- Short answer
- On Plus, if a company location's directly assigned catalogs price an item differently, the lowest price shows, compared without volume breaks.
- Volume breaks and quantity rules
- Among directly assigned catalogs: from the one with the variant's lowest price; on a tie, the first created.
- Location catalog vs. B2B market catalog
- The location catalog's price shows, as the most specific, with its quantity rules and volume breaks.
- Basic, Grow and Advanced
- No direct assignment; catalogs arrive through B2B markets, up to 3 active across all of them.
- Catalogs per company location
- At most 25, counting market-assigned and directly assigned catalogs together.
Which price shows when directly assigned catalogs overlap?
Between catalogs assigned directly to one company location, Shopify's catalog help page sets the rule:
If the catalogs assigned to the same company location include the same product at different prices, then your B2B store displays the lowest price for that item, not including quantity rules or volume pricing breaks.
Volume breaks stay out of that comparison but follow its result: buyers see quantity rules and volume pricing “from the catalog with the lowest price per variant” and, on a tie, “from the first catalog that was created”.
So among directly assigned catalogs, keep volume breaks in the one holding that variant's lowest price.
What if a B2B market catalog also covers the location?
When a catalog assigned directly to the location and one from a matching B2B market price the same product differently, the same help page says the store displays “the most specific price for that item”: the location catalog's price, even where the market's is lower, with that catalog's quantity rules and volume breaks.
To change what that location's buyers see, edit the location's own catalog.
Which plan limits apply?
Direct assignment is a Plus feature: Shopify's B2B plan features page says it “isn't available on the Basic, Grow, or Advanced plans”.
On those plans, catalogs reach a location through B2B markets, and you can assign up to 3 active catalogs across all your B2B markets. Shopify's rules for overlapping market catalogs are in our answer on several catalogs in one market.
Shopify's B2B markets page says each company location can have “a maximum of 25 catalogs”, market-assigned and directly assigned together.
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