Materials Suppliers

Because the alternative is holding everyone's money in one pot and reconciling it later, which is both an accounting burden and a regulatory question nobody wants to answer.

Creating a business account per supplier means the split happens at the payment layer, where it belongs. The platform takes commission and the vendor receives the rest, and neither party depends on a manual transfer running correctly at month end.

The speed of the slowest part. Vendor onboarding in a B2B marketplace is mostly document checking, and doing it by hand is the bottleneck between a signup and a live catalogue.

Automating the document verification cut that onboarding time by roughly 75%. That is not a technical win so much as a commercial one: suppliers who can list on the day they sign up are suppliers who actually list.

Role-based permissions across the API. A buyer, a supplier and an administrator see different slices of the same orders, products and payouts, and the scoping is enforced per role at the API rather than assumed by the interface.

The domain is large, roughly 30 controllers and 81 data models behind 400-plus endpoints, so keeping permission logic in one consistent layer matters more than it would on a small application.

B2B buying rarely works at list price. Construction and industrial materials are bought in quantities where the price is negotiated, so a quote flow sits alongside the catalogue rather than replacing it.

That means the same product can be browsed at a listed price and transacted at an agreed one, with commission still computed correctly on whatever was actually paid.

It ships on AWS. The catalogue, orders, wallets and KYC pipeline all run as one coherent system rather than a set of loosely connected services, which suited the size of the team and the need to change the domain quickly.

The storefront covers the categories a construction buyer actually needs, from building materials and electrical to commercial kitchen equipment.