SHOPIFY PLUS & B2B WHOLESALE
Shopify Plus and wholesale built around how your buyers work.
Unified Pixel plans and builds Shopify commerce for brands selling direct to consumers, businesses, retail partners, distributors, or all four. We connect the storefront experience with company accounts, catalogs, negotiated pricing, quantity rules, payment terms, approvals, tax, fulfillment, and the systems your team already operates.
The goal is not to force every buyer through one generic journey. It is to create the right experience for each buying context while keeping products, customers, inventory, orders, and reporting manageable.
DO YOU NEED SHOPIFY PLUS?
Choose Shopify Plus for a requirement—not for the label.
Shopify's core B2B tools are no longer limited to Shopify Plus. Companies, locations, buyer permissions, catalogs, net payment terms, self-service ordering, quantity rules, and Shopify Flow automation can be available on other Shopify plans, subject to current plan and Markets requirements.
Shopify Plus becomes relevant when the business needs Plus-only depth. Current examples include unlimited B2B market catalogs, catalogs assigned directly to specific companies or company locations, and advanced payment capabilities such as deposits and partial payments. Plus may also be justified by broader checkout, organization, automation, support, or commercial needs outside the wholesale scope.
We document each requirement, map it to the current Shopify plan matrix, and compare platform cost with the operational value. Features and eligibility can change, so final plan advice is verified against Shopify's current documentation before implementation.
- Requirement-to-plan comparison
- Plus-only feature and dependency review
- Total operating model and application costs
- Clear upgrade triggers for future growth
PLATFORM & STORE ARCHITECTURE
Choose the operating model before configuring the store.
Shopify B2B can run in a blended store alongside D2C or in a dedicated wholesale store. A blended model can share an admin, theme, products, and inventory. A dedicated model can provide stronger separation when teams, catalogs, workflows, branding, or regional requirements differ.
We compare buyer overlap, product and inventory ownership, staff permissions, integrations, reporting, international needs, and storefront differences before recommending either path. This decision is made early because changing models later can require companies, catalogs, and storefront rules to be rebuilt.
- Blended D2C and B2B storefront planning
- Dedicated wholesale store architecture
- Shopify plan and Plus capability assessment
- Ownership, governance, and rollout roadmap
The B2B foundation: buyers, catalogs, pricing, and payment rules
A useful wholesale storefront begins with an accurate model of the customer relationship. We configure the Shopify structure around how buyers are identified, what they can purchase, the price they receive, and how an order is approved and paid.
Companies and buyer access
Model business customers as companies with locations and contacts. Define who can order, which location they represent, and the account information buyers can manage.
Catalogs and contextual pricing
Control the products and prices available to B2B markets, companies, or company locations. Plan fixed prices, adjustments, volume pricing, and quantity rules around real agreements.
Purchasing and payment workflows
Support self-service ordering, draft orders, invoices, payment terms, deposits where eligible, saved payment methods, and the review steps your team requires.
D2C & B2B ON ONE FOUNDATION
Share the platform without giving every buyer the same experience.
A blended store can let retail and wholesale teams work from one Shopify admin while customers receive different product availability, pricing, payment methods, shipping choices, discounts, tax treatment, and content. Shared inventory and products can reduce duplication, but the model needs careful rules and testing.
We map where D2C and B2B should share logic and where the journeys must separate. Logged-in company buyers should see the catalog, location, terms, and account tools that apply to them without weakening the retail experience.
- Shared products, inventory, and operational data
- Contextual content and navigation for B2B buyers
- Customer account and company-location experiences
- Clear test cases for retail and wholesale journeys
PURCHASING, CHECKOUT & PAYMENTS
Make repeat ordering easy without losing financial control.
Wholesale buyers may need self-service checkout, sales-assisted draft orders, purchase-order references, saved payment methods, invoicing, deposits, or agreed payment terms. We define which methods apply to each buying context and how orders move from submission to review, payment, fulfillment, and reconciliation.
Payment and checkout options vary by plan, country, provider, and implementation. We validate eligibility during discovery and document where Shopify configuration, Shopify Functions, supported applications, or integration work is required.
- Immediate payment and supported manual methods
- Net terms, deposits, invoices, and payment reminders
- Draft-order and sales-assisted workflows
- Minimums, maximums, quantity rules, and volume pricing
B2B OPERATIONS
Give buyers flexibility without creating back-office disorder.
The storefront and the operating model must agree. We map how company accounts, contacts, locations, catalogs, permissions, pricing, payments, tax status, inventory, fulfillment, returns, and reporting are owned across Shopify and connected systems.
Every integration receives a clear source of truth, field mapping, trigger, exception path, and support owner. That matters when an ERP controls credit or price, a PIM controls product data, a warehouse controls availability, or a CRM controls the account relationship.
- Company, location, contact, and permission governance
- Catalog and price ownership across systems
- ERP, PIM, CRM, warehouse, and fulfillment workflows
- Order, payment, tax, and reporting reconciliation
Shopify Plus and wholesale systems built as one operating model
Storefront design is only one layer. The complete solution connects buyer experience, commercial rules, business data, operational systems, and the people responsible for running them.
B2B storefront and accounts
Design logged-in buyer journeys, company-location selection, account navigation, quick ordering, saved information, and repeat-purchase tools around how customers actually buy.
Catalogs and price governance
Define who owns assortments and prices, how market and company assignments interact, and how fixed prices, adjustments, volume breaks, and quantity rules are maintained.
ERP, PIM, CRM, and WMS integration
Connect product, account, price, inventory, order, fulfillment, and status data through supported applications, APIs, webhooks, middleware, or custom development.
Order and finance workflows
Plan draft orders, approvals, payment terms, invoices, tax handling, reconciliation, and reporting so ecommerce activity fits the finance team's controls.
Markets and international wholesale
Plan B2B markets, regional catalogs, currencies, domains, languages, duties, tax, shipping, and local content with clear rules for each sales region.
Quality, launch, and support
Test permissions, catalogs, prices, tax, checkout, integrations, and edge cases with representative companies before a controlled launch and stabilization period.
SHOPIFY PLUS & WHOLESALE MIGRATION
Move commercial relationships, not only customer records.
A wholesale migration must preserve the rules behind each account. We identify companies, locations, contacts, permissions, tax status, catalogs, customer-specific prices, volume breaks, quantity rules, payment terms, addresses, order history, credit information, and identifiers used by connected systems.
Source data rarely matches Shopify's model without transformation. We profile representative records, define mappings and exclusions, run repeatable test migrations, reconcile results, and plan how late changes will be captured before launch. Sensitive data and unsupported history are handled according to an agreed scope and retention policy.
If the program includes a broader replatform, see our Shopify migration services for storefront, content, application, SEO, and launch planning.
- Company, contact, location, and address mapping
- Catalog, price, terms, tax, and permission transformation
- Test migration, reconciliation, and exception handling
- Cutover, final-delta, and post-launch validation
DELIVERY FROM DISCOVERY TO ADOPTION
A wholesale launch is an operating change, not only a website release.
We start with buyers and operations: who buys, who approves, how prices are agreed, how orders enter the business, and which teams resolve exceptions. From there, we define the Shopify model, integration boundaries, storefront journeys, migration scope, security needs, reporting, and acceptance criteria.
Build and testing use representative companies, catalogs, prices, products, terms, and order scenarios. The launch plan covers data cutover, integration sequencing, buyer invitations, staff training, support ownership, and a stabilization period. This prevents a technically complete storefront from failing at adoption.
- Discovery, buyer research, and requirements
- Solution architecture and operating-model decisions
- Experience design, configuration, and development
- Integration, migration, and end-to-end testing
- Launch readiness, training, and buyer onboarding
- Stabilization, measurement, and ongoing improvement
SEO, AEO & GEO FOUNDATIONS
Make public expertise discoverable while private commercial data stays private.
B2B storefronts often combine public marketing and product information with account-only catalogs, prices, and purchasing tools. We define which content search engines may crawl and which experiences require authentication. Public pages use semantic HTML, descriptive headings, crawlable links, useful metadata, and supported structured data based on visible content.
For answer engines and AI discovery, we organize public content around clear buyer questions, service definitions, platform comparisons, implementation details, and direct answers. Company-specific prices, terms, customer data, and private documents remain outside public indexation.
During migrations or redesigns, we review public URLs, canonicals, robots directives, sitemaps, redirects, internal links, and structured data before and after launch. These practices improve clarity and technical eligibility; they do not guarantee rankings, citations, or inclusion in AI-generated answers.
- Public-versus-private content and crawl rules
- Semantic templates, metadata, and internal linking
- Answer-focused service and product information
- Redirect, sitemap, canonical, and structured-data checks
Planning Shopify B2B or Plus?
Speak with our team about Shopify Plus, wholesale functionality, B2B pricing, and enterprise integrations. Contact us to discuss your requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
Shopify Plus is Shopify's enterprise plan. It adds capabilities and service options intended for more complex organizations, including greater B2B catalog flexibility and advanced payment features, alongside broader checkout, automation, organization, and support capabilities. Whether it is justified depends on the requirements and operating model—not traffic or revenue alone.
Yes. We can configure and develop company accounts, locations and contacts, buyer permissions, catalogs, customer or market pricing, volume pricing, quantity rules, payment terms, draft-order workflows, account experiences, and connections with operational systems. Exact availability depends on the selected Shopify plan and current platform rules.
Yes. A blended store can serve D2C and B2B customers from one Shopify store and admin, with contextual products, prices, payment methods, shipping, discounts, tax treatment, and content. A dedicated wholesale store may be better when branding, teams, systems, catalogs, or governance require stronger separation.
Yes. We can connect ERP, PIM, CRM, accounting, warehouse, fulfillment, tax, payments, product, and customer-service systems. The design identifies the source of truth, field mappings, sync direction, triggers, failure handling, monitoring, and support owner before implementation.
Yes. Support can cover launch stabilization, issue investigation, storefront improvements, integration monitoring, platform changes, application reviews, new markets, catalog changes, performance work, and buyer-experience improvements. Scope, response times, release controls, and included hours are defined in the support agreement.
No. Shopify currently offers core B2B capabilities on Basic, Grow, Advanced, and Plus, although limits and eligibility differ. Plus is required for capabilities such as unlimited B2B market catalogs, catalogs assigned directly to specific companies or locations, and certain advanced payment features. We verify the current plan matrix against your requirements before recommending an upgrade.
Yes, within Shopify's catalog model and plan limits. Catalogs can control product availability and pricing for B2B markets. On Shopify Plus, catalogs can also be assigned directly to specific companies or company locations for customer-level arrangements. We design assignment rules carefully when multiple catalogs may apply.
Shopify supports payment terms and sales-assisted draft-order and invoice workflows. Deposits, partial payments, saved payment methods, purchase-order references, and payment customizations depend on the plan, provider, country, and implementation. We confirm eligibility and define how each method reaches accounting and fulfillment.
Yes. Migration can include companies, locations, contacts, addresses, permissions, tax status, catalogs, prices, quantity rules, payment terms, identifiers, and agreed order history. We profile source data, define transformations, run test migrations, reconcile results, and document unsupported or excluded data before cutover.
Timing depends on buyer journeys, catalog and pricing complexity, storefront design, integrations, data quality, migration volume, regions, testing, and internal approvals. A focused configuration project may take weeks; a multi-system program can take several months. We confirm milestones after discovery rather than applying a generic deadline.
Public pages can be optimized with semantic HTML, useful content, metadata, internal links, crawl controls, and supported structured data. Account-only products, negotiated prices, company details, and documents should remain private. We define the boundary between public discovery content and authenticated purchasing experiences during architecture.
Not automatically. Shopify themes can support many complex B2B experiences with less infrastructure and operational overhead. Headless architecture is considered when specific experience, channel, performance, content, or integration requirements justify the added build and maintenance cost. We compare both paths against the same requirements.
READY TO SCALE?
Build wholesale around how your buyers and teams actually work.
Tell us about your accounts, catalogs, pricing, terms, systems, regions, and launch goals. We will help define a responsible Shopify B2B and Plus plan.