easybox lockers make delivery cheaper outside big cities.
That is why more companies in Craiova are moving from phone, WhatsApp and spreadsheet orders to a proper shopping app — one place where products, prices, payments, orders and customers are managed together.
What makes a Craiova store feel local
A store that works in Craiova respects local habits as well as local law. These are the details we configure first.
Currency and pricing
Everything a Craiova shopper sees — price, tax, delivery fee, refund — is in RON, written the local way.
Language and content
Content can be produced in Romanian, so a Craiova customer reads the store in the language they use at home.
Local trust signals
Trust is local: familiar names such as cash on delivery (ramburs) and Visa and Mastercard and Fan Courier sit next to the buy button.
Domain, phone and contact
A .ro domain (or your own) builds local trust and search relevance. Click-to-call and WhatsApp buttons use the +40 calling code so customers reach you without dialling errors.
A shopping app built around your Craiova business
Every NNT Mart shopping app in Craiova 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 Craiova we typically work with retail brands, grocery and pharmacy chains, restaurants and cloud kitchens and distributors with dealer networks, and with sellers in categories such as electronics, fashion, home and DIY and beauty that have strong online demand in Romania.
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 shopping app includes
These are the building blocks of a shopping app. We scope them with you, so you pay for what your Craiova operation needs.
Customer shopping app
Browse, search, wish-lists, cart, wallet and UPI or card checkout, order tracking and push offers. Payment steps are built around cash on delivery (ramburs), Visa and Mastercard and PayPal, the options shoppers here already trust.
Dealer and B2B app
Account pricing, quick re-order, statements, schemes and barcode scanning for trade buyers. Couriers such as Fan Courier, Sameday easybox and Cargus plug in alongside your own fleet for Craiova orders.
Delivery partner app
Assigned orders, route navigation, proof of delivery, COD collection and status updates. Multiple stock points in Romania are supported, so a Craiova order ships from the nearest one.
Store and admin app
Order alerts, stock updates, price changes and sales snapshots for owners and managers. Revenue reports by product, repeat buyer and delivery area of Craiova guide stock and marketing decisions.
Engagement
Segmented push notifications, deep links, in-app banners, loyalty and referral programmes. Storefront language, imagery and navigation are set up for Craiova shoppers and available in Romanian.
Performance and offline
Fast native-feel UI, image caching, offline cart and graceful handling of poor networks. Bulk import and sync tools mean the Craiova team never re-keys stock, prices or descriptions by hand.
How Craiova customers pay online
Shoppers in Craiova rarely abandon a cart over price alone — they leave when their usual method is missing. Here that means cash on delivery (ramburs), Visa and Mastercard and PayPal, then Google Pay and Apple Pay and TBI Bank instalments.
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 Romanian leu (RON).
- Visa and Mastercard
- Google Pay and Apple Pay
- TBI Bank instalments
- PayPal
- Cash on delivery (ramburs)
Fulfilment options for Craiova orders
Your shopping app can book shipments and share tracking with Fan Courier, Sameday easybox, Cargus, DPD Romania and Poșta Română, or route orders to your own riders and stores across Craiova.
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 Romania
Romanian VAT (TVA) is 21% standard with an 11% reduced rate since August 2025, and B2B e-invoicing through RO e-Factura is mandatory.
Customer data is handled with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy rules on cookies and marketing consent, enforced by ANSPDCP in mind, and the storefront follows the EU Consumer Rights Directive (14-day withdrawal right), the Digital Services Act and, from June 2025, the European Accessibility Act for online shops and Government Emergency Ordinance 34/2014 on consumer rights.
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 Craiova.
Craiova sellers: marketplace plus your own store
EMAG, OLX and Altex are where many shoppers in Craiova start, which is why sellers list there. The trade-off is commission, limited branding and rules the platform can change overnight.
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.
Who we build for in Craiova
Popular online categories in Romania include electronics, fashion, home and DIY, beauty, auto parts and toys. In Craiova, we most often build mobile commerce apps for:
Retail brands
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for retail brands in Craiova, connected to the systems you already use.
Grocery and pharmacy chains
Grocery and pharmacy chains get dealer and B2B app plus store and admin app workflows tailored to their operations.
Restaurants and cloud kitchens
We map how restaurants and cloud kitchens sell today and digitise it end to end — from enquiry and order to payment, dispatch and repeat purchase.
Distributors with dealer networks
For distributors with dealer networks, we usually start with engagement, then add maps and location services once orders are flowing.
D2C start-ups
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for D2C start-ups in Craiova, connected to the systems you already use.
Marketplace operators
Marketplace operators get performance and offline plus dealer and B2B app workflows tailored to their operations.
Android and iOS apps for your Craiova business
Every app is published under your own Google Play and Apple developer accounts, with crash reporting, analytics and release management included.
Apps are published under your own developer accounts and share the same backend as your shopping app, so offers, stock and orders are always consistent between web and mobile.
Push notifications can be timed to UTC+3 so offers reach Craiova customers when they are awake, and the interface can run in Romanian.
- Barcode and QR scanning
- Payment SDKs and wallets
- Analytics and crash reporting
- Firebase and push messaging
- Maps and location services
- Commerce APIs and headless backends
- Social login
- Customer support chat
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 shopping app
We launch the journeys that create value first, then add depth. A typical roadmap for a shopping app in Craiova:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| MVP app | Core shopping, checkout, order tracking and push notifications. Configured for RON, cash on delivery (ramburs) and Fan Courier from the start. |
| Engage | Loyalty, referrals, personalised offers and deep links. |
| Extend | Dealer, delivery and admin apps on the same backend. Reviewed against how Craiova customers actually buy. |
We track app installs and active users, app conversion rate, push-notification click rate, crash-free sessions, store rating and share of revenue from app on a live dashboard from day one, so Craiova results are visible, not promised.
Working with our team from Craiova
Our team covers UTC+3 — 2h 30m behind India (IST) — through three 8-hour shifts, so a Craiova client always reaches someone during the local working day.
We work in English and can deliver storefront content in Romanian. NDAs are signed on request, and you get a named project lead plus direct access to the engineers building your shopping app.
Our head office is in Chhapi, Gujarat, with an office in Hyderabad and representation in Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia and Zambia; Craiova clients are served remotely with on-site workshops when the project needs them.
