Field Notes
Insights, guides, and trends from the team building commerce on Shopify, for operators in wholesale, distribution, and manufacturing.
Automotive7 Shopify Apps Every Automotive Store Needs (2026)
Seven Shopify apps automotive sellers actually need: fitment, shipping, mobile app, support, reviews, email and SMS, and paid membership, what each solves.
ERP APIs Explained: What Each ERP Actually Exposes to an Ecommerce Integration
What P21, SX.e, Kinetic, SyteLine, M3, D365 F&O, Business Central, SAP Business One and Sage 100 actually expose to an ecommerce integration, and their limits.
What Is an Epicor BAQ, and Why Your Storefront's Inventory Number Depends on One
An Epicor BAQ defines custom queries in Kinetic. On a storefront integration, the BAQ decides your available-to-sell number, and whether you oversell.
SyteLine, CloudSuite Industrial, SX.e, CloudSuite Distribution: Infor's ERP Names Explained
SyteLine is CloudSuite Industrial and SX.e is CloudSuite Distribution. Infor's ERP names explained, how to tell which one you run, and why deployment matters.
Matrix Pricing, Contract Pricing and Special Price Agreements: How ERPs Decide What a B2B Buyer Pays
Contract pricing, matrix pricing and special price agreements explained, how P21, SX.e, D365, SAP B1 and Sage 100 resolve them, and why storefronts should ask.
Available to Promise vs on Hand: Why B2B Storefronts Oversell
On hand is a count; available to promise is a commitment. Why B2B storefronts oversell when they sync the wrong number, and how ATP and CTP fix it.
What It Costs to Move a 1M SKU Catalog Onto Shopify
What it costs to move a 1M SKU catalog onto Shopify: the five drivers that set the price, the physics of the load, and how to turn estimates into a quote.
Selling Medical Supplies Online When Every Buyer Has a Contract Price
How medical supply distributors sell online when every account holds a contract price: price-file parity, formulary catalogs, and day-one eligibility.
Quoting on Building Products When Every Job Is a Different Price
Why every building products job prices differently, and how quote-to-order works online: takeoff lists in, versioned quotes out, orders on account terms.
The Best ERPs for Shopify Plus B2B: NetSuite, SAP, Epicor, Infor Visual, and Acumatica Compared
NetSuite, SAP, Epicor, Infor Visual, and Acumatica for Shopify Plus B2B: where each fits, what the integration involves, and two documented live builds.
Why Your B2B Migration Takes Nine Months, and How to Make It Five
B2B migrations take nine months when five would do. The five schedule-killers, the parallel-track plan, and what legitimately extends the timeline.
Why Is Our Inventory Sync Failing? the Eight Ways Shopify and Your ERP Drift Apart
Eight reasons Shopify and ERP inventory drift apart: sync lag math, two writers, ATP semantics, unit-of-measure errors, dropped events, and the missing audit.
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