B2B Onboard vs Sami B2B Wholesale Pricing
A pricing suite and an onboarding app. Different jobs.
Sami B2B Wholesale Pricing sets wholesale prices, volume discounts, quick order forms and net terms, and includes a signup form. B2B Onboard does one part of wholesale in depth: the application, the checks on who is applying, and the native Shopify B2B company created when you approve. Here is how they differ, where Sami is the better choice, and how the two can run side by side.
Last updated 2026-10-29
How B2B Onboard and Sami differ
Four areas where the two apps take a different approach. Sami details come from its Shopify App Store listing on 29 October 2026.
Scope: pricing suite vs onboarding specialist
Sami's listing covers pricing by customer group, product, variant, market or quantity, volume discounts, quick order forms, tax display, net terms, shipping rules, order limits, extra fees, draft orders and Shopify POS. Its registration form is one feature among many. B2B Onboard has no pricing engine: it covers the application form, the review, and what happens on approval, and leaves wholesale pricing to Shopify's native B2B catalogs or to a pricing app.
What approval creates
Sami's listing describes approving wholesale buyers "with signup forms & customer tags". B2B Onboard creates a native Shopify B2B company on approval, with a contact and a location, then routes pricing the way your plan allows: a B2B catalog on Shopify Plus, or the company's location added to your default B2B market on Basic, Grow and Advanced. It can also tag the customer, so tag-based rules keep working.
Tax ID and certificate checks
B2B Onboard checks tax IDs at submission against the official registries: EU VAT (VIES), UK VAT (HMRC), Australian ABN, New Zealand NZBN and Norwegian organisation numbers. For US buyers, it reads uploaded resale certificates with AI-assisted review and flags mismatches for your decision. Sami's listing covers tax display and tax-exempt customers (on its Gold plan); it does not describe registry checks on tax IDs.
Pricing for the onboarding part
Sami has a free plan with a limited registration form, Silver at $24.90/month (unlimited registration forms) and Gold at $49.90/month, which adds tax-exempt customers and payment terms, with a 14-day free trial. B2B Onboard has a free plan with 10 applications a month and paid plans from $14.99/month; EU and UK VAT checks and tax exemption on approval are on every plan, the free one included.
Where Sami is a good fit
Sami is a good fit when wholesale pricing is the main job: customer-specific prices, volume tiers, quick order forms, net terms, order limits and POS in one app. It carries the Built for Shopify badge and close to a thousand reviews averaging 4.9, many praising fast, hands-on support. If you want one app for pricing and a simple signup form, Sami covers that.
B2B Onboard is the better choice when the application itself matters: you want to verify who is applying before you approve them, you need resale certificates reviewed, or you want each approved buyer to become a native Shopify B2B company. The two can also run together: B2B Onboard takes the application and creates the company, and if your Sami pricing rules target customer tags, B2B Onboard can add those tags on approval.
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Try both, decide for yourself.
B2B Onboard has a free tier and never edits your theme files. Install in a few minutes, build a registration form, and see how the approval flow behaves on your store. Keep Sami installed for pricing while you test the application flow.