Shopify B2B Agency in Columbus, Ohio

Uncap, a Shopify Platinum Partner, builds Shopify B2B stores for distributors, wholesalers and manufacturers in Columbus, Ohio and across Central Ohio, and connects each store to the ERP that runs the business. For a Central Ohio project, Uncap's team, based at its Chicago headquarters, travels on site for kickoff and key milestones. Below you will find the region's warehouse-heavy economy in government numbers, what a B2B store has to get right when orders ship from a warehouse or a 3PL, and the published prices and timelines.

The Columbus metro has an outsized share of warehousing businesses. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), the Columbus, OH metropolitan area had 244 private warehousing and storage establishments in 2024, and the metro's share of warehousing and storage establishments was 2.15 times the national share. General warehousing and storage, a subset with 210 establishments, came in at 2.43 times.

BLS publishes employment detail for Franklin County, one county in the metro. Its QCEW data for 2025 counts 18,179 people working in private warehousing and storage in Franklin County, at 200 establishments, an employment concentration 1.88 times the national share. Transportation and warehousing as a whole employed 49,882 people in the county that year, more than the 36,725 who worked in manufacturing.

Wholesalers outnumber manufacturers by establishment count. The 2024 QCEW lists 3,460 private wholesale trade establishments in the metro, about twice the 1,791 manufacturing establishments. Manufacturing's employment location quotient was 0.84, so factory jobs make up a smaller share of private employment here than they do nationally.

The monthly BLS estimates tell a similar story. The Columbus, OH metro area had 1,201.3 thousand nonfarm jobs in August 2026, not seasonally adjusted, and 225.7 thousand of them, nearly one in five, were in trade, transportation and utilities. Manufacturing accounted for 77.4 thousand.

The Columbus Regional Airport Authority, which describes itself as "an independent government entity" established through the Ohio Revised Code, runs Rickenbacker International Airport (LCK). According to the authority, Rickenbacker is "a cargo-focused airport," and it is within a one-day truck drive of nearly half of the U.S. population and one-third of the Canadian population.

Rail sits next door. The authority says the airport is adjacent to the Norfolk Southern Rickenbacker Intermodal Terminal, which opened in 2008. It also reports more than 75 million square feet of warehouse and distribution space in the Rickenbacker area, and five air freight terminals on airport property.

For importers, the authority describes Foreign-Trade Zone 138 as a 25-county service area in Central Ohio where goods can legally be brought in without formal customs entry. Uncap's part in an importer's operation is the storefront and the data behind it.

When a distributor's inventory sits in its own building, in a 3PL warehouse or in several locations at once, the storefront has to show buyers what can actually ship. So inventory by location and clean ERP data belong near the top of any Columbus, Ohio build.

Uncap's work for these businesses is one of three jobs: moving a store to Shopify from another platform, launching a new storefront or B2B ordering portal, or bringing B2B and B2C onto one Shopify store. Uncap's Shopify development services handle each in one fixed-scope build, with timeline and budget agreed before the build starts. A senior team covers architecture, design, theme and app development, ERP and system integration, data migration with SEO redirects, and launch.

Shopify B2B is available on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans, so a distributor can sell to trade accounts without Shopify Plus. When choosing a plan, the limit to check is catalogs, which hold account pricing and product assortments. Below Plus, a store gets up to 3 active catalog assignments across active B2B markets. Plus has no such limit. A wholesaler with separate pricing for dealers, contractors and national accounts should map those groups to catalogs before choosing a plan.

Two checkout details apply to buyers who order on account. In Shopify's words, "Payment terms define how long a company has to pay for an order." Shop Pay does not work with B2B checkout, so the B2B payment options need a plan of their own.

Uncap's own products handle specific jobs on top of the platform. Uncap Portal gives trade accounts their own self-serve home on Shopify, with catalogs, pricing, reorders, invoices and users in one place. Uncap Quotes turns the catalog into account-specific quotes that buyers configure, price and check out themselves. The Shopify for distributors page and the Shopify B2B page go further into the setup.

When the ERP holds stock, prices and customer accounts, the store should read from it instead of keeping a second copy that drifts. Uncap's integration work covers ERP and back-office systems from 13 vendors: Acumatica, Cin7, Epicor, Fishbowl, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Odoo, Oracle, QuickBooks, Sage, SAP and Syspro. Each has its own page in the integrations library, down to versions such as Epicor Prophet 21, Infor SX.e and Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Depending on the system, the connection runs through Uncap Connect or a managed integration, and the Uncap team confirms fit for your ERP and version directly. Setup for Uncap Connect starts at $8,000 and is followed by a flat $390 per month.

For a business that ships from more than one building, settle these data flows before the build:

• Inventory by location: which warehouse or 3PL stock counts toward what a buyer can order.
• Account pricing: how ERP price levels map to Shopify catalogs on the plan you choose.
• Orders back to the ERP: how a web order reaches the ERP without anyone retyping it.
• Customer accounts: how companies, their locations and their payment terms carry over.

Uncap Blueprint includes an ERP integration roadmap, so these answers exist on paper before development starts.

A Columbus, Ohio business can work with an agency based in another city. Uncap works with businesses across the United States from its headquarters at 8770 West Bryn Mawr Ave, Suite 1300, in Chicago. Uncap's team, based at that Chicago headquarters, travels on site for kickoff and key milestones. Use the kickoff to show the team how an order moves today, from the buyer's first request to the pick in the warehouse.

The other choice is the kind of help. A freelance Shopify developer fits a contained job with a clear brief, such as a theme change or a single app. A B2B store tied to an ERP, with account pricing and years of order history to migrate, involves several systems at once and is closer to the scope of a team that owns the whole build.

When choosing an agency for that kind of project, these questions separate the options:

• Can they show B2B work with an ERP integration in production?
• Are scope, timeline and budget fixed before the build begins?
• How will your price levels fit Shopify catalogs on your plan?
• Who builds the redirect list so search traffic survives the move?
• Are their partner tier and review history public?

Uncap is a Shopify Platinum Partner, and its case studies and client reviews are published on its site.

A Central Ohio project follows a fixed order, so scope and budget are clear before work starts.

1. Scoping call. You describe the catalog, buyer groups, warehouses and ERP, plus the date you need to be live.
2. Uncap Blueprint, if you want the plan first. Uncap Blueprint is a $7,500 fixed-price engagement delivered in four weeks, covering architecture, integrations and total cost of ownership. The finished plan stays with you, and the fee is credited 1:1 toward implementation.
3. On-site kickoff. The team travels from Chicago to start the project with you.
4. Build or migration. New builds run about 12 weeks from discovery to launch. A move from another platform typically takes 10 to 16 weeks, with a median cutover of around 14 weeks, and the Shopify migrations page explains the cutover. If you already run a Shopify store, unifying B2B and B2C on it takes 4 to 8 weeks.
5. Milestone visits. The team comes back on site for the key milestones of the build.
6. Launch and hypercare. The fixed-scope build runs to completion and ends in a hypercare launch.
7. After launch. An ongoing monthly engagement works on conversion, order value, retention and operations, with plans from $2,500 a month.

Three Uncap case studies show the B2B work this page describes.

• Farmers Depot: a Canadian retailer of livestock farming supplies. Uncap built a Shopify Plus B2B storefront integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O, which stays the system of record for products, companies, pricing and inventory. The store serves 14,528 customers across 13,046 companies, each of whom logs in and sees their company's price, through about 10 company-specific pricing catalogs. Shopify Flow automation handles company onboarding, customer tagging, inventory policies and ERP sync monitoring.
• ULE Group: an electrical, power and lighting supply distributor that moved its catalog of over 250,000 SKUs onto a Shopify B2B storefront built by Uncap. An Epicor ERP integration syncs inventory and pricing, and B2B customers get account-based pricing.
• Sanitaire: a company that makes commercial cleaning equipment such as carpet extractors and backpack vacuums. Uncap moved it from its legacy platform to Shopify Plus, kept all of its customer information and data, and integrated the ERP system.

Uncap's review ratings are Clutch 5.0 from 77 reviews, Google 5.0 from 64, the Shopify Partner Directory 5.0 from 66 and Trustpilot 4.6 from 20. Client reviews are collected on the testimonials page.

A first call goes further with a few numbers in hand. Rough figures are fine:

• How many SKUs you sell and how many buyer groups get their own prices.
• How many warehouses or 3PLs ship your orders.
• Which ERP and version you run.
• The platform your store runs on today, if any, and when you need to be live.

Those answers decide the Shopify plan, the integration route and whether Uncap Blueprint is the right first step. If the scope is already clear, the build is fixed scope from the start. If you are still weighing a move from another platform, Blueprint lays out architecture, integrations and total cost of ownership in four weeks for $7,500, and the fee carries into the build if Uncap implements it.

For businesses anywhere in Columbus, Ohio and Central Ohio, the team travels from Chicago for kickoff and key milestones.

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