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GAZIANTEP · B2B DEALER & ORDER PORTAL

A B2B portal where the dealer sees their own price and enters their own order

In a setup where orders arrive by phone and WhatsApp, sales is only as solid as the memory of whoever remembers. We build a portal that shows each dealer their own discount, current stock and account balance — and drops the order straight into your ERP. The same platform serves a domestic dealer network and an exporter loading containers out of Başpınar alike.

The picture in Gaziantep
  • Of the 1,108 companies we recorded in the Gaziantep organised industrial zone (OSB) in our own field research, 294 — roughly a quarter — are verified exporters. For an exporting manufacturer, the order window is not limited to Gaziantep office hours; the buyer wants to enter orders in their own time zone and their own language.
  • The sector breakdown is led by textiles with 257 companies, food with 145, plastics and packaging with 116, and carpets with 107. These are structures that sell through dealers, distributors and wholesalers, with the same customer reordering the same product again and again — exactly the kind of selling a portal is built for.
  • The sub-breakdown showed figures like 41 packaging, 45 flour and milling, and 33 yarn companies; these splits are estimates, not an exact census. They still show the picture: most sales in Gaziantep go to repeat corporate buyers, not to end consumers.
  • The research found a corporate website at roughly 51% of the companies. Having a site does not mean being able to take orders; most of these sites are shop windows, and orders still come in by phone and message.
  • We come to your plant in Başpınar OSB and watch a day at the order desk. Before we talk, we want to see how many orders are taken over the phone, how many are entered at the wrong price, and how many bounce back because of stock.

The real cost of taking orders by phone and message

  • Orders come in on WhatsApp; they get lost in the message pile, or two people enter the same order separately and a duplicate shipment goes out.
  • The price list circulates as an Excel file. Nobody knows which version each dealer holds; when an order comes in against an old list, the difference turns into an argument.
  • Dealer-specific discounts live in the sales rep's head. When that person goes on leave or leaves the company, the pricing knowledge and the customer relationship go with them.
  • Because dealers cannot see stock, they order products that aren't there; then someone has to call to cancel, or ship short. Either way, trust erodes.
  • The export customer wants to order in their own hours, but the order channel is tied to Gaziantep office hours. The enquiry goes cold while waiting for an answer.
  • Proformas, exchange rates and delivery terms are prepared by hand every time. A person retyping the same information will, sooner or later, get a number wrong.
  • Dealers cannot see their open balance or due dates. Collection conversations turn tense as a result; if they saw the figure themselves, the conversation would start differently.
  • An order taken over the phone is keyed into the ERP a second time by hand. That second entry eats time and is the main source of errors.
  • Sales units like pallets, cartons and rolls don't match the units in the ERP; the gap between the quantity ordered and the quantity shipped surfaces at the delivery-note stage.
  • Which dealer buys what and how often, which one hasn't ordered in three months — the answer lives nowhere; there is only the rep's intuition.

A portal that lets dealers help themselves instead of waiting

We have done this before: we built, end to end, a B2B dealer portal where dealers log in to their own prices and open their own orders. The pieces below come from that project and from the integration work we run on the factory side. You won't need all of them; we choose based on your dealer count and the way you sell.

Dealer-specific price and discount engine

When a dealer logs in, they see only their own prices. Price groups, product-level discounts, tiered quantity discounts and campaign rules are written into the system. The price no longer lives in a circulating Excel file; it sits in one place, and the moment you change it, it applies to everyone.

Real-time stock and lead times

While ordering, the dealer sees what is on hand, how much is reserved and when production will deliver. For a product out of stock, a forward order can be opened against a promised date. The 'I placed the order but it never came' conversation gives way to a conversation about dates.

Multi-language and multi-currency for export

The catalogue and the order screen open in multiple languages, and prices are shown in the dealer's currency. The rate source and the rule for which rate applies work to your definition. Proformas, delivery terms and the required product details are generated from the order; no document is written from scratch for each export order.

Account balance, terms and collections screen

The dealer sees their balance, invoices falling due and payment history on their own screen. How the order flow behaves when the credit limit is exceeded — whether it stops or routes to approval — is set up to your decision. Chasing collections stops being a game of mutual reminders.

ERP and accounting integration

Your existing system — Logo, Mikro, Netsis — stays where it is. Products, prices, stock and accounts come from there; an order opened in the portal lands there as an order. Entering the same data into two places by hand disappears. We build the integration by whatever route your system allows — interface or database.

Mobile ordering and a field-rep mode

A dealer can open a past order on their phone and repeat it with a single tap. Your field rep, meanwhile, can enter an order on the dealer's behalf from the same screen, right in front of the customer. The step of returning to the office after a visit to retype the order disappears.

How the portal is built

  1. 01

    Mapping the sales arrangement

    Your dealer types, price groups, discount logic and exceptions are laid on the table. At this step, most companies see their pricing rules put in writing for the first time; even if no portal were built, that output stays with you.

  2. 02

    Data preparation and the ERP connection

    Product cards, units, per-carton quantities, pallet tiers, images and stock data are reviewed. Missing and inconsistent records are cleaned up at this stage, because the portal shows ERP data straight to the dealer's eyes. Then the two-way integration is built.

  3. 03

    Live trial with pilot dealers

    The portal opens first to a limited number of dealers. We usually pick the ones that order the most and the ones that ask the most questions; each teaches something different. Screens and flows are simplified based on their feedback.

  4. 04

    Opening to the full dealer network

    Dealers receive a short how-to and their login details. During the transition, we also enter phone orders into the portal ourselves and show the result on the dealer's screen, carrying the habit across. We never close the phone channel in a single day.

  5. 05

    Measurement, maintenance and growth

    Which dealers use the portal, which are still on the phone, which products get left in the basket — all of it is tracked. Work continues under a maintenance and support agreement, and we add new markets or new languages when needed.

Frequently asked questions

My dealers are used to WhatsApp — will they use a portal?

The answer lies in what the portal gives the dealer. If a dealer can see their own price, the stock, where their order is and their balance, using the portal is faster for them too. So we make the transition gradual rather than forced: pilot dealers first, then during the transition we enter phone orders into the portal ourselves and show the dealer the result. Habits start to change once the screen proves useful.

Could my price list leak to competitors?

The portal is not a shop window open to everyone. Each dealer logs in with their own account and sees only the prices defined for them; no dealer can see another dealer's discount. Price visibility can be switched off entirely for visitors who are not logged in. Who viewed which screen and when is also kept on record.

We already have an e-commerce site — do we need this as well?

A retail site and a dealer portal do different jobs. Retail means one price, a basket and card payment; the dealer side means customer-specific prices, tiered discounts, carton and pallet multiples, credit limits, open accounts and payment terms. Forcing retail infrastructure into the dealer arrangement usually breaks both. If needed, the two can be connected so they share the same product and stock source.

Will we need to change our ERP?

No. Your accounting backbone stays as it is. The portal takes product and stock information from it and writes new orders back into it. We build the integration by whatever route your system allows — interface or database. If no suitable route exists, we say so up front and set out the alternative and its limits clearly in writing.

How are language and currency handled for our export customers?

The catalogue, the order screens and the notification texts are kept in multiple languages; each dealer sees their own. Prices are shown in the dealer's own currency, and the rule for which rate and which date apply works exactly as you define it. Proformas and delivery terms are generated from the order, lifting the burden of retyping the same information at the export desk.

Have you done this before?

Yes. We built, end to end, a B2B dealer portal where dealers log in to their own prices and open their own orders. On the factory side we have also built integration layers running alongside ERPs, production tracking systems and management dashboards; the stock and order plumbing behind the portal comes exactly from that experience. We don't name customers, and we don't dress up references with numbers.

How long does it take, and where does it make sense to start?

The duration depends not on the number of dealers but on the state of your product data and integration. Most of the time goes into fixing product cards, units and per-carton quantities. So we start the job with discovery, plan data preparation as its own step, and go live with pilot dealers. A proposal that quotes a number of days up front has usually never seen this step.

Who will own the portal and the data in it?

The source code and the data are yours. It can run on your own server or on a provider you choose. Your dealer list, your prices and your order history are your commercial assets; locking them into a supplier's system would be wrong.

How many of your dealers' orders are still taken by phone?

Let's spend a day at your order desk and count together: how many orders came in by message, how many were entered at the wrong price, how many bounced back because of stock. Once you see the number, you decide whether a portal is worth it to you. We come to Başpınar OSB and Şehitkamil.

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