{"id":60652,"date":"2021-01-15T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/?p=60652"},"modified":"2026-01-22T02:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:16:53","slug":"what-are-the-best-magento-extensions-for-b2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/what-are-the-best-magento-extensions-for-b2b\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Best Magento Extensions for B2B?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Plenty of stats can show us how the world has changed over the last few years. It wasn’t that long ago when negotiating a Business-to-Business (B2B) deal<\/strong> required a lot of phone calls and written communication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, in 2019, more than $1 trillion worth of B2B sales<\/strong> were completed via ecommerce websites. It’s difficult to say how many of them were made possible by Magento<\/strong>, but given the platform’s popularity, chances are, the proportion is significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Magento?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Officially launched in 2008<\/strong>, Magento is an open-source ecommerce platform written in PHP<\/strong>. Its purpose is to provide a relatively simple but powerful solution for creating and running online shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s fair to say the platform has done that rather successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magento powers 1.2% of all CMS-based websites<\/strong>. That amounts to 250 thousand websites –<\/strong> a whopping 12% of all online stores<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such popularity has attracted attention from big corporations, and, in 2018, Adobe acquired Magento<\/strong> for a reported fee of close to $1.7 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magento has evolved quite a lot since its first release. The platform supports two separate versions \u2013 a free<\/strong> one for small to medium businesses and a commercial<\/strong> one that better suits enterprise-level organizations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, Magento 2<\/strong> came out, introducing a completely rewritten version of the ecommerce application. It has expanded on performance<\/strong> and feature range<\/strong>, especially excelling in optimization for mobile users<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people tend to associate Magento with retail commerce, but the platform proves to be an excellent solution for B2B projects as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Magento for B2B?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Magento comes with many distinct advantages that make it perfect for B2B applications<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one, it’s relatively<\/strong> easy-to-use<\/strong>, and quite a few people have gained experience with it over the years. With the right know-how, you can save quite a lot of time and money with Magento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The community has a lot to offer, as well. Because of its popularity, people have developed tons of extensions that integrate Magento to most ERP and CRM systems<\/strong>. This will help you track orders<\/strong>, manage customers<\/strong> and inventory<\/strong>, and follow capital flows<\/strong> much more easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magento is an excellent solution if your business model involves either wholesale and retail commerce<\/strong>. The platform offers advanced customer segmentation<\/strong> that can divide users into B2B and B2C customers and customize the experience for each group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magento offers many other features that help organizations streamline their operations and grow their business. Perhaps its biggest advantage, however, is the wide range of extensions<\/strong> that expand this functionality and make the platform even more versatile. Let’s have a look at some of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Best Magento B2B Extensions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Extensions play a crucial role<\/strong> in many successful Magento-powered projects<\/strong>. The functionality they offer is extremely diverse. The ones we’ll be discussing today are specifically aimed at improving the experience for buyers and sellers in a B2B scenario<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cart2Quote<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Traditionally, B2B deals are harder to evaluate because the price is often subject to lengthy negotiations. Magento doesn’t seem like the best platform to facilitate them as it’s default pricing is fixed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cart2Quote<\/strong><\/a> is one of the companies that have recognized the problem and decided to solve it with an extension by the same name. The Cart2Quote extension displays a button on your website that helps the buyer request a custom quote<\/strong> on a given product. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cart2Quote lets you customize the quote fields as much as you want<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Quick Quote feature<\/strong> allows buyers to request a quote request directly from the product page. Meanwhile, using an intuitive backend system<\/strong>, the seller can apply a preset discount or put together a custom quote and send it back to the potential customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone can sign up for Cart2Quote’s 30-day free trial<\/strong>. After the test period is over, they can either continue using the extension for free<\/strong> or upgrade to one of the premium plans that start at around \u20ac400 (or $490)<\/strong>. The paid packages contain a ton of extra features, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n