B2B Agroportal Development: Catalog, NDVI Monitoring, 1C

Seasonal surges in grain demand, dozens of supplier farms, daily price fluctuations – chaos in Excel spreadsheets is inevitable. Large agroholdings lose up to 15% of revenue due to manual order management and lack of real-time field monitoring. We develop unified B2B portals where product catalog, orders, and field monitoring are combined in one system. Such a turnkey solution includes integration with 1C and satellite services, automating 90% of operations. As a result, operating costs drop by 20–30%, and capital investments in development pay off in 1–2 seasons. We'll evaluate your project in 2 days – contact us.

Let's examine the key portal modules using the example of an agroholding that automated 15 farms with an annual turnover of 500 million RUB. The volume of processed data is up to 10,000 catalog items and 50,000 orders per season. The system withstands peak loads during harvest without performance loss.

Precise fertilizer application using NDVI maps leads to significant savings, confirmed by our implementation experience in three agroholdings.

How to Organize B2B Trade of Agricultural Products on the Portal?

The product catalog includes characteristics, seasonal availability, and volume in tons or pallets. Prices are tied to exchange indicators – updated once per hour. Wholesale orders support minimum volume, batch shipping, and contract prices for regular customers. For each item, inventory by warehouse and delivery schedule are displayed.

The farmer partner's personal account contains: fields, area, crops, planned/actual yield; schedule of agronomic works; resource supply; financial settlements; document flow.

Key Portal Metrics

Why NDVI Field Monitoring is a Key Agronomist Tool?

Satellite images from Sentinel-2 are analyzed via Planet Labs API, NDVI indices are overlaid on GeoJSON field polygons. Visualization on Yandex Maps – color scale from red (problem area) to green (normal). NDVI monitoring detects drought hotspots 2 days earlier than visual inspection – 3 times faster than manual field walks. Automatic monitoring reduces survey time by 60%, and savings on agrochemicals due to precise fertilizer application using NDVI maps can reach up to 15%.

Technical process: satellite images (10 m/pixel) undergo atmospheric correction and NDVI calculation using the formula (NIR - RED) / (NIR + RED). Then indices are averaged over field polygons, and results are stored in PostgreSQL with PostGIS. Display uses tile overlay on the map via Leaflet or Mapbox GL.

How to Integrate Agroportal with 1C and GPS Tracking?

Integration with 1C:Agricultural Enterprise via REST API. Synchronization of items, counterparties, orders, balances – every 15 minutes. GPS vehicle tracking – integration with GLONASS trackers (e.g., GALS) with route display on the map. This cuts logistics costs by up to 20%.

Comparison of Basic and Extended Portal

How We Develop an Agroportal: Step-by-Step Process

1. Analytics and audit. We study current processes, gather requirements, build a prototype.
2. Architecture design. We choose the stack: React (Next.js), Laravel 11 (PHP 8.3), PostgreSQL. We design REST API and microservices.
3. Development. Frontend on Next.js + TypeScript, backend on Laravel 11. Integrate external APIs (satellites, 1C, trackers). Use React Server Components for fast loading and Redis for caching.
4. Testing. Unit, E2E, and load testing up to 500 concurrent users.
5. Deployment and training. Configure infrastructure (Docker, Nginx, SSH). Conduct 3 staff training sessions.
6. Support. 30 days free support after launch.

What's Included in Turnkey Agroportal Development?

We provide a full cycle of work: from analytics to deployment. Each stage is documented. We use modern technologies: React Server Components, Suspense for fast loading, Redis for caching. We guarantee stable operation under peak loads. Upon request, we connect yield analytics (forecast based on historical data), integration with agrotechnical platforms, and an agroholding management system. With over 5 years on the market and 20+ completed projects, we ensure reliable delivery.

Development Time and Cost

Implementation time – from 3 to 7 months depending on the module set. Cost is calculated individually after auditing your processes. Budget savings from automation can reach 30% in the first year. Get an engineer consultation: we'll evaluate your project in 2 business days.

Development of Corporate Portals and Internal Systems

We specialize in developing corporate portals — CRM, ERP, LMS, and Intranet. Each project starts not with landing page layout, but with how business rules will be embedded into the architecture: who sees which data, how 1C and accounting systems sync, how 500 contacts turn into 500,000 without performance degradation. Over 7 years, we have delivered over 40 portals for companies with 50 to 5000 employees. We will evaluate your project in two business days — just contact us.

A public website can be launched without detailed design — iteratively improved based on feedback. With a corporate portal, this approach does not work: the cost of fixing architectural decisions after launch for 200 users is incomparably higher. Therefore, we spend 70% of our time on analysis and prototyping, and write code only after the role matrix and integration scheme are approved.

Three areas where bad decisions are often made: access rights model, performance on large data, and real-time updates.

How to build a role model for 30 departments?

Access rights model. "A manager sees only their own clients, a department head sees the entire department, a director sees the whole company, but financial data is visible only to the CFO and above." This is not three roles — it's a matrix of roles, permissions, organizational units, and record ownership. Implementing it with if ($user->role === 'manager') in controllers will make the code unmaintainable after six months.

The correct approach: Spatie Laravel Permission for basic role model + Policy classes for object-level permission (can('view', $deal) checks not only the role but also ownership). For complex hierarchical structures — ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control) instead of RBAC.

Performance on large data. CRM with 500,000 contacts, filtering by 10 fields, sorting by activity — a naive implementation yields 15-second queries. Composite indexes, denormalization of aggregates (last_activity_at on the record itself instead of MAX over related table), Elasticsearch for full-text search on contacts.

Real-time updates. Multiple employees working on the same document or task. Without WebSocket — constant setInterval with polling every 5 seconds, extra server load, update delays. Laravel Broadcasting + Pusher/Soketi or a custom WebSocket server on Node.js — for notifications and real-time changes.

CRM Systems

Typical set: contacts, companies, deals, activities, sales funnel, reports. Technically straightforward. The complexity lies in the details.

Pipeline with custom stages. Every company wants its own funnel. Stages must be configurable without deployment. Table pipeline_stages with position, color, is_final, probability — and drag-and-drop for reordering on UI (React DnD or dnd-kit).

Change history. Who and when changed a deal status, reassigned a responsible person, added a note. Audit log via Observer or spatie/laravel-activitylog. On UI — timeline with filtering by activity type.

Email integration. IMAP/SMTP for connecting corporate mailbox, automatic linking of incoming emails to contacts by email address. This works reliably only with proper handling of bounces, spam, auto-replies — filtering is required.

Why is ERP not about code but about data?

ERP is when CRM, warehouse, production, accounting, and HR are unified into a single system. Full ERP from scratch is rare (usually integrating with existing systems), but modular systems for specific businesses are common.

Key principle: financial operations must be immutable. Not UPDATE orders SET status = 'cancelled' — but creating a new record order_cancellations with a reference to the original order. This is the immutable ledger principle, which simplifies auditing and reconciliation.

Integration with 1C is almost always part of an ERP project. Two-way synchronization: from 1C to portal (directories, balances, prices) and from portal to 1C (orders, documents). RabbitMQ as an event bus between systems is more reliable than direct HTTP interaction — if 1C is unavailable, messages wait in the queue.

How are LMS structured: learning platforms?

Learning Management System — courses, modules, lessons, tests, certificates, user progress.

Video content is the most demanding part of an LMS. Storing video on your own server and serving via Nginx is a bad idea: expensive, slow, no adaptive bitrate. Correct approach: upload to S3/Cloudflare R2, transcode via AWS Elemental MediaConvert or Mux, HLS playlist for adaptive streaming via Video.js or Plyr.

Viewing progress — periodic sending of watch_position from the frontend (every 10–30 seconds), storage in Redis with periodic synchronization to PostgreSQL. Do not save every second to the database — it will kill performance.

SCORM compatibility — if integration with corporate training materials is needed. Separate module, there are ready libraries (scorm-again).

Intranet and HR Portals

Corporate intranet: news, documents, organizational structure, HR processes (vacations, requests, KPIs).

Organizational structure in the database is a hierarchical structure. Adjacency list (parent_id on each record) is simple to implement but slow for recursive queries. Nested Sets or Closure Table are faster for reading hierarchies, more complex for changes. In PostgreSQL — recursive CTEs (WITH RECURSIVE) with adjacency list — a balance between simplicity and performance.

Document and request approval — workflow engine. Simple linear approvals (employee → manager → HR → accountant) can be done without a special engine. Non-linear (parallel branches, conditional transitions, delegation) — consider ready solutions: Temporal.io for workflow orchestration or a custom state machine based on the state-machine pattern.

What is included in the work

When ordering a corporate portal development, you receive:

• Architectural documentation (ER diagrams, integration scheme, role matrix)
• Full code in a Git repository with CI/CD
• Access to infrastructure (hosting, databases, storage)
• Training for administrators and key users (2–3 sessions)
• Warranty support for 3 months after launch

Our design principles rely on official Laravel documentation on authorization (Policies) and recommendations for working with queues.

Technical Stack for Portals

Timeline Estimates

The cost is calculated individually after a detailed analysis of requirements and role model. To get a preliminary estimate, contact us — we will analyze your task and offer an optimal turnkey solution.