Shoffice is the verified business infrastructure powering local commerce in Nigerian cities — connecting residents to the businesses, services, and professionals already around them. Open your virtual shop. Skip the rent.
Nigerian urban commerce operates at extraordinary scale — but almost none of it is digitally organised at the city level. The gap isn't technology. It's infrastructure that speaks the city's language.
A verified business two streets away loses a customer who never knew it existed. Local searches return stale national listings — or nothing. The connective layer simply doesn't exist at street level.
Anyone can list online with zero accountability. No registration checks. No ratings that compound. Trust in local commerce must be built at the city level — not borrowed from a global platform that doesn't care.
When buyer and seller are in the same city, centralised national logistics adds only delay. Local dispatch riders already exist everywhere — no platform has aggregated them into a coherent same-city fulfilment layer. Until now.
Nigerians navigate by landmarks — the blue building beside GTBank, the plaza after the roundabout. Coordinates are technically accurate and practically useless without a system that speaks Nigerian streets.
Shop rent in Nigerian cities has become prohibitive — forcing viable businesses to either overextend financially or stay invisible. And the alternative, a standalone business website, solves nothing: it costs money to build, nobody finds it, and nobody remembers the URL. Businesses deserve a real digital shopfront in the city where their customers already live — at a fraction of the cost of physical rent.
"Nigerian cities have everything — the businesses, the customers, the riders, the professionals. What has been missing is the operating system to connect them at street level, in real time."
Shoffice holds no inventory, employs no riders, warehouses nothing. Its value lives in the data and verification layer — infinitely scalable across cities without the capital overhead that has made the centralised model fragile.
Built from the ground up for how Nigerian cities work — not adapted from a model designed for other markets.
"Cheapest iron-rod supplier near Ogui Road, Enugu" returns a ranked, specific answer — price-sensitive, proximity-aware, and rating-sorted in a single pass.
Directions generated the way Nigerians give them: "just after the white plaza, before the traffic light past Rumuola junction." The AI learns from business-owner descriptions and deepens its local vocabulary with every interaction — a compounding city-intelligence asset no global map can replicate.
Official registration required before going live. No ghost profiles. Every business on Shoffice is real, traceable, and accountable.
Clinics, salons, consultants, and legal offices manage their calendars on Shoffice. Patients and clients book without a single phone call.
Buyer funds held securely — released only on confirmed delivery. Powered by Paystack. Every transaction protected from both ends.
City-based dispatch agencies aggregated into a coherent fulfilment layer. Same-city delivery in hours — Shoffice coordinates the last mile without owning a single vehicle, earning on every delivery as the network grows.
Electricians, plumbers, mechanics, tailors — every skilled professional with a verified profile showing real-time availability and city-earned ratings. A commitment fee ensures professionals show up.
Rent a fully equipped digital shopfront on Shoffice for a small monthly fee — far less than any physical shop in your city. List products, accept orders, take payments, and get discovered through the city directory your customers already use. No website to build. No URL nobody remembers. Just your shop, open 24/7, inside the platform your city trusts.
Profile views, search discovery data, rating trends — data Nigerian SMEs rarely have access to, included in every subscription.
Food vendors post each morning. Followers get push notifications. Customers pre-order for specific time slots.
Prices on every profile. Price alerts notify users when a product drops below their set point. Community flagging keeps data current.
Time-limited promotions and events visible to users within the city. Post once. Your city sees it.
Residents who search, businesses that need to be found, professionals who deliver the work.
App detects your city automatically. Search naturally — "best dentist near me", "cheap building materials in Enugu", "electrician available now".
Browse listings with photos, live pricing, verified ratings, and landmark-based directions that make sense on your streets.
Schedule, place an order, or send a service request — all from one profile page. Payment secured through escrow.
Confirm delivery. Escrow releases. Leave a verified rating that builds your city's commercial intelligence for everyone who comes next.
Submit official registration. Your City Representative confirms your business is real and operational. You go live as a verified listing.
Upload photos, list products and services with live pricing, enable booking. Choose between a free verified listing or a full virtual shop — your digital storefront in the city, at a fraction of physical rent.
Orders, bookings, and inquiries arrive in your dashboard. Manage fulfilment and customer communication in one place.
See who found you, which searches surfaced your profile, and how your city reputation is trending. Compound your local brand with every interaction.
Register with valid documentation. Your profile shows service category, operating area, current availability, and verified ratings.
Appear in searches from nearby residents who need your skills now. Your verification and rating are the first things they see.
A commitment fee confirms the client's intent. You show up, do the work. Your time is always protected.
Every five-star rating builds a verified professional identity — a reputation that compounds with every job and becomes your most valuable commercial asset.
Digital platforms fail Nigerian businesses not from poor features — but from the absence of accountable human presence. Shoffice addresses this at every layer.
Every business submits official registration before going live. No anonymous listings. A verified badge is earned — not assigned automatically.
Every city has a locally embedded City Representative — not a Lagos call centre. A known person who verifies businesses, resolves disputes, and is the platform's accountable human face in your city.
Buyer funds held until delivery is confirmed. A commitment fee ensures professionals show up. Disputes go through the City Rep before any funds move. Technology plus human oversight.
Shoffice launches city by city — fully built before we go live. Your city gets a real directory, not a thin listing page.
+ Nnewi · Awka · Warri · Abeokuta · Ibadan · Akure and more — city by city, built to last.
Business owner, resident, or partner — join the waitlist and we'll reach out when your city goes live.
We'll reach out as soon as your city goes live.
Shoffice is being built carefully and properly.
No spam. No third-party sharing. Just a notification when your city is ready.