PeasyOrders vs. SparkLayer for B2B order capture

At a glance

Feature	PeasyOrders	SparkLayer
Primary purpose	Capture messy emailed B2B orders and turn them into reviewed, priced drafts for QuickBooks Online.	Turn an existing store on Shopify, Wix, BigCommerce, or WooCommerce into a full B2B storefront with self-service ordering.
Reads emailed orders (body, PDF, spreadsheet)	Yes. The email body plus PDF and spreadsheet attachments.	Yes. Its AI Intelligent Cart reads forwarded emails and uploaded files — PDFs, CSVs, spreadsheets, Word documents, and images, which PeasyOrders does not read — and populates a cart in the store.
Requires a storefront	No. QuickBooks Online plus your email inbox is enough.	Yes. SparkLayer runs on top of an existing e-commerce store; it is not a standalone product.
Requires buyers to log in	No. Customers keep emailing orders the way they already do.	Yes. The Intelligent Cart lives inside the authenticated store — each customer account gets its own forwarding address, and the order arrives as a cart to review and submit.
Human review before anything is created	Yes. An operator confirms every draft, and each value shows the source it came from, line by line.	The buyer, or a rep logged in on their behalf, reviews the populated cart before submitting it.
Phone orders	Added in one click as manual entries — same editor, pricing, review, and export. No call capture or transcription.	Reps can log in and place orders on a customer's behalf through the Sales Rep tools.
Per-customer pricing	Yes. A pricing engine with rule precedence that proposes each customer's price from your past QuickBooks invoices — you accept before it applies.	Yes. B2B price lists on the storefront.
QuickBooks Online	Native connector. Reviewed orders export as Estimates by default (configurable).	Accounting sync via its Accountancy feature, which connects B2B orders with Xero and QuickBooks Online and creates an invoice in your accounting platform.
ERP integrations	None, deliberately. QuickBooks Online, Google Sheets, and CSV are the outputs.	Cin7 Core, Brightpearl, and Unleashed.
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.	Published plans too: a free plan (up to 3 price lists, 5 orders/month), Starter at $49/month, Growth at $149, Pro at $299, and Enterprise from $499.

The honest comparison

SparkLayer and PeasyOrders both read emailed orders with AI — the difference is where that happens and what surrounds it. SparkLayer's Intelligent Cart works inside a logged-in B2B storefront built on Shopify, Wix, BigCommerce, or WooCommerce; PeasyOrders captures the same emails with no store and no buyer login, built for small and mid-sized US wholesale distributors on QuickBooks Online.

That overlap deserves honesty up front. SparkLayer's AI Intelligent Cart reads forwarded emails and uploaded files — PDFs, CSVs, spreadsheets, plus Word documents and images, which PeasyOrders does not read — and populates a cart with the products it finds. This is not a "they can't read orders, we can" story. SparkLayer can.

The structural difference is the storefront. SparkLayer is a B2B layer that runs on top of an existing e-commerce store: a self-service storefront with price lists, Sales Rep ordering, native quoting, and invoicing, with accounting sync to Xero and QuickBooks Online through its Accountancy feature and ERP integrations with Cin7 Core, Brightpearl, and Unleashed. Its email capture lives inside that world — each customer account gets its own forwarding address, and the parsed order arrives as a cart for a logged-in buyer or rep to review and submit.

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SparkLayer

B2B storefront layer on Shopify, Wix, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce

sparklayer.io

PeasyOrders has no storefront and asks for none. It captures the messy orders your buyers send by email — the body plus PDF and spreadsheet attachments — and turns them into reviewed, catalog-matched, per-customer-priced drafts that export to QuickBooks Online as Estimates. Phone orders are added in one click as manual entries into the same queue. That's the whole product, on purpose.

Where SparkLayer is the right call

SparkLayer is a strong B2B platform for store-based wholesale, and it's worth being clear where it wins.

• A real B2B storefront. If you sell on Shopify, Wix, BigCommerce, or WooCommerce, SparkLayer turns that store into a wholesale channel — self-service ordering, B2B price lists, quoting, and invoicing in one place.
• Buyers and reps who will log in. Self-service works well for accounts that adopt it, and reps can order on a customer's behalf inside the same platform.
• Email capture that ends in your store. For logged-in accounts, the Intelligent Cart puts a forwarded email or uploaded file straight into a cart — including Word documents and images PeasyOrders doesn't read.
• ERP-connected operations. Integrations with Cin7 Core, Brightpearl, and Unleashed carry orders from the store into your inventory system.

One honest caution: all of it assumes the store. SparkLayer is not a standalone product — it needs a host storefront, and its email intake needs a set-up, login-capable customer account behind it. If you're a small or mid-sized wholesaler on QuickBooks Online with no e-commerce store and no plans for one, adopting a storefront platform to solve an inbox problem is a bigger project than the problem.

SparkLayer

B2B layer on an existing store

• AI Intelligent Cart
• B2B storefront
• Sales Rep ordering
• Quoting
• Invoicing
• Accounting sync
• ERP integrations

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PeasyOrders

One job: order capture

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QuickBooks Online

The same order, two ways

A regular account emails on Sunday night: "Usual wholesale order but double the sea-salt caramel corn, and add a case of the dark-chocolate clusters — need it Thursday," with their marked-up PDF order form attached.

Inside SparkLayer, that email can become a cart — if the account is set up in your storefront. The email is forwarded to that customer's unique SparkLayer address, the Intelligent Cart populates the products it finds, and the buyer or a rep logged in as them reviews and submits the cart in the store. The order then flows through your storefront and its accounting sync as an invoice.

Inside PeasyOrders, the same email becomes a draft in your review queue — no store, no account setup, no login. Because this account's shorthand has been confirmed on earlier orders, "the usual wholesale order" resolves to the right items; the doubled caramel corn and the chocolate clusters are matched against your QuickBooks items; that account'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 the order lands in QuickBooks Online as an Estimate.

Both paths read the email. What differs is the infrastructure each assumes: a storefront with authenticated customer accounts, or an inbox and QuickBooks Online.

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 login, no behavior change. 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.
• QuickBooks Online native. Reviewed orders export as Estimates by default; Google Sheets and CSV are also supported.
• Self-serve at a published price. Plans at $99, $199, and $349 per month by confirmed order volume, annual billing gets two months free, and every plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee.

A pragmatic conclusion

SparkLayer and PeasyOrders overlap on one real capability — reading emailed orders with AI — and diverge on everything around it. SparkLayer is a B2B storefront platform: it assumes a store, gives buyers and reps a place to log in, and lands orders in that store, with broader file-format coverage than PeasyOrders on the capture side. PeasyOrders is the focused capture layer for small and mid-sized QuickBooks Online wholesalers: emailed orders in, reviewed and priced Estimates out, no storefront anywhere in the loop. If you want the store, pick SparkLayer. If you just need the orders out of your inbox and into QuickBooks, that's PeasyOrders.

When to choose PeasyOrders

• You don't run an online store and don't want to build one — your orders arrive as free-form emails with PDF or spreadsheet attachments, and the problem is the retyping.
• You run on QuickBooks Online and want reviewed orders to land as Estimates with each customer's pricing already applied — the per-customer pricing QuickBooks Online's API doesn't expose to any integration.
• Your customers won't log into anything. PeasyOrders asks nothing of them — no account, no forwarding address to set up, no cart to submit.
• You want to pay for the capture step only, not a storefront platform around it.

When to choose SparkLayer

• You sell on Shopify, Wix, BigCommerce, or WooCommerce and want that store to become a real B2B storefront — self-service ordering, price lists, quoting, and invoicing in one place.
• Your buyers and reps will log in, and you want reps placing orders on customers' behalf inside the same platform.
• You want emailed orders to land directly as carts in your store, including formats PeasyOrders doesn't read, such as Word documents and images.
• Your operation syncs to an ERP like Cin7 Core, Brightpearl, or Unleashed, and orders should flow through the store into it.