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● Native B2B Gate Setup

A wholesale gate on the plan you already have.

Native B2B on Basic, Grow or Advanced: one catalog assigned via a B2B market, a company account request you approve manually, and prices hidden in the storefront theme until that approval.

The problem

Wholesale buyers need an account and a catalog, while retail visitors should not see wholesale prices or a buy button. A second store, or a paid gate app, adds cost for something native company accounts already cover.

Technical approach

We enable a B2B market and assign a native catalog via that market, then add a Shopify Forms company account request form; companies created from it can't place orders or see B2B pricing until you approve them. Theme Liquid hides prices and buy buttons in the storefront theme for visitors who are not approved for B2B, and checkout requires the customer to sign in. Shopify Flow notifies you when a new application arrives. Shopify restricts only B2B catalog pricing; the theme hides retail prices and buy buttons for display only, so product data stays reachable through Shopify's storefront endpoints, and checkout sign-in does not require B2B approval. The market, catalog, checkout sign-in and Flow notification are native Shopify features, at no extra cost beyond the Shopify plan.

What we engineer

  • A B2B market enabled, with a native catalog assigned via that market
  • A Shopify Forms company account request form with manual approval
  • Theme Liquid that hides prices and buy buttons in the storefront theme for visitors not approved for B2B
  • Checkout set to require customer sign-in before checkout
  • A Shopify Flow notification when a new company account application arrives

Typical scope

Timeline
1–2 weeks
Engagement
Fixed-price package
Price
Fixed price · $300–$600
Ideal fit
Merchants on Basic, Grow or Advanced who need one native B2B catalog and a manual approval gate, without a second store.

Capabilities

  • Shopify B2B
  • Markets
  • Shopify Forms
  • Liquid
  • Shopify Flow

05 / Forge process

Raw problem. Shipped system.

Five stages. The line between them is the transformation.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    The commercial problem before the backlog. Which constraint is costing money, and where it lives.

    • Business problem
    • Technical constraints
    • Existing architecture
    • Customer journey
    • Operational requirements
  2. 02

    Architect

    Solution architecture written down with its trade-offs, before implementation starts.

    • Solution architecture
    • Shopify capabilities
    • Integrations
    • Technical constraints
    • Implementation plan
  3. 03

    Engineer

    Iterative delivery on a staging store, every change behind a performance budget.

    • Storefront
    • Custom functionality
    • Integrations
    • APIs
    • Automation
  4. 04

    Test

    Functionality, responsiveness, performance and edge cases verified before anything reaches production.

    • Functionality
    • Responsive behaviour
    • Performance
    • Edge cases
    • Integrations
    • Accessibility
  5. 05

    Ship

    Production deployment with monitoring, handoff and an optimisation roadmap for what comes next.

    • Production deployment
    • Monitoring
    • QA
    • Handoff
    • Optimisation roadmap

06 / FAQ

Questions we get before the first call.

Often not. Native B2B company accounts are available on Basic, Grow and Advanced, not only Plus, including up to three active B2B catalogs assigned via a B2B market. Company account requests are collected with Shopify Forms and stay unapproved until you review them. Plus still earns its cost when you need multiple stores, checkout extensibility, higher API limits, unlimited catalogs for customer-specific pricing, or direct catalog assignment to companies and locations. If your constraint is theme architecture or app conflicts, Plus will not fix it. We will tell you which one you have before you commit to the plan.

Projects are fixed scope with a fixed price, quoted after a paid discovery when the problem is not yet well defined. Where the scope is already defined, we also publish fixed-price packages, such as Native B2B Gate Setup. Retainers are a monthly allocation with a three-month minimum. We publish ranges during the first call rather than after a proposal cycle.

A custom storefront runs six to twelve weeks. A migration runs eight to sixteen weeks depending on catalogue complexity. A B2B implementation runs eight to sixteen. Headless is twelve to twenty-four. Discovery sharpens these before anything is committed.

Yes, and most of our work is exactly that. We start with an audit of the theme, app stack and data model, and we give you the findings whether or not you engage us for the remediation.

Modelling your real account structure as companies and locations, building catalogues and price lists per buyer, implementing contract and volume pricing, configuring payment terms, and migrating the wholesale process people currently run by email.

Not if redirects are planned rather than retrofitted. We crawl the live site to generate a complete URL inventory, produce the redirect map from it, and rehearse the cutover on a staging store before touching production. We monitor rankings daily for two weeks after launch.

Yes, when the logic belongs in an app. Frequently it belongs in a Shopify Function or a checkout extension instead, which is cheaper to run and closer to where Shopify evaluates the rule. We choose based on where the logic has to execute.

Usually not. Headless doubles the maintenance surface and checkout stays on Shopify regardless. It earns its cost for content-heavy storefronts and teams with the engineering capacity to own a decoupled front end. We assess that before recommending it.

An agreed monthly capacity with named engineers, a prioritised backlog you control, feature development and bug fixing, performance monitoring, a defined emergency response path, and a quarterly architecture review.

Yes. White-label Shopify engineering behind your brand, working in your tools and to your process. We do not appear in front of your client and we do not approach them directly. Several of our engagements are agency partnerships.

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