What is a B2B ecommerce portal?
A private, authenticated ordering and account-management site for your business customers or suppliers, where each account sees its own pricing, assortment, order history and documents.
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Self-service ordering portals for the accounts your sales desk currently serves by email and phone: dealers, distributors, wholesale customers, franchisees and suppliers — each seeing their own pricing, their own catalogue and their own order history.
- Hard permissions and audit trails
- Live data from your systems of record
- Fixed scope, fixed price
Two ecommerce build slots open this quarterQuotes honoured for 30 days
Take the ordering desk off email
A large share of B2B order volume still arrives as emailed spreadsheets and phone calls that someone re-keys into an ERP. That is slow, error-prone and impossible to scale without hiring.
A portal moves that traffic to self-service without losing control: the customer sees only their contracted assortment and pricing, orders validate against stock and credit before submission, and everything lands in the ERP already structured.
What we build into a B2B portal
Account-scoped ordering
Each account sees its own catalogue, contract pricing, minimums and shipping rules — enforced server-side, not hidden in the interface.
Dealer and distributor tools
Allocation visibility, backorder handling, territory rules, marketing asset access and warranty or claim submission where relevant.
Order history and tracking
Full order, shipment and invoice history with reorder from any past order and document downloads.
Users, roles and permissions
Buyer, approver, finance and admin roles across parent and child accounts, with audit trails on every state change.
Supplier-side portals
Purchase order acknowledgement, ASN submission, stock feeds and document exchange for the other side of the supply chain.
Live integration with systems of record
Real-time stock, credit and pricing lookups with graceful degradation when an upstream system is slow or offline.
Method
How the work gets done
01
Technical brief
Thirty minutes with a principal engineer. Constraints, load profile, and a straight feasibility answer.
02
Architecture
A written system design with data model, integration map, failure modes, and fixed scope.
03
Build
Two-week increments against a live staging environment. You see the real thing, always.
04
Handover
Runbooks, observability, and a team trained to operate it — or we stay on as your platform group.
Frequently asked questions
How is a portal different from a B2B ecommerce website?
A website is generally public and sells to any qualifying buyer. A portal is authenticated and account-scoped, and often replaces email and phone ordering for existing customers rather than acquiring new ones.
Can it sit on top of our existing ERP?
Yes — that is the usual pattern. The ERP stays the system of record and the portal reads and writes to it through an integration layer with retries and reconciliation.
Related services
All services →B2B Ecommerce Solutions
The commercial capabilities themselves — pricing, quoting, approvals, terms, portals and reordering, assembled to your model.
Read more→B2B Ecommerce Integration
ERP, PIM, CRM, inventory and fulfilment integrations with reconciliation and audit trails — not fire-and-forget calls.
Read more→B2B Web Application Development
Custom B2B web apps: dealer platforms, procurement tools, operational dashboards and internal systems.
Read more→B2B Ecommerce Development
Custom B2B commerce systems: pricing logic, account hierarchies, ordering workflows, and the integrations behind them.
Read more→Book the technical brief
Thirty minutes with a principal ecommerce engineer.
Bring your stack, your peak-day traffic, and your worst bottleneck. You leave with a straight feasibility answer and a price range — whether or not you hire us.
- No sales team — engineers only
- No slide deck, no discovery fee
- Written architecture follows within 5 days
Two ecommerce build slots open this quarterQuotes honoured for 30 days
What the call covers
- 01Your current platform, load profile, and failure points
- 02Feasibility, sequencing, and the honest risk list
- 03A price range you can take to your board