Trade ordering, made simple
Koda Technology designs and builds custom B2B portals and trade eCommerce platforms for New Zealand and Australian businesses that sell to other businesses, not the general public.
Built for distributors, wholesalers and manufacturers across trade and distribution, automotive, finance and manufacturing, our portals give trade customers account-specific pricing, live stock visibility and structured approval workflows, all running on the same modern Node.js and React stack that underpins Koda's wider eCommerce and enterprise software work.
Whether you need a dedicated trade portal layered over your existing ERP, or a full replacement for a system your business has outgrown, we build the platform around how your sales team and your customers actually work, not the other way around.
/ Platform capabilities
Account & Pricing Management
- Tiered, contract and volume pricing by customer or customer group
- Multiple users linked to a single trade account
- Credit terms, credit limits and part-payment support
- Full admin control over who gets account access
Ordering & Approvals
- Quote-to-order workflows with multi-user approval chains
- Bulk and repeat ordering from saved order lists
- Order history, invoices and statements available on demand
- Backorder handling and partial shipment tracking
Freight and Payment Options
- flat rate · location-based · volumetric quoting · account credit · card and part-payment
ERP & Systems Integration
- Live stock and pricing sync, not a nightly export
- Integration with SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB-backed ERP systems
- Accounting and freight platform connections built around your workflow
Accounting & ERP integrations
- Xero · MYOB · Unleashed · Microsoft Dynamics · SAP
Customer Self-Servic
- Reordering, saved lists and account-level reporting
- Downloadable invoices and statements without a phone call
- Self-managed sub-users for larger trade accounts
/ Built for B2B and B2C
Distributor & Wholesale Portals
Account pricing, bulk ordering and live stock for customers who order regularly against a trading account.
Dealer & Reseller Networks
Territory-based catalogues and tiered pricing for manufacturers selling through a dealer or reseller network.
Multi-Branch & Trans-Tasman Operations
Multi-warehouse, multi-currency platforms for businesses trading across several branches or both New Zealand and Australia.
/ FAQ
A standard online store sells one product range at one price to anyone who visits. A B2B portal recognises who's logged in and shows that specific customer their negotiated pricing, their stock availability, their credit terms and their order history. It's built around an ongoing trading relationship, not a single transaction.
Pricing rules are usually stored against the customer or customer group in your ERP or the portal's own pricing engine, then applied automatically at login or checkout. This can include tiered volume discounts, contract pricing negotiated with specific accounts, or promotional pricing that only certain customer groups see.
This is handled with an approval workflow: an order is submitted by one user but routed to a nominated approver before it's confirmed. Larger trade accounts often need this because purchasing authority sits with someone other than the person placing the order day to day.
It can show whatever your ERP is able to provide. If your ERP only updates overnight, the portal will reflect that same overnight snapshot unless the ERP itself is upgraded to support real-time queries. This is worth discussing early, since customer expectations around stock accuracy are usually set by what the portal shows them.
Yes, and usually a more valuable one. Self-service ordering tends to absorb the repetitive, low-value transactions, freeing reps to focus on new business, larger accounts and problems that actually need a person. Most businesses find call volume drops but doesn't disappear.
It depends heavily on how complex your pricing structure and integrations are, but most B2B portal projects run from initial discovery through to launch over a period of a few months, with clear milestones agreed at the outset so you know what's happening and when.
Nothing forces them to change. Most businesses run the portal alongside existing ordering channels and let adoption happen naturally, often incentivising portal use with faster processing or portal-only promotions rather than switching everyone over on day one.
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