Establish the business and its representatives
Review the organization's identity and evidence, then approve which people may act for it. Verification has a defined scope, review date, and outcome.
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Build a trade relationship.
Trade Tech is being designed to help businesses in African countries buy and sell goods and services with one another. This is the architecture for that journey; trading accounts, transactions, and partner services are not yet available.
One commercial journey, with clear handovers
Next phase
Discover goods, services, and trading partners
Search business profiles and offers by market and category. Goods describe quantity and units; services describe scope, deliverables, and delivery locations.
Request and compare quotes
A buyer sends a request for quotation. Suppliers respond with prices, a currency, validity dates, and commercial terms, with changes retained for review.
Agree an order
Authorized buyer and supplier representatives accept a specific offer and version of the terms. The order records both parties, goods or service lines, payment terms, and responsibilities.
Follow the right fulfilment path
Goods use shipments, transport legs, border documents, and delivery evidence. Services use milestones, deliverables, and buyer acceptance. The two paths keep their own evidence.
Arrange payment through an approved provider
Record the payment arrangement and reconcile provider confirmations separately from the order. Currency conversion, settlement, refunds, and disputes require explicit partner workflows.
Build governed country insight
Publish approved aggregates from eligible records, with source, period, country roles, and currency clearly defined. Private commercial details remain subject to separate permissions.
Goods and services need different evidence
From dispatch to receipt
Track what was shipped, where it was dispatched, its destination, transport legs, and the countries it passes through. Product origin is recorded separately from dispatch country.
From scope to acceptance
Agree measurable deliverables and milestones. Record who provides and receives the service, where it is delivered, and when the buyer accepts the work.
A defined national view
Government reporting uses approved definitions and assigned country permissions. A trading relationship does not automatically expose a business's records to every government user.