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A CS Order Suite feature

Dealer portal software with a B2B customer approval workflow

A dealer portal is a manufacturer’s or distributor’s closed online ordering channel, where only verified business customers can see prices and place orders. The CS Order Suite, the multi-tenant B2B e-commerce platform engineered in Deggendorf, Germany, ships with the complete approval workflow – from registration through review to a login with each customer’s own contract prices as stored in your ERP.

01Closed access

Why is a B2B online store not an open web store?

In B2B, prices are negotiated. Negotiated terms have no place on the open web – visible neither to competitors nor to other customers. That is why account verification comes before ordering: only approved business customers get access.

This is exactly what the CS Order Suite is built for: an ordering portal for dealers, contractors, and repair shops, made for mid-sized manufacturers and wholesale distributors that want to serve their business customers online with full ERP integration – in North America and Europe.

Core principle
→No public prices – terms only appear after login
→Verified business customers only – you decide who is allowed to order
→Terms straight from the ERP – every customer sees their negotiated prices
02Approval workflow

How are new customers approved?

In the CS Order Suite, the path from prospect to ordering dealer runs through four clearly separated steps – classic B2B, without a single price becoming visible along the way:

  1. STEP 1

    Registration

    The prospect registers in the portal with their company details – without seeing any prices or being able to order.

  2. STEP 2

    Review by your team

    You review the registration: is this a genuine business customer, and on which terms should they be able to buy?

  3. STEP 3

    Approval

    Only once the account is approved do prices become visible and ordering possible. Rejected registrations stay locked out.

  4. STEP 4

    Login with individual terms

    After logging in, the dealer sees their negotiated prices and price lists from the ERP – and orders directly at their own terms.

03Inside the portal

What do approved dealers do in the portal?

01

Order at their own prices

Every business customer orders at the terms negotiated in your ERP. Learn more about customer-specific pricing.

02

One assortment per channel

Through the channel concept, each dealer sees exactly the storefront that matches their brand, country, or customer group – all from a single installation, maintained centrally. See multi-tenant e-commerce.

03

In sync with your ERP

Products, inventory, prices, and orders are synchronized via the ERP integration – built on an adapter architecture with a ready adapter for SAP Business One. Approved dealers reorder from the shelf with scan-to-reorder; larger accounts can connect through punchout catalogs or EDI; payments and sales tax run through your providers (see integrations). Storefront languages: English, German, Chinese.

The dealer portal is part of the CS Order Suite, the multi-tenant B2B e-commerce software built on Laravel. See how an automotive paint distributor runs it in the Carsystem SÜD case study, or read our guides. Explore the CS Order Suite →
04Contact

A dealer portal for your product range?

In a live demo, we walk you through the approval workflow and discuss how the CS Order Suite fits your ERP and your dealer network. Pricing is something we cover personally.

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Christian Stockerl
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Christian Stockerl
Managing Director
CS Management & IT-Beratung GmbH
Direct contact
Email
info@cs.gmbh
Address
CS Management & IT-Beratung GmbH
Ulrichsberger Str. 17 · 94469 Deggendorf · Germany