B2B ecommerce development, on Shopify since 2012
B2B Ecommerce Agency for Manufacturers & Distributors
Your dealers order online at their own prices and terms, from the catalog you have today. One fixed quote, agreed before any code is written.
Shopify Partner since 2012Remote-first, with video calls by default
- Dealer and distributor portals
- Contract and tiered pricing
- Net terms
- Quote requests
- Spec sheets and CAD downloads
- ERP sync
- Sales-rep ordering
From real projects
“Victoria Garland brought invaluable Shopify expertise and helped us streamline our process. They’ve truly been a great partner, and we continue to work with them.”
“Through the projects that Alex has worked on with us, he has been proactive, responsive, time conscious, and reasonably priced. We are still working with them and so far there has been no reason to switch.”
“I hired Alex as a fractional CTO to help build a custom Shopify app that I had been thinking about for months and he has been nothing short of incredible.”
How it runs
Five steps, one fixed quote
Scoped and built by the same developers, with your buyers testing on staging before anyone orders for real.
- 01
Audit
Catalog, price rules, accounts and the ERP reviewed over video with whoever owns each, ending in a written plan, a dated schedule and a fixed quote.
- 02
Model
Companies, catalogs, terms and product data designed before anything is built.
- 03
Build
Portal, catalog and ERP sync built on a staging store.
- 04
Buyer testing
A handful of your real accounts place test orders against their own prices, which is how the pricing rule nobody mentioned gets found.
- 05
Launch
Redirects go live with the DNS switch, buyers get their invitations, and the first orders on terms are watched for 30 days.
We are Victoria Garland Creative Inc., a B2B ecommerce agency based in Ontario that has built on Shopify since 2012. We build online ordering for manufacturers and distributors whose dealers still send purchase orders by email, or log in to a portal the reps quietly gave up on. The dealer portal, the catalog with its spec data, the quote flow, the move off the old site and the ERP sync are one project, scoped by the developers who build it, on one fixed quote.
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You scope the project with the people who build it. The developer on the kickoff call is the developer on launch day.
Request a B2B Ecommerce Quote
Pick how your buyers order today and leave a few details, and you will hear from the developer who would build it, not an account manager. What you sell and which ERP holds your pricing get covered on the scoping call.
What happens after you send this
- A reply from Alex or Victoria within one business day.
- A free 30-minute scoping call over video.
- A written plan and a fixed quote after the audit.
The plan is yours to keep, whoever builds it. The number is settled before any code runs.
Rather talk first? Book the scoping call and skip the form.
1. What do your trade buyers order from today?
2. Where should the plan go?
What you receive, on every B2B project
Redirect map Every indexed URL, spec-sheet PDFs included, mapped before anything moves
| Old URL | New URL | Rule |
|---|---|---|
| /product-category/valves/ | /collections/valves | 301 |
| /product/model-200-ball-valve/ | /products/model-200-ball-valve | 301 |
| /wp-content/uploads/2021/04/model-200-spec-sheet.pdf | /products/model-200-ball-valve | 301 |
| /dealer-login/ | /account/login | 301 |
| /request-a-quote/ | /pages/request-a-quote | 301 |
| /resources/installation-guides/ | /pages/installation-guides | 301 |
| /?add-to-cart=1042 | never indexed, dropped | 410 |
Illustrative excerpt in the format every project receives, not a client's URLs. Built from Search Console and the old site's own redirect table, so the PDF and historical URLs that still carry links are in it too.
Pricing and account map How your current price rules become companies, catalogs and terms
| What you have today | Where it lives in Shopify B2B |
|---|---|
| A dealer with three branches | One company, three locations, buyers per location |
| Distributor price level | A catalog with its own price list |
| Contract price on one SKU for one account | A fixed price in that account's catalog |
| Net 30 for approved accounts | Payment terms on the company |
| Order in case packs of 12 | Quantity rule (increment) on the product |
| Tax-exempt reseller | Tax ID and exemption on the company location |
Illustrative. The real one is built in the audit with whoever owns pricing, one row for every rule you apply today.
Cutover runbook Launch day, with buyers already set up
- T-14 daysCompanies, buyers and price lists imported to staging. A handful of real accounts test-order against their own prices.
- T-7 daysContent freeze on the old site. ERP sync run against the staging store.
- LaunchDNS switched, redirect map deployed in the same hour, buyer invitations sent.
- Same dayTest orders on terms and by card. ERP order and invoice confirmed.
- Day 30Handover report: 404 log, rankings for top pages, orders, open items.
The old site stays up as a fallback until the day-30 report is in.
What We Build for Trade Buyers
- Dealer and distributor portals. Each trade account is a company with its locations and buyers. New accounts wait for your approval, and reordering is a saved list or a quantity table.
- Contract and tiered pricing. Distributor tiers, per-account contract prices and case or pallet breaks become catalogs with their own price lists, so a buyer logs in and sees their number.
- Quotes and net terms. Large or custom orders start as a quote the rep turns into a draft order. Approved accounts check out on terms, and the invoice follows.
- Catalogs with spec data. Up to 2,048 variants per product, specs as structured fields buyers can filter on, and spec sheets, CAD files and manuals as downloads on the product page.
- ERP and accounting sync. The ERP stays the source of truth. We build the sync on Gadget.dev with retries and a log your team can read, covered in detail on the Shopify NetSuite integration and Shopify QuickBooks integration pages.
- Sales-rep ordering. Reps place orders for a buyer at that buyer’s prices and terms, entered once into the system the warehouse already watches.
Most of this runs on the standard Shopify plans. Whether you need Shopify Plus is settled in the audit, and the Plus break-even calculator shows which side of the line you are on.
Moving Off WordPress or a Legacy B2B Portal
On a WordPress catalog site, the spec pages, installation guides and PDFs are what rank for your part numbers. Every indexed URL gets a one-to-one 301, built from Search Console and the site’s own redirect table before anything moves, so a spec sheet a distributor linked to years ago still resolves. Product data is cleaned in the audit (units that differ by customer, SKUs renamed three systems ago), so it is in the plan rather than a surprise. The WooCommerce to Shopify migration page covers the mechanics.
From a legacy dealer portal, the accounts, price levels, terms and order history come across. Your dealers log in on launch day to the prices they had and can repeat last month’s order, and nobody re-registers. The old site stays up as a fallback until the day-30 report is in.
Coming from BigCommerce or Magento instead? Our Shopify migration agency page covers each source platform.
Related Services
Shopify integration services for the 3PL, CRM and custom systems around the portal, and Shopify app development for a rep workflow or configurator a theme cannot do.
Get a Fixed Quote for Your B2B Site
Pick how your trade buyers order today and leave your details. The developer who would build it replies within one business day to ask what you sell, to whom, and which system holds the pricing, and the fixed quote follows the audit. Request a quote or book a 30-minute scoping call.
What's included
- Company accounts with locations and buyers
- Contract, tiered and volume pricing
- Quote requests, net terms and invoicing
- ERP and accounting sync built with monitoring
FAQs
Will we lose search traffic or data moving off our current site?
Not if the move is done properly: every indexed URL, spec-sheet PDFs included, gets a one-to-one 301, and products, accounts and order history come across intact. Some ranking movement is normal while Google reprocesses the redirects, so we watch the 404 log and your top pages for 30 days and fix anything we missed.
Do our existing dealers have to re-register?
No. Accounts, price levels, payment terms and order history are imported before launch, so each buyer gets an invitation and logs in on day one to the prices and terms they already have.
How long does a B2B ecommerce project take?
It depends on the SKU count and how clean the data is, how many pricing rules exist, and how the ERP is set up, so we do not guess before we have seen them. The audit ends with a dated milestone schedule, and that is the schedule we hold to.
How is a B2B project priced?
On one fixed quote, written after the audit once we have seen the catalog, the price rules and the ERP. The number is agreed before any code runs, and the written plan is yours to keep whoever builds it.
Can it connect to our ERP?
Yes. NetSuite and QuickBooks Online are the ones we build for most often, and we connect others such as Business Central through their APIs, with retries and alerts when a write fails, though if a well-supported connector app covers your setup we will say so rather than build one.
