Setting WholeSale & Retail Website on 1 platform

Product Development & Sourcing
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I am looking at starting a shopify website in the next couple of weeks, but want some clarification first.

We are a furniture company that does both wholesale and retail, and want to use the one platform back panel if possible, so we only have to enter all the product photos and details once, but we want to have a retail website on 1 domain showing all the retail prices, and then a wholesale/trade website showing all the same products, but only showing trade prices when the trade customer log into it. Ideally we would like to have the trade/wholesale website on a different domain with a different logo, but using just the 1 shopify back panel details where we input all the data, and where all the sales are recorded etc. Is this possible to do, or would we only be able to have the 1 website on the 1 domain?
The retail site would use the shopify payment option you offer, but the trade website would take payments, as these customers would get a 30day trade account.
Also, ideally, despite listing all the same products, we would like to use different images for the 1st image for both website, for example, the 1st product image on the trade site would be a product image with a white background, and the 1st image on the retail website would be a lifestyle image with the product set in the setting where it is used. Hope this makes sense.

If this is available, please can you send me the help/video info you have on this for me to look into further.

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Hi @DylanWright

To fulfill your requirement you have to create two Shopify store 1 for retail and second for wholesale.

Since stores are different you will able to customise the feature as requested separately.

Now about data and images if you are aware of bulk upload and Excel you can manage this by your own.

For this you have to create two different Excel having the same information except the image and description.

Or you can hire someone who can build a custom APP for you where you will upload images, product description, price etc.

And APP will sync retail data to retail Shopify store and wholesale data to wholesale store.

By this you add and update data at one location and data will be shared to both stores.

Hope this will help…

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Hey Dylan, did you figure this out? I’m looking to do exactly what you were asking about.

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we ended up going with an app that allows us to have a whole wholesale section … i am still in two minds though! whilst we have everything in one place and it’s super easy to manage stock etc. all our analytics are hard to separate and it would be interesting to have a comparison of wholesale versus retail sales.

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Hey There! Which app did you go with? I’m looking to do the same thing. Thank you!

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A few of our customers are using Syncerize in a similar fashion.

They setup a single source store and another store as a Wholesale store.

The setup the products and stock on source store, connect their wholesale store via Syncerize and import all the products from source store. update their pricing and make the wholesale store password protected only for their Wholesale customers.

Whenever an order is placed on wholesale store, it is automatically pushed to the source store and they fulfill it there and update the tracking information.