Connect K8 to your ecommerce store
Trade pricing, branch stock and customer accounts are complex in K8. We connect it properly to Magento 2 and Shopify so your trade website reflects how your business actually works.
Trade operations online, without compromise.
Builders merchants and trade distributors running K8 face a specific challenge when moving online: the complexity that makes K8 powerful, customer-specific pricing, multi-branch stock, credit account management, does not translate to a website automatically. Generic ecommerce integrations paper over the gaps. We do not.
We have worked with K8 data structures in enough detail to build integrations that respect the logic your business runs on. Trade customers see their actual prices. Orders land in the right branch. Account holders can check their balance and reorder without picking up the phone. That is what a trade website should do.
Every data point that keeps your trade operation running.
Stock & branches
Live stock levels from each K8 branch pushed to your storefront, so trade customers see accurate availability for their nearest location.
Trade orders
Web orders written directly into K8 for picking and despatch, with order status and confirmation returned to the customer account.
Customer accounts & credit
Existing K8 trade accounts linked to website logins, with credit limits, account balances and payment terms all respected online.
Pricing & discounts
Customer-specific pricing, contract prices and volume discounts pulled from K8 and applied to the correct accounts on your website.
Deliveries
Delivery confirmations and estimated despatch dates from K8 surfaced within the customer account area on your storefront.
Product catalogue
Product records, pack sizes, units of measure and technical attributes maintained in K8 and published to your website without duplication.
Every customer sees exactly what they should pay.
K8's pricing engine is one of its most valuable features and one of the hardest things to replicate online. We build the integration so that when a trade customer logs in to your website, their session pulls their specific pricing from K8 in real time. Contract prices, volume breaks, account discounts, all applied correctly without manual maintenance on the website side.
Built to handle your peak, not just your average.
Trade websites experience concentrated order bursts, first thing in the morning, end of month, before bank holidays. Our integrations are built with queuing and retry logic so that high-volume moments do not cause pricing to serve stale data or orders to fail silently. Every transaction is logged and monitored so issues surface immediately rather than showing up in a K8 discrepancy report days later.
Common questions about Kerridge K8 integration
K8 is an ERP system developed by Kerridge Commercial Systems, built specifically for the builders merchant, timber merchant, plumbing and heating distribution, and trade counter sectors in the UK and Ireland. It handles branch operations, trade pricing, credit accounts, stock management and order processing in a single system. It is the dominant ERP in its sector and most businesses running it have significant customisation built up over years of use.
K8 is used by builders merchants, timber merchants, roofing and cladding suppliers, plumbing and heating distributors, electrical wholesalers and general trade counter businesses. If your business sells predominantly to trade customers, operates from multiple branches, and manages complex customer-specific pricing within K8, this integration is directly relevant to you.
Trade pricing in K8 is customer-specific. A single product can have dozens of different prices depending on the account. Our integration pulls the authenticated customer's pricing from K8 and applies it to their web session, so they always see their contracted price rather than a generic list price. This is fundamental to running a credible trade website and we have experience handling K8's pricing structures in detail.
Yes. K8 holds stock by branch and our integration can surface that data on your storefront. Customers can see stock availability at their preferred branch, choose a delivery or collection option, and place orders that route correctly within K8. For multi-branch operations, this removes a significant amount of phone and counter traffic.
A B2B account portal is one of the most valuable things you can add to a trade website. We build the connection so that K8 account data, including credit limit, outstanding balance, order history and statements, is accessible through the customer's website login. This reduces the administrative load on your counter and credit control teams considerably.
K8 integrations are typically more involved than standard ERP projects because of the complexity of trade pricing structures and the importance of getting branch stock logic right. A well-scoped project runs from six to twelve weeks. We work directly with your K8 support partner or Kerridge's team where needed to ensure the API access and data structures are clearly understood before development begins.
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Factory Direct FlooringReady to connect K8 to your store?
Tell us about your K8 setup and what your trade customers need online. We will scope an integration that handles the complexity properly from day one.