Company and buyer model
Use the evidence to set priorities and acceptance criteria before choosing implementation details.
Shopify B2B
Bring complex buying onlineand preserve the relationship
Create company accounts, buyer roles, catalogs, price lists, payment terms, approvals, reordering, and sales-assisted buying on Shopify.
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- Company and buyer model
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- Catalog, price, and terms logic
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- Sales-assisted self-service
The core decision
B2B self-service should make the sales team more effective.
We map where buyers need speed, where account context matters, and where a representative adds value. The digital experience removes repetitive work while preserving relationship ownership.
Tenten perspective
B2B self-service should make the sales team more effective.
What creates pressure
Three constraints to resolve before implementation
Catalog, price, and terms logic
Translate the finding into a clear operating decision, an owner, and a measurable review point.
Sales-assisted self-service
Keep the decision visible through design, engineering, launch, and the first optimization cycle.
Decision chapter 01
B2B self-service should make the sales team more effective.
We map where buyers need speed, where account context matters, and where a representative adds value. The digital experience removes repetitive work while preserving relationship ownership.
Create company accounts, buyer roles, catalogs, price lists, payment terms, approvals, reordering, and sales-assisted buying on Shopify.
Company and buyer model
Use the evidence to set priorities and acceptance criteria before choosing implementation details.
Catalog, price, and terms logic
Translate the finding into a clear operating decision, an owner, and a measurable review point.
Sales-assisted self-service
Keep the decision visible through design, engineering, launch, and the first optimization cycle.
Decision chapter 02
Strategy, experience, engineering, and handoff stay connected.
We define the commercial goal, design the journey, build the system, validate production behavior, and leave the owning team with clear controls.
What the evidence changes
Company and buyer model2%
Catalog, price, and terms logic1%
Sales-assisted self-service0.6%
Company and buyer model0.2%
Published source: Shopify
What the evidence changes
Company and buyer model
We define the commercial goal, design the journey, build the system, validate production behavior, and leave the owning team with clear controls.
What the evidence changes
Catalog, price, and terms logic
We begin with the commercial and operational constraint, align the experience and architecture, then ship in reviewable increments. The team that frames the problem remains accountable through launch.
Tenten perspective
B2B self-service should make the sales team more effective.
What the delivery must cover
Company and buyer model
Define the decision, dependencies, and proof required before work moves into production.
Catalog, price, and terms logic
Design with real content and operating constraints so the experience can survive launch.
Sales-assisted self-service
Build explicit system boundaries, release ownership, and maintainable implementation paths.
What the team should leave with
Validate the result and leave the team with a practical next operating cycle.
Decision comparison
| Current model | Target operating model | |
|---|---|---|
| Ownership | Dependencies are spread across vendors and tools. | Owners and system boundaries are explicit. |
| Release flow | Changes wait on fragile or manual coordination. | Teams can preview, validate, and release deliberately. |
| Experience | Platform constraints shape the customer journey. | The journey follows the brand and buying context. |
| Operations | Exceptions become recurring manual work. | Common workflows are designed into the operating model. |
| Change cost | Each change reopens old dependencies. | Reusable foundations lower the cost of the next change. |
Delivery process
Discover
Map the business decision, current constraints, dependencies, and acceptance evidence.
Define
Agree on the target journey, system ownership, data boundaries, and implementation scope.
Design
Prototype with real content and validate the highest-risk journeys before full production.
Build
Implement, integrate, and test the system with observable quality gates.
What the team should leave with
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Company and buyer model
Use the evidence to set priorities and acceptance criteria before choosing implementation details.
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Catalog, price, and terms logic
Translate the finding into a clear operating decision, an owner, and a measurable review point.
03
Sales-assisted self-service
Keep the decision visible through design, engineering, launch, and the first optimization cycle.
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What the team should leave with
Use the evidence to set priorities and acceptance criteria before choosing implementation details.
Tenten perspective
Senior people stay close from decision to delivery.
Common questions
How do you decide the project scope?＋
We begin with the business decision, current-state constraints, target operating model, and evidence required for acceptance. The scope follows those findings.
Can Tenten work with our internal team and existing vendors?＋
Yes. We document system and decision ownership early so internal teams and specialist partners can work without ambiguous handoffs.
How do we keep the scope from expanding indefinitely?＋
We tie scope to the decisions, dependencies, and acceptance evidence agreed at the start, then record changes rather than hiding them inside delivery.
What happens after launch?＋
The first operating cycle reviews performance, user behavior, content needs, and unresolved risks so the next iteration starts from evidence.
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