The official B2B extension for Adobe Commerce: company accounts, shared catalogs, negotiable quotes, and requisition lists, built into the standard Magento checkout. Open Source editions cannot run it.
B2B Suite is the official B2B extension for Adobe Commerce, the paid edition of Magento. It turns a standard Magento storefront into one built for selling to other businesses: company accounts with multiple buyers, customer-specific catalogs and pricing, quote negotiation, and reordering from past purchases. Adobe ships it as a module you enable, not a third-party add-on, which matters more than it sounds.
Here is the part most pages bury. Native B2B is only available on Adobe Commerce. If you run Magento Open Source, this module is not an option, and you are looking at a third-party suite from Amasty or Webkul instead, which is a different decision with a different bill. So the first question is not “how do I install B2B Suite” but “am I on the edition that even has it.” We will tell you which side of that line your store is on before anything else.
The headline features are the ones that map to how businesses really buy. Company accounts let one customer record hold a whole organization: an admin, several buyers, and an approval chain so a junior buyer’s $40,000 order routes to a manager before it goes through. Shared catalogs show different products and prices to different companies, so your contract customer sees their negotiated rate and a walk-in does not. Negotiable quotes move the back-and-forth that used to live in email into the store, where the buyer requests a price, you counter, and the agreed quote converts straight to an order. Requisition lists let buyers reorder a saved set of items in one click, which is most of what repeat B2B buyers actually do.
There is more underneath: payment on account with credit limits, faster order entry by SKU, and B2B-aware tax and shipping. The point is that these are wired into the same Magento checkout and admin, not bolted on, so they behave consistently and survive upgrades.
The module itself does not have a separate price. It is included with Adobe Commerce. The cost is the Adobe Commerce license, which is quoted per business based on your gross merchandise value and typically starts in the low five figures a year. That is the honest answer the listicles dance around: you are not buying a $200 extension, you are on the enterprise edition or you are not. If that number does not fit, a third-party B2B suite on Magento Open Source is the cheaper route, and we build those too.
B2B Suite is powerful and it is not light. Enabling every feature on a store that only needs company accounts adds admin complexity your team has to learn. Shared catalogs in particular can get slow and confusing if you create dozens of them without a plan. And it assumes you have your pricing and company structure worked out before you switch it on. Turning it on first and figuring out the model later is how stores end up with a tangle of catalogs nobody understands.
We enable only the modules you need, model your companies and shared catalogs around how your sales actually work, and configure the approval and quote flows with your team rather than leaving them at defaults. If you are weighing Adobe Commerce for B2B in the first place, our Magento for B2B page covers the platform decision, and our Magento development service covers the build.
One customer record holds a whole organization: an admin, multiple buyers, and an approval chain so a large order routes to a manager before it is placed.
Show different products and prices to different companies, so a contract customer sees their negotiated rate while everyone else sees list price.
The price haggling that used to live in email moves into the store. The buyer requests, you counter, and the agreed quote converts straight to an order.
Buyers reorder a saved set of items in one click, which is most of what repeat B2B buyers actually do.
Credit limits and pay-on-account terms for trusted customers, instead of forcing a card at checkout.
Buyers who know their part numbers can build a cart by SKU and quantity without browsing the catalog.
We use this in real client projects — here's what we've learned.
The right tool if you are already on Adobe Commerce and sell to businesses. B2B Suite is the most complete native B2B feature set on any open commerce platform, and because it ships with the edition, the only real cost is the planning and configuration. The catch is the edition itself: on Magento Open Source this is off the table, and a third-party suite is the honest alternative. Decide the edition first, then turn on only the parts you need.
The B2B module itself has no separate price; it is included with Adobe Commerce. What you pay is the Adobe Commerce license, quoted per business on your gross merchandise value and usually starting in the low five figures a year. Magento Open Source is free but cannot run native B2B at all.
No. Native B2B is an Adobe Commerce feature only. On Open Source you would install a third-party B2B suite from a vendor like Amasty or Webkul, which is a different cost and a different set of trade-offs. We build both, so we can tell you which makes sense for your budget.
B2C is one shopper, one price, one checkout. B2B adds company accounts with multiple buyers and approvals, customer-specific catalogs and pricing, negotiable quotes, and reordering from saved lists. B2B Suite layers all of that onto the standard store so you can run both at once.
For anything past the basics, yes. Enabling the module is the easy part. Modeling your companies, shared catalogs, and approval flows so they match how you actually sell is where it pays off, and where it goes wrong if it is rushed.
If you are already on Adobe Commerce, there is nothing cheaper to buy; it is included, so use it. If you are on Open Source and weighing the jump to Adobe Commerce purely for B2B, a third-party suite is usually the better value unless you need the full company and quote workflow at scale.
It can if it is misused. A handful of well-planned shared catalogs is fine. Dozens of overlapping ones, created without a structure, are the most common cause of slow B2B Magento stores we are called in to fix.
We can install, configure, or customize it for you.
Don't want to install yourself? Our developer connects via FTP, installs, configures, tests with a real transaction. Usually takes one business day.
