B2BKing The Ultimate B2B and Wholesale

In wholesale, the price does not belong to the product: it belongs to the product and buyer pair

There sits the whole difficulty of building B2B on WooCommerce, and it is a structural difficulty. A normal shop stores one price per product. A wholesale one needs to store a price for every combination of product and buyer, and with tiers on top: one price from fifty units, another from two hundred.

Add to that the unidentified visitor who should see no price, each distributor having their own order minimum, companies in other countries needing tax removed, and some customers buying on thirty day invoice rather than by card. WooCommerce does none of it.

B2BKing is the layer that does, and it is the sector's reference for coverage.

What it solves

• Hiding prices from anybody not logged in, or hiding the whole shop outright.
• Buyer groups with their own rate, and tiered pricing by quantity.
• Company registration with approval, and separate forms for wholesale and retail.
• Order minimums by quantity and by value.
• Tax exemption with VAT number validation against the European register.
• Negotiable quotes, converted into an offer and from there into an order.
• A quick order form and order upload from a file.
• Several accounts per company, so the purchasing manager and their two assistants order under the same customer.
• An invoice payment gateway, for customers with credit granted.

Being the most complete does not make it yours

This is the honest warning with this product. B2BKing covers practically everything that exists in professional selling, and that carries a cost not shown in the price: it has to be configured.

If what you need is hiding prices from visitors and having one price list for your twelve distributors, this plugin will ask you for decisions on twenty things you do not need, and each one is a place to get it wrong.

Buy the complexity when you need it. The signal that you do is concrete: rates that differ per customer and not only per group, tiered pricing, quotes that get negotiated, or several people buying under the same company. If you have two or more of those, this is the one. If you have none, there are simpler options you will set up in an afternoon.

Requirements

It needs WordPress and WooCommerce. VAT number validation requires the European checking service to be available, which is worth bearing in mind: it goes down from time to time, and you have to decide in advance what happens to an order that cannot be validated at that moment.

Alternatives in the catalogue

The sensible alternative when you do not need all this is WooCommerce Wholesale Pro by Barn2: wholesale roles with their price, global or per-category discounts, and little else to configure. For many shops it is exactly what is needed.

If your selling is always negotiated and the catalogue carries no published price, then what you need is not a rate but a quote: Request a Quote turns the buy button into a request.

For attracting new distributors and filtering them before granting wholesale pricing, Wholesale Lead Capture. If the only piece missing is cross-border tax, EU VAT and B2B does that on its own. And on the design side, Angro is a theme built for wholesale catalogues.

One more piece almost every B2B ends up needing: getting orders into the company's management software. WP Webhooks connects WooCommerce with external systems without bespoke development, and stops somebody copying orders by hand every morning.

Frequently asked questions

Can it coexist with the public shop?
Yes, it is designed for the mixed wholesale and retail model on the same site.

Can prices be hidden from visitors?
Yes, and the whole shop too if needed.

Does it validate cross-border VAT numbers?
Yes, against the European register, and it applies the exemption where applicable.

Does it support quantity tier pricing?
Yes, with tiered structures by group or by customer.

Can several people from one company buy?
Yes, it supports several buyer accounts under the same customer.

Is it too much if I have few wholesalers?
It can be. With simple needs there are options that configure in far less time.