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Trade grocery ordering

Give grocery trade customers a private ordering route under your brand.

Grocery wholesale ordering software for approved trade accounts. Use app and web ordering for repeat baskets, account pricing, product discovery and supplier review. Porosi helps grocery wholesalers, dry goods suppliers, C-store distributors and broadline food distributors move repeat trade customers out of calls, WhatsApp, email and spreadsheet cleanup into a supplier-branded app and web portal, while product access, account pricing and order review stay under your control.

Branded Porosi buyer app home screen for grocery wholesalers, dry goods suppliers, C-store distributors and broadline food distributors
Private catalogue
Porosi supplier dashboard showing wholesale orders
Repeat basket
Porosi customer order screen for grocery wholesalers, dry goods suppliers, C-store distributors and broadline food distributors
Supplier review
Workflow scene Private grocery range
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    Approved customer logs in

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    Account range appears

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    Large basket rebuilt

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    Supplier reviews before handoff

See large repeat baskets, ambient products, customer-specific catalogues, account prices, promotions, delivery notes and invoice-ready review working against your products, prices and customer ordering habits.

Grocery route

Keep grocery ordering private to trade accounts.

Grocery wholesale ordering should help approved trade customers build repeat baskets without exposing supplier rules as a public retail checkout. Porosi is built for supplier-owned wholesale ordering, not public retail grocery checkout.

Porosi is not a consumer marketplace or a generic ecommerce skin. It is supplier ordering software for trade accounts: customer-specific pricing, repeat order history, app and web continuity, and a supplier dashboard your order desk can use on a normal trading day.

01

Control access

Show approved customers the products and prices that belong to their account.

02

Speed up repeat baskets

Use favourites, order history and product search to reduce routine calls.

03

Promote relevant lines

Surface featured products without showing the wrong range to the wrong buyer.

04

Review before fulfilment

Keep delivery notes, account terms and exceptions visible to supplier staff.

Buyer and staff fit

A grocery trade basket needs account control and fast repeat ordering.

Porosi is not a consumer retail marketplace, retail POS, public checkout, warehouse ERP or payments hub. It gives grocery suppliers a private app and web ordering route where approved customers see relevant products, agreed prices, usual lines and order history before staff review. Pepper, Orderspace and Fresho show that distributor buyers expect more than a catalogue; Porosi narrows the promise to supplier-owned ordering and clean review. For trade customers, convenience stores, cafes, caterers, schools, hotel buyers, purchasing teams, sales reps and grocery supplier order desks, Porosi keeps familiar products, usual quantities, customer prices and delivery detail in the ordering experience. For the supplier team, the order arrives with context attached instead of buried in a message thread, voicemail, spreadsheet or handwritten note.

Trade buyers need

  • Fast search across large ranges.
  • Favourites, order history and account prices.
  • App and web access for different ordering moments.

Grocery teams need

  • Controlled product visibility by customer.
  • Cleaner large baskets before warehouse or finance work.
  • Promotions and notes tied to reviewed orders.
Buyer-fit comparison

Compare the buying job, not just the provider names.

Some wholesale ordering platforms are stronger when the brief starts with ERP-first workflow, warehouse depth, payments, AI inbox capture or a broad operations suite. Porosi is the better fit when the urgent job is supplier-owned customer ordering: branded iOS, Android and web ordering, customer-specific pricing, repeat order history and a supplier dashboard for review.

Before choosing grocery wholesale ordering software for approved trade accounts., run a real order through the workflow: usual products, negotiated prices, changed quantities, delivery notes, cut-off pressure, substitutions and finance handoff. The right platform is the one that makes that order clearer for the buyer and easier for your team to review.

Also test the awkward orders your team handles every week: a WhatsApp quantity that could mean cases or units, a customer using last month's price list, a late delivery-note change, a rep-assisted basket, and an invoice query after fulfilment. Porosi should earn its place by making those orders easier to place, easier to check and easier to hand to the next team without hiding the judgement staff still need to make.

A grocery wholesale ordering software page should separate trade-account grocery ordering from public retail grocery checkout.

grocery wholesalers, dry goods suppliers, C-store distributors and broadline food distributors should judge the platform by the manual work it removes: unclear quantities, old prices, missing delivery notes, repeated products and invoice fixes after the order.

Pepper's distributor page shows the broader distributor expectation: storefront, order automation, sales hub, marketing hub, finance hub and category coverage across broadline, produce, seafood, meat, C-store, coffee and alcohol.

grocery wholesalers, dry goods suppliers, C-store distributors and broadline food distributors should judge the platform by the manual work it removes: unclear quantities, old prices, missing delivery notes, repeated products and invoice fixes after the order.

Orderspace's B2B ecommerce page shows the private-account ecommerce baseline: customer-specific pricing, repeat ordering, order forms, invoice export and integrations matter more than a public catalogue.

grocery wholesalers, dry goods suppliers, C-store distributors and broadline food distributors should judge the platform by the manual work it removes: unclear quantities, old prices, missing delivery notes, repeated products and invoice fixes after the order.

  • A grocery wholesale ordering software page should separate trade-account grocery ordering from public retail grocery checkout.
  • Pepper's distributor page shows the broader distributor expectation: storefront, order automation, sales hub, marketing hub, finance hub and category coverage across broadline, produce, seafood, meat, C-store, coffee and alcohol.
  • Orderspace's B2B ecommerce page shows the private-account ecommerce baseline: customer-specific pricing, repeat ordering, order forms, invoice export and integrations matter more than a public catalogue.
  • use Porosi for grocery wholesale ordering software when approved trade customers need a supplier-branded app and web route for repeat baskets, account pricing and order review.
  • This page should sell ordering discipline for food suppliers, not generic ecommerce. Trade customers need account ranges, agreed prices, delivery context and repeat baskets.
  • Orderlion proves the industry-page model still matters. Its category pages turn product type, customer habit, availability, pricing, cut-offs and supplier workflow into separate buying stories.
  • Fresho proves the operations-heavy alternative. It sells food wholesale around orders, stock, delivery, invoicing, payments, onboarding and old-channel cleanup in one broader workflow.
  • Pepper proves distributor buyers now expect more than checkout. Storefront, order automation, sales support, marketing and finance language appear together in distributor software positioning.
  • Orderspace proves private B2B ecommerce needs approved customers, customer-specific pricing, reorder, order forms, invoice export and integrations before a supplier trusts the web route.
  • The Orderlion App Store listing keeps the buyer habit practical: customers want supplier shops, previous orders, delivery days, comments and customer-specific conditions in one simple ordering route.
  • Porosi does not borrow competitor breadth as a promise. This page should show category benchmarks, then explain where supplier-owned app and web ordering is the sharper fit.
  • The buyer should test the same real account across mobile app, web ordering and supplier dashboard review before judging any food wholesale ordering platform.
  • The first demo account should be a high-repeat customer whose normal order currently arrives through phone, WhatsApp, email or a spreadsheet.
  • The second demo account should include product exceptions: changed quantities, unavailable items, delivery notes, substitutions or pricing questions.
  • The third demo account should be an office-led buyer using web ordering, proving the workflow is not limited to phone app adoption.
  • The fourth demo account should show a staff-assisted order so the supplier can compare self-service, assisted and old-channel ordering pressure.
  • The order desk should judge the workflow by fewer unreadable quantities, fewer missing delivery notes, fewer price checks and less retyping before fulfilment.
  • Operations should judge the workflow by whether delivery day, route context, pack sizes, product notes and exception handling are visible early enough.
  • Finance should judge the workflow by whether customer, product, quantity, price and delivery context are cleaner before invoice or accounting work begins.
  • Sales teams should judge the workflow by customer adoption, usual products, range visibility, promoted lines and accounts still returning to old channels.
  • This page should make app and web continuity visible. Some customers order from a kitchen phone; others order from an office desktop.
  • This page should make supplier brand ownership visible. Food buyers should feel they are ordering from the supplier, not from a marketplace or neutral software destination.
  • This page should make account control visible. Grocery, poultry and prepared-food buyers should not all see the same public retail catalogue.
  • This page should make rollout measurable: invited accounts, activated accounts, first orders, repeat orders, support questions and manual-channel holdouts.
  • This page should make non-fit honest. Built-in payments, full ERP replacement, production planning, live fleet routing or deep warehouse execution may require specialist systems.
  • This page should not imply instant automation. The better promise is cleaner customer ordering and better staff review before downstream work depends on the record.
  • A strong SEO page should move the buyer toward a practical demo: real products, real account pricing, real current order examples and the supplier workflow after submission.
  • A strong conversion page should make the old mess familiar: calls, texts, WhatsApp, emails, PDFs, old price lists and retyped invoice lines.
  • A strong conversion page should make the new habit credible: branded app, browser ordering, customer-specific catalogue, order history, notes and dashboard review.
  • The grocery page should make range control visible. Ambient, chilled, frozen, beverage, cleaning and catering lines can sit together without every buyer seeing every product.
  • The grocery page should make basket size practical. Trade customers may order many lines at once, so favourites, order history, search and clear categories matter commercially.
  • The grocery page should make account pricing central. Grocery wholesale breaks quickly when a buyer sees the wrong promotion, agreed price or restricted product.
  • The grocery page should make web ordering important. Large grocery baskets are often built from an office desktop, not only through a phone app.
  • The grocery page should make app ordering important. Convenience-store and cafe buyers still need a fast mobile route for top-ups and repeat products.
  • The grocery page should make promotions controlled. Featured lines and customer-group campaigns should help sales without turning the supplier into a public retail storefront.
  • The grocery page should make sales-rep support honest. Reps may help accounts adopt the new ordering route, but the order should still land in one reviewable workflow.
  • The grocery page should avoid claiming payments, finance hub, full distributor ERP or warehouse execution when the page is selling the order-capture layer.
  • The demo should rebuild a large repeat basket, add a promoted line, change delivery notes and show supplier review before invoice-ready handoff.
  • The conversion copy should make grocery owners feel they can show more of the range, reduce routine calls and keep trade-account rules under control.
Before and after

Judge grocery ordering by account control.

Catalogue
Public range

Every buyer sees the same stock story.

Account range

Products and prices follow customer rules.

Basket size
Phone or spreadsheet

Large orders are rebuilt manually.

Repeat workflow

History and favourites cut reconstruction time.

Sales control
Generic promotion

Offers can reach the wrong account.

Supplier-owned promotion

Featured lines stay inside the ordering route.

Practical rollout

Start with grocery accounts that build large repeat baskets.

Bring real customer examples into the demo: the awkward quantities, old price-list issues, cutoff reminders, usual baskets and invoice fixes your team deals with today. Use real product groups, agreed prices and delivery notes so the workflow proves the private trade route.

A practical rollout for grocery wholesalers, dry goods suppliers, C-store distributors and broadline food distributors starts with large repeat baskets, ambient products, customer-specific catalogues, account prices, promotions, delivery notes and invoice-ready review and the customers most likely to adopt first. That gives your team a clear launch path before every account is expected to change behaviour.

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Choose pilot accounts

Pick customers with regular baskets and frequent manual admin.

02

Load customer ranges

Set products, prices, categories and usual lines.

03

Measure old-channel residue

Track who still calls, emails or sends spreadsheets after launch.

Keep comparing

Look at the surrounding workflow before you choose software.

FAQ

Grocery Wholesale Ordering Software questions.

What makes Porosi useful for grocery wholesalers, dry goods suppliers, C-store distributors and broadline food distributors?

Porosi gives grocery wholesalers, dry goods suppliers, C-store distributors and broadline food distributors a supplier-owned route for app and web ordering. It supports large repeat baskets, ambient products, customer-specific catalogues, account prices, promotions, delivery notes and invoice-ready review, while keeping orders attached to account context and supplier dashboard review.

Is Porosi a takeaway marketplace or consumer ordering app?

Porosi is not a consumer takeaway marketplace. It is built for wholesale suppliers that sell to trade customer accounts and need ordering under their own brand.

Can customers use both app and web ordering?

Yes. Trade customers, convenience stores, cafes, caterers, schools, hotel buyers, purchasing teams, sales reps and grocery supplier order desks can use the route that fits the order, whether that is a branded mobile app for quick repeat buying or a web portal for larger desktop orders.

What makes a Porosi demo useful?

Bring real products, prices, delivery notes, usual order history and the customer accounts you want to move online first. That lets the demo show how Porosi fits your wholesale operation, not a generic sample catalogue.

Does Porosi replace every manual order channel immediately?

No. A production rollout usually moves routine repeat orders online first, then leaves staff free to handle exceptions, customer service, substitutions and complex account questions.

Supplier-owned rollout

Map your grocery trade ordering workflow.

Bring a large basket, account-specific pricing and the manual steps your team wants to remove.