Category: B2B eCommerce

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.

What a customer portal wired to Prophet 21 has to do, buy versus build for distributors, the architecture that makes contract pricing trustworthy, 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.

Dealer portal, customer portal, distributor portal: not the same thing. Precise definitions, feature matrices, and a decision framework for B2B companies.

We implement B2B portals for a living. An honest 2026 comparison of Adobe Commerce, Shopware, OroCommerce, BigCommerce B2B and more, with real pricing.

We’ve built RFQ workflows on Magento and Shopware. Here’s how B2B quoting systems actually work: quote requests, pricing, negotiation, and order conversion architecture.

We’ve built AI-ready B2B platforms for years. Here’s what agentic commerce means, why APIs matter, and what to prepare now.

We build B2B and B2C stores on the same platforms. Here are 14 architectural differences that determine whether your ecommerce build succeeds or gets rebuilt in 18 months.

We’ve debugged checkout failures for dozens of B2B operations. Payment terms, PO validation, approval systems – here’s what actually matters.