--- title: "Shopify B2B Agency in Omaha and Des Moines" url: https://www.uncap.com/shopify-agency/omaha-nebraska published: 2026-11-11 updated: 2026-11-11 summary: "In the Omaha, NE-IA and Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metros, Uncap, a Chicago-based Shopify Platinum Partner, designs and builds Shopify B2B ordering for manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers. According to BLS, the Omaha, NE-IA metro had 14,800 food manufacturing jobs in September 2026 (preliminary). According to BLS QCEW data for 2024, the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro had 19 farm machinery and equipment manufacturing establishments, an establishment location quotient of 4.98. Uncap's team, based at its Chicago headquarters, travels on site for kickoff and key milestones, and Uncap Blueprint, a fixed-price plan, costs $7,500 for four weeks." --- # Shopify B2B Agency in Omaha and Des Moines > In the Omaha, NE-IA and Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metros, Uncap, a Chicago-based Shopify Platinum Partner, designs and builds Shopify B2B ordering for manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers. According to BLS, the Omaha, NE-IA metro had 14,800 food manufacturing jobs in September 2026 (preliminary). According to BLS QCEW data for 2024, the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro had 19 farm machinery and equipment manufacturing establishments, an establishment location quotient of 4.98. Uncap's team, based at its Chicago headquarters, travels on site for kickoff and key milestones, and Uncap Blueprint, a fixed-price plan, costs $7,500 for four weeks. ## Two farm-economy metros, each with its own numbers This page covers two separate metro areas, and every figure on it belongs to one of them. The Census Bureau's July 2023 delineation names them "Omaha, NE-IA" and "Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA." - Omaha, NE-IA crosses the state line. Its central counties are Douglas and Sarpy in Nebraska and Pottawattamie County, Iowa, with Cass, Saunders and Washington counties in Nebraska and Harrison and Mills counties in Iowa as outlying counties. - Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA is centered on Polk and Dallas counties, with Guthrie, Jasper, Madison and Warren counties as outlying counties. What links them on this page is agriculture's B2B supply chain: the businesses that process food, wholesale grain and farm inputs, and build and sell farm machinery. Neither metro leans on manufacturing overall, and the data says so. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), the Omaha, NE-IA metro had 734 private manufacturing establishments employing 35,969 people in 2024, with an employment location quotient of 0.89, below the national share. In the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro, QCEW counted 682 manufacturing establishments employing 24,022 people that year, an employment location quotient of 0.72, also below the national share. The concentrations sit in narrower industries, covered metro by metro below. Uncap's page on [agriculture and farming](/industry/agriculture-farming) covers the sector as a whole. ## Omaha, NE-IA: meat processing, grain wholesalers and trucking Food stands out in the Omaha metro's manufacturing. BLS counted 35,000 manufacturing jobs in the Omaha, NE-IA metro in September 2026, and 14,800 of them were in food manufacturing (both preliminary, not seasonally adjusted). In September 2016, the metro's food manufacturing jobs numbered 12,200. QCEW data for 2024 shows where the food work is concentrated. The Omaha, NE-IA metro had 38 private animal slaughtering and processing establishments, an establishment location quotient of 3.36, meaning their share of local establishments was 3.36 times the national share. That includes 21 establishments that process meat from carcasses, at 4.42. BLS does not publish employment for these groups in the metro, so these are counts of businesses. Grain and farm inputs move through the same metro. In 2024 QCEW counted 44 grain and field bean merchant wholesalers in the Omaha, NE-IA metro (establishment location quotient 4.64) and 92 farm supplies merchant wholesalers (2.92). Wholesale trade as a whole accounted for 16,500 jobs in September 2026, a preliminary BLS figure. Trucking is concentrated too. The Omaha, NE-IA metro averaged 580 private truck transportation establishments employing 9,796 people in 2024, and truck transportation's share of local jobs was 2.05 times its national share. ## Ordering by the case and on account for Omaha food and farm-input sellers A meat processor or a farm supplies wholesaler sells to other businesses that reorder the same items on a schedule. Shopify B2B handles the account side of that. Each buyer is set up as a company, and a buyer with several sites becomes one company with several company locations, each with its own shipping and billing address. - Case and pallet quantities: quantity rules set a minimum, a maximum and an increment for each item. Shopify lists them on all four plans that carry B2B, so a 12-count case can only be ordered in twelves. - Prices by account: B2B catalogs decide which products and prices each buyer sees, with fixed prices, percentage adjustments and volume pricing for price breaks. - Terms: "Payment terms define how long a company has to pay for an order." Options run from net 7 to net 90, due on fulfillment, or a fixed date, set per company location. Repeat ordering is where [Uncap Portal](/products/portal) fits. Trade accounts get a self-serve area of the Shopify store with their catalogs, pricing, reorders, invoices and users, so a buyer can repeat last week's order or download an invoice without calling the sales desk. If inventory and pricing change often, the store should read them from the ERP rather than a spreadsheet. The ERP section below covers how Uncap connects the two. Uncap's guide to [feed and nutrition](/industry/feed-nutrition) sellers goes into the farm-input side. ## Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA: farm machinery makers and equipment wholesalers Farm equipment is the B2B niche this page looks at in Des Moines. In 2024, according to BLS QCEW data, the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro had 19 private farm machinery and equipment manufacturing establishments, an establishment location quotient of 4.98. Their share of local establishments was nearly five times the national share. The wholesale side is there too. QCEW counted 45 farm and garden machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro in 2024 (establishment location quotient 2.08). It also had 110 farm supplies merchant wholesalers (3.68) and 41 grain and field bean merchant wholesalers (4.57). Employment for all four groups is withheld, so these figures count establishments only. Wholesale overall runs above the national share in the metro. QCEW counted 2,123 private wholesale trade establishments in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro in 2024, 1.46 times the national share of establishments, and BLS put wholesale trade employment at 18,500 in September 2026 (preliminary). Manufacturing accounted for 21,500 jobs that month, also a preliminary figure. For an equipment maker, the online catalog is often mostly parts: wear parts, service kits and replacements for machines already in the field, sold to dealers who resell them or to farm operations ordering direct. Uncap's page on [tractor and implement parts](/industry/tractor-implement-parts) covers that catalog in detail. ## Dealer catalogs, parts diagrams and a dealer portal If you sell through dealers, each dealer relationship can carry its own pricing. Shopify B2B handles this with catalogs. A catalog decides which products and prices a buyer sees, and catalogs are assigned through B2B markets or, on Shopify Plus, directly to company locations. The plan matters here. Basic, Grow and Advanced stores are capped at up to 3 active catalog assignments across active B2B markets. That works for a maker with a few dealer tiers. A maker with dozens of dealers on individually negotiated price lists will want to look at Shopify Plus, where the 3-assignment limit doesn't apply. Two Uncap products sit on top of the catalog: - Uncap Diagrams adds interactive exploded diagrams to the store. A dealer or a farm buyer finds the part on the schematic and puts it in the cart, even without a part number. - Uncap Portal lets each dealer account sign in to manage its own catalog, pricing, reorders, invoices and users, so the dealer's parts counter can order without phoning the factory. Shopify's own pieces still apply: payment terms per company location, quantity rules for kits and packs, and one company record per dealer group. Deposits are different. Shopify makes deposit requirements available only on the Shopify Plus plan, which matters if whole-goods orders take money up front. ## Plan, checkout and ERP details for both metros The same platform rules apply in the Omaha and Des Moines metros. Shopify B2B is offered on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Shopify Plus plans and is not part of Starter or Retail. At checkout, Shop Pay, Shop Cash and Shop Pay Installments are on Shopify's list of methods that are incompatible with B2B, so business buyers pay by another method or on terms. The ERP connection needs its own plan. Uncap's list of supported ERP and back-office vendors runs to 13 names, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Epicor, Infor, Sage, SAP, Acumatica and Syspro among them. Some run through [Uncap Connect](/products/connect) and some through a managed integration; the Uncap team checks which fits your system and version first. Connect has a published price: $8,000 to set up, then a flat $390 a month. For a food processor, the fields to get right are usually items and pack sizes, account pricing, stock and order status. For an equipment maker, add part numbers, superseded parts and dealer price levels. Those get mapped during planning, before any build money is spent. Uncap's [Shopify build work](/commerce) then sets up companies, catalogs and terms to match the map. ## How a project runs for Omaha and Des Moines companies Uncap is headquartered in Chicago and has no office in either metro. Uncap's team, based at its Chicago headquarters, travels on site for kickoff and key milestones, whether the business is in Douglas County, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, or Polk County. - Blueprint. A project can start with Uncap Blueprint: four weeks, a fixed $7,500, and a plan that sets out the architecture, the integrations and the total cost of ownership. You keep the plan, and the fee is credited toward implementation if Uncap builds. - Fixed scope. The budget and the timeline are agreed before building begins. - Build and migrate. A single senior team owns the work, from architecture and design through the theme and apps, the ERP and system connections, and the data migration with its SEO redirects, up to launch. - Hypercare. The project is carried to completion, with hypercare at launch. How long it takes depends on where you start. Moving off another platform takes 10 to 16 weeks in most cases; the median Uncap cutover lands around 14 weeks. The [migrations page](/migrations) walks through that path. A brand-new store is roughly 12 weeks from first discovery session to launch. Adding wholesale to a consumer Shopify store that is already live is the shortest path, at 4 to 8 weeks. Once the store is live, Uncap's [ongoing monthly engagement](/growth) takes on the work of improving conversion, order value, retention and operations. Its plans begin at $2,500 a month. ## Case studies from parts and equipment clients Uncap has no verified client in the Omaha, NE-IA or Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro. The two case studies below are not tied to either metro. They are Uncap clients whose problems match an equipment maker's. **Scooterworks.** Scooterworks sells to two audiences, retail customers and authorized dealers, across scooters, parts and accessories. On its old platform, part searches were inefficient and inventory and price changes were made by hand. The Shopify rebuild added Year-Make-Model search, shoppable parts diagrams, catalogs and dealer resources through Shopify's B2B features, and an ERP integration that keeps stock, prices and product data current. [Read how Uncap rebuilt Scooterworks](/work/scooterworks). **Sanitaire.** Sanitaire, a commercial cleaning equipment maker with nearly 50 years behind it, makes products like carpet extractors and backpack vacuums. Uncap moved it off a slow legacy platform onto Shopify Plus with its customer data intact and its ERP connected. [See the Sanitaire project](/work/sanitaire). Uncap is a Shopify Platinum Partner with a 5.0 rating on Clutch from 77 reviews and 5.0 on Google from 64 reviews. Full client reviews are on the [testimonials page](/testimonials). If you process food, wholesale grain or farm inputs, or build farm equipment in either metro, [Talk to Our Experts](/quote) about your dealers, your accounts and your ERP. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is Uncap based in Omaha or Des Moines? Neither. Uncap is headquartered at 8770 West Bryn Mawr Ave, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60631, with no office in Omaha or Des Moines. For projects in either metro, Uncap's team, based at its Chicago headquarters, travels on site for kickoff and key milestones. ### Do you work with companies on the Iowa side of the Omaha metro and around Des Moines? Yes. The Omaha, NE-IA metro includes Pottawattamie County, Iowa, alongside Douglas and Sarpy counties in Nebraska. The Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro is centered on Polk and Dallas counties. Uncap works with manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers across both metros, with on-site visits from Chicago for kickoff and key milestones. ### Do we need Shopify Plus or a Shopify Plus agency to sell B2B? Not necessarily. Shopify Plus is one of four plans with Shopify B2B, alongside Basic, Grow and Advanced. The difference shows up in the details: below Plus, a store has up to 3 active catalog assignments across active B2B markets, and deposit requirements are Plus-only. An equipment maker with many dealer price lists will likely need Plus; a wholesaler with a few price tiers may not. ### Can each farm equipment dealer see its own pricing? Each dealer can. Shopify B2B catalogs control which products and prices each dealer or distributor sees, using fixed prices, percentage adjustments or volume pricing. Each dealer is a company, and each of its stores can be a company location with its own payment terms. Below Shopify Plus, the store is limited to 3 active catalog assignments across active B2B markets. ### Can buyers order by the case or the pallet? That is what quantity rules are for. Shopify B2B quantity rules set a minimum, a maximum and an increment for each product, and Shopify lists them on Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus. A food processor can sell a product only in full cases, and a farm supplies wholesaler can require a pallet minimum. Volume pricing can then lower the price at higher quantities. ### What does a Shopify B2B project with Uncap cost in Omaha or Des Moines? Pricing is the same in both metros. Builds are fixed scope and quoted once the catalog, integrations and timeline are clear. Uncap Blueprint is $7,500 for four weeks and is credited toward implementation. For Uncap Connect, the published price is $8,000 up front and $390 monthly. Monthly improvement work after launch, through Uncap's ongoing engagement, has plans from $2,500 a month. ### How long does a Shopify migration take? Expect 10 to 16 weeks when the store is coming from another platform, and about 14 weeks at Uncap's median. Starting fresh takes roughly 12 weeks end to end, while bringing B2B into a live consumer Shopify store takes 4 to 8 weeks. Uncap Blueprint adds four weeks of planning before any of these. ### Can you connect Shopify to the ERP we run? Uncap integrates Shopify with ERP systems from 13 vendors, including Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Epicor, Infor, Sage, SAP and Acumatica. The link is built with Uncap Connect or as a managed integration, and fit for your exact system and version is checked before any build starts. Connect is $8,000 to set up plus $390 a month.