Distributor portal
What we build

Distributor
portal

Ordering, pricing and documentation for a professional buyer.

A distributor portal for pharmacy, hospital and wholesale buyers: real-time pricing, stock and documentation drawn from your ERP, with an ordering experience built for someone who buys repeatedly rather than someone browsing.

What it is
What is included

What a distributor
portal includes

What it involves

A distributor buyer ordering weekly needs speed above almost everything else: search that tolerates a partial reference number, reorder from history, and pricing that reflects their specific account. Discovery features built for a first-time consumer actively slow this buyer down.

What we deliver

ERP integration for real-time catalogue, pricing and stock, an ordering flow built for repeat professional buyers, customer-specific pricing and conditions, and an administration area for managing accounts and orders.

Connected to what your ERP already holds

The portal connects to and reflects the catalogue, pricing and stock your ERP already manages, so buyers see real-time data pulled straight from the system of record, without us duplicating or second-guessing your warehouse operations.

case studies

Clients we've worked with

Real projects for industrial and pharmaceutical companies.
Distributor portal track record
Track record

What our distributor
portal builds have handled

The scale our distributor portal builds have operated at.

+10
years building for regulated industries
+200
organisations have trusted Code
+1.500
documents migrated with their access permissions intact
+160
scientific papers in a single managed repository
Distributor portals by buyer
Who needs it

What a distributor portal
has to prioritise by buyer

The priority differs by who is buying. A distributor portal starts from that buyer.

Build process
Four stages

How we build a
distributor portal

Four stages. A distributor portal is built around the ERP as the source of truth.

ERP ASSESSMENT
01
01

What the source system can actually expose

We assess what your ERP can expose before scoping functionality, since near-real-time stock is only achievable if the ERP genuinely supports it.

What we assess

We assess what interfaces your ERP actually exposes, the real quality of the underlying data, and what update frequency is genuinely achievable — near-real-time stock is only a fair promise if the ERP can actually support it.

Result

The portal's functionality is scoped to what the ERP can genuinely deliver, so buyers are never shown a promise the underlying system cannot keep.

ACCOUNT AND PRICING MODEL
02
02

Conditions per authenticated buyer

We build the model for how customer-specific pricing and conditions are reflected per account, sourced from the ERP rather than maintained separately.

What we define

We define the account tiers your distributors fall into, the pricing logic that applies per tier, and exactly how the portal updates when the ERP changes a customer's conditions, so the two never quietly drift apart.

Result

A buyer logged into the portal always sees the same price and conditions the ERP has on file for their account, with no separate pricing table to fall out of sync.

BUILD
03
03

The ordering experience and the connection

We build the portal itself and the ERP connection, prioritising the speed and reliability a repeat buyer needs.

What we build

We build the catalogue and search a repeat buyer relies on, an ordering flow built for speed rather than novelty, the live ERP integration underneath it, and an administration area for managing accounts and permissions.

Result

Stock levels and pricing shown to a buyer match what the ERP actually holds at that moment, not a cached figure from earlier in the day.

LAUNCH
04
04

Live, tested against real order volume

We launch and monitor the portal under real order volume, since ERP integration issues often only surface under genuine load.

What we handle

We handle launch, monitor the ERP synchronisation closely since integration issues tend to surface only under genuine order volume, and stay engaged through the first weeks of real trading to catch anything a demo environment could not reveal.

Result

By the time we step back, the portal has processed real orders at real volume and proven itself, rather than having only ever been tested against sample data.

Distributor portal FAQ

Distributor portal questions

What comes up when scoping a distributor ordering portal.

Does this need a full commerce platform?

A full commerce platform isn’t always necessary for a distributor portal. See ecommerce development for when the complexity sits in business rules — tiered pricing, minimum order quantities, approval workflows — rather than raw transaction volume, since that’s often the case here and a lighter, tightly integrated build fits the actual requirement better.

How current is the pricing and stock shown?

Pricing and stock are only as current as your ERP allows them to be. We build to whatever synchronisation frequency is realistically achievable — hourly, nightly, or near real time depending on your systems — and make that update frequency visible to buyers rather than implying data is live when it is a batch feed.

Can different customers see different prices?

Yes, different customers can and normally must see different prices in a B2B pharma distributor portal. Customer-specific pricing sourced directly from your ERP is applied per authenticated buyer at login, so each distributor sees only their negotiated terms rather than a single public price list that ignores contract-level agreements already in place.

What if our ERP has no API?

We can often still build a connection even without a formal API, typically through scheduled exports or file drops from the ERP. That approach changes what update frequency is realistic — usually nightly rather than live — so see website integrations for how we handle that constraint and set expectations with your buyers accordingly.

Other things we build

Other pharmaceutical platforms we build

A distributor portal often sits alongside these other builds.

Distributor portal

Start your
distributor portal

Orders currently arriving by phone and email, or a portal that has fallen out of sync with your ERP. Tell us your buyers and we will tell you how we would approach the distributor portal.

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