Catalogs & part-number search
Organize product families, part references, and specifications. Plan search and filtering around your product data and the way customers look for parts.
Custom B2B e-commerce development
A Custom E-commerce Site Built Around How Your Buyers Purchase
Give industrial and fastener buyers a clearer path from finding a part to requesting a quote or placing an order. We build custom B2B e-commerce websites around your catalog, customers, and sales process.
Start with the buying process
Your storefront needs to reflect the way you sell.
A distributor website may need to support repeat buyers, negotiated prices, bulk quantities, and products that require a quote. We start by mapping those requirements before deciding how the storefront should work.
You can begin with the catalog and inquiry workflow, or scope a purchasing experience with accounts, pricing, and checkout. We agree on the first release before development begins.
Capabilities we can build
Define the features your buyers and sales team need.
These are capabilities to scope for your project. The agreed requirements determine what is included.
Customer accounts & pricing
Define account access and customer-specific pricing, including where prices are maintained and which users can see them.
Bulk quantities & pricing tiers
Scope quantity breaks, minimum orders, and pack sizes around your selling rules and the pricing data available.
RFQs alongside purchasing
Let the buying process reflect the sale: a structured request for products that need a quote, and online purchasing where it fits your business.
Checkout & order handling
Agree on payment, shipping, tax, order confirmation, and sales handoff requirements before building the purchasing flow.
Inventory & ERP connections
Review the data sources, access permissions, and update process needed to connect the storefront with existing business systems.
Integration planning
Confirm the data before promising the connection.
If you use Prophet 21, Infor, Epicor, or another ERP, we review the exact product and version, available interfaces, licensing, and data access. That determines which connections can be built and how information will be updated.
Discovery also identifies the source of truth for product details, stock, customer pricing, and orders. We confirm the integration scope before committing to a connector or update schedule.
Delivery
A practical path from requirements to launch.
1. Discover & scope
Review buyers, catalog data, pricing rules, order workflows, and existing systems. Agree on the platform approach and first release.
2. Build & review
Develop the agreed storefront and connections. Review representative products, account scenarios, quote requests, and purchasing rules with your team.
3. Test & launch
Check the agreed search, pricing, RFQ, checkout, and order handoff scenarios, including mobile use, before launch.
Related project experience
Practical tools behind a more useful distributor website.
Our project experience includes an inventory search and quote-request workflow for a large fastener distributor and our document management system with permanent PDF links.
Those projects demonstrate related inventory, inquiry, and document workflows. This page describes our custom e-commerce development service.
FAQ
Common questions
Can the site support both RFQs and online purchasing?
Yes. We can scope RFQ workflows alongside online purchasing, with rules for which products, customers, and transactions use each path.
Can customers see their own pricing?
Customer-specific pricing can be part of the build. Discovery confirms where pricing is maintained, who can access it, and how updates reach the storefront.
Can you connect the storefront to our ERP?
We review your exact system, API or export options, licensing, and data access before confirming the integration scope. Native connectors and real-time updates are not assumed.
Which platform will you use?
We choose the approach after reviewing your catalog, purchasing rules, existing software, and maintenance needs. The scope determines the platform and custom development required.
Planning a custom distributor storefront?
Tell us about your catalog, customers, pricing, and the systems you use today.
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