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A CS Order Suite feature

Customer-Specific Pricing and Price Lists in Your B2B Online Store

Customer-specific pricing — contract pricing, in US distributor terms — means every business customer logs in and sees exactly the terms stored for them in the ERP. The CS Order Suite, the multi-tenant B2B e-commerce platform engineered in Deggendorf, Germany, pulls these prices and price lists directly from SAP Business One — no duplicate price maintenance in the store.

01The problem

Why is B2B pricing customer-specific — and where do standard e-commerce platforms fall short?

In B2B, one price rarely fits all: terms are negotiated and maintained in the ERP — customer by customer. Standard e-commerce platforms are built for consumer retail and typically know only a single list price. Anyone trying to reflect negotiated terms there ends up maintaining prices twice: in the ERP and in the store. That costs time, invites errors — and in the worst case, customers see one price in the store and a different one on their invoice.

Negotiated terms

Discounts per customer

Every business customer has their own terms, negotiated with your sales team — maintained in the ERP, not in the store.

Tiered pricing

Volume-based prices

Quantity-based price tiers are everyday practice in wholesale — a single list price simply cannot capture them.

Price lists

Lists per customer group

Dealers, contractors, repair shops, high-volume accounts: different customer groups work with different price lists from the ERP.

02How the CS Order Suite solves it

Prices come from the ERP — not from the store.

The CS Order Suite does not run its own pricing logic alongside the ERP. Through its adapter architecture — currently available for SAP Business One — products, inventory, customer-specific prices, and orders are synchronized between ERP and store. When a business customer signs in, they see exactly the terms your sales team has stored for them in the ERP: their price list, their discounts, their prices.

No approval, no prices

Customer-specific pricing only works if the store knows who is ordering. That is why price display in the CS Order Suite is tied to the approval workflow for new customers — a B2B staple: without login and account approval, the store shows no prices and accepts no orders. Your terms stay hidden from anonymous visitors.

1
Registration
The new customer registers in the store.
2
Review
You review the request and approve the customer.
3
Approval
Only then do prices become visible and ordering possible.
03Data source

Where do the prices in the store come from?

From the ERP. The CS Order Suite synchronizes customer-specific prices and price lists through its ERP adapter — ready for SAP Business One, other ERPs via project adapter. Your sales team keeps maintaining terms in one place only; the store picks them up automatically. For a detailed look at how products, inventory, prices, and orders are synchronized, see the ERP integration page; the SAP-specific setup is on B2B e-commerce for SAP Business One.

04Price display

Does every customer see different prices?

Yes — whenever their own terms are stored in the ERP. After login, the store shows each business customer the prices tied to their account: negotiated discounts, their price list, their terms. Without login and account approval, prices stay hidden. To see how your dealers and repair shops work with this day to day, visit the dealer portal page. The same contract prices apply when a larger account orders through a punchout catalog or EDI — the price comes from the ERP, not from the channel.

Customer-specific pricing is a feature of the CS Order Suite, the Laravel-based multi-tenant B2B e-commerce software for mid-sized manufacturers and wholesale distributors. See it in production in the Carsystem SÜD case study.

Want to see your terms live in the store?

In a live demo, we will show you how the CS Order Suite brings contract prices from SAP Business One into the store. Pricing is something we cover personally.

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Christian Stockerl
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Christian Stockerl
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CS Management & IT-Beratung GmbH
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