Shopify’s significant advancements in automation, B2B accounts, and draft orders take wholesale selling to a new level. These improvements will help you better serve your customers, increase your control over B2B sales, and streamline your operations if you’re a Shopify Plus merchant. Let’s explore the most recent developments!
Improved B2B Draft Orders:
With the increased flexibility of draft orders, you can now easily offer bundles and lock product prices. Additionally, retailers can benefit from cutting-edge features like:
Payment Terms and Deposits: Handle outstanding balances in draft orders and collect deposits.
Vaulted Cards: To make recurring purchases easier, charge saved cards.
Your sales team can handle wholesale orders more easily and effectively thanks to these enhancements.
Functions and Extensions Now Operate with Draft Orders:
Draft orders will now have more customization possibilities through Shopify:
Checkout User Interface Extensions: Include a personalized delivery note for business-to-business clients.
Shopify Features: For a consistent experience, ensure that all of your checkout configurations also apply to draft orders.
You now have more control over how your wholesale clients engage with your store thanks to these improvements.
Improved B2B Client Relationships:
A significant update was just made to B2B customer accounts! With customer account extensions, you can now include additional features like:
Workflows for Quoting
PDF invoices that can be downloaded
Returns for Self-Serve (Only for Plus)
This implies that your wholesale clients can handle their orders and returns just as easily as DTC customers.
Set Up B2B Accounts Automatically:
Use Shopify Flow to speed up the onboarding process for new clients. By automatically allocating the following, this automation guarantees that new B2B clients can place orders as soon as possible:
Catalogs
Authorizations
Employees in Sales
Simple transactions from day one—no additional setup! (Only available to Plus)
Personalized Identity Suppliers & Identified Login Pages:
With bespoke identity providers, B2B clients may now have a uniform login experience across all of your platforms. Additionally, your login page will now be branded to match your store, making for a polished and unified user experience.
Company Tax Allowances:
Shopify now enables companies with tax exemptions to apply location-specific or generic tax exemptions to business-to-business orders, guaranteeing accuracy and compliance. (Only available to Plus)
New B2B Analytics:
Use specialized analytics to gain a better understanding of your B2B performance. You can now:
Reports can be filtered to just show B2B orders and clients.
For more accurate tracking, remove DTC data.
As a result, strategy planning and performance review are far more successful. (Only available to Plus)
Shopify Collective: More Intelligent Automation for Wholesale:
Many new capabilities will make supplier administration easier for retailers utilizing Shopify Collective:
Auto-Update Listings: Import, edit, and remove products automatically.
Return Automation: Without the need for third-party software, manage collective returns with ease.
Supplier Group Policies: Set up return guidelines and product automation specifically for each supplier group.
Order Risk Assessment: To stop fraudulent shipments, automatically flag high-risk orders.
Shopify Collective is now a more effective and scalable option for business-to-business (B2B) retailers thanks to these upgrades.
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