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B2B

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

/ˌbiː tə ˈbiː/abbreviationCore term

In e-commerce, B2B means: Short for business-to-business: one company selling products or services to other companies, such as a wholesaler supplying shops.

In Turkish: işletmeden işletmeye, firmalar arası, B2B

How it is used

In e-commerce, B2B sites often have customer accounts, price lists per customer, minimum order quantities and payment on invoice. People say B2B platform, B2B portal or B2B buyers. Said letter by letter: B-to-B.

Example sentences

  1. Our B2B customers can see their own prices after they log in.

  2. We launched a B2B portal so that pharmacies can reorder without calling us.

Common collocations

  • B2B e-commerce
  • B2B portal
  • B2B buyers
  • B2B sales
  • B2B and B2C
  • B2CShort for business-to-consumer: a business selling directly to individual people who buy for their own use, as most online shops do.
  • e-commerce platformSoftware used to build and run an online store, covering the product catalog, cart, checkout, payments, orders and integrations with other tools.
  • e-commerceBuying and selling goods or services over the internet, including everything around it: online stores, payments, delivery and customer service.
  • orderA customer's request to buy one or more products, created when they complete checkout; it then moves through payment, packing, shipping and delivery.

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