Wholesale and retail on one platform.
Plenty of product businesses end up juggling a trade portal, a shop till and a webstore that each hold their own version of the truth. Shopify is more than a shopping cart now: its B2B and point-of-sale products can carry the other two, and Cin7 Core can sit behind all of them as the one place stock actually lives.
Three products, one catalogue underneath.
The reason this is worth looking at is not any one feature. It is that your trade buyers, your shop floor and your online customers stop being three separate systems to reconcile.
A trade storefront that serves itself
Curated catalogues, customer-specific pricing, volume breaks, payment terms and a self-serve portal, so your trade buyers can place their own orders instead of emailing them to somebody who retypes them.
The counter, on the same catalogue
Shopify POS gives a bricks-and-mortar shop a till, hardware and customer records that share a product list with everything else you sell, rather than a separate system that needs reconciling each week.
Less to hold together
Combined with the Shopify store you probably already run, this should mean less tech debt, a faster launch, and a large app ecosystem to draw on, which includes a well-trodden Cin7 Core integration.
Wholesale that behaves like a proper storefront.
Most trade ordering we see is still email, a PDF price list and somebody keying orders in by hand at the other end. Every one of those steps is a place for a wrong price or a wrong quantity to enter the system, and it is your team that finds it later.
A B2B storefront moves that work to where it belongs. What it does not do on its own is decide your pricing structure, your credit terms or who is allowed to order on an account. That is the part we work through with you first, because it is the part that is painful to change afterwards.
- ✓ Unique pricing, products, volume breaks and payment terms per customer
- ✓ Purchasing permissions for companies with several buyers or locations
- ✓ Bulk ordering tools and a self-serve account portal
- ✓ Sales rep access to place orders and see account information
- ✓ Pre-built B2B themes, or your own build if the brand needs it
- ✓ Integrated hardware that takes payment as soon as checkout starts
- ✓ A home screen you can arrange around your own workflows
- ✓ Customer data captured at the till, not on a notepad
- ✓ The same products and stock as every other channel
A till that is not a separate business.
A shop running its own point-of-sale system is a second inventory to keep honest. The counter sells the last of something and the webstore carries on offering it, or a return goes back on a shelf nothing else can see.
Putting the till on the same platform removes that reconciliation entirely. Where it needs care is stock ownership: deciding which system is authoritative for what, and making sure the answer is the same on the shop floor as it is in the warehouse.
We scope it, connect it and make the numbers behave.
Our work is the operational half: what Cin7 Core owns, what Shopify owns, and how orders, stock and money move between them without anybody rekeying anything.
Decide who owns what
Which system holds the catalogue, where pricing is maintained, how trade and retail customers are told apart, and what happens to stock when three channels want the same unit.
Build the integration properly
Products, pricing, orders and fulfilments mapped between Shopify and Cin7 Core, then tested against the awkward cases: partial shipments, returns, bundles, and the customer who is on a special price.
Get the accounting right
Sales, fees and payouts landing in Xero or QuickBooks in a shape that reconciles. Where volume warrants it, A2X does that job, and we would normally set it up alongside rather than after.
What we are not.
We are not your Shopify theme agency. Storefront design, Liquid templating and brand work are somebody else’s trade, and we will happily work alongside whoever does yours rather than pretend otherwise.
We are not your accountant either. We will make sure the data arrives in the accounting system correctly and reconciles. How it is treated for tax is a conversation for the person who signs off your books.
Shopify sales, fees and payouts have to land in a ledger in a shape that reconciles, and at volume that is a job of its own rather than a setting. Xero, QuickBooks Online and A2X are the tools for it. How the ledger side works
Most of the stores we see sell somewhere else as well, and a second channel is a decision about stock rules and order routing rather than a second connector. The rest of the channel mix
What people ask before starting.
Do we need Cin7 Core if we are already on Shopify?
Not always. If you buy finished goods, hold them in one place and sell them through one channel, Shopify’s own inventory may be enough for a while.
It tends to stop being enough when manufacturing, multiple locations, purchase orders with lead times, or wholesale pricing enter the picture. That is the point where the spreadsheet propping it up starts to matter, and it is the honest test we would apply on a first call.
Can we run B2B and retail without replacing our existing store?
Usually yes. B2B and POS are additions to a Shopify store rather than separate platforms, so in most cases the storefront you have stays where it is.
Whether your current plan supports what you want is worth confirming early, because it can change the numbers. We would check that during scoping rather than after.
How long does the integration take?
It depends far more on your catalogue and pricing than on the connection itself. A clean product list with straightforward pricing is a short piece of work. A catalogue with variants, bundles, per-customer prices and several locations takes longer, and the time goes into deciding the rules rather than into the wiring.
We will give you a range at scoping, and we would rather set it wide than miss it.
Something is already connected and going wrong. Can you look at it?
Yes, that is a large part of what our support service does. Sync failures between Cin7 Core and Shopify are one of the three things people call us about most.
If the list of symptoms is long, a system audit is usually the cheaper start, because it finds the decision underneath the symptoms instead of treating them one at a time.
What we have written about Shopify and Cin7 Core.
Tell us how you sell today.
Wholesale, retail, online, or all three at once. Book a call and we will tell you what Shopify would carry, what Cin7 Core should own, and whether the two together are worth the change for a business your size.
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What to expect
- ✓ A straight conversation, no scripted sales pitch
- ✓ An honest view on whether you need this yet
- ✓ Estimates by phase before you commit to anything
- ✓ A clear split of our work and your storefront agency’s