Are there any B2B solutions for Shopify without paying for Shopify Plus? Statements/pay on account?

Are there any B2B solutions for Shopify without paying for Shopify Plus? Statements/pay on account?

CAPLtd
Tourist
10 0 1

Hi all,

Another B2B thread... I recently created a Shopify site to our medium sized business online. It has a pretty large inventory (700 items/variants) and an existing customer base, and we just want to be able to sell online to capture that market.

 

We have around 10 existing B2B customers, and would like to take on more B2B customers in the future. These B2B customers have open accounts, so they can order items and pay their final statement at the end of the month. I'm aware that the only way to do this natively in Shopify is to pay for their Plus plan, however at this stage in our e-commerce journey we don't want to spend upwards of £2k a month.

 

I've installed the SparkLayer app, which allows us to take online orders from B2B customers and let them pay 'on account'. This will also allow us to create orders in person/over the phone by logging into SparkLayer as a sales agent and created orders on behalf of our customer.

 

However the issue I'm now faced with is how to take payments for these orders? Our customers don't want to have to pay 10+ invoices individually. They're used to just paying once via BACS (EFT) or card. Currently the business uses Xero (and will continue to use Xero going forward). I could potentially take manual offline payments via BACS and manually reconcile the invoices in Xero, and then also mark them as paid in Shopify, but this is adding more steps that their current solution. Also this can quickly become a headache having to reconcile every single order in Xero.

 

Has anybody come up with a good solution for this yet? Surely there must be tens of thousands of businesses using Shopify that need customers to pay on account, and make 1 payment for all outstanding invoices, without paying £2k a month?

 

I'd be grateful for any suggestions!!

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CAPLtd
Tourist
10 0 1

Has anybody got a solution to this?