Manage B2B catalogs

Catalogs are used to determine the products that are published to customers in different contexts. For example, a business-to-business (B2B) catalog might specify that customers ordering for a specific B2B company location can purchase only the t-shirt products in the store at a 30% discount.

In this guide, you'll learn how to build price lists and publications, and associate them with catalogs to control prices and publishing for a specific B2B company location.

Anchor to RequirementsRequirements

• Your app can make authenticated requests to the GraphQL Admin API.
• Your app has the write_products access scope. Learn how to configure your access scopes using Shopify CLI.
• You've created products and product variants in your store.

• You're familiar with the concept of catalogs.
• You've created a company and created a B2B catalog.

Anchor to Step 1: Associate a price list with the catalogStep 1: Associate a price list with the catalog

You can associate a price list with the catalog to determine the prices that are shown to customers ordering for that B2B company location. If a price list isn't associated with the catalog, then customers ordering for this B2B company location receive the initial variant prices converted to the market currency.

Anchor to Create a new price listCreate a new price list

Use the priceListCreate mutation to create a new price list for the catalog. You can set the name, a percentage-based adjustment, a currency, and the ID of the catalog to associate.

{
  "input": {
     "name": "European prices",
     "currency": "EUR",
     "catalogId": "gid://shopify/MarketCatalog/CATALOG-ID",
     "parent": {
       "adjustment": {
         "type": "PERCENTAGE_INCREASE",
         "value": 10.0
       }
     }
   }
}

{
  "input": {
     "name": "Prices for Company's European location",
     "currency": "EUR",
     "catalogId": "gid://shopify/CompanyLocationCatalog/CATALOG-ID",
     "parent": {
       "adjustment": {
         "type": "PERCENTAGE_DECREASE",
         "value": 30.0
       },
       "settings": {
        "compareAtMode": "NULLIFY"
       }
     }
   }
}

Anchor to Associate an existing price listAssociate an existing price list

Use the priceListUpdate mutation to associate an existing price list with a catalog. You can also make changes to the name, currency, or percentage-based adjustments with the priceListUpdate mutation.

{
  "id": "gid://shopify/PriceList/ID",
  "input": {
    "catalogId": "gid://shopify/MarketCatalog/CATALOG-ID"
   }
}

{
  "id": "gid://shopify/PriceList/ID",
  "input": {
    "catalogId": "gid://shopify/CompanyLocationCatalog/CATALOG-ID"
   }
}

Anchor to Step 2: Associate a publicationStep 2: Associate a publication

The publication determines which products are published to customers that are eligible for the catalog.

If you have an existing publication, then you can use the catalogUpdate mutation to associate a publication or make other changes to a catalog.

To create and associate a new publication, use the publicationCreate mutation:

Anchor to Add products to the publicationAdd products to the publication

After you create a publication, you can add products to the publication with the publicationUpdate mutation:

Anchor to Step 3: Set fixed prices for specific product variantsStep 3: Set fixed prices for specific product variants

Use the priceListFixedPricesAdd mutation to set a fixed price for specific product variants.

If a product variant is published to the catalog and doesn’t have a set fixed price, then its price is automatically calculated using the percentage-based adjustment that’s specified in the PriceListParent object.

Anchor to Delete fixed pricesDelete fixed prices

To delete a partial set of fixed prices on a price list, you can use the priceListFixedPricesDelete mutation. After a fixed price is deleted, the price for the affected product variant is automatically calculated using the price list parent's percentage-based adjustment.

To delete fixed prices, you need to specify the variant ID. You can specify a maximum of 250 variant IDs in the array.

Anchor to Managing multiple catalogs per company locationManaging multiple catalogs per company location

B2B company locations support multiple catalog assignments, enabling the same two-catalog pattern used for markets.

Anchor to Use case: Separate pricing and product assortmentsUse case: Separate pricing and product assortments

When you have many price lists but fewer product assortments (or vice versa), you can:

• Create pricing-only catalogs (one per price list)
• Create publication-only catalogs (one per product assortment)
• Assign multiple catalogs to the same company location

Example:

A B2B merchant with 50 different pricing tiers and 10 different product catalogs can create:

• 50 pricing-only catalogs + 10 publication-only catalogs = 60 total catalogs
• Instead of 500 full catalogs (50 × 10)

Anchor to Customer experienceCustomer experience

When a B2B customer orders for a company location with multiple catalogs:

1. Product visibility: They see products from applicable publication catalogs
2. Pricing: They receive prices from applicable pricing catalogs
3. Multiple pricing catalogs: If multiple pricing catalogs apply, they receive the lowest price
4. Multiple publication catalogs: Products must be published in at least one applicable publication to be visible

For more details on this pattern, see About catalogs for different markets.

Anchor to Next stepsNext steps

• Learn how to calculate and send invoices for draft orders for B2B customers.