Trade within the Internet,  can occur between companies and individual consumers that are not constrained to geographical areas, concepts such as a distributors regions are meaningless. The world is quickly becoming a single market place and the rules of the marketplace operate on the age old principle of demand, supply and price.

All businesses seek competitive advantage though process efficiencies and trading relationships. The successful business creates dynamic trading relationships where partners in the value chain are as crucial to success as are employees.

 Traditionally small and medium business have been disadvantaged in utilising electronic trading systems, due to prohibitive costs or complexity of these trading systems.

Trade Point is the business-to-business trade facilitation environment. It provides a infrastructure though which the secure interchange of transactions between parties in the trading of goods and services over the Internet can occur.

Trade Point Allows Buyers To:

• Assess the supplier marketplace - locally, nationally or globally.
• Seek responses to purchase enquiries
• Place orders, confirmations and settlement online.

Trade Point Allows Sellers To:

• Receive real-time purchasing enquiries.
• Respond, to purchase enquiries received.
• Accept orders.
• Issue Invoices and process payments 

Trade Point Allows Internet Application Developers To:

• Interface to VillageMall secure accounting engine, using an Internet API.
• Rapidly deploy business applications which utilise the VillageMall security infrastructure.
• Beat their competition to the market, and leverage their specialist business knowledge.

Trade Point is based upon the following specifications.