Shopify B2B Agency in Louisville, Kentucky

Federal counts show Louisville builds finished household appliances and motor vehicles. In the Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns, the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro had 5 household appliance manufacturing establishments, 3 of them with 1,000 or more employees, and 3 motor vehicle manufacturing establishments. The same release counts 46 transportation equipment manufacturing establishments and 34 motor vehicle parts manufacturing establishments in the metro.

BLS publishes jobs two ways. Its Current Employment Statistics survey counted 81,100 manufacturing jobs in the metro in September 2026, 18,900 of them in transportation equipment manufacturing (both preliminary, not seasonally adjusted). Durable goods accounted for 54,400 of the manufacturing jobs that month.

The county view comes from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. In 2024, Jefferson County's 70 private transportation equipment manufacturing establishments employed 15,916 people, and that industry's share of county employment was 2.89 times its national share. The QCEW does not disclose metro employment for household appliance or motor vehicle manufacturing, which is why this page gives establishment counts for those plants and no job totals.

The Census Bureau's metro covers 12 counties: eight in Kentucky, with Jefferson among them, and four in Indiana.

For a maker of finished products, B2B ordering covers more than the product itself. Dealers restock and service shops order replacement parts. Some buyers also need a price worked out before they commit. Three Uncap Products map to that work, and each runs on top of Shopify.

• Service and replacement parts. Uncap Diagrams puts interactive exploded diagrams on your storefront. Buyers click the part they need straight off the schematic and add it to the cart, with no part number required, and the pins convert into a bill of materials (BOM) so the whole selection checks out as one order.
• Dealer and trade accounts. Uncap Portal is a self-serve home on Shopify for trade accounts, holding their catalogs, pricing, reorders, invoices and users. Multi-user accounts with roles and permissions keep larger buyers organized, and last month's order is one click from being this month's.
• Configured or negotiated orders. Uncap Quotes keeps the configure-price-quote (CPQ) process inside the Shopify admin you already use. Your catalog becomes account-specific quotes, revisions and approvals stay in one place, and an approved quote becomes a Shopify order in one click.

Uncap's machinery and equipment page walks through the parts-from-the-machine approach for equipment catalogs. An appliance or vehicle line with a long tail of service parts raises the same questions.

Shopify's B2B features come with the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans, so opening trade accounts does not by itself require Plus. Dealers are set up as companies in the Shopify admin, and B2B catalogs set the products and prices each dealer is offered.

The plan starts to matter with catalog volume. Basic, Grow and Advanced allow up to 3 active catalog assignments across active B2B markets, and assigning the same active catalog to 2 active B2B markets counts as 2 assignments. Plus removes that limit and can assign catalogs directly to company locations, which matters for a dealer group with several stores that buy on different terms.

Payment terms define how long a company has to pay for an order. Net and due-on-fulfillment terms can be set for each company location, while fixed-date terms apply to individual draft orders. If dealers pay a deposit on large orders, plan for Shopify Plus, since deposit requirements are a Plus-only feature. Shop Pay, Shop Cash and Shop Pay Installments are incompatible with Shopify B2B, so dealer checkout runs on other payment methods.

Uncap's Shopify B2B page covers the setup in more depth, including how accounts, catalogs and terms fit together on one store.

Distribution runs alongside the plants. In 2023, the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns counted 1,375 wholesale trade establishments in the metro, with 28,902 employees. Manufacturing had 1,222 establishments and 86,832 employees in the same count.

Durable-goods merchant wholesalers accounted for 910 of those wholesale establishments. Among them were 261 machinery, equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers and 114 motor vehicle and parts merchant wholesalers. In the monthly BLS survey, wholesale trade employed 32,000 people in the metro in September 2026 (preliminary, not seasonally adjusted).

A distributor that carries a maker's parts line serves the same dealers and service shops, one step further down the chain. Uncap sets those accounts up in Shopify B2B with their own catalogs and payment terms, and Uncap Diagrams, Uncap Portal and Uncap Quotes run on a distributor's Shopify store as well as on a maker's. If you sell the same part to a plant maintenance team and to a dealer, separate B2B catalogs let each see its own price, within the plan limits above.

Four of the metro's 12 counties are in Indiana: Clark, Floyd, Harrison and Washington, per the Census Bureau's 2023 delineation. Jeffersonville is in Clark County.

Clark County's QCEW figures for 2024 show where its private employment concentrates. Manufacturing's share of local employment was 1.48 times the national share, across 179 establishments and 7,205 jobs. Durable-goods merchant wholesalers were 1.50 times the national share, with 142 establishments and 1,950 jobs, and truck transportation was 3.20 times, with 86 establishments and 1,845 jobs.

In Jeffersonville, the River Ridge Development Authority manages River Ridge Commerce Center, a 6,000-acre business and office park established in 1998. The authority reports that River Ridge surpassed 20 million square feet of developed building space in 2025 and that onsite employment totaled more than 12,675 in 2024.

A company in Jeffersonville or elsewhere in Clark or Floyd County works with Uncap the same way a Louisville company does, including on-site visits for kickoff and key milestones.

Uncap connects Shopify to ERP and back-office systems from 13 vendors, including Epicor, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, Sage, SAP, Acumatica and Syspro, and publishes a page for each on its integrations hub. No ERP is assumed: the team confirms fit for your system and version before the build.

If your ERP holds the part numbers, dealer prices and on-hand counts, the store should read them from there rather than keep a second copy that drifts. You can do that two ways. One is Uncap Connect, which starts at $8,000 to set up and then a flat $390 per month. The other is a managed integration, scoped to your systems.

Scooterworks, an Uncap client that sells scooters, parts and accessories to retail customers and authorized dealers, is an example. On its old platform, inventory and pricing updates were manual. Its Shopify build integrates the company's ERP so inventory, pricing and product information stay up to date, alongside a custom Year-Make-Model search and shoppable parts diagrams.

Most engagements start with Uncap Blueprint. The steps after it depend on whether you are building new, migrating, or adding dealers to a store you already run.

1. Kickoff on site. Uncap's people come to you from Chicago for kickoff, then again at key milestones.
2. Four-week plan. Uncap Blueprint is a fixed-price $7,500 plan covering architecture, the ERP integration roadmap and a replatforming risk assessment, delivered in four weeks. Its fee is credited 1:1 toward implementation. Blueprint is aimed at operators doing $5M+ in revenue.
3. Fixed-scope build. With Shopify development services, the timeline and budget are fixed before building begins. A new store runs about 12 weeks from discovery to launch.
4. Migration, if you already sell online. Uncap's Shopify migrations carry products, customers, B2B pricing and SEO over to Shopify. Expect 10 to 16 weeks as the typical range, with the median cutover around 14.
5. Dealers on a consumer store. If you already sell direct to consumers on Shopify, unifying B2B and B2C on that store takes 4 to 8 weeks.
6. After launch. Ongoing monthly work covers conversion, order value, retention and operations; plans start at $2,500 a month.

None of Uncap's published case studies is for a company in the Louisville metro, so the two below come from other places.

• Scooterworks, Chicago. Scooters, parts and accessories for retail customers and authorized dealers. Through Shopify's B2B features, its dealers get their own catalogs and resources. Listed results include faster and more accurate part searches and streamlined dealer interactions and resource access. A review on Clutch from its Director of Operations reads: "We got a great-looking and functioning site and didn't have to move to a much more expensive ERP to get there."
• Kalorik. A Belgian home appliance business operating for nearly a century, selling everything from air fryers to vacuum cleaners. Uncap migrated it to Shopify Plus, including all website data and customer info, with project completion well ahead of deadline and within budget.

Uncap's Clutch profile carries 77 reviews at 5.0. The other profiles read 5.0 from 64 reviews on Google and 4.6 from 20 on Trustpilot. The full reviews sit on Uncap's testimonials page.

Uncap is the Shopify Platinum Partner for B2B Commerce, with its headquarters in Chicago (8770 West Bryn Mawr Ave, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60631). To plan a Louisville or Southern Indiana project, Talk to Our Experts.