Shopify B2B Agency in Philadelphia

Uncap builds Shopify B2B commerce for manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers across the Philadelphia metro, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau both call Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD. The Census Bureau's County Business Patterns metro reference file lists 11 counties in four states: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem in New Jersey; New Castle in Delaware; and Cecil in Maryland.

The 2023 County Business Patterns, published by the Census Bureau, count 6,873 wholesale trade establishments in the metro, with 137,781 employees. The same release counts 4,708 manufacturing establishments with 171,124 employees. Wholesale establishments outnumber manufacturing establishments in the same count. Of the wholesalers, 4,072 are durable goods merchant wholesalers and 1,993 sell nondurable goods. The count includes 828 machinery, equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers and 655 professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers.

Job counts are more recent. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the metro had 177.9 thousand manufacturing jobs and 120.3 thousand wholesale trade jobs in September 2026, out of 3,146.8 thousand nonfarm jobs. BLS marks all three September 2026 figures as preliminary. Transportation, warehousing and utilities employment stood at 143.6 thousand that month, also preliminary.

A seller here can have buyers, branches and ship-to addresses in more than one of those four states, and a Shopify B2B store for the metro should be set up with that in mind from day one.

The Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns put numbers on the metro's life sciences and food supply base. They count 83 pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing establishments with 14,453 employees, and 177 drugs and druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers with 18,447 employees. Pharmaceutical makers sit inside a wider chemical manufacturing count of 350 establishments and 28,208 employees.

Food is the other large nondurable line. The same release lists 551 food manufacturing establishments employing 25,341 people. Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing adds 181 establishments and 3,847 employees, and the metro's 424 warehousing and storage establishments employ 39,270 people.

For example, a drug wholesaler's buyers may be pharmacies and clinics, and a food plant may sell by the case to distributors and food service operators. In cases like these, the store has to show each account its own prices and make the weekly reorder quick for a purchasing team.

Uncap publishes industry pages for the closest categories. The medical supply page covers contract pricing and reordering on Shopify for buyers such as hospitals and clinics. The food distribution page covers catch weight ordering, lot and expiry traceability, cold chain rules and case pack minimums for food manufacturers and distributors.

PhilaPort, the Port of Philadelphia, is an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It manages, maintains and promotes port facilities along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. An announcement from Governor Josh Shapiro dated October 13, 2026, posted on PhilaPort's site, says the port supported more than 8,000 jobs in 2025 and contributed nearly $1.2 billion in economic output across Pennsylvania. The same announcement describes a growth plan valued at more than $837 million and ties the investment to PhilaPort expanding its container capacity by 122 percent.

PhilaPort is listed as the owner of the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market, which it describes as a fully enclosed, fully refrigerated produce terminal of 686,000 square feet. PhilaPort says local trucking companies regularly meet demand from its terminals for as many as 1,500 reefer trucks per week. I-95 runs next to its facilities, I-76 has ramps close to its terminals, and two class-one railroads, CSX and Norfolk Southern, serve them. PhilaPort is also the grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone #35, which covers Southeastern Pennsylvania.

For a seller shipping chilled goods out of this region, every order needs the right ship-to address, and in Shopify B2B that address lives on the company location. In Shopify's words, "A company is the parent organization for one or more company locations," and each company location can have its own shipping address and billing address. For example, a hospital group with sites in Pennsylvania and Delaware can be set up as one company with a location for each site.

You can sell B2B on standard Shopify plans. Shopify lists B2B on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans, and says it is not available on the Starter or Retail plans. One deciding factor is the number of catalogs your pricing needs.

In Shopify's words, "You can use B2B catalogs to choose which products and prices to offer your B2B customers." Below Plus, on Basic, Grow and Advanced, Shopify allows up to 3 active catalog assignments across active B2B markets. It counts one catalog assigned to 2 active B2B markets as 2 assignments. The 3-assignment limit does not apply on Shopify Plus, and on Plus you can also assign catalogs directly to company locations.

A quick way to decide:

• A few price lists: a food manufacturer with one distributor price list and one food service price list, each assigned to one market, fits within three assignments.
• Contract pricing by account: a wholesaler with more than three pharmacy or clinic accounts, each on its own negotiated prices, would pass three assignments, which points to Plus.
• Pricing by site: if each location of a customer buys at its own prices, catalogs assigned to company locations are a Plus feature.

Payment terms are part of Shopify B2B. Shopify puts it this way: "Payment terms define how long a company has to pay for an order." You can set payment terms for each company location, and the available terms are net 7, net 15, net 30, net 45, net 60 and net 90. Uncap's Shopify B2B page goes through the features in more detail.

Uncap integrates Shopify with 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 a page on the integrations hub.

Some systems connect through Uncap Connect and others through a managed integration. The team confirms fit for your ERP and version directly. Uncap Connect is priced at $8,000 for onboarding, then a flat $390 per month.

These integration questions are worth answering early:

• Pack data: where case sizes, pack quantities and product attributes live, and which system owns them.
• Account pricing: whether contract prices sit in the ERP, a spreadsheet or both, and who keeps them current.
• Ship-from sites: which warehouses or plants hold stock, and which of them the store should sell from.
• Order flow: how a web order should land in the ERP and which status updates buyers expect to see.

Have the ERP name and version ready for the first call, along with a rough SKU count.

Here is how an engagement with Uncap runs, with the published prices and timelines.

1. First conversation. You walk the team through your catalog, accounts, ERP and goals.
2. Plan with Uncap Blueprint. A $7,500 fixed-price, four-week migration blueprint covering architecture, integrations and total cost of ownership, yours to keep. If Uncap goes on to build it, the fee is credited 1:1 toward implementation.
3. Kickoff on site. Uncap's team, based at its Chicago headquarters, travels on site for kickoff and key milestones.
4. Fixed-scope build. The Shopify build service covers architecture, design, theme and app development, ERP and system integration, data migration with SEO redirects, and launch. You agree the timeline and budget with Uncap before any build work begins.
5. Launch and after. An optional monthly growth engagement works on conversion, order value, retention and operations, with plans from $2,500 a month.

On timing, a migration from another platform typically takes 10 to 16 weeks, and Uncap's median cutover is around 14 weeks. Starting fresh, a new build runs about 12 weeks from discovery to launch, and adding B2B to a Shopify store you already run, unified with B2C, takes 4 to 8 weeks. The migrations page covers how a move to Shopify is planned and cut over.

The case studies below come from Uncap clients based outside the Philadelphia metro. Two make and sell nutritional supplements, and one is an electrical, power and lighting supply distributor.

• Bariatric Fusion. A global manufacturer, distributor and supplier of nutritional supplements specific to bariatrics, developed in collaboration with medical professionals. Uncap migrated it from its legacy platform to Shopify Plus with no loss of data or content. In a review on Clutch, its finance manager reported that sales increased about 20% in the first few weeks of launching the new site. See the Bariatric Fusion project.
• NovaFerrum. A producer of multivitamins and iron supplements for all age groups. Uncap rebuilt its direct-to-consumer website and technology ecosystem on Shopify for scale, efficiency and regulatory compliance. Its founder and CEO, Patrick Monsivais, wrote: "Uncap was solid on the design, quality of work, Shopify development, communication and timeline. Finding good business partnerships are like finding diamonds in the rough. I would highly recommend Uncap for anyone or company looking for quality workmanship at a fair price." See the NovaFerrum project.
• ULE Group. An electrical, power and lighting supply distributor with its headquarters in Hauppauge, New York. It moved a catalog of over 250,000 SKUs onto a Shopify B2B storefront built by Uncap, integrated with its Epicor ERP. See how the ULE Group store was built.

On review platforms, Uncap is rated 5.0 from 77 reviews on Clutch, 5.0 from 64 on Google, 5.0 from 66 on the Shopify Partner Directory and 4.6 from 20 on Trustpilot. More client words are on the testimonials page.

If you make, wholesale or distribute goods anywhere from Bucks County to New Castle County and want to see Shopify B2B mapped to your accounts and your ERP, start with a call. Talk to Our Experts.