CodeSpace Infotech
B2B Trading & Distribution

Wholesale ordering without the phone calls.

Buyer portals, price-list logic and distribution workflows that let partners order at 2am without your sales team in the loop.

Overview

Built around how your industry actually works.

Wholesale isn't retail with bigger quantities. Contract pricing, credit limits, MOQs and approval chains define the product.

We build B2B platforms that encode those rules properly, so buyers see their price and your team stops rekeying orders from email.

01

Account-specific everything

Pricing, availability and terms differ per customer, not per product.

02

Reorder behaviour

Most value comes from making the fiftieth order faster than the first.

03

System of record

The ERP stays authoritative; the digital layer has to respect it.

Challenges

The problems behind the product.

Before design starts, these are the realities buyers, sales reps and warehouse teams live with every day across distribution operations.

  1. 01

    Orders arriving by email and WhatsApp

    Manual entry causes errors, delays and disputes.

  2. 02

    Complex pricing rules

    Customer-specific price lists, slabs and discounts break generic carts.

  3. 03

    Credit and approval workflows

    Orders need limits, holds and multi-step approvals.

  4. 04

    Catalogue chaos

    Thousands of SKUs with inconsistent data slow every quote.

What we build

Digital products built for the workflow.

B2B ordering portals
Where we can help

Services we bring to b2b trading & distribution.

All services
  • Bespoke commerce platforms for catalogues, pricing and fulfilment rules that need custom logic.

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  • Tenant isolation, org hierarchies and enterprise controls done correctly the first time.

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  • Bespoke systems for workflows that off-the-shelf tools cannot model correctly.

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  • Versioned, documented APIs and webhooks that other teams can build against.

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Industry expertise

We work in b2b trading & distribution around customer catalogues, contract pricing, order workflows and everything they touch.

  • Customer catalogues
  • Contract pricing
  • Order workflows
  • Inventory visibility
  • Rep tooling
  • ERP integration
User considerations

Designed around the people doing the work

Buyers, sales reps and warehouse teams move through the order-to-delivery cycle at different speeds and with different priorities. We model those roles explicitly, then design b2b ordering portals around the tasks each one repeats every day.

Technology considerations

Architecture chosen for the workload

B2B Trading & Distribution products live or die on how catalogue, pricing and stock data is structured. We pick storage, caching and API boundaries to match real query patterns rather than defaulting to a familiar stack.

Business considerations

Built toward a commercial outcome

Every release is measured against more repeat orders placed without a phone call. Scope is sequenced so the work that changes that number ships first, and the rest is deliberately deferred.

Operational considerations

Fits the way the business already runs

Distribution operations rarely stop for a launch. We plan rollout, training, data migration and quotation and rfq systems handover so adoption does not depend on goodwill.

Our approach

A practical approach from problem to product.

  1. 01

    Understand

    We start inside the order-to-delivery cycle — watching how buyers, sales reps and warehouse teams actually work before proposing anything.

    Key activities

    • Stakeholder and user interviews
    • Workflow mapping across distribution operations
    • Audit of orders arriving by email and whatsapp

    Deliverables

    • Discovery findings
    • Journey map
    • Prioritised problem list
  2. 02

    Structure

    We start from your real contracts, not a template cart.

    Key activities

    • Information architecture
    • Role and permission model
    • Data model for catalogue, pricing and stock data

    Deliverables

    • Architecture outline
    • Scope and sequencing
    • Estimate
  3. 03

    Design

    History, templates and bulk entry drive adoption.

    Key activities

    • Key flow wireframes
    • UI design system
    • Prototype testing with real users

    Deliverables

    • Design system
    • High-fidelity screens
    • Clickable prototype
  4. 04

    Build

    Rollout plans so distributors actually switch.

    Key activities

    • B2B ordering portals implementation
    • Quotation and RFQ systems and integrations
    • Automated testing and QA

    Deliverables

    • Working increments
    • Integration layer
    • Release-ready build
  5. 05

    Improve

    After launch we track more repeat orders placed without a phone call and keep shipping against it.

    Key activities

    • Usage and performance monitoring
    • Iteration on real behaviour
    • Roadmap support

    Deliverables

    • Analytics baseline
    • Improvement backlog
    • Ongoing releases
Outcomes

What better looks like.

Success in b2b trading & distribution is not a redesign. It is more repeat orders placed without a phone call — visible in how quickly buyers, sales reps and warehouse teams get through the order-to-delivery cycle, and in how much of distribution operations stops relying on manual work.

orders self-served
70%orders self-served
order entry errors
-80%order entry errors
faster order-to-dispatch
3dfaster order-to-dispatch
  1. 01

    Clearer workflows

    Buyers, sales reps and warehouse teams spend less time working out what happens next, because the order-to-delivery cycle is modelled in the interface instead of in people's heads.

  2. 02

    Better operational visibility

    Catalogue, pricing and stock data shows up where decisions are made, so distribution operations stop depending on exports and follow-up calls.

  3. 03

    A stronger digital foundation

    The platform is structured to extend — new roles, integrations and features land without a rebuild each time the business changes.

  4. 04

    More confident users

    Predictable, accessible interfaces mean fewer support requests, faster onboarding and steady progress toward more repeat orders placed without a phone call.

Technology

The technology behind the experience.

Frontend

  • React

Integrations

  • ERP / Tally / SAP integrations

Engineering practice

  • Rules-based pricing engines
  • PIM data models
  • Bulk CSV pipelines
  • Role & territory permissions
  • PDF quote generation
FAQ

Questions we hear from b2b trading & distribution teams.

Something specific to your setup? Tell us the workflow and we’ll answer directly.

  • Yes — customer-specific price lists, slab discounts and contract rates are core to the data model.

  • Yes, including Tally, SAP and custom ERPs, usually via a middleware service with retry and reconciliation.

  • Yes. We commonly run one catalogue with separate pricing, access and checkout logic per channel.

Next step

Have a product or workflow worth improving?

Tell us where buyers, sales reps and warehouse teams lose time in your b2b trading & distribution operation. We’ll come back with an approach, a scope and a realistic timeline.

Let’s work together

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Let’s build something amazing together.

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