Category: B2B eCommerce

An implementer guide to integrating Sage X3 with a Magento or Shopware B2B storefront: web services and the representation layer, multi-company and multi-legislation, price-list search, and lot traceability for process manufacturers.

An implementer guide to integrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (and legacy NAV) with a Magento or Shopware B2B storefront: the REST API and OAuth, Microsoft API throttling, dimensions, and customer pricing.

An implementer guide to integrating SAP Business One with a Magento or Shopware B2B storefront: the Service Layer vs DI API, the price-list and business-partner model, multi-currency, and where custom work is unavoidable.

A deep, honest guide to integrating Sage 100 (MAS 90/200) with a B2B storefront: ProvideX vs SQL, the Business Object Interface, customer pricing, and the Sage 100 specifics that catch integrations out.

What Adobe Commerce B2B actually gives a distributor out of the box, where custom development begins, why the ERP integration decides the outcome, what it costs, and when Magento is the wrong platform. Written from the implementer side.

What a dealer portal for manufacturers has to do, how it differs from a customer portal, why ERP-resolved tier pricing is the whole project, and buy-versus-build, from an agency that builds them.

Electrical and lighting distribution ecommerce turns on unit-of-measure logic, project-based buying, and spec-driven catalogs. The trade-specific mechanics a general ecommerce build will miss.

Medical and lab equipment ecommerce adds entitlements, lot/serial traceability, regulatory data control, and GPO/contract pricing on top of B2B distribution. The control and compliance mechanics that decide it.

Industrial and MRO distribution ecommerce is a catalog, part-number, pricing, and branch-fulfillment problem – not a design problem. The mechanics that actually decide whether an industrial distributor’s online channel works.

Why B2B checkout is not B2C checkout: net terms and pay-on-account, ERP-enforced credit limits, tax exemption and resale certificates, PO numbers and approvals – and what lives in the ERP versus the storefront.

Why B2B buyers now expect self-service, the seven things a real portal must do, how a portal differs from a storefront, and the honest buy-versus-build decision – from an agency that builds them.

Why B2B sales reps should order on behalf of customers inside the same portal – at the customer’s real pricing, into the same ERP flow – instead of a separate rep app that disagrees with the portal.

The ordering mechanics that make a B2B portal usable for repeat buyers: requisition lists, quick order by SKU and customer part number, bulk/CSV upload, saved carts, and reorder – and the ERP data each needs.

How distributor pricing really works – multipliers, price columns, cost-plus, matrices, quantity breaks – and how to put it on a storefront or B2B portal so the web price matches the counter price to the penny.

Seven B2B portal builders compared honestly: ERP integration depth, delivery models, verifiable references, and when to buy software instead of hiring anyone.

The P21 integration is identical on either platform. What actually decides between Shopware and Adobe Commerce for a distributor: economics, catalog shape, and rollout phasing.

Acumatica has the best integration API in mid-market ERP. The projects still take real work – pricing fidelity, availability logic, consumption-aware sync design. An honest guide.

Business Central, Finance and Operations, GP, NAV: the ecommerce integration is different for each. How to identify what you have and what the build actually involves.

Why a customer portal wired to Prophet 21 comes before a storefront: what it must do, buy vs build for distributors, the architecture, and a rollout plan that works.

How cXML and OCI connect your store to Ariba, Coupa, and SAP procurement, and what it takes to implement PunchOut on Magento or Shopware.

A platform-by-platform guide to integrating NetSuite, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Acumatica, Sage, and Epicor with B2B eCommerce: the sync models, the patterns that hold up under load, and what good looks like.

An honest comparison of B2B ecommerce agencies for manufacturers and distributors: published criteria, named firms with verifiable credentials, real budget ranges, and which competitor to call when they fit better.

How customer-specific pricing flows from NetSuite, SAP, Dynamics, and Sage to a B2B portal: real-time vs batch vs hybrid, rate limits, and failure modes.