Custom software tools for small distributors and wholesalers.
Custom B2B contractor ordering portals, multi-channel order intake unification, vendor rebate trackers, and inventory automations. Built for small and mid-sized distributors and wholesalers.
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Your customers order four ways. Your team reconciles all four.
Orders come in by email, by phone, by EDI, by your website, by walk-in counter. Five channels. Your inside-sales team types each one into the ERP. They get most of them right. The mistakes show up later, in customer complaints or shorted shipments.
Vendor rebates are tracked in a spreadsheet. The volume thresholds and tier accruals were done by hand last quarter. Your CFO is not 100 percent sure the rebate the vendor paid you matched what you actually earned. There is leakage. There is always leakage.
- Multiple order channels do not reconcile.Email, phone, EDI, web, counter. Each is a different process. Inside sales spends half the day typing.
- Vendor rebates run on a spreadsheet.Volume thresholds, tier accruals, mix bonuses. All in one Excel file. All depend on the controller remembering to update it.
- Contractor customers want a portal.Your top 50 contractor customers are placing 80 percent of the orders. They want self-service reorder, account history, current pricing, and PO upload. You do not have it.
- Inventory and PO are out of sync.Stock is low when nobody notices. Vendor pricing changes do not flow into your sell pricing for two weeks.
B2B contractor ordering portal. Online reorder for your top contractor accounts.
Contractors call, text, email, and fax the lumberyard's inside-sales counter all day to place orders. The rep keys each one into the LBM ERP or POS, looks up the customer's pricing tier and credit status, asks which job it is for, and confirms will-call, yard pickup, or job-site delivery. After hours, customers cannot order; they go to the competitor with a portal.
This is one pattern of many we have shipped. Across building materials, industrial supply, and specialty distribution, the build shape is the same: a structured tool that ties inventory, orders, and pricing together so nothing falls through. See the wholesale and distribution builds we have shipped →
If your wholesale and distribution operation still runs on a spreadsheet, that is where we start. See how we turn a spreadsheet into a real tool →
Six tools that move the needle for a distributor your size.
Every distributor is different. These are the patterns we see most often. Pick the one that hurts most. We pilot it in 1 to 3 weeks.
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Contractor B2B ordering portals
Self-service reorder, account-specific pricing, PO upload, order tracking. Branded to your distribution business.
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Multi-channel order unification
Email, phone, EDI, web, and counter orders all flow into one queue. Inside sales reviews exceptions, not every line.
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Vendor rebate accrual tracking
Volume thresholds, tier bonuses, and quarterly settlements tracked automatically against your vendor agreements. No more spreadsheet leakage.
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Inventory reorder automation
Stock levels, lead times, and forecast demand combined into a daily PO suggestion list. Purchaser approves, system orders.
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Vendor pricing sync
Vendor price-list updates flow into your sell-pricing rules automatically. Margin protected without a controller scrubbing PDFs.
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Customer pricing tier management
Account-specific pricing, contract pricing, and special quotes administered in one place. ERP and portal stay in sync.
7 builds for wholesale and distribution.
Online reorder for your top contractor accounts.
Contractors call, text, email, and fax the lumberyard's inside-sales counter all day to place orders.
Live accruals for your top 5 vendor rebate programs.
The distributor participates in 50 to 100 vendor rebate programs across its manufacturer relationships.
Inbound email orders into one validated ERP-ready queue.
The distributor takes contractor and trade-customer orders through five channels every day: phone calls to the counter, emails to a shared inbox, faxes from old-school accounts, online portal orders that export as CSV, and paper or text orders from outside sales reps.
A one-page map of your subscription stack and the waste hiding in it.
Between the distribution ERP, a bolt-on B2B e-commerce platform, an EDI service, a rebate add-on, and the freight and routing tools, most distributors your size carry more per-seat licenses than anyone tracks. We list every subscription, what it actually does, and where two tools overlap or a paid module sits unused. You see the redundant spend before the next renewal hits.
Inbound sales calls turned into CRM leads automatically.
When a contractor calls the counter to reorder, the rep is keying the order, not logging the relationship, so the CRM never sees it. We capture the inbound call, match it to the account and pricing tier, and create the lead or activity record automatically. Inside sales keeps working the counter while the account history fills itself in.
Score calls against your key signals, write back to CRM.
Your outside reps say the new contractor account is closing and the lapsed lumberyard customer is coming back, but the order pipeline tells a different story. We score recorded calls for the signals that matter in distribution: credit terms agreed, first PO committed, competitor being switched from. The result writes back so the sales manager forecasts on what was actually said, not on optimism.
Your key operating metrics from every system, pulled into one live view.
Open margin by line, fill rate, rebate accrual against threshold, and inventory turns usually sit in four places: the distribution ERP, the rebate spreadsheet, the purchasing reorder list, and whatever the controller exports on Friday. We pull those into one screen the branch manager and CFO read every morning. Vendor leakage and slow-moving SKUs surface while there is still time to act on them.
Wholesale and Distribution-specific questions.
What is the difference between custom distributor software and Epicor, Acumatica, or Infor?
Tier-2 distribution ERPs cover the operational core. They rarely cover the experience your customers want (a modern B2B portal) or the workflows your team does in spreadsheets (rebates, multi-channel reconciliation). ByteQuix builds those gap-fillers around your existing ERP, on a flat $295 to $895 per month total.
How much does a custom B2B contractor portal cost?
Off-the-shelf B2B e-commerce platforms run $500 to $2,500 per month plus implementation fees of $15,000 to $50,000 to integrate to your ERP. Custom builds from a dev shop are $40,000 to $100,000 as a project, then unmaintained. ByteQuix pilots a custom B2B portal for $800 (30 days live), then runs it on the monthly plan.
Can ByteQuix integrate with my distribution ERP?
Yes. We integrate with Epicor Eclipse and Prophet 21, Acumatica, Infor SX.e, Sage 100/300, and similar mid-tier distribution ERPs. If it has an API or a database we can read, we can integrate.
Does this work for industrial supply, specialty distribution, or only building materials?
All of the above. The B2B-portal-and-rebate-tracking pattern transfers cleanly across distribution verticals. Our featured example is building materials, but the same approach applies to industrial MRO, electrical, plumbing, HVAC supply, and specialty distribution.
Where is our distributor data stored?
In the United States. Per-client data isolation. ByteQuix is US-based, headquartered in the Twin Cities, Minnesota.
How long does a pilot take?
Most pilots are scoped, built, and live within 1 to 3 weeks. The pilot runs for 30 days against a specific outcome we agree on before we start (typically a self-service order percentage, an inside-sales time reduction, or a rebate-accrual accuracy target). If it delivers, we move forward.
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