A History That’s Shaping The Future
About Us
Aspidistra are specialists in b2b ecommerce, creating award winning websites that make businesses more efficient and profitable. Shopfront, our unique b2b ecommerce platform, integrates seamlessly with Sage and Pegasus accounting systems to deliver a feature rich, higher personalised customer experience.
Based in the beautiful South Devon town of Kingsbridge, our talented team of pioneering developers create bespoke integrated ecommerce solutions for clients across the UK and Ireland. Combining creative flair with technical expertise, we develop world-class ecommerce websites which help manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors succeed online.
Our aim is to allow our clients to spend less time processing orders and more time growing their customer base. We pride ourselves on going above and beyond expectations, working with our clients to create solutions which not only fulfil the brief, but exceed expectations. Clients choose Aspidistra because of our specialist expertise in b2b ecommerce software solutions, excellent customer service and 20+ years’ experience.
Our History
Over the years, we’ve developed specialist expertise in b2b ecommerce. Unlike most b2b ecommerce solutions, which are based on modified or extended b2c platforms, our Shopfront system has software and database structures written specifically for b2b. So it’s streamlined, feature-rich and fit for purpose.
February 1999
Established Aspidistra Company
Paul Dorey established Aspidistra when he retired from the Royal Navy. The Internet had only just arrived and the company focused on website software solutions for small businesses taking advantage of this new technology.
July 2003
We began integrating Sage accountancy systems
No one wanted to write an accounts system from scratch, so we began to integrate our business website solutions to our customers’ Sage 50 accounting systems.
October 2006
Online solutions for Sage 200
We were asked to integrate our growing eCommerce website product to Sage 200 for a European supplier of high speed drilling bits. This quickly led to further Sage 200 customers.
March 2007
Shopfront was born
We decided to focus exclusively on integrated eCommerce websites and rewrote our product completely to give us a flexible platform to meet client needs with particular emphasis on B2B facilities.
March 2011
Shopfront for Sage 1000
We were invited to supply B2B and B2C eCommerce websites for a well known pottery company who were installing Sage 1000.
August 2016
Branching out into Pegasus Opera
Having focused on Sage it was time to branch out and introduce a eCommerce website product for Pegasus Opera.
September 2019
B2B eCommerce for Xero
To widen our offering we decided to integrate with the cloud based accounting system Xero.
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