These features were previously available only to merchants on the Shopify Plus plan, but they are now being rolled out those on the Basic, Grow and Advanced plans, the company said in a Thursday (April 2) press release. This change makes the feature available to all plans.
“Key pieces of what has been refined on Shopify Plus over nearly four years are now rolling out to all merchants,” Shopify said in the release.
These B2B features include company profiles for wholesale buyers, up to three custom catalogs with tailored pricing, volume discounts and quantity rules, according to the release.
Some other B2B features will remain exclusive to the Shopify Plus plan. These include unlimited catalogs for customer-specific pricing, direct catalog assignment to companies and locations, partial payments and deposits, the release said.
With the addition of the tools being provided to the other plans, merchants can manage B2B and direct-to-consumer (DTC) side by side on the Shopify platform, per the release.
Samir Pradhan, vice president of product at Shopify, said in the release that this change will enable merchants to sell their products to wholesale buyers without having to use B2B tools outside the system they use to run their business.
“By bringing these capabilities to more merchants on Shopify, we’re making it easier for them to seize one of their biggest opportunities to grow,” Pradhan said.
PYMNTS reported in February that Shopify now commands more than 14% of U.S. eCommerce market share.
Shopify said Feb. 11, in its fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings report, that its annual gross merchandise volume (GMV) was $378 billion.
The company said at the time that B2B remains a “very small portion” of GMV but is an opportunity for expansion. It attributed the current limited size of B2B to the fact that it was “a product offering for Plus merchants only.”
Shopify President Harley Finkelstein said in February 2024 that B2B was “still very new” but that the company was “beginning to see ‘B2B exclusive’ merchants come on [to the platform].”
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