App × Industry
Index AI for B2B & Wholesale.
Built for tiered pricing, account catalogues, and repeat orders.
Built for the AI-answer era — not just Google blue links. Tailored here to the structural reality of b2b — the one or two angles where Index AI earns its place in this vertical specifically.
The brief
Why B2B stores need this.
The structural realities of b2b that decide which apps and patterns earn their place — and where Index AI fits in that picture.
Tiered pricing + customer-specific catalogues
B2B pricing varies by account, by volume, by contract. Native Shopify variants alone can't handle this — needs admin-side bulk management plus storefront-side account-aware pricing.
Long sales cycles + repeat order velocity
First-order takes weeks; subsequent orders are weekly or monthly. Section design needs to support both the trust-research first-order and the fast repeat-order pattern.
PO + invoice workflows
Net-30 / Net-60 terms, PO numbers, multi-location shipping. Different checkout pattern from D2C.
Catalogue scale
B2B catalogues often run thousands of SKUs across hundreds of brand-account combinations. Bulk catalogue admin tools matter more here than in any D2C vertical.
Index AI for B2B
B2B procurement queries route through AI engines (yes, really)
B2B buyers — especially category managers and procurement teams — increasingly use AI engines for initial vendor shortlisting ("Best B2B suppliers for sustainable packaging in Europe?"). Index AI ships Schema.org Organization + Product fields plus llms.txt that flags your B2B onboarding pages and capability statements as canonical sources. For B2B specifically — where the first conversation often starts with a shortlist — being cited in AI answers is high-leverage.
The honest take
Where another app might fit better
For account-specific storefront-side pricing (different prices visible to different logged-in accounts), use Shopify B2B (native to Plus) or a dedicated B2B app. Product Variants handles admin-side bulk catalogue and tier-level pricing; the B2B app handles per-account visibility at checkout. The two compose cleanly.
Questions specific to B2B
What buyers actually ask.
Index AI for b2b stores.
The AI-search execution layer for Shopify: llms.txt + Schema + IndexNow + AI Readiness Score. Free to install. Build alongside your existing stack and try it on real catalogue.