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“Buyers want our ISO certificates before a price.”
Certificates sit next to each product as dated downloads. Each has an owner and a renewal date, so an expired one is replaced in one place.
Buyers check your specs before they call.
Let the catalog answer, then take the quote. Your products online with specifications, certificates and a quote request for each exact product, in your buyers' languages. Enquiries arrive with what your sales team needs.
Standard products at fixed prices? A normal store with a cart is the better tool.
Honest before clever
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Booking & Reservations
Appointments, tables and tickets booked without the back-and-forth.
What it is
A catalogue your buyers can check before they ever call
A B2B catalog and quoting system puts a manufacturer's or distributor's products online. Each product has its specifications, certificates and a quote request tied to that exact product, brand or service.
You get a catalog your team can add to, in your buyers' languages. Enquiries arrive with what your sales team needs to give a price. A dealer portal comes later, if it pays. Our public work includes Limex Electric's list of 100 brands, with a quote form on every brand page.
B2B Catalogs & Quoting covers products, specifications and the path from enquiry to quote to order. A company site with a contact form is Corporate & Multilingual Websites. A bigger system with many user roles, claims, projects or approvals is Custom Platforms & Portals. Several independent sellers is a Marketplace. Sending enquiries into your CRM or ERP by fixed rules belongs to Process Automation & Integrations.
Catalog site or portal? Most manufacturers first need a fast catalog in several languages with good quote forms. WordPress does that for a fraction of what a portal costs. A portal pays off only when repeat customers reorder often and your ERP can supply clean price lists.
Where this usually starts
Buyers check before they call. The catalog has to answer
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“Every enquiry just says: please send prices.”
A quote form for each product or service asks for what that product needs. Each enquiry is saved with a status and the person handling it.
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“Our catalog is a PDF from three years ago.”
Specs move into one product database with matching tables in every language, so buyers can search and compare.
What we already know
The details that decide whether it holds up
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Plan for it"Price" in B2B is rarely one number
It depends on the customer's price group, quantity discounts, pack sizes, minimum order, currency and delivery terms (Incoterms). So we set up price lists per customer group before we design any screen.
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A quote has to freeze its price
If list prices or exchange rates change, the order still uses the quoted price until the quote expires. It also remembers which quote it came from.
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Certificates expire
An ISO certificate that expired last year but can still be downloaded from the product page does more harm than no certificate.
Who it is for
For technical products buyers compare before they ask for a price
A good fit
- Buyers compare specifications, standards and sizes before asking for a price.
- You sell abroad and need the catalog in two or more languages, kept in sync.
- Repeat customers or dealers need their own prices or reorder path behind a login.
Not a fit yet
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Standard Products at Fixed Prices
Sold to anyone? A normal store with a cart is the better tool; see WordPress & WooCommerce.
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Prices That Move Every Day
If every quote is worked out by hand, put the catalog and a good quote request form online. Keep pricing in your ERP or spreadsheet.
How a catalog gets built
Plan the product range first, then build the pages
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Step 01
Read the Range and the Sales Process
What buyers compare, the documents they ask for and how your sales team prices today.
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Plan Products and Enquiries
We agree categories, product details, documents and quote-form fields before design.
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Build the Catalog in Every Language
Page templates first, then products typed in or imported into one shared database.
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Launch, Then the Portal if Earned
Once enquiries come in, we check whether you have enough repeat customers for a login with their own prices.
In production
Catalogs and quote forms we have put live
FAQ
Questions buyers of a B2B catalog ask first
Products with matching spec tables, the certificates buyers check, a quote form tied to each product or brand, and every language your buyers read. Prices can stay off the public site.
For each product or service, ask for what you need to give a price, and add the product reference automatically. One general form only gets "please send prices".
Yes. With the cart switched off, WooCommerce gives you products and spec tables your team can add to, as on Bioden Gübre. Different prices per customer and quote approval are where a custom build begins.
It is a fixed-price Build, agreed before any code. The price depends on the number of products, languages and documents. A dealer portal with price lists taken from your ERP is quoted separately. Current prices are on our pricing page.
