B2B e-commerce sites: implementation on Magento platform
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B2B implementing on Magento platform e-commerce sites:
Transcript of B2B e-commerce sites: implementation on Magento platform
B2Bimplementing onMagento platform
e-commerce sites:
stands for “Business to Business”and means trading between companies
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Restricted access to sitePricingQuick ordersPaymentsShipping
What makes B2B special compared to B2C?
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How to set up a B2B site on Magento?
SHOP
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Private Sales
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Catalog Permissions by Aheadworks
Private Salesby Design Slider
Private Sales / Flash discount
by Boost My Shop
Private sales module allows you to restrict customers to certain areas of the site, show or hide prices, force users to register before viewing the site etc. In Magento Enterprise Edition it is a build-in feature. To add this functionality to Magento community, you need to install a third-party extension. For example, one of the following extensions:
Catalogue and pricing
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If you want to run two stores on one Magento instance — a retail and a wholesale website — use a “Website” scope while configuring the stores in the backend and you will have all the freedom to have separate catalogues, pricing, payment and shipping methods for both customer types.
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Installation
B2B WEBSITE
STORE VIEW
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B2C WEBSITE
Visibility of different products and prices can be managed with the use of Catalog Permissions ($89) or Customer Group Catalog ($79) for example.
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Catalog Permissions by Aheadworks
Customer Group Catalogby Amasty
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If you want to display pricing for everyone but show different numbers you can use Group Price feature — it’s default in Magento Community.
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Volume-dependent pricing can be set up using Tier Pricing feature (built-in).
Since wholesale buyers, especially returning, usually know what stuff they need, they most probably know the specific SKUs too. To speed up the bulk ordering process you can use a quick order extension. It’s not a default feature, but nothing extraordinary and is worth spending a few pennies.
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Ordering
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One more third-party module Cart2Quote allows wholesale customers to submit quote inquiries which can be turned into order upon admin approval.Reordering process is easily managed by a Re-Order option in My Account section. You might want to make it stand out more and look like a call-to-action button but the mechanism comes out-of-the-box.
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Payment
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If you want to run two stores on one Magento instance — a retail and a wholesale website — use a “Website” scope while configuring the stores in the backend and you will have all the freedom to have separate catalogues, pricing, payment and shipping methods for both customer types.
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Credit Limit
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Shipping
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Since shipping should be very flexible it’s better to configure it on per custom or per product level. Extensions like Shipping per customer group ($79) or Shipping Rules ($99) may come in handy.
by Amasty
Shipping & Payment By Customer Groups
Shipping Rules
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Don’t forget about the way your catalog looks and consider changing a conventional grid view to a list view with an ability to tick the checkboxes placed per product row or click some buttons that will instantly add products to the cart.
