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Software & Cloud Development

eCommerce development

Selling online in Nigeria takes more than a storefront: a gateway that suits your customers and volumes, correct VAT, mobile-first shoppers, and orders reaching your warehouse and accounting without retyping. We build and connect everything.

Discuss your project How the work is delivered

A good fit if

  • You sell across several states and need tax, delivery and payments handled correctly.
  • Online orders are re-keyed into your ERP or accounting system.
  • B2B customers need account pricing, quick reordering, quotes or purchasing on account.
  • Your catalogue is large or complex, or you are outgrowing a fragile platform.

What is included

  • Discovery: catalogue, customers, pricing, payments, tax, delivery, returns, systems
  • Platform recommendation (Shopify, WooCommerce or headless), trade-offs written down
  • Mobile-first store, tested against WCAG 2.2 AA; multilingual where needed
  • Gateway integration via hosted fields: cards, bank transfer, wallets where supported
  • VAT and withholding tax per your accountant; delivery rules, courier integrations
  • ERP, inventory and accounting integration, including Prometheus and ERPNext

What this service is

Stores and ordering portals for consumers (B2C) and businesses (B2B), from a configured Shopify store to large, multi-brand, high-volume applications with custom storefronts. We design the whole chain behind the storefront, so nobody re-enters orders and stock shown is real:

  • Catalogue
  • Pricing
  • Payment
  • Tax
  • Inventory
  • Fulfilment
  • Accounting
  • Customer records
PlatformSuits
Shopify and Shopify PlusHosted, little to manage, large app ecosystem; most B2C stores, increasingly B2B; check its Nigerian payment and delivery options
WooCommerceWordPress, full control of code and data; you own hosting, managed by you or us
Headless commerceCustom front end (such as Next.js) on an engine like Shopify's Storefront API or an open-source one; complex catalogues, several storefronts, rich content; costs more to build and run

Naming a platform implies no partnership or reseller status. For distributors and manufacturers, B2B features often matter more than design:

  • Company accounts, several buyers
  • Customer price lists and catalogues
  • Volume pricing
  • Quick order and reorder
  • Quote requests
  • PO numbers and approvals
  • Purchasing on account, invoiced from your ERP

Payments, tax, privacy and operations

Gateways used in Nigeria take cards, bank transfer (NIP) and wallets via hosted checkout or payment fields, keeping card numbers off your servers and reducing (not removing) PCI DSS duties. For dollar sales or customers abroad, we plan exchange-rate and settlement implications with your finance team. Withholding tax can affect how B2B invoices are settled; we test tax rules with sample orders.

Sign-ups and marketing emails follow NDPA consent, SMS respects NCC Do-Not-Disturb rules, analytics respect consent choices, and personal data is handled under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, enforced by the NDPC. Not legal or tax advice.

Orders, customers, stock and prices sync through APIs with Prometheus ERP, ERPNext, NetSuite or others; local couriers supply delivery rates, tracking and labels; your CRM gets customer data where useful. Integrations retry and flag problem records, so no order is lost when a system is down (payment gateways). Managed-service clients can add 24/7 monitoring and support, with response targets set in the agreement.

Built for busy periods

Black Friday and the festive season put heavy load on a store and everything behind it. We plan for peaks with caching, content delivery networks, efficient product queries and load testing, and integrations queue work rather than fail when volumes spike.

Delivery

How the work is delivered

  1. Discover

    Map products, customers, pricing, payments, tax, delivery, returns and every system an order touches.

    Output: Discovery summary and order-flow map.

  2. Choose platform and design

    Recommend a platform, then design storefront, checkout and accounts around customers' main tasks.

    Output: Platform decision and approved designs.

  3. Build and integrate

    Configure payments, tax and delivery, migrate product data, and connect the ERP and accounting.

    Output: Working store on staging.

  4. Test end to end

    Test orders on every path, including refunds, failed payments and different delivery locations, on mobile and desktop.

    Output: Test report and reconciliation results.

  5. Launch and hand over

    Launch with redirects and monitoring, reconcile early orders closely, then train staff.

    Output: Live store, runbook, trained staff.

Scope at a glance

Not included unless agreed

  • Platform, app, transaction and gateway fees: your own contracts
  • Tax, legal or accounting advice; PCI DSS attestation stays yours
  • Photography, copywriting, translation or post-launch support, unless agreed

What we need from you

  • Merchant account or gateway agreement in your organisation's name
  • Your accountant's confirmation of VAT registration and rules
  • Product data, images, pricing; courier accounts; ERP access for testing

Before handover

  • Test orders to several states, tax lines checked against your accountant's rules
  • Payments, refunds, declines and timeouts sandbox-tested; card data never on your servers
  • Orders reconciled across store, ERP and accounting; old URLs redirected

What affects the cost

  • Catalogue size, variants, bundles, configurable products
  • B2B pricing, quotes, approvals, purchasing on account
  • ERP, inventory, accounting, delivery and CRM integrations
  • Custom or headless storefront, languages, data volume

No package prices: estimates in naira from an agreed scope, taxes shown separately.

Questions buyers usually ask

Which payment gateway should we use?

It depends on volumes, the methods your customers prefer (cards, bank transfer, USSD or wallets), in-person sales and negotiated fees. Paystack and Flutterwave are examples used in Nigeria; naming one implies no partnership. We integrate the gateway you choose and compare the technical trade-offs.

How is tax handled on online sales?

VAT (currently 7.5 %) and any withholding tax generally depend on what you sell, to whom, and your registrations. Platforms calculate VAT once configured; your accountant confirms the rules and we test that the store applies them. Not tax advice.

Does the store work well on mobile and on weak connections?

We design for it. Most shoppers in Nigeria browse and pay on phones, so we build mobile-first, keep pages light, and make checkout tolerant of dropped connections and delayed payment confirmations, so a paid order is never lost or duplicated.

Selling online or planning to?

Tell us what you sell, who buys it and which systems orders must reach. We will arrange a discovery conversation before anything is priced.

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