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A B2B ordering portal for your customers and a back office for your team, with each partner's own prices and pricing policies.

A portal for your customers and a back office for your team

The platform has two parts, built for two different kinds of users.

The back office is where your company runs the commercial relationship. Orders from every customer arrive in a single stream, each with its current status. Products, customers, contacts, offers and pricing policies are all managed from the same place. On top of them, an analytics layer shows how sales are trending by customer, product and sales rep, and flags early the customers who are starting to buy less.

The customer portal is your online store for partners. Each customer logs in with their own account, sees the catalog and the prices that apply to them, places orders from a browser or a phone and tracks each one through to delivery. It is also where they find their invoices, their balance, active offers and a direct line to your company.

Pricing policies (price lists, discounts, offers and promotions) are applied automatically, in real time, as the order is built. The price confirmed when the order is placed remains the price of the order.

A portal for your customers and a back office for your team

Why choose NEXT B2B

Almost anyone can give you an ordering portal. The difference is what you can see once the order has been placed.

Dashboards that explain

Beyond “how much did we sell?”: ordering patterns, cadence, trend direction, churn risk score and the revenue waterfall. Every figure drills down to the customer and the product behind it.

See what happens, as it happens

An order's status changes on screen without a refresh, and your phone gets a notification. Customers stop calling to ask where their order is, and your team stops answering the same question ten times a day.

Pricing policies, applied automatically

Price lists, discount rules, offers and free-gift promotions, synced from your ERP and recalculated on every line. On each product, customers see exactly which policy applies to them and why.

Activities and automations

Any event in the platform can trigger a task or an email: a new order, a status change, an overdue invoice, a blocked customer. Rules are set up from the interface, with no code.

Stock and statuses from your own systems

Product availability and order status come from the systems your company already uses. The platform shows them to customers and to your team, with no second set of records to keep in parallel.

Fits the way you work

Which products each customer sees, from which warehouse, at what price, with which permissions and what credit limit: all configurable per partner. The platform adapts to how your sales operation is organized.

The benefits of implementing with NEXT

The benefits of implementing with NEXT

The platform is developed by us, not resold. So when you need something that doesn't exist yet, we talk about when, not if.

The NEXT team has more than 15 years of experience in business software and over 500 projects delivered.

Implementation follows the same methodology as our other products: process analysis, configuration, testing, training and support after go-live.

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Sales dashboard

Invoices issued, total value and average invoice value, each shown with the change versus the previous period. A number with nothing to compare it to tells you nothing.

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Below them, top 10 rankings across three dimensions at once: partners, products and sales reps. Same period, same calculation basis, so the three rankings can be read together.

  • Your choice of comparisonAgainst the previous year or the previous month, over any date range.
  • From invoices, not ordersOrders are intent and can be canceled or changed. Invoices show what was actually delivered and billed.
  • Opens instantlyDashboards load right away, however many years of history you have. You don't wait for a report to run to see where you stand.
  • Nine areas, one screenSales, products, customer and sales rep trends, receivables, growth and retention, opportunities, service level, replenishment needs.
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And the same view, by sales rep

And the same view, by sales rep

The sales rep leaderboard, with each rep's trend and the signals that matter: how many active customers they have, how many are in decline, and their performance index against target.

⚠️ Sales stay with the rep who owned the account at the time, because attribution is a historical snapshot, not today's mapping. Otherwise a simple portfolio reshuffle would rewrite the entire past.

Customer trends

For every customer: the RFM profile, the type of ordering pattern, how often they usually order, the trend direction over recent months and the churn risk score, broken down into its components.

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Below that, value over 24 months and how orders are spread across the days of the week and the days of the month. It shows whether a customer orders on a steady rhythm or opportunistically.

  • Median-based cadenceUnlike the average, the median won't let a single late order shift the rhythm of a whole year.
  • Trend with magnitudeIt also shows how big the change is, comparing the last three months with the three before.
  • Risk, explainedThe score shows how much each factor contributes: time since the last order, decline, deviation from cadence, frequency.
  • Biggest declinersA list of the customers who dropped the most, ranked by value lost rather than by percentage.
Customer trends
From diagnosis to a concrete proposal

From diagnosis to a concrete proposal

The platform doesn't stop at noticing that a customer is slipping. It suggests a suitable pricing policy (an offer at a preferential price, a bundle discount, a free-gift promotion), chosen from that customer's history rather than from a general rule.

⭐ The proposal changes nothing on its own. It creates a task with a written explanation: what is happening with the customer, what we suggest, on which products and for how long. The decision stays with a person.

Growth and retention

The difference between two periods, broken down into the five movements behind it: what you retained, how much you grew with existing customers, what you lost to contraction, what you lost to churned customers and what new customers brought in.

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A 5% increase can hide 40% expansion on top of a 29% loss. The net figure doesn't show that. The waterfall does.

  • Retention rateHow many of the previous period's customers bought again.
  • Retained valueHow much of last year's value came back this year, from the same customers.
  • Top moversThe customers who added the most and those who took away the most, with the amount next to each.
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Balance, credit limit and credit hold

Balance, credit limit and credit hold

Customers see their own outstanding balance, credit limit and available credit, including when available credit is negative. They don't have to call anyone to find out why they can't place an order.

A credit hold follows a clear rule: maximum balance exceeded, or a set number of unpaid invoices. ⭐ A warning appears before the threshold is reached, and blocked customers are shown separately on the company dashboard.

Activities

Tasks, calls, meetings, emails, document uploads, payment confirmations, order checks. Each one has an owner, a priority and a due date, and is linked to the thing it's about.

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An activity sits on an order, a product, a customer or an invoice. You open the order and see what needs doing on it, without hunting through a separate list you have to remember.

  • Seven typesTo-do, email, call, meeting, document upload, payment confirmation, order check.
  • Five statusesPlanned, in progress, completed, canceled and overdue (the last one is set automatically).
  • List or calendarThe same activities, in whichever view is most useful to you.
Activities
Scheduled from the screen you're working in

Scheduled from the screen you're working in

You schedule an activity straight from the order or customer you're looking at: type, priority, due date, owner and notes, filled in within seconds. You don't have to leave the current screen to note down what you need to do.

Automations

A rule has a trigger and a list of actions. The trigger is a real event in the platform: an order moves to “Placed”, an invoice becomes overdue, a customer is blocked, an activity passes its due date.

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An action can send an email with a chosen template and recipients, or create an activity for the right person. You add, reorder and switch them off from the interface.

  • Event-driven and scheduledSome fire on an event, others run periodically, such as a payment reminder.
  • Each action on its ownIf one fails, the others carry on, and the log records exactly which one failed and why.
  • No spamA quiet period, configurable per rule, stops the same notification from going out ten times.
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What a rule triggers lands in the calendar

What a rule triggers lands in the calendar

A rule that creates an activity puts it in the owner's calendar, with its due date. The automation doesn't stay an invisible process running somewhere: it shows up exactly like a task set by a person, alongside all the others.

Catalog and online store

Customers log in and see their own catalog: the products published for them, at the prices on their price list, with pack sizes and minimum order quantities.

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Each product shows which policy applies and why: price list, standing discount rule, offer, free-gift promotion. No discount appears out of nowhere at checkout.

  • Stock, for whoever you chooseYou decide, customer by customer, whether they see real product availability or just the catalog.
  • Four ways to orderFrom the catalog, by quick entry of code and quantity, by repeating a past order, or as a recurring order at a fixed interval.
  • Recalculated on every lineWhen the quantity changes, the price and applicable discounts are recalculated, including promotions that kick in at a threshold.
  • Per-customer restrictionsWhich products they see and from which warehouse, set per partner.
Catalog and online store
The store, built from the back office

The store, built from the back office

The portal also has a public side: an online store with your company's presentation page, covering what you sell, how you work, the figures that matter, your product categories and a form where a new partner can request an account.

It is configured entirely from the back office, with no developer needed: sections are added, reordered and switched off, text and images change on the spot, and you see the result immediately. Next week's campaign no longer has to go through anyone outside your team.

Orders, tracked in real time

From the moment an order enters preparation, the customer sees the real stages it moves through: accepted, in preparation, prepared, packed, shipped, delivered. The status updates automatically, with no manually entered estimates.

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Next to the order sits a message thread. A question about a line, a change of address or a confirmation is written right where it belongs, not in an email someone will be searching for three weeks later.

  • Updates itselfAn open screen always shows the current status, and your phone gets a notification on every change.
  • Kanban by statusThe order moves by itself to the column for its current status, for both the customer and the company.
  • Price locked when the order is placedWhat the customer saw when they clicked “Place order” is what gets invoiced.
Orders, tracked in real time
Customers track their own orders

Customers track their own orders

All their orders, grouped by status, with the value and date of each. An order moves to the next column by itself as it progresses, so the answer to “where's my order?” is on screen before anyone asks. The company sees the same view, for all customers.

Invoices, due dates and balance

Invoices come from your ERP and appear in the portal with their lines, their payment due dates and the remaining balance on each due date, not just on the invoice as a whole.

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⚠️ These are synced documents: they can be viewed and downloaded, but not edited in the portal. The accounting record stays in the ERP.

  • Balance per due dateA partial payment is allocated to due dates rather than to whole documents, so the balance is tracked per due date as well.
  • Overdue, clearly markedCustomers see what is paid and what isn't, with the due date, without having to ask.
  • DownloadableIssued documents download straight from the portal, so nobody has to ask for them by email.
Invoices, due dates and balance
Invoices, totals and overdue amounts in one place

Invoices, totals and overdue amounts in one place

The invoice list with issue date, due date, amount and remaining balance for each, with overdue invoices clearly marked and totals calculated for the current selection. On a single page, customers see how much they owe and by when.

What you get

The platform is licensed as a whole (back office and customer portal) and integrates with the ERP system you already use. Implementation services are provided by the NEXT team.

  1. Sales process analysis

    How your customer relationships work today, what pricing policies you have and what each role needs to see.

  2. Configuration and data

    Syncing pricing policies, publishing products, setting up customer accounts and automation rules.

  3. Role-based training

    Separate sessions for your company and for your customers, because each of them is effectively using a different product.

  4. Go-live and support

    Launch with a pilot group of customers, then roll out to the rest. Support through the first stages after go-live.

Still undecided?

The platform is developed by NEXT. So a requirement specific to your business (a workflow, a report, a rule) can actually be built, not just approximated with what already exists.

You can start in stages: first the customer portal with catalog and ordering, then sales analytics, then automations. Each stage is useful on its own, so you don't have to wait until the end to see results.

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