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The B2B eCommerce Platform for Distributors

If ordering currently means an ERP screen, a spreadsheet, and a phone call, that's what OroCommerce replaces. Give your buyers a portal they'll use and your reps the account context they need in the same system.
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built for distribution

Launching an eCommerce site stalls for the same handful of reasons. Your ERP won’t share live stock. The catalog is full of cross-referenced and superseded parts. Your pricing is mostly exceptions. And your reps see a portal as a threat to their commission.

OroCommerce handles all four.

The storefront reads stock straight from your ERP and returns your substitute when a buyer searches a part you don’t carry. Your pricing rules and approval workflows are settings, not code. Buying group rates, contract terms, and supplier minimums work like they do in your back office.

Day to day, that means buyers take control of the simple reorders and your sales reps get their time back to manage high-value relationships. Friction drops across your operation, and routine orders cost far less to serve.

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Essential eCommerce Features for Distribution Businesses

OroCommerce covers what customers expect natively.
Custom pricing, live stock, invoices, and reordering in one place, out of the box.

  1. Complex Pricing Models, Configured Not Coded

    Your price file carries years of exceptions, and every one has to hold at the line level.

    • Customer specific pricing: Each account sees the price you negotiated, resolved per line at checkout. Real-time pricing runs against tens of thousands of concurrent price lists, so accurate pricing holds even on daily price file updates.
    • Tiered pricing and volume discounts: You configure tiered pricing, volume discounts, and supplier minimum order quantities as rules, so a buyer placing a bulk ordering request sees the right threshold and shipping costs in the cart rather than after they submit.
    • Quotes and RFQs: Buyers request pricing on non-standard or high-volume orders inside the portal, and your reps adjust and approve against the same record instead of rebuilding it in email.
    • Freight and landed cost: Real-time carrier rates and your own freight rules apply at checkout, so shipping costs appear before a buyer commits rather than on the invoice.
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  2. A Portal Your Buyers Choose Over Calling

    Buyers keep calling because the portal can’t show them their price, terms, or your stock. Cover those and the calls you still get are the ones worth a rep’s time.

    • Reordering and recurring orders: Buyers reorder from history, save shopping lists for recurring jobs, and schedule standing orders they can pause themselves. This is where repeat business and customer loyalty come from, and it’s usually what brings an account back for a second login.
    • Account management for their whole organization: Customer accounts mirror your buyer’s structure, so one login covers multiple locations and each user gets the permissions their role allows.
    • Self-service features for documents and approvals: Buyers pull order history, invoices, packing slips, and tracking on their own, and your customer’s approval chains and spend limits hold inside your portal. That removes the status call from your purchasing process.
    • Live availability and customer specific catalogs: Buyers see stock by warehouse with confirmed ship dates from your inventory management system, and customer specific catalogs show only what each account is entitled to buy.
    • Invoicing and payment: Buyers view statements and settle invoices by card or ACH in the same place they order, which shortens how long your money sits outstanding.
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  3. Built for Your Sales Team, Not Just Your Buyers

    Your reps sell from the same records your customers order from.

    • Field sales app: Reps plan and log visits, check an account’s negotiated price on site, and build quotes or orders during the conversation, online or offline.
    • Built-in CRM: Customer data from orders, quotes, and support sits in one record, so account management and customer interactions happen in the same system your team sells from. You can see the full history of customer relationships rather than jumping between a CRM and an ERP.
    • Buyer impersonation: A rep sees the buyer’s exact screen, including their pricing and their open cart, and fixes a stalled order while the customer stays where they are.
    • Workflow automation: Your team configures order routing, approval steps, and notifications in the admin, so a process change doesn’t wait for a development release.
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  4. Catalog Management for Millions of SKUs

    Buyers land on the part you stock, even when they search with a number you don’t carry.

    • Cross-references and substitutions: You map interchangeable parts, superseded numbers, and manufacturer numbers to what you stock, so product data for a part you don’t carry still returns your equivalent.
    • Customer part numbers: Buyers order using the numbers already in their own systems, mapped to your SKUs, so adding product lines doesn’t force them to relearn your catalog.
    • Advanced search capabilities: Advanced search stays fast across complex product catalogs running into millions of SKUs, and results respect each account’s entitlements so customer specific catalogs show only what they can buy.
    • Matrix and bulk entry: Buyers configure specification grids on one screen and upload large orders by CSV instead of keying hundreds of lines.
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  5. Connect Your ERP Systems, PIM, and EDI

    Orders, pricing, and inventory stay in sync across every system you run, including several ERPs at once.

    • Integrate with leading ERP systems: API-first connectors handle deep ERP integration with SAP, Epicor, Infor, NetSuite, Acumatica, JD Edwards, and Dynamics 365, plus enterprise resource planning systems your team built in-house.
    • More than one ERP at a time: The commerce layer normalizes orders across parallel ERP environments, so you keep selling through an acquisition or a consolidation.
    • PIM, EDI, and punchout: You connect product data governance, EDI trading partners, and buyer procurement platforms including Ariba, Coupa, and Oracle to the same catalog and the same pricing rules.
    • One instance, many sites: You run separate brands, business units, and regional storefronts from a single instance on scalable infrastructure, with shared inventory and pricing underneath.
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  6. AI Working From Your Commercial Rules

    OroIQ runs inside the platform that already holds your pricing, restrictions, and account permissions.

    • AI SmartOrder: Emailed and PDF purchase orders become draft orders with each customer’s part numbers mapped to your SKUs. Documents carrying 700 or more line items process in about 30 seconds.
    • AI SmartAgent: Buyers ask about stock, pricing, order status, and alternatives in plain language, and answers come from their own contract terms and entitlements. They get to informed purchasing decisions without waiting on a rep.
    • AI SmartInsights: Your team asks about margin, average order value, customer adoption, or inventory in plain English and gets charts and KPIs back, with access following the roles you already set. Reading customer behavior stops requiring a report request.
    • Permissions carry over: Product restrictions and account roles apply to AI answers the same way they apply in the storefront, because it’s the same permission model.
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How Distributors Grow With OroCommerce

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How DiversiTech Consolidated Order-to-Cash

One ordering experience across two continents and 12 ERP systems

Growth through acquisition left DiversiTech running order intake across 12 ERP systems . Nine were still live in Europe during the move to Dynamics 365.

DiversiTech put OroCommerce in front of the ERPs instead of waiting for consolidation to finish. AI SmartOrder normalizes intake across the European environments, which removed the need for a separate ETL build, and cut manual entry in North America by 20%. Replacing Salesforce brought CRM and eCommerce website onto one license.

Three brands run on the same instance today. That’s what digital transformation looks like when B2B eCommerce for distributors is done right.

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Why Leading Distributors Choose OroCommerce

Most eCommerce solutions actively fight the way distributors work. You end up buying a retail cart and spending millions trying to force it to understand corporate buying rules and complex pricing structures. We took the opposite approach.

Purpose-built for B2B Distribution

Most platforms in your evaluation started somewhere else. Retail carts got B2B modules bolted on later, and the large suites are separate acquisitions running on separate architectures with separate billing meters. OroCommerce has been a distributor eCommerce platform since the first release, on one codebase.

One License, Priced on GMV

Your license covers eCommerce, CRM, AI, PIM, CPQ, and workflow automation. It meters on GMV, so adding reps, branch portals, or API calls doesn't change what you pay. Cost tracks the revenue the platform brings in rather than the number of people using it.

Built for Multi-Org Complexity

Multiple brands, regions, and business units run from one instance instead of one deployment each. Product, pricing, and customer data sit in a shared model, so a new portal inherits what exists rather than duplicating it.
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Deployment That Fits Your IT Requirements

Some teams want SaaS with nothing to manage. Others need private cloud or their own servers for data residency or compliance. You choose, and you can move between them later as your business needs change.

Recognized for B2B Depth

Gartner and IDC have recognized OroCommerce for its depth in B2B – and our customers keep us honest. We invest where distributors feel the most pain: automation, smarter workflows, and essential features for B2B selling. If you’re tired of outgrowing platforms, you’ll notice the difference here.

Proven Past Year Five

Most platforms get outgrown, not rejected. The catalog doubles, a region gets added, a business model shows up that wasn't in the original scope, and the workarounds start. 95% of OroCommerce customers renew instead of hitting that wall.
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Testimonials

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Lucio Martins de Campos
Director IT & Digital, CIO, Gerdau North America
We looked at a lot of platforms, but nothing felt quite right. When we found OroCommerce and saw the product in action, it was like the fog lifted. Everything started to make sense: the vision, the flexibility, the unified B2B-first approach. We could clearly see our digital commerce roadmap coming to life, not just for today, but for years down the line.
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Hilda Fontana
CIO, DiversiTech
Whenever we launch a new brand or sub-site, the question isn’t ‘Why use Oro?’, it’s ‘Why not?’ And we’ve never found a reason not to.
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Rodrigo Garcia
COO, PartsBase Inc.
In Oro, we found a platform and a partner that [...] provides us not only with native features and capabilities necessary to launch a B2B marketplace but also with the flexibility to keep on iterating and improving our offering further.
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Jason Vagnozzi
Director North American Ventures, Braskem
With OroCommerce, we can now offer sales order information and shipment tracking in real time, and reduce non-value added work for both our clients an our inside sales teams.
Tim Lemmens
Tim Lemmens
Product Manager Digital Platforms, Azelis
The true test of a platform is how it performs in year five, not year one. What keeps us on OroCommerce is that we never felt locked into a legacy decision. Instead of hitting a technical wall, the platform grew with us, handling every new layer of complexity we threw at it.
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Aurélien Devaux
Head of Digital & eCommerce, Lactalis
The OroCommerce platform has been a major lever in achieving our B2B eCommerce development goals. The flexibility and robustness of the OroCommerce platform have helped us meet the demands of our various markets.
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Taylor Simpson
eCommerce Manager, Ciranda
I did extensive research, but once I found Oro, the decision was quick. There just aren’t many platforms honing in on B2B so precisely. We made a really good long-term decision with Oro.
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Geert Besten
Senior Digital Delivery Manager, Dunlop
We leaned heavily on OroCommerce’s comprehensive native B2B features, which enabled the rollout of a high-quality, mission-appropriate backend and frontend deployment with very little need for customization now or in future.

Resources for Distributors Evaluating
an eCommerce Platform

Free RFP template for B2B eCommerce

A requirements framework you can take into any vendor conversation. Covers pricing, catalog, integration, and the key features that separate a distributors solution from a retail platform with B2B add-ons.

12 best B2B eCommerce platforms in 2026

Twelve platforms compared on B2B depth, integration approach, and starting price. Use it to narrow down the right e Commerce platform for your requirements before you shortlist.

B2B eCommerce ROI calculator

Model the return on a digital commerce project against your own numbers. Covers operational efficiency on the order desk and the revenue from new customers the channel reaches.

Frequently Asked Questions About B2B eCommerce for Distributors

What is the best eCommerce platform for wholesale?

OroCommerce, because it’s the only platform in this category built for distribution first rather than adapted from retail. Contract pricing, account hierarchies, quoting, and CRM come under one license, which is what makes it the right eCommerce solution for a distributor rather than a retail cart with add-ons.

Which eCommerce platform is best for sellers?

OroCommerce, because it’s built around the account rather than the shopper. That means seller enablement gets the same weight as B2B self-service functionality.

Does OroCommerce integrate with our ERP?

Yes, and often more than one at a time. Native extensions cover seamless integration with Epicor Prophet 21 and SAP Business One, with full SAP supported as well. NetSuite and Microsoft Dynamics connect through the APIs or a pre-built Patchworks integration for faster launch. Customers also run Infor Syteline, Infor M3, Sage X3, and homegrown systems.

Does OroCommerce replace our CRM?

It can. Native CRM is included, so orders, quotes, invoices, and account history sit in one record and your reps stop moving between systems to answer a question. DiversiTech replaced Salesforce when it moved to OroCommerce. If you’d rather keep your CRM, there are connectors for that.

Will our customers use the portal?

Buyers move when the portal shows what they’d otherwise phone for. Customer expectations now center on live stock, their own contract price, and self-service documents. ICL saw 60% of customers shift to digital ordering in its first rollout wave.

What features are essential for Digital Commerce for distributors?

The right eCommerce platform handles corporate buying natively. To run effective B2B eCommerce for distributors, you need tools engineered specifically for complex operations. OroCommerce includes these core capabilities out of the box:

  • Custom B2B Pricing: Native engines that support customer specific pricing, tiered volume discounts, and automated quoting.
  • Accessible Administration: Centralized tools that empower your ecommerce team to manage daily updates, drastically reducing the need for significant technical expertise.
  • Corporate Purchasing Workflows: Account management hierarchies and fast reorder portals built to streamline the customer experience.
  • Sales Enablement: Built-in marketing tools and CRM capabilities that help your reps monitor buying patterns and maintain customer satisfaction.

Deploying these exact tools natively turns your digital channel into a permanent competitive advantage.

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