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WooCommerce B2B vs ToolSwift for lumber yards: 8 plugins or one
November 2, 2026
WooCommerce B2B for a lumber yard is eight plugins from six vendors, plus hosting you patch. ToolSwift builds them in for the yard, from $399 a month.
Executive summary
WooCommerce B2B is WooCommerce's free core plus plugins: core doesn't include contractor accounts, credit limits or quotes, so a lumber yard adds eight plugins from six vendors (US$1,202 in year one) and hosting at US$25 to US$350 a month, then patches them itself. ToolSwift builds those into one platform for yards, from $399 a month.
I run ToolSwift. We build online stores and contractor portals for one trade: lumber yards, building supply dealers and hardware stores. WooCommerce is a free plugin that turns a WordPress site into a store for any trade at all, and it reaches a lumber yard through other people's plugins.
WooCommerce is free the way a pile of lumber is free. The material costs nothing. The house is still yours to frame.
Here's what a yard has to frame. Contractor accounts with their own pricing. Credit limits that checkout respects. Quotes. Moneris. Selling a 2x10 by the foot. Stock and price per yard. Delivery dates. A loyalty program. Returns. A search box that finds a part number. I matched each of those to a plugin, using the vendors' own listings on October 7, 2026. The stack came to eight plugins from six vendors, at US$1,202 in year one in licenses.
The licenses are the cheap part, and I'll say so plainly. What the number leaves out is the expensive part: hosting at WooCommerce's own range of US$25 to US$350 a month, a WooCommerce plugin for your ERP, which I couldn't find for any LBM system, a branded app for your contractors, and the developer who installs eight plugins from six companies, configures them, then updates them so they keep working together. When the checkout breaks, WooCommerce's support policy says it doesn't cover third-party plugins or customizations.
ToolSwift ships the whole list as one platform, built for the yard and hosted and run by us, with one team on the phone. Our price fits in one sentence: $399 a month for the first store in US dollars, $250 for each additional store, $99 a month for the branded contractor app and $199 a month per store for the all-inclusive AI plan, with no transaction fees, month to month.
A plugin stack gives you parts. A yard needs a platform that already knows what a yard is.
Why I wrote this and how it's sourced
WooCommerce B2B is the answer a yard gets when it asks "can't we just add a store to our WordPress site?" It sounds cheap and it sounds like ownership. This page counts what owning it actually involves at a lumber yard.
I sell a competing platform, so weigh what I say with that in mind. What I can give you is the sourcing. Every ToolSwift capability here is on our feature pages, such as quotes, payments and shipping, or in our published comparisons. Every WooCommerce fact comes from WooCommerce's own pricing page, documentation, support policy and Marketplace listings, or from the plugin vendors' own pricing pages, all read on October 7, 2026. Security figures come from Patchstack's annual WordPress security report. Each source is linked at the end.
Where I searched for something on WooCommerce and couldn't find it, I say "I couldn't find it." That isn't the same as saying it can't be built. The question for a yard is who builds it, who pays, and who keeps it running.
I compared ToolSwift with Shopify in a separate piece. Shopify rents you apps on a hosted platform. WooCommerce hands you the platform itself, and everything around it becomes your job.
WooCommerce is a plugin you host; ToolSwift is run for you
ToolSwift is a platform built for lumber, building supply and hardware, run by us; WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin you host, and a yard's needs arrive as more plugins.
What you get with ToolSwift
A ToolSwift store is designed for your yard, not picked from a theme gallery. We start with a design meeting about how you sell, how your customers search and what your homepage should push in spring versus late fall. Then we build on our own component library, so a custom store doesn't start from zero or carry an agency's bill.
Two front ends share one catalog. The retail storefront sits on your domain for homeowners and walk-in buyers. The contractor dashboard, with a native app under your brand, is a separate interface for your trade accounts. Both read from a native PIM, so the product record lives in ToolSwift, enriched once and used everywhere.
Under that, the platform is headless and API-first. Catalog, pricing, orders, customer accounts, integrations: all of it sits in ToolSwift, and every piece of data is available through our REST API. If you have developers, they can build their own front end on it. Your ERP plugs into the same API as one more data source.
That has a long-term payoff. Change ERPs in five years and you replace one connector. The storefront, the catalog, the accounts and the URLs Google already knows all stay put.
Hosted and updated by us
The monthly fee is the platform. There's no hosting line, no plugin license to renew and no update to schedule on your side. You manage content in a headless CMS and run the store from the admin dashboard. Small requests, anything under about fifteen minutes of developer time, we just do at no charge.
Why one trade matters
Every item on our roadmap is for a lumber yard, a hardware store or a building supply dealer. The things a yard needs, like contractor credit, quotes from a photo of a materials list, distributor stock sold online and delivery zones drawn around real routes, are the product. Nobody had to go find them in a marketplace.
How WooCommerce is put together
WooCommerce's pricing page describes itself as "the free, open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress," with core "Free, with no monthly subscription." You install it on a WordPress site, on hosting you choose and pay for. Everything a store needs beyond core comes from extensions, which WooCommerce prices at US$29 to US$299 a year each.
WooCommerce core doesn't include company accounts, contractor pricing, net terms or credit limits. Those come from B2B plugins such as Addify's B2B for WooCommerce, B2BKing or Wholesale Suite, each from a different company.
Impact
One owner holds every part a yard depends on, built for the trade and kept running by the team that built it. A WooCommerce yard holds a stack instead (WordPress, WooCommerce, a host, a plugin per need), and every need it adds puts one more vendor's release schedule on its calendar.
WooCommerce has no plugin for Spruce, BisTrack or Agility
ToolSwift connects to sixteen named ERP and accounting systems, including the LBM systems yards run; on WooCommerce I found NetSuite and QuickBooks Online plugins, an iPaaS route for Eagle, and no plugin for Spruce, BisTrack or the other LBM ERPs.
The sixteen ERPs we connect to
ToolSwift connects to Epicor BisTrack, Eagle, Prophet 21 and Eclipse; ECI Spruce and Deacom; DMSi Agility and Frameworks; Paladin, Genetiq, Sandbox ERP, Profit Master, PRISM, Ogasys/Acceo; and QuickBooks and NetSuite. Most of that list is what North American lumber yards, pro dealers and hardware stores run at the counter every day. The other connections, for accounting, POS, shipping or marketing, are on our integrations page.
Each connector follows the same architecture. Pricing and inventory sync in real time where the ERP allows it. Customer accounts, credit limits and terms come across from your system, so the credit a contractor sees online is the credit your ERP says he has.
Who builds the connection
We do. Connecting your ERP is part of onboarding, done on our side. If you run one of the sixteen, it's configuration. If you run something we haven't met, we build the connector and then we maintain it. For an in-house or unusual system, we assess feasibility for free before quoting, so you know it's workable before you commit.
When the overnight price file fails to sync, the question is whose problem that is. On ToolSwift, it's ours.
Keep your ERP, change what customers see
The years you spent setting up your ERP (pricing, branches, job accounts, delivery) don't have to move. You change the part your customers touch and keep the system your counter knows. I made the same argument to Spruce dealers in my EvolutionX comparison, where the alternative was the ERP vendor's own store.
What I found for WooCommerce
The Woo Marketplace lists "NetSuite Integration for WooCommerce" by TechMarbles at US$399 a year, with two-way sync for orders, inventory, prices, customers, even refunds. The Marketplace also lists QuickBooks Integration for WooCommerce by WP Swings, US$99 a year, for QuickBooks Online only. That's two systems on our list of sixteen.
For Epicor Eagle, Clarity Ventures listed an Eagle-to-WooCommerce integration as part of its Clarity Connect iPaaS service, not as a WooCommerce plugin, with no published price. The page appeared in search results on October 7, 2026 and has since been removed. For BisTrack, Epicor's BisTrack API is how outside web stores connect, which on WooCommerce means a custom build against that API.
I couldn't find a WooCommerce plugin for ECI Spruce, Epicor BisTrack, Paladin, Profit Master, PRISM or DMSi Agility.
Impact
If your yard runs Spruce, BisTrack, Eagle, Paladin, Profit Master, PRISM or Agility, ToolSwift already has the connector and keeps it running. On WooCommerce, that link is a custom build or an integration service, and the developer who builds it also owns the upkeep every time WordPress, WooCommerce or your ERP changes.
WooCommerce B2B pricing: free core, eight plugins, hosting
WooCommerce core is free and a yard's plugin licenses come to about US$1,202 in year one; the real cost is hosting, the ERP link nobody sells and the work of keeping eight plugins from six vendors running together.
Our price, in one paragraph
$399 a month for the first store, in US dollars. Each additional store is $250 a month. The branded mobile app is $99 a month for the whole business, not per store. AI is billed on usage, or the all-inclusive AI plan is $199 a month per store. Every store includes 500 SMS text messages a month. There are no transaction fees, and it's month to month with 30 days' notice. Two-year and three-year agreements save up to 10% and up to 15% on the total bill, if you want one.
A single store with the app and the AI plan is $697 a month. A three-yard dealer pays $899 a month for the platform, or $1,595 with the app and the AI plan on every store. That fee covers hosting and updates, and search is included. Integrations are quoted with onboarding, so you pay for the connectors you use.
The free core
WooCommerce's pricing page lists core as free, hosting at US$25 to US$350 a month "for most stores, but scales with traffic and performance needs," and extensions at US$29 to US$299 a year each. It also lists no extra fee for using a third-party payment gateway, so keeping your own processor costs nothing on WooCommerce's side.
The plugin stack a yard needs
I took the needs a lumber yard brings to an online store and found a plugin for each, using the vendor's own listing and the plan that fits one site. Contractor pricing and quotes come from B2BKing Pro, along with company credit, because B2BKing's Company Credit add-on is on its Pro and Developer plans only. The other seven fill one need each.
The total is US$1,202 in year one. Add hosting at WooCommerce's own range and the first year of licenses plus hosting comes to US$1,502 to US$5,402.
Those are first-year prices, and two are introductory: SearchWP lists Pro at US$199, normally US$399, and B2BKing lists Pro at US$299, normally US$449.50. Wholesale Suite, a B2BKing alternative, shows the renewal risk plainly: its All Access bundle is US$299 in year one and its pricing page says "all renewals are at full price," which it lists as US$598.
What the stack leaves out
Four things a yard needs aren't in that number, and they're the expensive ones.
The ERP link. NetSuite and QuickBooks Online have plugins, at US$399 and US$99 a year. For the LBM ERPs, I couldn't find one, so it's an iPaaS subscription or a custom build.
A branded app for contractors. The Woo mobile app is for the store owner. A shopper app under your name needs a third-party app builder.
Distributor catalogs. I couldn't find a WooCommerce plugin for Orgill, Do it Best or Emery Jensen.
The people. Someone installs eight plugins from six vendors, configures them to agree with each other, tests each update and fixes what an update breaks. WooCommerce's own pricing page cites agency case studies with initial development from US$60,000 to US$200,000 and ongoing maintenance of up to US$100,000 a year. Those were a luxury boutique, a medical retailer and a coffee subscription company, not lumber yards, so read them as a sense of scale rather than a quote.
Impact
Everything in that table ships inside ToolSwift's monthly fee, from quoting and credit to rewards and search, and running it is our job. The WooCommerce version is eight annual licenses, cheap to buy and yours to host and integrate, and the two most expensive pieces, the ERP link and the contractor app, still aren't on the bill.
WooCommerce B2B and B2C share one storefront
ToolSwift runs a retail storefront and a separate contractor dashboard and app on one catalog; WooCommerce B2B and B2C run in one store, with role plugins deciding who sees which price.
Two buyers with different jobs
A homeowner planning a deck and a framer reordering joists are both on your site this morning. The homeowner needs pictures, plain words, a price and a delivery date. The framer needs his account, his pricing and last week's order, in three taps.
How ToolSwift serves both
ToolSwift gives each buyer a front end built for them, fed by the same catalog. The retail storefront works like a good retail site: browsing by category, product pages with real photos and specs, search that understands plain language, and guest checkout. The contractor side is its own dashboard and app, built around reorders and quotes, invoices and credit.
Details that matter at a yard are built in. A store selector uses geolocation to put each visitor in their nearest yard, with that yard's prices and stock. Items you can get from Orgill, Do it Best or Emery Jensen appear live, marked "Available Online Only." Special-order products can be listed with no price, as a quote request instead of an add-to-cart button. Bulk pricing tiers show on the product page, and bundles carry their own price.
One catalog, set by group
Customers sit in groups, and you choose which products each group sees, so trade-only items stay hidden from the public. You can build a B2B catalog for a set of accounts with negotiated prices and quantity tiers, and run banners and promotions aimed only at trade customers. Email and SMS campaigns go out through Klaviyo or ActiveCampaign, targeted by customer or group, from the same dashboard.
How WooCommerce does B2B and B2C
On WooCommerce, the B2B layer is a plugin over one store. B2BKing describes a "B2B & B2C hybrid" mode where "B2B features are hidden for B2C users." Addify's B2B for WooCommerce (US$179 a year) lists role-based pricing, product visibility by user role, quantity-based tiers, hidden prices and payment and shipping restrictions by role. The homeowner and the contractor get the same storefront, with prices and products switched by role.
Rewards aimed at the person who decides
ToolSwift Rewards are built for trade buying. You can award points only on app and portal orders, so contractors have a reason to stop phoning the counter. Points can scale with how fast an invoice is paid, and can be earned only on ACH, cash or account payments, so you collect sooner and pay less in card fees. Points pool to the company or go to the individual buyer who picks your yard, and customers see and redeem them in their own dashboard.
WooCommerce's Points and Rewards, by Woo at US$179 a year, earns points on purchases and actions like reviews, with rates by product or category. Its listing doesn't mention B2B, user roles or rules by payment method.
Impact
Homeowners get a retail store and contractors get a trade tool, both reading one catalog you maintain once. WooCommerce puts both buyers on one storefront, so the line between a homeowner and a contractor is a setting inside a plugin that another company updates.
WooCommerce core has no contractor credit at checkout
ToolSwift enforces each contractor's credit limit at checkout and keeps his terms and invoices with his users in one account; WooCommerce core has none of that, and B2BKing's Company Credit add-on comes only with its Pro plan and up.
How a contractor account works on ToolSwift
A contractor's company is one account with several logins: the owner, the person who does the buying, a foreman or two. Each login has its own role and can be switched on or off. You class each customer as Pro or Regular, and tax exemption is a toggle.
Each Pro account can carry a credit limit. The contractor sees his limit, his available credit, what's due and what he's used, and so does your team. When he checks out on account, checkout knows his available credit and enforces the limit automatically, so nobody at the counter has to catch an over-limit order by hand. His pricing follows his customer type and his order volume.
What he does with it
From the dashboard or the app, he reorders a past job in one click, builds a bulk order, keeps wishlists for the next job and tracks each order as its status changes. He chooses delivery or pickup. He downloads invoices and statements and pays from his account, with the card he already saved.
B2BKing gives a quote a conversation thread. On ToolSwift every order and every quote has one, and the same thread reaches the contractor by SMS or WhatsApp Business, so his question about Thursday's drop stays on Thursday's order. His credit application gets signed inside the platform, and so do his quotes, his delivery confirmations and any waiver. If he'd rather phone, your staff key the order into the admin on his account and pick the channel.
Terms and collections
Your team sees overdue balances in real time, sends payment requests in bulk, and shares payment links by SMS and email. Every B2B invoice is in one list, marked paid, pending or overdue. Our payments page has the detail.
What WooCommerce B2B plugins offer
WooCommerce core doesn't include company accounts, terms or credit limits. B2BKing adds them: subaccounts with permissions per user, purchase lists, an "Invoice Payment Gateway" and a "Purchase Order Gateway" for buying on terms. A line of credit is a separate "Company Credit" add-on, included on B2BKing Pro (US$299 a year) and Developer (US$449), and not on Startup (US$199). Addify's B2B for WooCommerce listing doesn't mention credit limits or net terms.
Impact
Checkout respects a contractor's credit because his company and users, his terms and his invoices sit in one account your AR team also works from. Assembled from B2BKing and its credit add-on, the WooCommerce version still has to agree with your ERP's view of his balance, through an integration nobody sells.
A WooCommerce quote starts from a cart; ours from a photo
On ToolSwift, a quote starts from what the contractor sends, a voice note, photo, scan or takeoff, and the Takeoff Agent drafts it for your team; WooCommerce quote plugins start from products the buyer has already found and added to a quote cart.
Where quotes actually stall
At most yards, the quote is the sale. A contractor sends a list, someone inside prices it, and whoever answers first and right usually gets the order.
The slow part is reading the list. It comes in as a takeoff PDF, a phone photo of a page from a notebook, a spreadsheet, a voicemail. Someone who knows the yard has to turn "2x6-16 PT" into a SKU, line by line.
What the Takeoff Agent does
The Takeoff Agent is live. A contractor sends a voice note, a photo, a scan, a takeoff or a file, CSV or PDF, and the agent turns it into a draft quote against your catalog and his pricing. Your staff review the draft, adjust it and send it.
The setup is built around your yard. We sit with your reps over several meetings to see how they build a quote, then write an instruction file with them: focus areas like lumber only, siding left out, or how doors are handled. Your calculators and product lists go in, along with how you calculate quantities, waste allowance and accessories. Zoning rules, local bylaws and other reference material can be added too.
The agent won't read every scrawl perfectly, and a rep checking the draft before it reaches the customer is the right design. Checking a draft that's mostly right takes minutes. Building one from a blank page takes the afternoon, and it can only be done by the two or three people at the branch who know the catalog cold.
What happens next
The draft lands in your quotes dashboard, where staff can also build quotes for a customer from scratch. Each quote has an assigned rep, a due date and a revision history, and the list filters by status, customer, rep, time period and quote ID. The contractor and your team talk in a thread on the quote, he signs it in the platform, and reminders go out before the due date. Once approved, it becomes an order with the same lines and prices on the same account.
Assist AI, a separate assistant that helps staff answer emails and builds quotes from the conversation, is in review.
How WooCommerce quoting works
Quoting on WooCommerce comes from plugins. Addify's B2B for WooCommerce includes "request a quote" with a quote cart. B2BKing offers "Request a Quote" forms, converts quotes to offers and sends offers by email, with a conversation thread for negotiating. Both start the same way: the buyer finds products in your catalog and adds them, or describes what he wants in a form field for your staff to price.
Impact
The contractor's own list, in whatever form it arrives, becomes a priced draft that moves through review to a signature and an order without retyping. A WooCommerce quote begins in a cart or a form, so the photo of a materials list still lands on the desk of the one person at your counter who can read it.
No WooCommerce plugin for Orgill or Do it Best stock
ToolSwift's native PIM sells Orgill, Do it Best and Emery Jensen stock live and gives every length its own price and stock; on WooCommerce I couldn't find a distributor catalog plugin, and selling by the foot is a US$149-a-year calculator.
Distributor stock, sold online
ToolSwift integrates directly with Orgill, Do it Best and Emery Jensen. Their products appear in your storefront, read live by API and marked "Available Online Only," and an item you don't stock can ship straight from the distributor's DC to the customer without touching your yard.
Distributor data arrives thin, with short descriptions, missing specs and one photo. We enrich it: descriptions, specs, images, all cleaned up and mapped to your ERP or POS item file, your part numbers and your items. The enriched catalog is yours.
A 2x10 is many products
A calculator plugin turns a price per foot into a price per board. ToolSwift treats each board as what it is in the yard: every length of 2x10 from 8 to 16 feet, every grade, every treated version, is a variant with its own attributes and photos, its own price, its own stock count. The 16-footer can be sold out while the 12 is in stock, and the site says so. Categories go three levels deep and move by drag and drop. Products load one by one or by CSV, prices change in bulk, and dimensions and weights flow into the shipping cost. AI drafts descriptions and SEO tags and files products by attributes like material and size.
How WooCommerce handles it
Selling by the unit comes from SkyVerge's Measurement Price Calculator, US$149 a year, which prices products "by the unit: foot, square meter, cubic yard, etc." and handles area and volume as well as weight. Stock and price that differ by yard come from Addify's Multi Inventory Management, US$129 a year, which can "set a different price for each inventory" and show the nearest inventory based on the customer's location.
I couldn't find a WooCommerce plugin for Orgill, Do it Best or Emery Jensen catalogs.
Impact
Your catalog reaches as far as your distributors do, mapped to your item file, with every length of every board priced and stocked on its own. WooCommerce's catalog stops at what you load yourself, and distributor stock becomes a feed you'd build and then maintain.
WooCommerce's default search skips the SKU field
ToolSwift search matches exact part numbers and plain-language descriptions across your whole catalog, included for every client; WooCommerce's default search doesn't look at the SKU field, so a yard adds a search plugin.
Search for both buyers
SearchWP adds the SKU field to WooCommerce's search. ToolSwift's search starts there and goes further, running two kinds of matching at once. A part number typed exactly finds that part. A description in a homeowner's words, like "something to hang a joist," finds the hanger he didn't know to name. Natural-language and visual search sit on top, and the index covers distributor stock as well as your own.
Being found by people who don't know you yet
Someone two towns over searches for pressure-treated 2x6 near them, or asks an AI assistant where to buy cedar decking. ToolSwift renders product pages on the server, so Google and AI crawlers get the full page with the name, the price and the specs. Sitemaps build from the catalog automatically. Products sync to Google Merchant Center, Microsoft Merchant Center and Meta, and Google Analytics data shows up in ToolSwift's analytics next to your orders.
What WooCommerce search does
SearchWP, which sells a search plugin, says "WooCommerce's built-in search matches against the product title and description, so it doesn't search the SKU field unless you add that capability with a plugin like SearchWP." SearchWP's WooCommerce integration is on its Pro plan, US$199 a year. At a yard where contractors read part numbers off an old invoice, that plugin is close to required.
Who the AI works for
WooCommerce shipped support for the Model Context Protocol as a beta in version 10.3 in October 2025, and its developer docs call it a developer preview. Its abilities read and write products and orders, so an AI assistant can help the merchant manage the store. ToolSwift's AI starts with the contractor: the Takeoff Agent turns what he sends into a quote, product recommendations draw on his purchase history, and chatbots answer customer questions at any hour. On the admin side, AI writes descriptions and tags and flags orders that look fraudulent.
Impact
Part numbers and plain words both land on the right product, across your stock and your distributors', with AI working for the buyer. On default WooCommerce search, a contractor typing a SKU misses the product unless that SKU also sits in the title or description, until the US$199 plugin goes in.
The Woo app runs the store; ToolSwift's goes to the contractor
ToolSwift includes a native app for iOS and Android under your brand, at $99 a month for the business; WooCommerce's own app is for the store owner, so a contractor app needs a third-party builder.
What the ToolSwift app does
The app installs from the App Store or Google Play with your business name on the home screen. It holds the whole contractor dashboard: quotes, orders, invoices, statements, the catalog and messages. The contractor shops with his own pricing and stock, sees his credit and his balance, and pays an invoice from the job site.
Native means the phone's hardware works for him. He scans a product barcode to find it and add it to the cart. He says what he's missing and the app turns it into an order. Push notifications land on his lock screen when a quote is ready, and approving it takes a tap. The camera feeds the Takeoff Agent, which is where a photo of a list becomes a quote.
Everyone who buys for his company can be added, sharing the company's pricing and credit, and its order history, and orders group by job site.
What WooCommerce offers
The Woo mobile app's pitch is "Create products, process orders, and watch your sales climb in real time." It's for the merchant running the store. A branded app your contractors download comes from a third-party app builder that wraps your WooCommerce store, priced by that builder and supported by it.
Impact
Your yard rides in the contractor's pocket, with his account, his credit, voice ordering and the camera. Woo's own app sits in your manager's pocket instead, so a contractor app means one more vendor and one more bill.
WooCommerce shipping zones are postcode lists
ToolSwift prices delivery by zones you set on a map, with delivery windows and cut-offs, plus an estimated delivery time at checkout; WooCommerce's shipping zones are lists of regions and postcodes, and delivery dates come from a plugin.
Three ways to fulfill
ToolSwift has three fulfillment methods: pickup, delivery from your own trucks, and shipping by carrier. Each turns on or off down to the single product. Lumber can be delivery only, fasteners can ship, and a special order can be pickup at the branch.
Your fleet, your rules
WooCommerce zones are typed lists. ToolSwift zones are drawn: open the map and outline the area your trucks reach, or build the zone from postal codes, cities, states or countries, and give each zone its own price. Several can run at once. Delivery policies add the rest: rates by zone, the handling time your crew needs to load, the windows you deliver in and the same-day cut-off. At checkout the customer is offered only the options you serve, with an estimated delivery time.
Pickup sits alongside delivery. Carrier shipping connects through ShipStation or Shippo with live rates and tracking, and distributor items can ship from the distributor. Every order gets a tracking timeline both sides can follow. The shipping page shows it.
Several yards, one dashboard
Every location's inventory and pricing, its orders and its customer accounts are managed from one dashboard and synced in real time. You choose which yards fulfill, so an order ships from or is picked up at the right one. Staff are limited by role and by store, and customer conversations group by location.
How WooCommerce handles delivery
WooCommerce's shipping zones are built from countries, states or provinces, and postcodes, with ranges and wildcards. The zone docs describe no radius or map zones and no delivery date scheduling. Local Pickup in the legacy docs has three settings: a name, a tax status and a cost, with no pickup date or time.
Delivery dates come from Digital Lychee's Delivery Date Picker, US$49 a year, which covers a date picker, lead times and holiday blocking; its listing doesn't mention time slots or same-day cut-offs. Multiple yards come from Addify's Multi Inventory Management, US$129 a year.
Impact
A contractor sees the delivery your trucks actually cover, from the nearest yard, with an estimated time before he pays. A WooCommerce yard maintains postcode lists plus a date plugin and a per-yard stock plugin from two different vendors, and keeps all three in step.
Moneris on WooCommerce is a US$99-a-year plugin
ToolSwift runs Moneris, Stripe, VersaPay, Clover or Square as your own processor with no transaction fees, plus Interac Direct through Konek; on WooCommerce, Moneris is a SkyVerge plugin you license and keep updated, and its listing doesn't mention Interac.
Your processor, your rates
On WooCommerce, keeping your processor means licensing its plugin. On ToolSwift, the processor is a connection you choose: Stripe, VersaPay, Clover, Square or Moneris. Your negotiated rates and your bank stay as they are, the money settles straight to you, and ToolSwift takes no cut of any transaction.
SkyVerge's listing offers saved cards. ToolSwift vaults the contractor's card through Moneris natively, so his Friday invoice gets paid without anyone sending a new payment link. Cards are one option among several: cash, net terms, ACH, prepaid credit balances, and bank payments with no card at all through Konek, Interac Direct included.
Terms tied to credit
Every payment method ties back to the customer's credit. Checkout enforces the limit, payments apply to invoices in the dashboard, and the contractor sees his limit, available credit and balance with a button to pay.
What WooCommerce offers
WooCommerce charges no fee for using a third-party gateway. Moneris comes from SkyVerge's Moneris Gateway for WooCommerce, US$99 a year, which notes that "Moneris is only available for merchants in Canada." It lists saved cards and refunds from inside WooCommerce. Interac isn't mentioned on the listing.
WooCommerce's own processor, WooPayments, charges 2.9% plus $0.30 on online card payments in Canada, and $0.15 on in-person Interac. Net terms and invoice payments on WooCommerce come from a B2B plugin such as B2BKing's invoice gateway.
Impact
A Canadian yard on ToolSwift keeps Moneris, vaults contractor cards through it, takes Interac Direct through Konek and has terms tied to each account's credit, all in the platform. The WooCommerce gateway costs nothing to use, but Moneris is a license renewed every year, online Interac isn't on its listing, and terms come from a second plugin.
Woo POS takes cards only through WooPayments or Stripe
ToolSwift connects to the counter system you already run and records each order's channel; Woo POS runs on tablets in the Woo app, takes cards through WooPayments or Stripe only, and sells only simple, variable or virtual products.
The counter stays yours
Woo POS asks the counter to move to a tablet. ToolSwift leaves the counter where your staff already know it by feel and connects to it: your ERP through the sixteen connectors, or a POS such as Lightspeed or Square. Every order carries its channel, POS or online, so you can see each yard's split. When a contractor phones in, the order your staff key in runs through the same system as his app orders.
A contractor's account, with his pricing and credit, is the same at the counter, in the app and on the phone with your inside rep.
What Woo POS is
Woo POS is a mode in the Woo mobile app. It runs in ten countries, including Canada and the US, on tablets (phones in the UK only). It sells "Simple physical, Variable and Virtual products" and takes payments through "WooPayments or Stripe," plus cash.
Impact
The counter stays on the system you chose, and a contractor is one account wherever he buys. Woo POS would put a tablet on the pro desk running WooPayments or Stripe, so a yard on Moneris ends up with two processors.
WooCommerce returns are a US$99-a-year plugin
ToolSwift sets return rules per product or category and reports every yard across counter and online; on WooCommerce, returns are a US$99-a-year plugin.
Returns that fit what you sell
A yard gladly takes back a box of deck screws and never takes back a cut beam. In ToolSwift, you set return and refund policies per product or category: the return window, who pays return shipping, the refund method, and conditions for automatic approval. Analytics track return rates by product and what returns cost you in sales.
On WooCommerce, returns come from Returns and Warranty Requests by Woo, US$99 a year, which manages RMA and warranty requests from one admin view, with warranty terms per product and emails at each status change.
Every yard in one view
ToolSwift's analytics show sales over time with period comparisons, top products and categories, gross margins, average order value, and revenue by location, payment method and customer type, Pro or Regular. Order analytics cover counter and online orders together, with fulfillment times and repeat rates. Inventory analytics flag fast movers and dead stock. Yards compare side by side on sales, orders, even returns.
Impact
Returns follow the rule you set for each product, and each yard's numbers line up across counter and online. Returns on WooCommerce are one of the eight licenses, so the RMA desk depends on that plugin keeping pace with every WooCommerce update.
Security and updates: who you call when it breaks
On ToolSwift, one team runs the platform and answers 24/7 with full-stack access; on WooCommerce, the yard owns the updates, the plugins carry most of WordPress's security risk, and Woo's support policy excludes third-party plugins and customizations.
One team, at any hour
We host and run the platform. There's no plugin layer on your side to update, no compatibility to test between vendors, and no host to coordinate with. After launch you get 24/7 human support from people with full-stack access to your platform: the storefront, the contractor app, the catalog, the connector to your ERP. A problem anywhere in that chain has one phone number.
What the plugins carry
Patchstack's 2026 report on WordPress security counted 11,334 new vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem in 2025, 42% more than in 2024. Of those, 91% were in plugins, 9% in themes and 6 in WordPress core. And 46% weren't fixed by the time they were publicly disclosed. Patchstack puts the weighted median time to first exploit for heavily targeted flaws at 5 hours, and says about half of high-impact vulnerabilities are exploited within 24 hours.
On a WooCommerce store, every one of the eight plugins above is code from its own vendor, updated on its own schedule. The yard, or whoever the yard pays, decides when to apply each update and checks that it didn't break checkout.
Who answers on WooCommerce
WooCommerce's support policy, effective January 1, 2024, says its support "does not cover products supplied by Third Parties who are not our Resellers, or third-party products and services which we did not sell or license to you." It adds: "We do not customize the Products or support any third-party customizations of the Products," and Woo does "not give general WordPress support."
By that wording, a plugin Woo didn't sell or license to you, such as B2BKing bought from KingsPlugins or SearchWP bought from SearchWP, is its vendor's to support. The host supports the server. And the custom ERP link is supported by whoever built it.
Impact
One owner answers for the store, the app, the catalog and the ERP connector, at any hour. A WooCommerce yard owns the update calendar for the part of WordPress where Patchstack found 91% of last year's vulnerabilities, and when checkout breaks between two plugins, the first job is finding out whose bug it is.
On WooCommerce, the implementation team is you
ToolSwift's team runs the whole launch, from requirements to go-live, and launches in weeks; on WooCommerce, you or your developer assemble the stack and connect it.
How a ToolSwift launch runs
On ToolSwift, the people who assemble the pieces are ours: one project team and one dedicated account manager, from the first requirements call to go-live. They migrate your data, connect your ERP or POS, design the retail side and the contractor side, set up the catalog with your pricing and train your staff, on milestones agreed with you so the counter keeps running through the switch. Onboarding is quoted to your catalog and integrations before you start.
What WooCommerce implementation involves
On WooCommerce, implementation is whatever you or your developer assemble: choose a host, install WordPress and WooCommerce, pick a theme, then choose a B2B plugin and configure it with the seven others, build or buy the ERP link, load the catalog and enrich it, and test it all together. WooCommerce's support policy doesn't cover customizations, so the assembly is supported by whoever assembled it.
Impact
The team that builds the store, the connector and the catalog is the team that supports them. A WooCommerce project is yours to staff, and so is every year after launch.
The bottom line
ToolSwift is a platform built for a lumber yard; WooCommerce B2B is a platform a lumber yard can assemble from WordPress, eight plugins, a host and a developer.
What ToolSwift gives a yard
A retail storefront on your domain and a separate contractor dashboard and native branded app, on one catalog. Connectors for Spruce, BisTrack, Eagle, DMSi Agility, Paladin, Profit Master, PRISM, Ogasys/Acceo, plus the rest of sixteen named systems, which we build and maintain. Credit limits enforced at checkout, with terms and AR in one dashboard. Quotes from a photo, a voice note or a takeoff through the Takeoff Agent. Orgill, Do it Best and Emery Jensen stock sold online. Delivery zones on a map with windows and cut-offs. Moneris or any of our gateways with no transaction fees. Rewards, returns rules and search included. One team on support around the clock. And a published price: $399 a month for the first store, $250 per additional store, $99 for the app, $199 per store for the AI plan, month to month.
What a yard assembles on WooCommerce
Hosting at US$25 to US$350 a month. Eight plugins from six vendors at US$1,202 in year one, renewing yearly. An ERP link I couldn't find as a plugin for any LBM system. A contractor app from a third-party builder. A developer to put it together and keep it current, in a plugin ecosystem where Patchstack counted 11,334 new WordPress vulnerabilities last year. And a support policy at WooCommerce that stops at the edge of its own products.
The decision rule
Count the vendors. If your contractors buy on account, your ERP is an LBM system and you take Moneris, write down which company you'd call for each of those on WooCommerce. On ToolSwift, the answer to all three is the same team.
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If you want to see a contractor's quote drafted from a photo against your own catalog, book a ToolSwift demo.
The full comparison, group by group
Each table matches a section above: ToolSwift builds LBM ERP connectors, contractor credit, quoting from what contractors send, a native app and your own processor into one hosted platform, while WooCommerce reaches each through a plugin, a service or a custom build.
FAQ
Is WooCommerce good for B2B?
WooCommerce can run B2B, but core doesn't include company accounts, contractor pricing, net terms, credit limits or quotes; they come from plugins such as B2BKing, Wholesale Suite or Addify's B2B for WooCommerce. For a lumber yard, credit limits, Moneris, selling by length, per-yard stock, delivery dates and SKU search each add another plugin, and the ERP link is a custom build.
What is the best WooCommerce B2B plugin for a lumber yard?
For a yard, the plugin has to handle company credit, so B2BKing's Pro plan (US$299 a year) is the one I'd price, because its Company Credit add-on isn't on the Startup plan. Addify's B2B for WooCommerce (US$179 a year) doesn't mention credit limits or net terms on its listing. Neither connects to an LBM ERP.
Does WooCommerce work with Moneris?
Yes, through SkyVerge's Moneris Gateway for WooCommerce, US$99 a year, for merchants in Canada, with saved cards and refunds from WooCommerce. WooCommerce adds no fee for third-party gateways. Interac isn't mentioned on the listing, and Woo POS at the counter takes cards only through WooPayments or Stripe. ToolSwift runs Moneris natively, with card vaulting and no transaction fees.
Does WooCommerce integrate with BisTrack or Spruce?
I couldn't find a WooCommerce plugin for BisTrack, Spruce, Paladin, Profit Master, PRISM or DMSi Agility. BisTrack connects to outside stores through Epicor's BisTrack API, which on WooCommerce means a custom build, and Eagle has been offered through an iPaaS service. ToolSwift has its own connectors for Spruce, BisTrack, Eagle plus thirteen other ERP and accounting systems.
Sources
All pages read on October 7, 2026, unless a date is given. WooCommerce and plugin prices are in US dollars as the pages show them.
ToolSwift:
ToolSwift features: Quotes, Takeoff Agent, Orders, Payments, Shipping, Integrations, Customers, Products, Pro accounts, Mobile app, Rewards, Analytics, Marketing, Messages, Store locations, Policies, AI features
ToolSwift FAQ and pricing
WooCommerce platform, pricing, support:
WooCommerce pricing (core, hosting range, extension range, gateway fees, agency case studies)
WooCommerce support policy (effective January 1, 2024)
B2B plugins:
Other plugins (Woo Marketplace and vendor listings):
ERP:
Clarity Ventures, Epicor Eagle and WooCommerce integration (seen in search results October 7, 2026; the page has since been removed)
Security:
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