Product Update: Avalara integration, better imports for your customers, API updates, and more

We’re constantly working on our product to make your daily workflow more productive and efficient and your experience with your B2B Wave eCommerce platform effortless. Here are our latest product updates.

Avalara integration

B2B Wave now integrates with Avalara to help you navigate the ever-changing sales tax regulations in the U.S. What's more, with Avalara's address validation feature, you can make sure that your packages are being delivered to the right place!

Contact our support team to activate the new integration and see our step-by-step guide to set it up.

Storefront 

Customer order imports

Customers are now able to import orders in both Excel and CSV format by supplying the SKU number and the quantity they want to order. If your customers are ordering many items in one order, then this feature might help to save your customers time when ordering from your store.

Variant pricing

Product prices will change based on the variant selected or product configuration options selected on a product page. Product variant pricing cannot get easier for customers to understand!

Stripe payments

Accept payments upfront when a customer submits an order and charge the remaining amount at a future date.

PDF catalog

Your customers are now able to download the PDF Catalog, including the MSRP prices. Contact our support team to activate this feature.

Live product feed

Allow your customers to receive live updates about product availability and pricing by providing them with a unique URL that they can use to access your products. Ask our support team to activate this feature.

Integrations

Shopify

Tag B2B Wave orders at Shopify to ensure that your B2B orders are separated from your retail ones.

QuickBooks Online

Add the company name to the shipping address on customers’ invoices. Support more countries using QuickBooks Online.‍

Zoho Inventory

Faster updating of available quantities from Zoho to B2B Wave with fewer API calls to satisfy Zoho Inventory's rate limits.

Brightpearl

Link B2B Wave payment options to Brightpearl payment options. Assign values to Brightpearl sales order custom fields. Fetch available quantities from more than one warehouse.

QuickBooks Desktop

1. You can now import items or customers from QuickBooks Desktop to B2B Wave. 
2. We’ve also improved how we match sales reps between B2B Wave and QuickBooks Desktop. When creating a sales order, item notes can be copied to the "Other1" field.

ShipStation

When sending orders to ShipStation, assign them to a specific warehouse id.

Zapier

Customer product prices can now be updated through Zapier.

API

Orders

Update orders product quantity_shipped and status_order_id through a new endpoint. Include product variant options in the response.

Order Documents

‍When creating a new order document, you can also use a URL instead of a base64 encoded file.

Products

‍Update privacy groups and customer access through the API. Expose meta_description field.

Admin panel

Products

1. Max quantity: Set a limit on the quantity that can be ordered for each product
2. SKU validation: You'll now see a notice if the product that you are about to add already exists within your B2B Wave account.
3. Active products: Activate/deactivate products automatically based on inventory quantity‍

Default values

You can now define the default values for: product track inventory, product back order, and default image. The default image will show wherever there is no image uploaded for a product.

Sorting

1. Drag and drop sorting is now supported for: Banners, order statuses, and extra fields
2. By re-ordering those items, you can specify how will they be shown to the customer

Imports/exports

Customers and auto-generated email

1. Assign an auto-generated email to customers being imported that haven’t had an email assigned to them yet. This is useful when you are importing customers from systems where an email is not required.
2. When importing customers, also import additional registration fields (if any apply)

Products without images or prices

Filter product exports by products without images or without prices. This is useful when you want to validate that all of your data is in order.

Categories

Import all your product categories directly from an Excel file

Reports

Customer performance

New filters available: Filter by sales rep(s) or company activities

Coupon activity

Track how coupons are used over time and what kind of value they bring to your business.