Emailed purchase orders into Shopify B2B, without retyping
The problem. Your wholesale buyers email purchase orders as PDFs or Excel files. Someone on your team opens each one and types the customer, SKUs, quantities and prices into Shopify. One wrong digit becomes a wrong shipment, a credit note and an awkward call.
What it costs you
Count it for your own store: POs per week × lines per PO × minutes per line. That is the time spent retyping, before you add the cost of fixing mistakes.
How it works
- A shared inbox receives the PO.
- The lines are read from the PDF or Excel file: customer, SKU, quantity, price.
- The buyer is matched to their Shopify B2B company and catalog.
- A draft order is created in Shopify, ready for review.
What it won’t do
It doesn’t guess. An unknown SKU or a price that doesn’t match the buyer’s catalog goes to a person to check. A PO that was already processed is blocked, so nothing gets entered twice. If a step fails, someone gets an alert, so no order goes missing without anyone knowing.
What changes for your team
They stop typing orders and only review the lines that need a decision. It runs inside the tools you already use, with nothing new to log into.
Common questions
Doesn’t Shopify B2B do this already?
Shopify B2B gives you companies, catalogs and draft orders. It doesn’t read a PDF that lands in your inbox.
Which formats does it handle?
PDF and Excel purchase orders.
Does it replace our ERP?
No. It fills the gap between your inbox and Shopify.
Is this a client project?
No. It’s an internal build, run on sample purchase orders.
See where your orders get retyped
Book a free 30-minute workflow call. We’ll walk through one real order together.