Shopify B2B · Wholesale portals for manufacturers

Let dealers order wholesale themselves, no rep, no email, no errors

A Shopify B2B portal built for how manufacturers actually sell to dealers and distributors.

Account-level pricing tiers, net payment terms, minimum order quantities, dealer account management, and ERP integration. Your wholesale buyers self-serve. Your operations team stops managing orders by email and spreadsheet.

Account-level pricingNet payment termsMinimum order logicERP integration
Manufacturing operations team reviewing B2B dealer wholesale orders and distribution logistics at large operations center with multiple monitors
Dealer portal: live accounts
847
Active dealers
$2.4M
This month
Live
Orders today
Shopify B2B for Manufacturers



PlatformShopify Plus · B2B on Shopify
Deployment typeWholesale portal · Dealer management
Account pricingTiered · Per-account · Volume breaks
Payment termsNet 15 · Net 30 · Net 60 · COD
Order minimumsPer-SKU · Per-category · Per-account
ERP integrationNetSuite · SAP · Microsoft Dynamics
ChannelDTC + Wholesale · Same Shopify instance

Redefine Wholesale Build Spec: Rev. 2025

What changes when dealers self-serve through a Shopify B2B portal

72%
of B2B buyers prefer to order without talking to a rep (Gartner, 2024)
Gartner B2B purchasing research, 2024
Zero
Shopify B2B sync stops orders from waiting on a person
Shopify B2B integration removes the human bottleneck
3x
more dealer orders per month when wholesale buyers can order 24/7 without waiting for a sales rep: your revenue stops being constrained by your team's working hours
Self-serve portals capture weekend and after-hours orders
One
Shopify instance for both your direct-to-consumer storefront and your wholesale dealer portal: no separate platform, no duplicated product catalog, no split operations team
Shopify Plus B2B runs on the same instance as your direct-to-consumer store
The B2B Manufacturing Gap

Wholesale ordering today versus after your Shopify B2B portal goes live

Every row below is a specific wholesale ordering workflow. Left column is how it works today. Right column is what your dealers and distributors experience after a Shopify B2B wholesale portal is live.

Current state
How dealers order today
With Shopify B2B
After the wholesale portal
Order placement
Dealer emails or calls a rep with a list of part numbers and quantities. Rep manually enters the order. Errors, delays, and confirmation loops consume 40 to 60 minutes per wholesale order.
Self-serve portal ordering
Dealer logs into your branded Shopify B2B portal. Sees their account-specific pricing, browses your catalog, adds to cart, and completes the order. Order flows directly to your enterprise resource planning system. Rep is never in the loop.
Pricing visibility
Dealer doesn't know their current tier pricing without calling. Rep checks a spreadsheet that may be outdated. Pricing disputes delay orders and damage dealer relationships.
Account-level pricing shown automatically
Every dealer logs into the portal and sees only their contracted pricing: their tier, their volume breaks, their negotiated rates, applied automatically to every product in the catalog. No calls. No spreadsheets.
Credit and payment terms
Net 30 terms are tracked in a separate system. Credit limit checks are manual. Accounts receivable team chases payments with no visibility into open invoice status for dealers at the point of ordering.
Credit terms enforced at checkout
Net 15, Net 30, and Net 60 terms are configured per dealer account. Credit limits enforce at checkout. Dealers with outstanding invoices over threshold are blocked or flagged before the order is placed.
Inventory availability
Dealer doesn't know if a product is in stock until the order is acknowledged, sometimes days later. Back-orders create friction, complaints, and rep time spent on status calls for orders that can't ship.
Real-time inventory from your ERP system
Dealers see real-time inventory levels in the portal, synced from your enterprise resource planning system or warehouse management system. Out-of-stock items show expected restock dates. Pre-order and back-order options are available per product configuration.
Manufacturing and distribution operations team reviewing B2B wholesale order flows and dealer account management system at industrial facility
Wholesale Return on Investment Calculator

How much wholesale revenue are you losing to manual orders?

Enter your wholesale numbers. See the revenue a Shopify B2B portal adds, and what manual order entry costs you right now.

Input your wholesale operation
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102,000
$18,000
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Assumptions used in calculation
Rep labor cost: $35 per hour blended
Orders per dealer per year: average annual spend divided by average order value ($800)
Portal digital capture rate: 85% of manual orders convert to self-serve
Your wholesale portal opportunity
Total annual wholesale gross merchandise value
$2,700,000
Annual labor cost: manual ordering
$82,031
2,344 hours per year spent on manual wholesale order entry
Orders currently placed manually
2,362 orders
per year requiring rep involvement to complete
Annual saving from a Shopify B2B portal
$69,726
in labor recovery + 3x order volume potential at zero additional rep cost
Plan Your Wholesale Portal

Submit your brief · call within 48 hours · scoped proposal in 3 days

What Redefine Builds

Six wholesale capabilities built into your Shopify B2B portal

Each capability below requires Shopify Plus and custom implementation scoped to your dealer structure, enterprise resource planning system, and pricing configuration. None of it is default Shopify.

Capability 01

Branded wholesale dealer portal with account-level pricing and self-serve ordering

Every dealer logs into a portal branded to your manufacturer's identity, not a generic Shopify storefront. Each account sees only their contracted pricing tier, negotiated stock-keeping-unit-level rates, and volume break discounts. Redefine configures the pricing logic at the Shopify B2B company and location level, so pricing is applied by account, not by coupon code or manual override.

Dealer Portal: BuildTech Industrial
Account: Metro Hardware SupplyTier 2
$1.2M
Credit limit
Net 30
Terms
$340K
Available
Your pricing: Tier 2 dealer rates
Industrial Bracket Set: 48pc$84.60
Steel Fastener Pack 200-Unit$122.40
Capability 02
Net terms

Set Net 15, Net 30, Net 60, and COD per dealer account. The portal checks credit limits at checkout before the order goes through. Your accounts receivable team stops chasing surprises.

Net 30Net 60Cash on delivery
Capability 03
Minimum order quantity logic

Set minimum order quantities per SKU, per category, or per dealer tier. The cart blocks any order below threshold before checkout. You protect margin and freight economics on every order.

Configured per-account, not site-wide
Capability 04

Shopify B2B orders sync to NetSuite, SAP, or your ERP system in real time. Inventory pushes back to the portal automatically. Dealers see accurate stock, and your team stops updating numbers by hand.

Capability 05: Quote-to-order workflow

Large dealers can request a quote directly through the portal. Redefine builds the quote approval workflow: dealer submits, your team approves, dealer gets notified, and the quote converts to a one-click order. Custom pricing, large-volume negotiations, and special project orders all handled inside Shopify without leaving the platform.

Request quote
Dealer submits
Review and approve
Your team
One-click order
Dealer completes
Capability 06

Dealer account management

Onboard dealers, activate accounts, assign pricing tiers, and manage territories inside Shopify B2B. Your sales team adds accounts without a developer. New dealers start ordering the same day.

Client Proof

How Sleekshop hit $30M by centralizing B2B and multi-channel operations

SK
Sleekshop
Professional Beauty Supply · B2B and Multi-Channel

Sleekshop is a professional beauty supply distributor with high order volume across many channels. Fragmented systems capped its growth. It needed one platform to unify operations and scale.

The B2B operations challenge

Fragmented operations across marketplaces created severe visibility gaps into inventory, orders, and customer interactions. Manual processes across multiple platforms increased operational costs and slowed growth. The business needed unified order management, automated inventory tracking, and supplier coordination, running from one centralized system that could handle high transaction volumes without breaking.

What was built

A centralized architecture was implemented integrating multiple marketplaces into a single operational system. Dropshipping solutions automated order processing, inventory tracking, and supplier coordination. Advanced order management workflows enabled real-time tracking, unified customer views, and efficient fulfillment. Automated inventory management processes handled stock updates, product listings, and restocking. Custom reporting gave clear visibility into performance across all channels.

B2B operations outcome
$30M
Annual revenue after Redefine centralized the platform and unified every channel
  • We eliminated manual order processing across every channel. Automation removed the workflows that capped growth.tomation replaced the manual workflows that capped growth at previous revenue levels
  • Real-time inventory now covers every SKU and channel. Centralized management ended stock discrepancies and supplier mix-ups.
  • The platform gives Sleekshop room to keep growing. It handles higher order volume without adding headcount.
B2B operations director reviewing Sleekshop centralized order management and wholesale channel performance on screen in modern distribution center
Why Redefine for B2B Manufacturers

Six ways a Redefine wholesale portal beats a generic Shopify build

Business-to-business ecommerce for manufacturers has requirements that consumer-focused Shopify agencies don't build by default. These six capabilities separate a wholesale portal from a storefront.

Pricing set at the Shopify B2B company level, not by coupon code or app

Generic agencies implement wholesale pricing via discount codes or third-party apps. Redefine uses Shopify B2B's native company and location pricing system: account-level pricing that applies automatically at login, with no codes, no workarounds, and no pricing visible to retail buyers.

ERP integration scoped to your inventory and order system, not a generic connector

Redefine scopes the Shopify B2B to enterprise resource planning integration during Discovery: your specific NetSuite subsidiaries, SAP company codes, or Dynamics entities. Order sync, inventory push, and customer record matching are built to your enterprise resource planning system's data model, not a default field map that breaks on your first custom field.

Net terms enforced at checkout, not tracked in a separate AR system

Redefine configures net payment terms as a native Shopify B2B checkout option: dealers select Net 30 or Net 60 at checkout, the order is flagged for accounts receivable, and credit limit logic prevents orders that exceed the dealer's approved credit line. Your accounts receivable team sees invoice status inside Shopify, not a separate spreadsheet.

Direct-to-consumer and wholesale on a single Shopify Plus instance: one catalog, one inventory, separate experiences

Redefine architects the Shopify Plus instance so your direct-to-consumer storefront and your B2B dealer portal share the same product catalog and inventory system, but display different pricing, different catalog visibility, and different checkout flows based on login context. No duplicate catalog. No separate platform to maintain.

Quote-to-order workflow built into the portal, not handled outside the platform via email chains

Large manufacturer orders often start with a quote, not a cart. Redefine builds the quote request, review, and approval workflow inside Shopify: dealers submit quote requests, your team responds with approved pricing, and dealers convert the approved quote to an order in one click. No email chains. No PDF attachments.

Dealer onboarding and account management inside Shopify: no developer required to add new accounts

Redefine configures dealer onboarding, account activation, pricing tier assignment, and territory management directly inside Shopify's B2B admin. Your sales team adds new dealer accounts, sets their pricing tier, and assigns their payment terms without opening a developer ticket. New dealers are live in minutes.

Common Questions

Shopify B2B for manufacturers: questions answered

Yes. Shopify Plus B2B uses a company and location pricing model that supports unlimited price lists: each dealer account is assigned to a company with its own contracted pricing, payment terms, and order minimums. Redefine configures the pricing logic at the B2B company level during the implementation. Pricing changes for a specific dealer are made in the Shopify admin without code changes.

Yes. Shopify Plus B2B allows both direct-to-consumer and wholesale to operate on the same Shopify instance, sharing one product catalog and one inventory system while showing different pricing, different catalog access, and different checkout flows depending on whether the session is a logged-in dealer or a retail buyer. Redefine architects the channel separation during Discovery so the two experiences are completely distinct for the buyer.

Redefine builds the Shopify B2B to enterprise resource planning integration scoped to your specific configuration: NetSuite, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or others. Shopify B2B orders create corresponding records in your enterprise resource planning system in real time. Inventory levels from your enterprise resource planning system or warehouse management system push to the dealer portal so buyers see accurate stock. Customer record matching, pricing tier assignment, and credit limit logic all connect to your enterprise resource planning system's data model. The scope and timeline are confirmed during Discovery.

A standard Shopify B2B wholesale portal with account pricing, net payment terms, minimum order logic, dealer account management, and enterprise resource planning integration takes 8 to 14 weeks from design approval to go-live. Builds requiring complex quote-to-order workflows, multi-subsidiary enterprise resource planning routing, or migration from a legacy wholesale platform take 12 to 20 weeks. Redefine delivers a specific scope and timeline after the scoping call.

Shopify B2B supports minimum order quantity configuration at the product and variant level. Redefine also builds per-account minimum order quantity logic where specific dealer tiers have different minimums for the same stock-keeping unit: a Tier 1 dealer may have a 100-unit minimum where a Tier 3 dealer has a 24-unit minimum. Cart validation enforces the correct minimum order quantity before checkout based on the logged-in dealer's account configuration.

Book Your Scoping Call

Your dealers want to self-serve. Your operations team wants to stop managing orders by email. Build the portal that fixes both.

Book a free 30-minute scoping call for Shopify B2B. We review your wholesale operation, dealer structure, ERP system, and pricing model. Then you get a specific portal scope and timeline before you commit.

No commitment. No pitch.

Manufacturing leadership team reviewing Shopify B2B wholesale portal performance and dealer account metrics on dashboard screens
Your scoping call covers
1
Dealer structure and pricing model audit
Tier configuration, volume breaks, net terms, and minimum order quantity logic reviewed before any build scope is written
2
ERP integration requirements confirmed
Order sync, inventory push, and customer record matching scoped to your specific enterprise resource planning system and data model
3
Portal scope and go-live timeline
Technical approach, deliverables, and launch date in writing before you commit to anything

Tell us about your wholesale operation

We'll review your brief and send a scoped portal proposal within 3 business days.

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