Shopify is making B2B selling a native, first‑class capability for far more merchants by bringing wholesale tools directly into the same platform they already use for direct‑to‑consumer sales. For the first time, brands on all core Shopify plans—Basic, Grow, and Advanced—can manage B2B and DTC side by side without relying on extra plugins, separate portals, or custom patchwork. Key pieces of the B2B toolkit that were refined for years on Shopify Plus are now included at no additional cost for smaller and mid‑market merchants as well.
Merchants on non‑Plus plans can now use built‑in company profiles for wholesale buyers, create multiple custom catalogs with negotiated pricing, set volume discounts and quantity rules, store vaulted credit cards, and offer payment terms directly in Shopify. This brings wholesale buying behavior into the same environment as everyday online orders and retail operations. As Shopify’s VP of Product, Samir Pradhan, puts it, many merchants already have wholesale demand, but their tools have lived outside the systems they rely on to run their business; by extending native B2B capabilities across plans, Shopify is making it easier for merchants to capture a major growth opportunity.
This matters because B2B ecommerce is enormous—the global market is measured in tens of trillions of dollars—and for individual merchants that scale appears as familiar, day‑to‑day opportunities: a retailer asking for wholesale pricing, a customer inquiring about bulk orders, or a trade show opening a new distribution channel. Brands like DAX Eyewear discovered that wholesale could quickly become the main growth engine once they leaned into B2B, with Shopify B2B merchants seeing significantly higher reorder frequency compared to standard DTC orders. Other businesses, such as Snyder Performance Engineering, built entire operations around wholesale and needed systems that could keep pace with their complexity.
From the beginning, Shopify built B2B features into the core of its platform rather than treating them as an add‑on. That means existing tools—like Shopify Flow for automation, Markets for international selling, and Shopify Payments—can now be applied to wholesale workflows just as easily as to consumer ones. Merchants benefit from a single admin, a single source of truth, and unified data across every side of the business. For those with deeper requirements, Shopify Plus still provides advanced capabilities such as unlimited catalogs, direct catalog assignment to specific companies and locations, partial payments, deposits, and more, with a seamless path between plans and no replatforming required.
The cost of disconnected systems is real. Before adopting native B2B features, Snyder handled every wholesale order by phone or email, which capped how many accounts they could serve and created constant manual effort. DAX experienced data mismatch when using workarounds for wholesale, leaving some buyers seeing retail prices instead of agreed rates and abandoning orders. When data lives in different places and pricing logic depends on manual steps, it becomes hard to trust numbers or scale operations.
By contrast, native B2B in Shopify unlocks self‑service ordering and reliable automation. Snyder’s wholesale customers can now log in, see their specific pricing, place orders themselves, and have those orders sync automatically into back‑office systems. That shift reduced back‑office time, increased average customer spend, and made the wholesale experience faster and easier to navigate. Across the platform, merchants using Shopify’s B2B tooling see meaningful gains in self‑serve order share and reorder frequency, illustrating how much friction is removed when everything runs from one system.
With this launch, Shopify is positioning B2B as a core part of commerce for merchants at every stage, not just for enterprise brands. Wholesale and DTC often belong to the same business, and Shopify’s approach is to ensure the software reflects that reality instead of forcing merchants into separate tracks. Unifying these channels under one platform makes commerce simpler, more resilient, and more scalable for merchants around the world.
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