Industry Solutions for B2B E-Commerce

In wholesale, speed and volume are everything: quick order forms by SKU number, tiered pricing by purchase quantity and framework agreements with automatic terms are standard here. In manufacturing and production, the focus is on precise spare-part identification via bills of materials and assemblies, technical datasheets as product supplements and variant configuration. Technical trade requires standards-compliant classifications per ETIM or ECLASS, extensive attribute filtering and the exchange of structured product data via BMEcat.

The food and beverage sector needs batch traceability, best-before dates, allergen labeling and temperature-dependent logistics information directly in the shop. In the building materials and construction supplies trade, packaging units, pallet and bag quantities, freight calculation by weight and volume, and construction-site deliveries are the central topics. Finally, in medical technology and laboratory supply, regulatory requirements such as UDI labeling, conformity documents and traceable order histories take priority. For each of these industries, we develop the right functionality on the basis of Shopware Community Edition, rather than forcing you into a rigid standard product.

All our industry solutions are built on the Shopware Community Edition, an open-source platform. The shop belongs to you, including data and customizations; you are not tied to a single vendor with ongoing license fees. This independence matters especially in B2B, where shops are operated over many years and continuously extended. We develop the industry-specific functions as our own extensions on this basis, so they fit your processes exactly rather than the other way around.

The Community Edition is open source and free to run below a certain annual revenue threshold. If your volume exceeds that, we transparently state the cost of a commercial edition separately from our development work, so you always know which amount goes to us and which to the vendor. In most mid-market projects, we cover the typical B2B requirements such as roles, approvals and customer-specific prices with our own development on the open foundation.

However different the industries are, the path of the data into the shop follows a clear pattern. Your articles, prices and stock live in the ERP or inventory system. A transformation layer enriches them with the industry-specific attributes — classifications, batches, UDI labels or hazardous-goods data — and passes them to the shop. This keeps your leading data source untouched, while the shop still shows exactly the information your buyers expect. How we connect systems cleanly is also described on the PIM integration page.