PrestaShop B2B & Wholesale Readiness Audit

Is your PrestaShop store actually ready to sell B2B?

Selling to businesses is not the same as selling to consumers, and most PrestaShop stores are quietly missing the pieces that B2B buyers expect. This €590 audit assesses your store against real wholesale and trade requirements — customer groups, tiered and wholesale pricing, net-payment terms, quote requests, restricted catalogues and EU VAT handling — and hands you a practical, prioritised roadmap to close the gaps. It is the diagnosis and plan a merchant needs before committing budget to a B2B build or a stack of modules.

Who it's for

For merchants moving into wholesale/B2B, those running mixed B2C+B2B who keep hitting limitations, and anyone whose trade customers are asking for net terms, account pricing or a quote process the store cannot yet deliver. It also suits agencies wanting an expert PrestaShop second opinion before scoping a wholesale build. We assess B2B readiness on PrestaShop 1.6, 1.7, 8 and 9, including multistore and multi-currency setups, on any theme.

How the assessment is actually done

We walk the real wholesale account journey the way a trade buyer would, and check each stage against what PrestaShop can actually deliver natively, with modules, or only with custom work. The path is: register as a business (company fields, VAT number capture) → account approval (manual vetting, assignment to a customer group) → see trade pricing (group price lists, ex-VAT display, quantity breaks) → build an order (minimums, fast reorder, restricted catalogue visibility) → request a quote or order on terms (quote workflow, net-30/60, purchase order, credit limit) → checkout with correct tax (intra-EU reverse charge, VAT validation, tax-by-group). Every gap found is scored by business impact (does it block trade orders or merely inconvenience them) and effort (configuration vs module vs custom build), so the roadmap is ordered by what unlocks revenue fastest.

Example findings — the decisions they enable

Typical readiness gaps on a PrestaShop store read like: prices shown inclusive of VAT to logged-in trade customers who expect ex-VAT (fix: tax display per customer group); no VAT-number field at registration and no intra-EU reverse-charge handling, so EU B2B orders are taxed incorrectly; a single “customer” group with no wholesale tier, forcing manual discount codes; no quote-request path for buyers who will not check out at list price; no minimum-order rule, so trade orders arrive below your handling threshold; and a fully open catalogue when contract pricing should be login-gated. Each finding states the gap, who it blocks, and the closing route — configuration, one of our open-code B2B modules, or custom work — with the honest trade-off.

What we DON'T do — and the waste it prevents

We do not tell you that you need a special “B2B theme” — usually you do not, because B2B is data, pricing and workflow, not a skin, and chasing a theme rebuild is wasted spend. We do not over-engineer: where a customer group plus a price rule solves it, we will not scope a custom module. And we do not assume you need the full enterprise B2B stack when a couple of targeted modules close the real gaps. The point is to get you selling B2B on the minimum sound footing, not to sell you the maximum.

Scope boundaries — and what's NOT included

This is the assessment and roadmap, not the implementation. If you want the groups, pricing, terms, VAT handling and account flows actually built, that routes into Custom Module Development (or configuration of our existing B2B tooling), scoped honestly and separately. We do not run a consumer conversion review here — if you also sell B2C, pair this with a B2C audit. The full checklist, the readiness scoring model and a sample gap matrix live in the tabs below.

Why us

We build and maintain the open-code B2B modules thousands of PrestaShop merchants rely on — trade accounts, deferred payment terms, EU VAT validation — and we run a store ourselves, so the roadmap is practical and vendor-honest, not a sales pitch. We know exactly which B2B requirements PrestaShop 1.7/8/9 handles natively, which need a module, and which genuinely need custom work. See all Expert Services.