b2b-commerce

On Shopify Plus, use the built-in B2B features to create companies and assign price lists with custom per-product prices or percentage discounts. On non-Plus plans, install an app like Wholesale Club and use customer tags to show discounted prices only to approved wholesale accounts.

Use Shopify Draft Orders, WooCommerce Request a Quote, or BigCommerce B2B Edition's native quote module so buyers request pricing and sales reps adjust it before conversion. Approved quotes should expire after 30 days and freeze negotiated prices so later catalog changes do not affect the order.

Shopify Plus includes company accounts, custom catalogs, payment terms, and a B2B checkout natively, so no app is needed. Non-Plus stores need apps like Wholesale Club or Wholesale Gorilla, which provide tag-based pricing and minimum order quantities but lack full company account structures.

Check and update credit in the same database transaction that creates the order, using an atomic SQL update with a WHERE clause verifying credit headroom. This prevents race conditions where two buyers from the same company exceed the limit with concurrent orders.

B2B buyers need their internal purchase order number on every invoice for their accounts payable workflow. Missing PO numbers commonly cause payment delays of 30 to 60 days, so the order and invoice generation logic must always propagate the po_number field.

Yes, if pricing is filtered only client-side. Customer tags on Shopify and user roles in WooCommerce must be verified server-side, and all catalog queries should be scoped strictly by company ID to prevent buyers seeing other companies' pricing.