Why a shopping app makes sense for Auki
Auki is a place in malaita province, solomon islands, home to about 6,811 people, and one of the markets in Solomon Islands where we build mobile commerce apps.
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.
For a business in Auki, the opportunity is to own the customer relationship: your own shopping app keeps your margin, your data and your brand, while marketplaces and social channels become additional sales routes instead of the only one.
Localised for Auki, not translated into it
A store that works in Auki respects local habits as well as local law. These are the details we configure first.
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
Badges for Visa and Mastercard and bank transfer, Solomon Post delivery and clear return terms reassure first-time buyers in Auki.
Domain, phone and contact
A .sb domain (or your own) builds local trust and search relevance. Contact buttons are pre-set with +677, so a customer in Auki taps once to call or message.
Custom-built for how you sell in Auki
We do not hand Auki businesses a ready-made theme: we study how you sell, then build the online platform and Android/iOS app your customers and staff actually need.
In Auki 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 groceries, phones, hardware and fashion that have strong online demand in the Solomon Islands.
We start with a requirements meeting, show you a working demo within 24 hours, and only then propose scope, milestones and budget.
Features of your shopping app in Auki
Each module below is configured — or custom-developed — to your requirements. You choose what launches first and what follows in later phases.
Customer shopping app
Browse, search, wish-lists, cart, wallet and UPI or card checkout, order tracking and push offers. 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.
Dealer and B2B app
Account pricing, quick re-order, statements, schemes and barcode scanning for trade buyers. Product data imports from your existing sheets or ERP, so Auki teams do not re-type thousands of items.
Delivery partner app
Assigned orders, route navigation, proof of delivery, COD collection and status updates. Payment steps are built around Visa and Mastercard, bank transfer and mobile money, the options shoppers here already trust.
Store and admin app
Order alerts, stock updates, price changes and sales snapshots for owners and managers. Shipping rules can use Solomon Post, DHL and local delivery as well as your own delivery staff in Auki.
Engagement
Segmented push notifications, deep links, in-app banners, loyalty and referral programmes. Multiple stock points in Solomon Islands are supported, so a Auki order ships from the nearest one.
Performance and offline
Fast native-feel UI, image caching, offline cart and graceful handling of poor networks. Revenue reports by product, repeat buyer and delivery area of Auki guide stock and marketing decisions.
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 mobile commerce apps for:
Retail brands
For retail brands, we usually start with dealer and B2B app, then add commerce APIs and headless backends once orders are flowing.
Grocery and pharmacy chains
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for grocery and pharmacy chains in Auki, connected to the systems you already use.
Restaurants and cloud kitchens
Restaurants and cloud kitchens get delivery partner app plus engagement workflows tailored to their operations.
Distributors with dealer networks
We map how distributors with dealer networks sell today and digitise it end to end — from enquiry and order to payment, dispatch and repeat purchase.
D2C start-ups
For D2C start-ups, we usually start with performance and offline, then add analytics and crash reporting once orders are flowing.
Marketplace operators
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment rules designed for marketplace operators in Auki, connected to the systems you already use.
Getting paid online in 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.
- Bank transfer
- Visa and Mastercard
- Cash on delivery
- Mobile money
Shipping, couriers and local delivery in Auki
Your shopping app can book shipments and share tracking with Solomon Post, DHL and local delivery, or route orders to your own riders and stores across Auki.
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.
Auki sellers: marketplace plus your own store
Selling in Auki through Facebook Marketplace and local stores gets you reach quickly, yet the buyer belongs to the platform, not to you.
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.
Compliance built into your shopping app
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.
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 in Solomon Islands.
Mobile commerce in Auki
Phones carry most traffic in the Solomon Islands. 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.
Order alerts, offers and abandoned-cart reminders go out on Auki time (UTC+11), in English and Solomon Islands Pijin if you want.
- Barcode and QR scanning
- Firebase and push messaging
- Maps and location services
- Social login
- Commerce APIs and headless backends
- Customer support chat
- Analytics and crash reporting
- Payment SDKs and wallets
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 Auki
We launch the journeys that create value first, then add depth. A typical roadmap for a shopping app in Auki:
| Phase | What goes live |
|---|---|
| MVP app | Core shopping, checkout, order tracking and push notifications. Configured for SBD, Visa and Mastercard and Solomon Post from the start. |
| Engage | Loyalty, referrals, personalised offers and deep links. |
| Extend | Dealer, delivery and admin apps on the same backend. Reviewed against how Auki 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 Auki results are visible, not promised.
Support hours and communication for 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.
Project communication is in English; storefront content can be produced in English. You get a named lead, direct engineer access and an NDA if you ask.
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.
