osCommerce B2B Suite

The integration of the B2B Suite into osCommerce v2.3.1 is aimed at store owners that need their store to reflect different prices for different users or customers.  This is particularly useful for sites that need to retail & wholesale the same products, or for sites that have customers that get different pricing depending on their past volume of purchases or groups to which they belong.

We can integrate the osCommerce B2B Suite into existing and new stores.

Additional Features

1. Multiple Pricing Groups:  You can create groups such as Retail, Wholesale, Volume Purchase Agreement or whatever you like. Retail is required and is installed by default, but you can create as many groups as you desire with names of your choosing. After groups are created you can then specify pricing for existing or new products. Additionally, you can set group pricing for attributes (plus hide them for one or more groups).
2. Hide Products Completely:  You can hide a product or any number of products from any group or groups you select.  It may be that you have a product which you want to make available to Wholesalers only and not Retailers, or offer a particular product at a discounted price for a particular group.
3. Taxes on a Per Group Basis:  You can edit a customer group and either enable or disable tax for that group. In addition, you can can choose whether or not to display the price with tax included – something that’s useful for European stores where law requires displayed prices to include tax plus you can be specific which tax a customer group is exempt for. This is needed for example in Canada or when a tax (like VAT) is different for retail versus a company (say 20% for retail and 10% for a company). Then you can add both taxes to the product and edit the settings to make each group exempt for one of those taxes.
4. Define Specials for different groups:  This means you can have the same products on sale for different groups – with different prices as you see fit.
5. VAT Number field. When a customer creates an account on your site they have the option of including a VAT number. If they enter a VAT number then an email is sent to the site’s administrator letting him know that the account needs to be approved. Once the site admin actually verifies that the customer is legitimate he can then move the customer to whichever group the customer belongs in. The default for all accounts is Retail and customers will only be able to see retail pricing until they have been approved. In addition to the email, the Customers section of the osC admin will show a red light next to any accounts that need to be approved for a wholesale account.
6. Payment & Shipping Modules. Existing Payment & Shipping modules can be enabled or disabled on a customer group basis or on an individual customer level. This is a very powerful feature. Let’s assume you have a customer that buys a lot of products from you. They may require credit terms and refuse any other courier then UPS. If that’s the case then you can simply edit that particular customer and only show a payment option of credit terms and also only show a courier option of UPS – regardless of how many payment or shipping modules you have installed. It should be noted that this contribution does not contain any payment or shipping modules – this feature works with whatever modules you have installed or the pre-existing ones that are enabled in the stock osC release.
7. Cosmetic/Appearance Functions. In the osC Admin you can sort customers by any field such as company name, last name, first name, customer group etc. In addition, the Customers section will show how many clients you have and what groups they belong to. In the orders page the customer group will be shown (if you choose to add that to the page)
8. Send Newsletters or E-mail to certain Customer Groups only (optional install.)