Tepia builds custom wholesale ordering apps for brands that sell to independent retailers, with digital line sheets, seasonal prebooks, one tap reorders and an offline mode for sales reps at trade shows. Apps are typically built in React Native or Swift and Kotlin with a React buyer portal, synced to NetSuite, QuickBooks or Salesforce.
A wholesale ordering app replaces PDF line sheets, emailed spreadsheets and handwritten trade show orders with one catalog your retailers and reps both trust.
Tepia turns seasonal PDF line sheets into a live catalog with size runs, prepacks, ship windows and minimums that update when product changes.
Read: B2B Distribution Ordering App Development
Tepia builds a rep mode that writes orders offline on a trade show floor and syncs to your ERP once the booth regains a connection.
Read: How to Build a B2B Ordering App
Retailers place future season prebooks and at once reorders in the same app, and each order carries its own requested ship window.
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Each retailer sees only its approved assortment, terms and case pack rules, so a buyer cannot submit an order the warehouse must reject.
Figures Tepia plans around when scoping a wholesale ordering app.
Apple reports 79 percent of iPads introduced in the last four years ran iPadOS 26 in June 2026, so rep iPads can run current features.
Pew Research Center reports 91 percent of US adults own a smartphone, including the store owners who reorder from the floor.
Tepia clients report roughly a 20 percent revenue increase after adding a mobile channel to how customers buy from them.
Wholesale runs on two rhythms at once. Months ahead of a season, your reps show the new line and boutique owners place prebooks with a requested ship window, often split across several deliveries. During the season, those same stores reorder proven sellers at once, usually in a hurry and often from a phone while standing in the stockroom. Tepia designs the app around both rhythms, because a tool that only handles one forces the other back into email.
The details are what make wholesale different from consumer ecommerce. Apparel and footwear sell in size runs and prepacks, so a buyer orders a pack of sizes rather than single units. Food and beverage brands sell by the case with pallet and layer minimums. Gift and home brands set opening order minimums for new accounts and lower reorder minimums after that. Each retailer may carry a different approved assortment, and some are on credit hold until accounts receivable clears them.
Most brands still manage this with a PDF line sheet, an order form spreadsheet and a rep who types everything into the ERP after the show. Tepia replaces that chain with a single catalog that the buyer, the rep and the warehouse all read from, so an order is right when it is placed instead of corrected two days later.
Tepia scopes features from your channel mix and product structure. A brand selling to a few hundred boutiques needs different screens than a distributor with thousands of SKUs, but most wholesale apps share this core:
| Feature | Who uses it | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Digital line sheet with imagery and size runs | Retail buyers and reps | Replaces the seasonal PDF and stays current when a style drops |
| Prebook ordering with ship windows | Retail buyers | Lets one order split into several dated deliveries |
| One tap reorder from order history | Store owners | Turns the most common wholesale task into a few seconds |
| Rep mode with offline order writing | Sales reps | Captures orders at trade shows and store visits without signal |
| Account specific assortments and terms | Sales managers | Keeps exclusives and regional lines visible only to the right stores |
| Minimums, case packs and prepack validation | Operations | Stops orders the warehouse cannot pick as entered |
| Available to promise by ship window | Buyers and reps | Shows what can ship now versus next delivery |
Rep mode deserves special care. A rep at a regional gift show may write forty orders in a day with spotty Wi-Fi, scan a barcode on a sample to add it, and capture the buyer’s signature on the iPad. Tepia builds that flow so it never loses an order and flags conflicts, such as a style that sold out while the rep was offline, the moment it syncs.
A wholesale app is only as good as its connection to the systems that ship and bill the order. Tepia connects to the platforms brands already run:
Our ERP integration services team handles the sync rules, including which system wins when a rep edits an order that the ERP already allocated.
Tepia runs its six phase process on every wholesale project, with a US based project manager who owns the plan and the schedule.
Typically Discovery takes 1 to 3 months, development and QA 2 to 6 months, and launch about a month. See our process for detail.
Packaged wholesale platforms and the B2B features inside Shopify Plus or BigCommerce work well for many brands. If you sell a simple catalog, your terms are uniform and you do not rely on trade shows, Tepia will usually suggest staying on one and adding an app or integration only where it falls short.
Custom work earns its place when:
If you distribute rather than manufacture, our B2B distribution ordering app page covers route based delivery and large SKU counts, and how to build a B2B ordering app walks through the steps. You can also talk to Tepia about your next season.
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