PeasyOrders vs. Shopify B2B for wholesale orders

At a glance

Feature	PeasyOrders	Shopify B2B
Primary purpose	Capture messy emailed B2B orders and turn them into reviewed, priced drafts for QuickBooks Online.	Sell wholesale through your Shopify store — buyers log in with a company profile and order in the storefront.
Where the order happens	In your inbox. The email body plus PDF and spreadsheet attachments become reviewed drafts.	In your store. Shopify B2B is a storefront experience: catalogs, carts, and checkout for logged-in wholesale buyers.
Requires running an online store	No. QuickBooks Online plus your email inbox is enough.	Yes. Shopify B2B is part of the Shopify commerce platform — it exists inside a store you build and operate.
What your customers must do	Nothing new. They keep emailing orders the way they already do.	Log into your store with a company profile and place orders there.
B2B selling features	None. PeasyOrders is not a storefront.	Company profiles, up to 3 custom catalogs with tailored pricing, volume discounts and quantity rules, vaulted credit cards, and net payment terms — included on Basic, Grow, Advanced, and Plus since April 2, 2026, with a few advanced features still Plus-only.
Per-customer pricing	Yes, on captured orders. A pricing engine with rule precedence proposes each customer's price from your past QuickBooks invoices — you accept before it applies.	Yes, in the store. Catalogs with tailored pricing and volume discounts for logged-in buyers.
Human review before anything is created	Yes. An operator confirms every draft, and each value shows the source it came from, line by line.	Orders are structured at entry — the buyer places them in the storefront.
Phone orders	Added in one click as manual entries — same editor, pricing, review, and export. No call capture or transcription.	A storefront works on the orders placed inside it.
Where orders end up	QuickBooks Online, as Estimates by default (configurable), or Google Sheets and CSV. PeasyOrders does not connect to Shopify.	In Shopify. The store is the system of record for its orders.
How you buy it	Self-serve at a published price — plans at $99, $199, and $349 per month by confirmed order volume, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.	B2B features are included with a Shopify plan — Basic, Grow, Advanced, or Plus. Advanced B2B is Plus-only, at roughly $2,300–2,500 per month depending on term length.

The honest comparison

Shopify B2B is a storefront: your wholesale buyers log into your Shopify store with a company profile and order there, with catalogs, pricing, and net terms built in. PeasyOrders is order capture: it reads the orders buyers email — the body plus PDF and spreadsheet attachments — and turns them into reviewed QuickBooks Online Estimates, with no store anywhere in the loop. For a small or mid-sized US wholesale distributor on QuickBooks Online, the choice is really about which of two worlds you want to run.

Shopify B2B got substantially more accessible in 2026. Since April 2, 2026, Shopify includes its core B2B features at no extra cost on the Basic, Grow, Advanced, and Plus plans: company profiles for wholesale buyers, up to 3 custom catalogs with tailored pricing, volume discounts and quantity rules, vaulted credit cards, and net payment terms. A few advanced capabilities remain exclusive to Shopify Plus, which runs about $2,300–2,500 per month depending on term length. For a business that wants wholesale to live in an online store, that's a real offer.

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But it is a store. Shopify B2B exists inside a storefront you build and operate, on a platform whose system of record is Shopify — and it works on the orders buyers place in it. The wholesale customers of a typical small distributor are restaurants, cafés, and independent retailers who send orders written in their own words, by email, with a PDF or spreadsheet attached, or over the phone. A storefront doesn't see those orders; someone still reads, prices, and types them.

PeasyOrders is built for exactly those orders, and it should be equally plain about what it is not: it is not a storefront, not a Shopify app, and it does not connect to Shopify. It captures emailed orders into drafts an operator reviews — each customer's pricing applied, the source of every value visible per line — and exports confirmed orders to QuickBooks Online as Estimates, or to Google Sheets and CSV. Phone orders are added in one click as manual entries into the same queue.

Where Shopify B2B is the right call

Shopify B2B is a serious wholesale offer, and it's worth being clear where it wins.

• Wholesale inside your store. If you already sell on Shopify — or want to — B2B and direct-to-consumer live on one platform, one catalog, one checkout.
• A real self-service experience. Logged-in buyers get their own catalogs and pricing, volume discounts and quantity rules, vaulted cards, and net terms at checkout.
• Included on standard plans. Since April 2, 2026, the core B2B features cost nothing extra on Basic, Grow, and Advanced — you no longer need Plus to start selling B2B in your store.
• Room to grow. Higher-volume operations can move to Plus for the advanced B2B feature set.

One honest caution: everything above assumes the store. You build and run the storefront, you publish the catalog, and your buyers log in and adopt it. For a distributor whose orders arrive as emails from customers who've ordered the same way for twenty years, that's not a feature checklist — it's a change program, and the emails keep coming while you run it.

The same order, two ways

A salon that buys from you emails on Sunday night: "Usual back-bar order but double the liter argan shampoo, and add a dozen of the new clay masks — need it Thursday," with their marked-up PDF order form attached.

In a storefront world, that email isn't an order yet. Nothing exists in the store unless the salon logs in and places it there — and this customer clearly isn't going to. So someone on your team reads the email, works out what "the usual" means for this account, looks up the salon's prices, and types the order into whatever holds your orders. The storefront was never part of that transaction.

With PeasyOrders, the same email becomes a draft in your review queue. Because this account's shorthand has been confirmed on earlier orders, "the usual back-bar order" resolves to the right items; the doubled shampoo — the liters, not the retail bottles — and the clay masks match against your QuickBooks items; the salon's pricing is applied with the rule that set it shown on each line; and every value links back to the part of the email or attachment it came from. Anything unclear is flagged rather than guessed. You confirm, and it lands in QuickBooks Online as an Estimate — in your books, where your business already lives.

The storefront lane (Shopify B2B)

You build and run the store

catalog published, buyers invited

Buyer logs in and orders

their catalog, pricing, net terms

The order lives in Shopify

the store as system of record

A real self-service offer — for the buyers who adopt the store

The inbox lane (PeasyOrders)

“Usual back-bar order but double the shampoo”

emailed Sunday night, PDF attached

Draft matched and priced

“the usual” resolves from confirmed history

You review and confirm

In QuickBooks Online as an Estimate — no store anywhere in the loop

When PeasyOrders is the better fit

PeasyOrders is built for small and mid-sized US wholesale distributors on QuickBooks Online whose customers send orders written in their own words. If a typical week includes re-typing line items from emailed orders and attached PDFs or spreadsheets into QuickBooks, that's the job it exists to remove.

• No store, no migration. Your business stays on QuickBooks Online; there's no storefront to build, no catalog to publish, no platform to move to.
• No behavior change for your customers. Orders keep arriving the way they always have; email is forwarded in, and phone orders are added in one click as manual entries.
• The pricing QuickBooks can't do. QuickBooks Online doesn't expose per-customer pricing to integrations, so PeasyOrders acts as the pricing engine: on setup it reads your past invoices once and proposes each customer's price, which you accept, adjust, or discard before it applies.
• Review you can trust. Every draft is confirmed by a person before it exports, with the source of every value visible per line, and unresolved lines block confirmation instead of slipping through.
• Self-serve at a published price. Plans at $99, $199, and $349 per month by confirmed order volume (200, 600, and 1,500 orders, with 3, 6, and 12 users), annual billing gets two months free, and every plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee.

A pragmatic conclusion

Shopify B2B and PeasyOrders answer different questions. Shopify B2B answers "how do I sell wholesale through my online store?" — and since April 2, 2026 it answers it on standard plans, not just Plus. PeasyOrders answers "how do the orders my customers already email stop being retyped into QuickBooks Online?" — with capture, per-customer pricing, human review, and Estimates in your books, and no store anywhere in the picture. If you want to run the store and your buyers will log in, Shopify B2B is the right call. If you're a small or mid-sized wholesale distributor on QuickBooks Online and the inbox is where your orders live, that's PeasyOrders.

When to choose PeasyOrders

• Your business runs on QuickBooks Online, not on Shopify — and you don't want to build and operate a store to fix wholesale order entry.
• Your orders arrive as free-form emails with PDF or spreadsheet attachments, and the problem you want solved is the retyping.
• Your customers won't change how they order — no login, no company profile, no cart. PeasyOrders asks nothing of them.
• You want reviewed orders landing in QuickBooks Online as Estimates with each customer's pricing already applied — the per-customer pricing QuickBooks Online's API doesn't expose to any integration.

When to choose Shopify B2B

• You already run — or want to run — a Shopify store, and wholesale should live in it: catalogs, carts, checkout, and payment in one storefront.
• Your wholesale buyers will log in and self-serve, and features like net terms, vaulted cards, and volume pricing at checkout matter to them.
• You're selling direct-to-consumer on Shopify today and want to add a B2B motion on the same platform — since April 2, 2026 the core B2B features are included on standard plans.
• Your system of record is Shopify, not QuickBooks Online.