Shopify B2B Without Plus & Why You Still Require A Wholesale Plugin
Aug 13th, 2026Explore Shopify B2B without Plus, including the features now available on every plan, their limitations, and how SparkLayer delivers a more complete B2B experience.
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Our fully branded frontend interface creates a familiar, seamless buying experience for your customers, giving them complete control over their B2B ordering.
Currently managing Request for Quotes (RFQs) manually? Is the process slowing you down? SparkLayer's Quoting Engine enables an end-to-end "quote to order" experience on your existing website. Everything you need, all in a single solution.
Tired of juggling phone orders and endless email threads from customers wanting to place orders? SparkLayer's Sales Agent tool puts you in the driver's seat, letting you manage your B2B customer accounts online and saving you precious time.
With our B2B Pricing Engine, you're in complete control - set automatic or fully custom pricing rules, order limits, discounts, support for multiple currencies, and you can even connect to your back-office or ERP. Take your B2B business to the next level…
SparkLayer seamlessly integrates with your existing eCommerce platform and tools, so you can keep the workflows you're already using and add SparkLayer's advanced functionality on top. With the option to even build custom integrations via our API, you'll have everything you need to streamline, automate, and scale your B2B business faster than ever before.
SparkLayer can seamlessly integrate with your existing website and backend systems (e.g. ERP or CRM). There's no need to spend time building custom integrations or workarounds that are difficult to maintain. It all just works!
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SparkLayer gives you an easy way to enable B2B (wholesale) on your existing website. You don't need to create a new store or spend time and money trying to customise your B2B experience. SparkLayer does all this for you and, once you're set up, you'll be able to:
- Enable custom pricing for your B2B customers
- Give your B2B customers a self-service ordering experience
- Accept B2B payments, such as "net payments" and "payment on account"
- Allow your sales team (sales reps) to place orders on behalf of B2B customers
- Configure more advanced pricing rules, such as pack sizing and quantity price price-breaks
- Enable rapid re-ordering, making it easy for your customers to repeat order
- Allow your B2B customers to save shopping lists
- Configure pre-ordering and back-ordering rules
- Allow your B2B customers to create company teams
And so much more! SparkLayer has over 100 B2B features right out of the box. Plus our team can get everything set up for you with our free onboarding service.
Yes, we offer a 14-day trial period to test the features of SparkLayer. The free trial starts when you've installed SparkLayer on your eCommerce platform (e.g. Shopify). If you need your trial extended, please contact us.
Yes! We've a variety of demo stores where you can test the feature-set of SparkLayer. Learn more
To get started, you can sign up for a free 14-day trial here. Alternatively, you can book a demo and we can run through how SparkLayer works.
SparkLayer works out of the box with Shopify, Wix, and BigCommerce and can be set up in a matter of hours.
If you're not using these platforms already, it's also possible to integrate with ANY website using SparkLayer Ignite, our B2B Commerce Framework.
Yes! It's also possible to integrate SparkLayer with ANY website using SparkLayer Ignite, our B2B Commerce Framework.
A good question! There are many B2B solutions on the market and each offer a variety of benefits that may suit specific use-cases or customer types. Beyond functionality and features, there is one major benefit of SparkLayer that makes it compelling - you get to use your existing website and SparkLayer simply 'layers' on top (hence the name, SparkLayer!). Many other solutions are built as 'web portals' meaning customers have to use an entirely separate website. Whilst this may be useful, if you already have an existing website (e.g. for your DTC retail customers) or you use an eCommerce platform you're already familiar with, you'll need to manage multiple systems and tools which can add operational complexity.
We'd be happy to discuss this in more detail!
Our head office is located in the beautiful English city of Bath and our team is all based in close proximity. You can learn more about our story here! Since we're UK based, we typically operate our support on UK timezones (Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm GMT) however we are able to accommodate specific requests should you require assistance outside of these hours. Please speak to our team and we'll be happy to advise.
For customers subscribed to our Enterprise plan, you'll get access to our 24/7 Support SLA and you can learn more here.
Shopify's announcement is good news for brands just starting out with very basic B2B. 3 catalogs, net terms, and company accounts are now accessible on every plan. Merchants who just need to get started with B2B no longer have to pay for Plus to do it.
But there's a gap between B2B being accessible and B2B being properly solved.
Shopify's native B2B doesn't have a quoting engine, on any plan. It doesn't have a Sales Rep Portal your team can use day-to-day (the admin backend isn't designed for salespeople). It doesn't have an AI cart that lets buyers email or upload orders. Its accounting integrations are built for DTC, not for the customer-assigned B2B order flows your finance team needs. And the staff account limits on standard plans make rep ordering impractical for any team larger than a handful of people.
SparkLayer is built for brands who have outgrown the basics, or who know from the start that they need more than Shopify's free tier will give them. Every feature we build, every person on our support team, every release on our roadmap is focused on one thing: making serious wholesale operations work properly.
If Shopify's native B2B covers what you need right now, SparkLayer's free plan gives you everything Shopify B2B includes — so there's nothing to lose by starting with it. And when you're ready to grow, upgrading unlocks the features serious wholesale operations actually depend on.
A few things that are genuinely hard to replicate.
The Sales Rep Portal is a full storefront interface — not an admin backend — that lets your reps toggle between customer accounts, build carts, access purchase history, and complete orders on behalf of buyers. No other B2B app on Shopify has built this properly.
The quoting engine is native — buyers request quotes, reps adjust pricing and communicate through a built-in messenger, confirmed quotes convert directly to orders. No email chains, no third-party tool, nothing that lives outside the platform.
The AI Intelligent Cart means buyers who prefer to work by email or spreadsheet don't have to change how they order. They forward a purchase order or attach a file — SparkLayer reads it and builds the cart. No manual re-keying.
And then there's the team. Every person on our support team works exclusively with B2B merchants. Every feature decision is evaluated through one lens: does this make wholesale operations better? Most platforms start DTC and add B2B later. SparkLayer was built to be B2B-first.