B2B and Wholesale Commerce in One Unified System

Most B2B and wholesale functionality gets bolted on top of a B2C-first platform as a workaround — a manually maintained spreadsheet of special prices, a separate quoting process outside the storefront, an invoice built by hand at month-end. StoreChart's B2B sales channel builds those requirements — custom pricing, private catalogs, order minimums, and approval flows — directly into the same system running the regular storefront, rather than requiring a second platform or a stack of manual workarounds.

Pricing is scoped per customer or per customer group specifically because wholesale relationships rarely use one flat discount — a long-standing distributor with a negotiated contract rate needs a different price than a new retailer buying at a standard wholesale percentage. Each group sees only their own price list when logged into the private catalog, with no visibility into other groups' terms.

The approval flow exists because B2B orders carry more financial risk per transaction than a typical retail sale — a large order placed in error, or one that pushes a customer past their agreed credit terms, is expensive to unwind after the fact. Routing orders above a threshold (or from a specific customer group) through manager approval before processing catches that before money moves, not after.

Consolidated invoicing addresses a specific accounting pattern common in B2B relationships: rather than issuing an invoice per order, orders can accumulate over a billing period and generate a single invoice with NET 30 or NET 60 terms, which matches how most wholesale customers actually expect to be billed and reconciled against their own purchase orders.

Because the same inventory record serves both the B2B channel and the regular D2C storefront, a wholesale sale and a retail sale of the same SKU draw from one shared stock count — there's no separate wholesale warehouse ledger that has to be reconciled against the retail one at the end of the month.