Shopify's B2B isn't Plus-only anymore, but it has a ceiling
Until April 2026, Shopify's B2B was exclusive to Plus. Not anymore. Companies, locations, catalogues with their own price lists, minimum quantity rules and payment terms are now on Basic, Grow and Advanced. That makes entering the wholesale channel considerably cheaper, and a lot of the industry documentation hasn't caught up yet.
What hasn't changed is the ceiling: there are features Shopify doesn't offer at any price, and it's worth knowing that before building a project on a promise the platform can't keep.
What each plan gets you (and what it doesn't, out of the box)
Basic, Grow and Advanced
Companies (Shopify's own term) with their locations and permissions, up to 3 active price lists with their own rates, minimum quantity rules, payment terms (net terms) and a purchase order number at checkout.
Plus only
Unlimited price lists, assigning a price list directly to a specific company or location, required deposits, partial payments on an order, and payment requests per shipment, for orders delivered in several batches.
Large-scale wholesale accounts
With under 500 active B2B accounts, any plan holds up fine. Above that number, the 3-price-list limit and the lack of partial payments on Basic, Grow and Advanced start to bite, and Plus stops being an option and becomes a requirement.
EDI integration
Native EDI connectors (SPS Commerce, Crstl) for selling to large chains and distributors are only available on Plus. On other plans, EDI is solved with custom development or third-party apps.
Applied credit limit
Shopify doesn't block an order out of the box when a customer's outstanding balance goes over an agreed limit. We build it by combining Flow, metafields and a checkout validation function, without relying on a third-party app.
Negotiable quotes
Out of the box there are only draft orders for a simple back-and-forth, with no negotiation thread or versioning. On top of that we build a quoting workflow matched to your sales process, negotiation and approval included.
Internal order approval
Out of the box, not even on Plus, there's no approval chain with delegated authority: review rules flag orders, they don't block them by hierarchy. We solve it by combining Flow with those rules, so an order can't move forward without the sign-off your internal policy requires.
Company hierarchy
Shopify's model is company → locations, with no subsidiaries, divisions or nested groups within a single company. If your operation has a parent with several legal entities or departments with their own budget, we replicate that hierarchy with custom metafields and permissions, instead of forcing it into a model designed to stay flat.
The Spanish tax filter
Intra-EU VAT number validation isn't available in Shopify's B2B checkouts: it only works in guest checkout and in Shop Pay. The exemption can be applied, but manually, by marking it on each company's record. For a closed portfolio of clients that's manageable. If your model is capturing new companies online without a sales rep in the loop, it's a real ceiling worth knowing before you build the funnel.
What's missing can be rented through an app (B2B quoting and negotiation engines add their own monthly fee, with order limits or features depending on the plan), but then the core logic of your B2B ends up depending on a vendor you don't control, on top of a platform run by another vendor. We analyse your specific operation and tell you whether that trade-off is worth it, or whether your business fits better on a platform where credit, quotes and approvals are part of the product, like Magento's B2B.
Does your B2B fit on Shopify?
Tell us how many price lists you manage, whether you negotiate rates customer by customer, whether you sell on credit, and how many B2B orders you handle a month. With those four numbers we'll tell you whether Shopify works for you or what's missing.