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Selling to businesses with WooCommerce
Guides and straight answers for stores whose customers are companies, from payment terms and purchase orders to team accounts, approvals and reordering.
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Guides
Selling B2B with WooCommerce: what you need and what you can skip
What WooCommerce already does for business customers, what needs a plugin (trade prices, terms, PO numbers, quotes, team accounts) and what to add first.
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Team accounts
How do I let several people from one company use the same WooCommerce account?
WooCommerce gives every customer one account. Here are the three ways stores handle a customer company with several buyers, and when each one makes sense.
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Payments
How to offer Net 30 payment terms in WooCommerce
Net 30 means paying within 30 days of the invoice. How to offer it with WooCommerce’s built-in payment methods, the gap to watch for, and when to add a plugin.
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Approvals
Manager approval for B2B orders in WooCommerce: how it works
WooCommerce has no approval step for customer orders. Here’s how to make bigger orders wait for the customer’s own manager, and when the card is charged.
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Guides
What is a purchase order number, and should your checkout ask for one?
What a purchase order (PO) number is, why business buyers need it on your invoice, and three ways to collect it at WooCommerce checkout.
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Spending limits
Monthly spending limits for B2B buyers in WooCommerce
A monthly spending allowance per buyer in WooCommerce, for B2B customers or staff ordering: how it works, how it differs from approvals and what to set.
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Payments
How do I send a payment link after approving a WooCommerce order?
Approve first, charge second. How to send a WooCommerce payment link by hand from WP Admin, the two things that catch people out, and how to automate it.
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Team accounts
Can a company see all the orders its employees placed in WooCommerce?
WooCommerce only shows customers their own orders. Here’s how a customer company’s manager can see every order their team placed, without seeing anyone else’s.
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Reordering
Quick reorder lists for B2B customers in WooCommerce
WooCommerce’s Order again button repeats one order. Business buyers want a list of everything their company buys. Here’s the difference and how to set it up.
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Approvals
Store-side vs customer-side order approval in WooCommerce
“Order approval” means two different things for WooCommerce stores: the difference, which one your customers are asking for, and how to tell plugins apart.