What’s New in B2B Wave: Faster Ordering, Sola Payments Integration, and Smoother Invoicing

Key Takeaways

In this update:

• Saved order email reminders, both manual and automatic
• Minimum quantity rules across product variants
• New Sola Payments integration for US and Canadian businesses
• Smoother invoicing with PDF attachments and custom QuickBooks Online invoice numbers
• Customer-specific storefront customization via extra fields

At B2B Wave, we’re always working to make running your wholesale business easier with our B2B eCommerce platform.

Our latest product updates focus on the everyday improvements that keep wholesale ordering and operations moving smoothly: helping buyers find the right products faster, giving your team clearer inventory and order visibility, and making invoicing and admin processes easier. If you’ve been looking for ways to upgrade the B2B ordering workflow for customers and admin users, here’s what’s fresh on our platform.

Faster and Clearer Wholesale Ordering

Variant SKU Search

Make it easier for buyers to find the exact product option they need.

What It Does: Customers can search for product variants by SKU directly on your B2B storefront. When a buyer searches for a variant SKU, search results return the relevant product and guide the customer to the right product page.

Why Use It: Most B2B buyers order by SKU because they already know exactly what they need. Customers can find what they’re looking for faster, without viewing multiple products or individual product pages manually. For businesses with large, variant-heavy catalogs (e.g., multiple sizes, colors, or special configuration), variant SKU search offers a more direct and reliable ordering experience.

Available Quantities in Quick Order

Give buyers full transparency and better stock visibility through the Quick Order menu.

What It Does: Customers can now see available stock directly in the Quick Order menu, giving them more information when building an order.

Why Use It: Quick orders equal speed. Showing available quantities on the menu helps buyers adjust their purchase as they go, reduce errors, and complete orders faster, without entering several lines only to discover later that some quantities can’t be fulfilled.
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Minimum Quantity Across Product Variants

Apply minimum order rules across product variants without making the buying experience too rigid.

What It Does: B2B Wave can support minimum quantity rules across product variants. For instance, a packaging wholesaler may require a minimum order quantity of 10 units for a recycled container, while still allowing the customer to split that quantity across its size variants. As a result, a customer could order 3 small, 3 medium, and 4 large units and still meet the product-level minimum.

Why Use It: Get more practical control over minimum order quantity rules while maintaining a flexible buying experience. Businesses selling apparel, packaging, foodservice items, or configurable goods can strike the right balance between giving buyers room to mix variants and still meeting wholesale ordering requirements.
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New Payment Options

B2B Wave + Sola Payments Integration

Accept card payments on your B2B store with the new Sola Payments integration.

What It Does: Gives US and Canadian businesses another way to accept card payments for B2B orders. Customers can pay during checkout, submit orders and pay later depending on your payment setup, or save their card details for future use. Plus, you can link payments through Sola to Xero or QuickBooks Online to make sure you keep your books clean.

Why Use It: Give buyers more payment flexibility and support a smoother order-to-payment process, while keeping payment collection connected to your B2B ordering workflow.

Want to learn more? Visit our Sola Payments integration page or contact our team to discuss setup.
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Easier Order Follow-Up

Unsubmitted Order Reminders

Help customers return to orders they started but did not complete, and get that sale across the finish line.

What It Does: Admin users can now send reminders for unsubmitted orders manually. Even better, B2B Wave supports automatic reminders for orders that remain in your cart for more than 24 hours. Plus, admin teams can customize the reminder email template to match your brand tone, timing, and ordering process.

Why Use It: Unsubmitted orders often signal true buying intent. A customer may have been interrupted, needed internal approval, or simply planned to come back later. Instead of relying on manual follow-up, order reminders help bring customers back to your B2B portal so they can review the details and complete checkout – especially if you’re dealing with repeat buyers, seasonal ordering windows, or customers who build larger orders over time.

Interested in unsubmitted order reminders? Contact our support team.
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Updated Invoicing Functions

Customizable QuickBooks Online Invoice Numbers

Add more useful order context to QuickBooks Online invoice numbers.

What It Does: B2B Wave can support custom invoice number formats when creating invoices in QuickBooks Online, including formats that combine the order’s ID with the order date (e.g. 20260503-78).

Why Use It: Your finance team can more easily identify, search, and review invoices in QuickBooks Online, for instance, based on the order date, without opening the full invoice record.

Invoice PDFs as Email Attachments

Make invoice documents easier to access, store, and process.

What It Does: Invoice emails can include the invoice PDF as an attachment, in addition to the invoice link.

Why Use It: Make it easier for customers and their teams to save, forward, process, or automate invoice handling straight from their inbox – especially for buyers who rely on invoice PDFs for records, approvals, or internal processing.
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More Flexible Storefront Customizations

Customer Extra Fields Available for Storefront Customizations

Support a more tailored storefront experience using customer-specific data.

What It Does: B2B Wave can now expose customer edit extra fields as JavaScript variables on the storefront, so you can tailor parts of the storefront based on individual customer data.

Why Use It: Gives teams a more practical way to support more personalized B2B experiences without a full custom build. For instance, you can show region-specific delivery information or display a custom message, or adapt parts of the page based on a customer's specific account details.
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Easier Admin Management

Filter Customers with Ordering Disabled

Find and manage customers with ordering restrictions more easily.

What It Does: Admins can now filter disabled accounts through the Customers menu.

Why Use It: Some businesses disable ordering for specific customers because of missed payments, broken contract terms, or other internal policies. With this filter, admins can look up and find these accounts easily without opening individual customer records.

Negative Line Item Pricing

Support more flexible manual adjustments when editing orders from the Admin Panel.

What It Does: Admins can now enter negative prices when editing order line items.

Why Use It: Apply specific credits, corrections, or manual order adjustments directly within an order before it moves into invoicing.
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More Complete API Data

Updated Orders API Endpoint

Include more internal order context in API workflows.

What It Does: B2B Wave has expanded the Orders API to support more order details, including admin notes and dropship order information.

Why Use It: Give more complete order context to your operational and customer service teams without extra manual checks.
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Clearer Delivery Information for Orders

New Variables in Email Templates

Include clearer delivery-address information in customer communications.

What It Does: Supports email template variables for the delivery company name and recipient name (order.address_company_name, order.address_full_name), so you can include more accurate delivery details in order-related communications.

Why Use It: Give customers and internal teams a clearer delivery context, especially in dropshipping scenarios, where the delivery company name or recipient name may be different from the customer’s main account details.
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💬 Want a Walkthrough of Any Update?

We’d be happy to show you how these updates fit into your setup. Contact our support to learn more or request a walkthrough.