Codup is now a Shopware Gold Partner

For contractor-supply distributors

B2B customer portals that just work. Live in 90 days.

Codup launches customer portals for distributors in 90 days. They’re connected to your ERP, they help your sales team sell more instead of cutting them out, and they’re easy enough that customers keep coming back. That’s how the portal pays for itself.

See how Frank’s shop pulled it off
Previously…
Part Two: same night, different ending

Same night. Different ending.

Last time, Dave texted his order at 9:12 pm. Mike was up past 10:40 hunting for Dave’s price, and by 6:34 am Dave had walked out to “the guys with the portal.” Then Frank’s shop launched its own portal on Shopify, built by Codup, in 90 days. Here’s the same night, take two.

Day 90, go-live, 9:12 pm, the job site. Dave, in his hard hat, grins at his phone. It shows Frank's Fastener Supply with his price, In stock, and a Reorder button. Dave: Well, look who finally got a portal.
9:12 pm · The customer

Customers actually use it, and come back.

Their own price, live stock and a one-tap reorder of last time’s order, even at 9 pm from a job site. When ordering from you is the easiest option, they keep ordering from you.

Does Dave ever come back? He does.

9:14 pm, Mike's kitchen. Mike eats dinner with his toddler on his lap. His phone on the table reads New order: Dave, under Mike's name. Mike: Dave got his price. It's under my name.
9:14 pm · The sales rep

Works with your sales team, not against them.

Every web order goes under the name of the rep who owns the account, at the customer’s own price. Reps stop re-typing orders and looking up prices at night, and spend that time selling.

Does Mike finally figure out the pricing? The portal already did.

6:30 am, the will-call counter. Joe, a warehouse picker, hands Dave a box of 3/8 brackets. Joe: Bin C-14. No hunting. Edith, at a screen reading Dave, picked, bin C-14: Morning, Dave. It's already pulled.
6:30 am · The counter and the warehouse

Fully connected to your ERP.

Pricing, stock, bin locations and orders flow between the portal and the ERP you already run. No one re-types an order, and the counter sees exactly what the customer ordered.

Is Joe still looking for that box? Not anymore.

Two weeks later, 11:05 am, mid-job. Dave stands on a scaffold with a drill in one hand and his phone in the other, next to an empty box of wall anchors. An inset shows his phone: Frank's Fastener Supply, Same-day delivery, Arrives by 2 pm. Dave: Out of anchors. They'll be here by two. Never left the scaffold.
Two weeks later · The job site

Same-day refills, ordered mid-job.

When a crew runs short, the order goes in from the phone in their pocket, against live branch stock, in time for your same-day run.

Did Dave climb down to call it in? Never left the scaffold.

Month end, Frank's office. A caption box introduces him: Meet Andy. Finance manager. Hard to impress. Andy shows Frank a laptop reading Month-end close: Portal orders checked, ERP checked, Reconciled. Andy: Every portal order is already in the ERP. The books tie out. Frank: And nobody had to stop working? Andy: Not for a day.
Month end · Finance

The books reconcile. The business never stops.

Every portal order lands in the ERP as an ordinary sales order, with the right account, price and tax, so month-end reports tie out without re-keying.

Andy runs Frank’s finance. He’s hard to impress.

Six months later, Frank's office. Frank, the owner, leans back with his hands behind his head, looking at a chart climbing upward. Frank: Huh. It already paid for itself.
Six months later · The owner

It pays for itself.

More orders through the same team. Customers coming back, reps selling, the counter and the books running as they always have.

Frank’s one regret? Taking two years to pull the trigger.

A Codup comic ·  Part Two

Frank's one regret. Frank sits on his desk holding a coffee mug and looks at the reader: Two years to decide. Ninety days to do it.

Frank isn’t the only one who took two years.

So why do these projects take so long, and never get done?

Because the people who have to live with the portal aren’t asked what they need until it’s almost built. They’re asked to test it days before go-live, and the real requirements turn up less than a week before launch.

Around the table, everyone wants something different…

  1. Ray, IT manager
    ITNobody touches my ERP.
  2. Andy, finance manager
    FinanceHow do I get my reports?
  3. Mike, sales rep
    SalesWill online orders still go under my name?
  4. Nina, eCommerce and marketing
    MarketingWe built one two years ago. Nobody used it.
  5. Frank, the owner
    OwnershipHow do we grow without adding headcount?

Meanwhile, two years later…

Dave, the customer
Dave, the customerI’ve been waiting two years. When will this work?
Frank's advice. In the same office, Frank stands by a whiteboard headed Spark Session, with three ticked boxes: the right questions, the right people, live in 90 days. Coffee mug in hand, he points at the reader: Get everyone to yes before you build.

The Spark Session: a hands-on workshop for getting live in 90 days

Frank’s advice to any owner still stuck at that table: start with the Spark Session. It’s a half-hour interactive workshop, not a presentation and not a pitch. Asim works through the framework that gets everyone to yes before anything is built, with you and on your business. It covers:

  1. Why everything must start with “why”, and the right questions to ask
  2. The people you need at the table, and how to help them agree on hard decisions
  3. The constraints that guide every decision
  4. How to use the data you already have to decide what to build
  5. How to execute and go live in 90 days once you start

A working session, not a talk and not a pitch. You walk away with a framework personalized to your business, not a cookie-cutter template, and a clear to-do list you can act on to go live in 90 days, whether or not you ever work with us.

Tue, Nov 17 · 12:15–12:45 pm Education Stage 2, STAFDA 2026, Anaheim

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Half an hour, then back to the floor. Or book time at booth #764.

Framework for Launching a Digital Experience within 90 Days, with Asim Bawany, Founder & CEO, Codup.

Asim Bawany

Why listen to Asim?

  • 14 years running Codup
  • 11 years building B2B portals for distributors
  • 4.9 out of 5 from 75 Clutch reviews

He has sat at that table with the IT manager, the finance team, the reps and the owner, heard every reason a portal project stalls, and taken projects live anyway.

“We could not have digitally matured this quickly without Codup. Asim is an incredible listener and facilitator.”

VP of Operations, AllTerra Central, a Trimble dealer (Clutch review, 2026)

Why trust us with the 90 days?

Because we’ve done it for manufacturers and distributors with messy catalogs, picky ERPs and dealers who don’t like change.

DMF Lighting

Millions of product configurations, quoted online

Reps and distributors were quoting a hugely configurable catalog by hand. Codup built a CPQ on Shopify Plus, connected to Oracle.

Read the case study

AllTerra Central

Sales, service and eCommerce in one connected system

“Codup’s ability to listen to us and reframe our ideas into tangible, bite-sized pieces that make sense is impressive.”

Kory BaxleyVP of Operations

Read the case study

GeoShield Window Film

A dealer portal that shows each dealer where they stand

“Dealers can quickly see where they fall in the dealer journey, what their pricing looks like, and what perks and access come with their status. That clarity builds trust.”

John SchurmanVisionary

Brands that trust Codup

  • Steelcase
  • Unilever
  • Ingram Micro
  • Stitch Fix
  • Milliman
  • Harrods
  • Royal Caribbean
  • Seacoast Bank
  • National Wildlife Federation
  • DMF Lighting
  • AllTerra Central
  • GeoShield Window Film
  • Back On Track USA
  • Fouts Bros
  • Zendex Tools
  • White Knight
  • Instent
  • Pickles
  • Magnum 4000
  • Insurgo
  • iUltrasonic
  • SiB Solutions
  • Inovelli
  • Multiply Eyewear
  • Lyssé
  • Hopson Grace
  • FOGA
  • Reverse Health
  • Global Healing
  • Vaxxen Labs
  • One Tree Planted
  • GlobeMed
  • Coins TV
  • Meal Plan Map
  • Travel Gossip
  • New Horizon Academy
  • RideFox
  • SafeLife Defense
  • Slant Six
  • Monte Design
  • resqme
  • Kinect Solar

Awards, rankings and partner badges

  • Clutch 1000, 2025
  • Clutch 100 Fastest Growth, 2023
  • Clutch Champion, Spring 2024
  • Clutch Global, Spring 2024
  • GoodFirms Best Company to Work With
  • Web Excellence Awards, Excellence Award

Booth #764 · Hall D · Nov 16–17

If it slows down how you sell, quote or serve, come talk to us.

Dealers calling for prices. Reps typing orders from emails. Warranty claims in an inbox. An ERP nobody wants to touch. If something in how you sell feels harder than it should, we’ve probably built a fix for it, or we’ll tell you honestly that we haven’t.

  • Asim BawanyFounder & CEO, Codup
  • Fahad SheikhCo-founder, Extend Commerce

More of what we’ve built for distributors

The portal is the start. Each of these connects to your ERP, and most are a quick demo away.

Contractor loyalty and training

Tiers, pricing and perks that reward your best contractors, as in GeoShield’s dealer journey, plus the product training we built into AllTerra’s system.

See how it works

Price and stock app

A phone app for contractors, counter staff and field reps: real-time price and branch stock from your ERP, no app store.

Mobile apps

Ordering apps for your contractors and your reps, on the same pricing, stock and accounts as the portal.

See how it works

CPQ: configure, price, quote

Reps and distributors quote even a hugely configurable catalog online, at the right price. Built for DMF Lighting on Shopify Plus.

Read the case study

Product configurators

Walks buyers through specs, checks what fits together, and returns a unique SKU, a spec sheet and a live price.

AI order automation

Order sheets, even messy scans, are read and written into your ERP at the customer’s contract price. Live in weeks, no portal needed.

See how it works
Part One · from the e-blast
Part One, six panels. 9:12 pm, the job site: Dave, in his hard hat, frowns at his phone: That's not my price. And where's the stock? So Dave does what Dave always does: he texts, pls send 40 x the 3/8 brackets + same as last order. 9:14 pm, Mike's kitchen: Mike, holding his toddler at dinner, reads the text: This guy again. Mike, I need some help here! 10:40 pm: Mike in bed with a laptop and papers: What did we charge him last time?! 6:30 am, the will-call counter: Edith tells Dave: Honey, it's not in the system. Let me go see. 6:34 am: Dave walks out, tapping his phone: Forget it. I'll order from the guys with the portal. His phone shows Order placed.

Now Part Two

Spark SessionNov 17 · 12:15 pm Save my seat