Shopify B2B Agency in Chicago

Uncap is a Shopify B2B and Shopify Plus agency in Chicago. Our office sits at 8770 West Bryn Mawr Ave, a few miles from O'Hare, and every manufacturer or distributor Uncap builds for anywhere in the country gets served by a team headquartered right here. Chicago isn't a market Uncap expanded into. It's the one Uncap has always worked from, which means the deepest bench, the most project history, and a customer base across Chicagoland spanning manufacturing, industrial distribution, and wholesale trade wider than almost anywhere else on Uncap's map. Uncap is a Shopify Platinum Partner built for manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers doing $2 million to $50 million in revenue, connecting Shopify to the ERP you already run instead of asking you to replace it.

Chicago's manufacturing and distribution base doesn't run on one dominant vertical. Industrial suppliers, electrical distributors, machinery dealers, general wholesalers, and manufacturers producing everything from components to finished goods all operate in the same metro, often within a few exits of each other on the same expressway. Customers across that mix order by account, expect net terms, and call a rep directly when a job needs material today, not after a website figures out who they are.

Buyers here are also further along than most cities Uncap works in. Searches for netsuite chicago carry real volume and real cost per click, meaning Chicago buyers already know ERP integration is a category, not a mystery someone has to explain first. It also means the bar for a credible Shopify B2B agency in Chicago is higher: buyers here can tell the difference between a generic Shopify build and one that actually understands account hierarchy and ERP sync.

Search web design company Chicago and the results are a deep, competitive field, dozens of agencies with real portfolios and strong reviews. Account-based B2B pricing, ERP-driven inventory, and the credit terms a manufacturer or distributor runs on sit outside the scope most of those shops are built for. A well-designed site that can't see your inventory or your customer-specific pricing isn't running your commerce. It's a brochure with a cart attached, and someone on your team ends up reconciling the difference by hand.

Everything starts with Uncap Commerce: launching on Shopify for the first time, moving off a legacy platform, or unifying a DTC channel and a B2B channel that operate separately today. This stage covers architecture, data migration, and ERP work, not merely the storefront's appearance.

The layer a Chicago manufacturer or distributor deals with daily is Uncap Connect, a native, embedded integration between Shopify and your back office that stays ERP-agnostic instead of assuming you're on NetSuite, including Epicor's Prophet 21 (P21), one of the systems common among Chicago's manufacturers and industrial distributors. Inventory, customer-specific pricing, and credit terms sync in real time, so a buyer never lands on a price your ERP hasn't already confirmed, and accounts requiring EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) for purchase orders and advance ship notices route through that same layer. Two products build on top of that foundation: Uncap Quotes handles the request-for-quote workflow that manufacturing and distribution never fully move past, and Uncap Portal gives repeat distributor and dealer accounts a private ordering door with order history, account-specific pricing, and quick reorder on the parts they buy constantly.

Nothing here is bolted onto a template. It's shaped around how a Chicago manufacturer or distributor actually sells: by account, by warehouse, and by relationship.

Uncap has held Shopify Platinum Partner status since 2013 and has now completed more than 380 B2B commerce projects, nearly all of it directed from this office. A build typically runs through three stages: architecture and data mapping, storefront and B2B account setup, then ERP sync and go-live, staged through a sandbox so cutover isn't the first real test of anything.

Manufacturers or distributors already running Prophet 21 rarely get stuck on the ERP itself. The real work sits in the account-specific pricing, the credit terms, and warehouse or production-level inventory a generic integration was never built to read, exactly the gap Uncap Connect closes.

Chicago's diversified base is exactly why Uncap doesn't lock into one industry here. Uncap's industry pages span Building and Construction, Electrical and Electronics, Industrial Machinery, Auto Parts and Aftermarket, Janitorial and Safety, Medical and Dental, and more, all resting on the same foundation: Shopify B2B infrastructure wired into whatever ERP the business already runs, Prophet 21, NetSuite, SAP, or something else entirely. Uncap's solutions for manufacturers reflect that same logic: production-to-order visibility, order routing, dealer and account tiers, and reorder points shaped around how manufacturing actually runs, not a B2C template wearing a wholesale label.

The actual barrier for most Chicago manufacturers and distributors isn't wanting a better system. It's not knowing what step one looks like without disrupting operations that never really slow down.

Uncap starts with discovery and data mapping, reviewing your ERP, pricing structure, account hierarchy, and SKU or BOM catalog to map exactly what moves to Shopify. Next comes the storefront and B2B account build, where company accounts, customer-specific price lists, and net terms get configured around your existing structure rather than a generic checkout. Third is ERP sync and testing, run inside a sandbox first so pricing, inventory, and order flow are verified against real data before anything touches a live order. Last is go-live with parallel support, your team working exactly as they do today while the online side comes up beside them, backed by a team based a few miles from your operation rather than on the other end of a video call.

None of it requires ripping out Prophet 21 or whatever your business already runs on. Uncap's guide to ecommerce for manufacturers goes deeper into what this looks like once a manufacturer moves online.

Chicago is Uncap's home turf, and the commerce approach reflects that: Shopify B2B infrastructure wired into the ERP you already run, not a template storefront that can't see how your accounts actually work. Talk to Uncap's experts about your Chicago business.