There are 200+ wholesale apps Shopify lists in its App Store Wholesale category alone, and most articles ranking for best Shopify B2B apps were written before April 2, 2026. On that day, Shopify moved its core B2B features from Plus-only to every paid plan. That change reshuffles the entire question. Some merchants who were about to pay for an app no longer need one. Others still do, but for a much narrower job than before.
This shortlist reflects the new reality. Every app below carries the Built for Shopify badge, holds a rating of 4.5 or higher, and has enough reviews to trust the average. More usefully, each is matched to the specific problem it solves, because B2B apps now cover five or six very different jobs: pricing, access control, bulk ordering, quoting, order rules, or a whole sales channel.
Best apps for Shopify B2B
A quick comparison of the best Shopify wholesale apps before the details:
| App | Job it does | Ratings | Reviews | Entry price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSS B2B Wholesale Pricing | All-in-one wholesale layer | 4.9 | 1,066 | Free plan |
| Sami B2B Wholesale Pricing | All-in-one on a budget | 4.9 | 939 | Free plan |
| B2B Wholesale Hub | Retail + wholesale in one store | 4.7 | 678 | Starts from $39/month, free trial |
| Wholesale Pricing Discount B2B | Tiered pricing and net terms | 4.8 | 559 | Starts from $24.99, free trial |
| Sami B2B Lock, Password Protect | Gated access and hidden prices | 4.9 | 933 | Free plan |
| MultiVariants - Bulk Order | Bulk order grids for variants | 4.9 | 342 | Free plan |
| BSS B2B Order, Request a Quote | Quoting and quick reorder | 4.9 | 169 | Free to install |
| Avada Order Limits Quantity | MOQ and checkout rules | 5.0 | 274 | Free plan |
| Faire: Sell Wholesale | Wholesale marketplace channel | 4.6 | 407 | Free to install |
*Ratings and review counts taken from the Shopify App Store in July, 2026.
Selection criteria were strict on purpose:
- Built for Shopify badge (Shopify's own performance and integration standard)
- 4.5+ rating
- Several hundred reviews minimum, so the score reflects a pattern rather than a lucky or unlucky month.
BSS B2B Wholesale Pricing
BSS B2B Wholesale Pricing is a wholesale management app for Shopify that bundles the widest feature set in this list. The app covers:
- custom pricing per customer or tag
- quantity breaks
- wholesale registration forms
- tax exemption handling
- order limits
Most of those features merchants used to stack three or four apps to get.
Where it earns its 4.9 rating across 1,066 reviews is breadth without bloat, you switch on the modules you need and ignore the rest.
The trade-off is the flip side of that breadth. Configuration takes longer than with single-purpose apps, and stores with heavily customized themes sometimes need support's help. Reviewers consistently praise how fast that support responds, which matters when pricing logic touches every product page.
Best for: DTC brands adding a serious wholesale arm who want one app to rule the whole B2B layer.
Sami B2B Wholesale Pricing
Sami B2B Wholesale Pricing is a direct alternative to BSS with one loud argument in its favor: a genuinely usable free plan, which makes it arguably the best Shopify wholesale app on a zero budget.
Sami B2B Wholesale Pricing handles:
- volume discounts
- B2B registration
- custom pricing
- tax settings
The feature depth is a step below BSS in edge cases – complex multi-tier tax scenarios and unusual discount stacking are where merchants report hitting walls. For a store testing whether wholesale demand is real before committing budget, that limitation rarely matters yet.
Best for: merchants validating a wholesale channel who don't want a monthly fee before the first bulk order arrives.
B2B Wholesale Hub
B2B Wholesale Hub (formerly Wholesale Club, by Orbit) is a wholesale Shopify app built around one scenario, to run retail and wholesale from the same storefront without a separate store or Shopify's B2B company-account system. Tag a customer, and they see wholesale prices, while everyone else sees retail. It adds net payment terms, volume discounts, and quick-order forms on top.
One honest caveat: the discount mechanics work through Shopify's draft order and discount logic, which can conflict with other discount apps. Test your promo stack before launch.
It is paid, starts from $39/month, but eventually you pay for the experience, years on the market. It's one of the longest-serving apps in the category, and that track record shows in how many edge cases the documentation already covers.
Best for: blended stores where wholesale buyers should shop the same storefront as retail customers, just at their own prices.
Wholesale Pricing Discount B2B
Wholesale Pricing Discount B2B is a B2B wholesale app by Wholesale Helper that focuses on the pricing problem and goes deep:
- percentage or fixed discounts per collection
- product, or variant
- quantity breaks displayed on the product page
- net 15/30/60 terms
The modular approach cuts both ways. Pricing, order forms, and lock features live in separate Wholesale Helper apps, so a full setup can mean two or three installs. If you only need pricing and terms, though, you're not paying for registration forms you'll never use.
Best for: stores whose only real B2B gap is negotiated pricing and payment terms.
Sami B2B Lock, Password Protect
Access control is its own job, and Sami B2B Lock, Password Protect does exactly that: hide prices from guests, lock specific pages or products behind a login, restrict collections to approved wholesale accounts, or password-protect an entire trade catalog.
Keep in mind what it doesn't do. There's no pricing engine here. It pairs with a pricing app (from Sami or anyone else) rather than replacing one. Merchants who expect an all-in-one tool from the name sometimes leave confused reviews; read it as a gatekeeper, not a wholesale suite.
Best for: brands protecting MAP agreements or running a trade-only catalog that the public should never see.
MultiVariants ‑ Bulk Order
B2B buyers ordering apparel, packaging, or anything with size/color grids don't want to click through variants one at a time. MultiVariants ‑ Bulk Order is a single-purpose wholesale app for Shopify stores with variant-heavy catalogs: it turns the product page into an order grid with quantities for every variant on one screen, minimum and maximum limits per variant, and quantity increments (multiples of 6, 12, a case, a pallet).
The limitation is the same as the strength, if your catalog is single-variant products, this app has nothing for you.
Best for: multi-variant catalogs where a purchasing manager orders 40 SKUs in one visit.
BSS B2B Order, Request a Quote
Some wholesale deals start with "what's your price for 500 units?" rather than a cart. The BSS B2B Order, Request a Quote app adds a request-a-quote flow, a quick-order form for repeat buyers, and easy reordering from past purchases – the negotiation layer Shopify's native tools don't offer at any plan level.
This app is a newer, narrower product from the same team behind BSS B2B Wholesale Pricing. The two integrate cleanly if you need both.
Best for: merchants whose B2B sales involve negotiation, custom quotes, or sales-rep-assisted ordering.
Avada Order Limits Quantity
Minimum order quantities are how wholesale stays wholesale. Avada Order Limits Quantity enforces min/max quantities and order values per product, collection, or customer tag, with checkout rules that stop a $30 order from sneaking through a trade account.
Note that Shopify's native quantity rules now cover part of this on all plans – but only for B2B company accounts within catalogs. Avada applies rules to any customer segment, tagged wholesale customers included, which is exactly the gap merchants running tag-based B2B need filled.
Best for: enforcing MOQs and order rules outside (or alongside) Shopify's native company-account system.
Faire: Sell Wholesale
A different story entirely. The Faire: Sell Wholesale app adds features to your store; it connects your Shopify catalog and inventory to Faire, a wholesale marketplace where over 700,000 independent retailers source products. Orders, stock levels, and product data sync automatically.
The economics differ from running your own channel. Faire takes a commission on orders from new buyers the marketplace brings you. In exchange, you get wholesale demand you didn't have to generate.
As to the possible drawbacks, it mostly depends on sync hiccups after large catalog changes, so schedule big updates carefully.
Best for: brands that want wholesale customers, not just wholesale features.
When you need an app and when out-of-the-box Shopify B2B features are enough
Since April 2, 2026, every paid Shopify plan – Basic, Grow, and Advanced included – ships with native B2B features that were locked behind Shopify Plus for nearly four years: company profiles, up to three B2B catalogs with custom pricing, volume discounts and quantity rules, payment terms like net 30, vaulted credit cards, and ACH payments in the US.
Shopify announced the change in its B2B for all rollout, and the details live in the official changelog.
That makes the app question much more precise than it used to be. Using Shopify for B2B without a single app is now realistic when:
- You have a manageable number of wholesale accounts and no more than three pricing tiers (the three-catalog cap applies across all markets combined, not per market)
- Your buyers can work with Shopify's new customer accounts as the native B2B system requires them
- You sell wholesale online only. Native B2B pricing doesn't carry through to Shopify POS
- Payment terms, volume pricing, and self-serve ordering cover your buyers' expectations
An app becomes necessary when reality is messier. Common triggers include:
- a fourth pricing tier
- self-service wholesale registration (native B2B has no auto-approving signup form)
- quote-based selling
- MOQs for tag-based customer groups
- hiding prices from the public
- bulk-order grids for variant-heavy catalogs
Shopify Plus remains the answer for a different class of problem, such as unlimited catalogs, checkout customization through Functions, deposits, and partial payments. If several of those apply, compare app costs against Shopify Plus development before stacking workarounds.
A fuller walkthrough of the native setup, plans, storefront formats, and company accounts is in our guide to preparing your store for wholesale buyers.
Must-have features for the best wholesale app for Shopify
Whichever B2B wholesale app you evaluate, the same feature set separates tools that scale from tools you'll replace in a year. Check for:
- Customer-specific pricing that works per customer, tag, or company, not just blanket percentage discounts.
- Volume and tiered discounts visible on the product page, so buyers see the break before checkout.
- Registration and approval workflow. A wholesale signup form with auto-tagging beats manual account creation once applications pass a few per week.
- Payment terms support (net 30/60) or clean compatibility with Shopify's native terms.
- Order rules: MOQs, quantity increments, minimum order values.
- Theme and checkout compatibility. Built for Shopify certification is the fastest proxy, apps that inject pricing through scripts break more often after theme updates.
- Compatibility with native B2B. If you plan to blend approaches, not every Shopify B2B wholesale option plays well with company accounts and catalogs.
Two things merchants forget to check until it negatively impacts, how the app behaves during a theme change and what happens to pricing data if you uninstall it. Ask support both questions before paying.
How to choose the right Shopify B2B app
There's no universal best wholesale app for Shopify. Only the right one for your gap. Going from 200+ listings to a shortlist takes four steps, in this order:
- Exhaust native features first. Turn on the native B2B features, model your top three pricing tiers as catalogs, and see what's genuinely missing. Whatever's left is your app requirement list, usually one or two items, not ten.
- Match the gap to a job category. Most B2B applications in the store map to one of these jobs.
- Pricing gap → BSS, Sami, or Wholesale Pricing Discount
- Access gap → Sami Lock
- Ordering friction → MultiVariants or the BSS quote app
- Rules gap → Avada. Demand gap → Faire
Pro tip: Never shop the whole category; shop the job.
- Prefer one app over three. Every additional app is another script on the product page, another support contact, and another compatibility variable at theme-update time. An all-in-one at 80% fit usually beats three specialists at 95%.
- Test on a duplicate theme with real SKUs. Install on an unpublished theme, load actual products and a test wholesale account, and run an order end-to-end. Include the checkout, where most pricing apps show their seams.
Sometimes the exercise reveals gaps no app covers – ERP-driven pricing, custom approval chains, a headless wholesale portal. That's the point where custom Shopify app development becomes cheaper than fighting off-the-shelf limits. For inspiration on how established brands structure their wholesale storefronts, see these B2B store examples built on Shopify.
Final thoughts
The 2026 shift moved the starting line: Shopify B2B apps are no longer the price of entry to wholesale, they're precision tools for the gaps native features leave. Start with what's already in your admin, name the specific gap, and install for that gap alone. The merchants who struggle with app sprawl are almost always the ones who shopped the category before defining the job.
If you'd rather have someone map that decision for your specific catalog, buyers, and systems, that's exactly what our Shopify B2B development services cover. Contact DigitalSuits. We'll tell you honestly whether your wholesale channel needs an app, a custom build, or just a better native setup.
Frequently asked questions
Can a Shopify B2B app work together with Shopify's native B2B features?
Sometimes, but compatibility is not guaranteed. Native B2B uses company accounts, catalogs, and new customer accounts, while many apps rely on customer tags and script-based price display. Some apps coexist cleanly, others conflict with catalog pricing. Check the app's documentation for explicit native-B2B compatibility before combining the two systems.
Will a B2B app slow down my Shopify store?
It can, which is one reason the Built for Shopify badge matters when comparing the best wholesale apps for Shopify – certified apps meet Shopify's performance standards for theme and checkout integration. Apps that inject pricing through storefront scripts add load time to every product page. Test Core Web Vitals on a duplicate theme before and after installing.
Can I offer wholesale pricing on Shopify POS with these apps?
Mostly no. Shopify's native B2B pricing doesn't apply to POS, and the large majority of wholesale apps are online-store-only as well. Merchants selling at trade shows typically handle in-person wholesale through draft orders with manual discounts, or a POS-specific pricing workaround.
What happens to my wholesale pricing if I uninstall a B2B wholesale app?
It depends on how the app stores data. Apps that create discount rules or draft-order logic usually leave clean exits, while apps that modified variant prices or created duplicate "wholesale" variants can leave residue in your catalog. You can get help from professional experts by hiring Shopify developers to ensure a clean transition without pricing errors or orphaned variants.
Do wholesale buyers pay Shopify transaction fees differently than retail customers?
No, standard transaction and payment processing fees apply to B2B orders the same way they apply to retail ones. Orders paid on net terms are processed when payment is captured. Marketplace channels are the exception: Faire charges its own commission on top, separate from Shopify's fees.
Written by
Yurii Zablotskyi
Content Marketing Specialist
Yurii Zablotskyi is a passionate content writer and storyteller with a strong marketing background, focusing on marketing, sales, and technology, turning complex ideas into valuable content.
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