Sell to businesses on their terms, not just their prices

A company points at a customer group, and its buyers’ addresses are in that group. A price list attached to the group holds rows of variant, minimum quantity and amount, so a buyer’s cart is priced from the list at the quantity they order — with priority, a date window and a channel when two lists could apply.

No. A group price reaches a cart only through an address something has proven: a signed-in account whose email is confirmed, an operator placing the order, or a storefront backend vouching for its own signed-in customer. The email typed onto a cart is a contact address and earns nothing. Buyers join a company by an invitation mailed to their address, and accepting it is the proof.

A company with an account pays on account: the order is confirmed with payment pending and a due date its net days out, and settling the invoice marks it paid. Its credit limit is checked inside the checkout, against the order’s final total, before the order exists — under a lock per company, so two buyers ordering at the same moment cannot both fit under a limit only one of them fits under.

A company sets an approval threshold. A buyer whose order is over it gets an approval request instead of an order, and the company’s approvers are emailed. An approver places it at the prices it was submitted at, or rejects it with a reason; the buyer can withdraw it. Admins and approvers order without approval.

A buyer asks for a quote on quantities. The store prices each line, adds a reply and an expiry, and sends it. The buyer accepts and the order is placed at exactly those prices — over the catalogue and over the company’s own price list — or it waits for approval when it is over the buyer’s limit. A quote becomes one order at most.

Yes. Pick a period and you get what was owed at the start, every order and payment, what is owed at the end, and how late it is in 30-day steps. The store sees it in the admin, a company’s own admins through the API, and both can download it as a spreadsheet. A payment is dated when the store recorded it; if that record is gone, the line says so instead of guessing.

Yes. A catalogue is a set of categories, each with everything under it, plus single products. Hold a company to one and checkout refuses anything outside it, however it got into the basket. Quick orders leave those lines out and say why, quotes cannot include them, and the buyer can list what they may buy at their own prices.

Yes. Upload a CSV with a SKU or variant id and a quantity on each row, up to 500 rows. What can go in goes in; anything that cannot is listed with its row number and the reason.

Yes. An API key carries a role’s rights, a prefix that identifies it in a log line, its last-used time and a revocation. Checkout takes an Idempotency-Key, so a system that retries a timed-out request does not place the order twice.

Yes. A dealer is a company with territories — a country, a state or a postcode prefix — and an enquiry posted from the storefront goes to the dealer whose territory fits it most specifically, with its admins emailed. The public answer never names the dealer, so the form cannot be used to map the network, and the store sees and reassigns every lead, including the ones no territory covers.

Yes, from one install. Platform mode serves many stores from one process and one PostgreSQL database, each in a schema of its own with its own operators, admin panel and domain, created and suspended through a platform API whose credentials open no store.

No. Since GoCommerce 1.2, buyers and dealers sign in at /portal on the store’s own address with their store account. They see their company’s terms and what it owes, order by SKU or from a spreadsheet, check out the lines they tick, repeat orders, approve, accept quotes and download statements. Each person sees only what their role and company allow.

Yes, through its customer group. A shipping rate can name a group, and that group’s buyers are offered its rates instead of the public ones in that zone. A group can be tax-exempt: its orders carry no tax and record which group exempted them.

Yes, to run yourself. GoCommerce is MIT-licensed, and the B2B module is in the same repository as the engine, not an add-on. A store hosted on kitcommerce.store pays 1% of every successful order.