RocketXRocketX vs Adobe Commerce B2B
Adobe Commerce can do almost anything, which is both the case for it and the warning. For a wholesaler the question is simpler than the feature list: the licence is banded by how much you sell, and the implementation is the larger number.
What Adobe Commerce B2B genuinely does well
Enormously capable and genuinely enterprise-grade — a deep B2B feature set with company accounts, requisition lists, quoting and shared catalogues, an enormous extension ecosystem, and the engineering maturity to run very large catalogues across many markets. If you need something built exactly to your process and have the budget and the team to do it, it will get there.
The documented edges
- The licence is banded by GMV. Pricing is tied to annual gross merchandise value rather than a flat figure — commonly cited from roughly $22k a year at the bottom to $125k and beyond for large merchants self-managed, and around $40k to $190k+ on cloud. What you pay is a function of what you sell.Source: IWD Agency — Adobe Commerce pricing by GMV bracket
- The B2B layer is its own tier. B2B packages are cited separately again — in the region of $22k, $40k and $80k a year as GMV rises through the mid-market bands. Wholesale is priced on top of commerce, not included in it.Source: Folio3 — Adobe Commerce licence and B2B tiers
- The licence is 20–40% of what you actually spend. Annual total cost of ownership for a working B2B store is commonly put at $122k to $450k and up, with hosting, extensions and a development retainer making up the rest.Source: Elogic — what an Adobe Commerce B2B store really costs
- At scale it lands near a share of revenue. A worked example at around $10M GMV totals roughly $350k a year once licence, hosting, extensions and development are counted — about 3.5% of the revenue passing through it. A flat fee is the thing that does not do that.Source: Elogic — worked TCO example
Take these three questions to their demo
- What is the licence at our GMV, and what does it become if we grow 30%?
- What is the year-one total — licence, hosting, extensions and the development retainer?
- How many months until a buyer can place a real order?
The two shapes, side by side
| Adobe Commerce B2B | RocketX | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence basis | Banded by GMV, with B2B priced as its own tier | Flat monthly fee, published, never a percentage of revenue |
| Buyer mobile | Responsive web storefront | Web app in any browser plus native iOS & Android, catalogue cached offline |
| Your web shop | Is the platform — it replaces it | Your web shop keeps running — RocketX goes live beside it |
| Trying it | A quote, then a build measured in months | 4–6 week pilot with agreed measures — miss them, walk away owing nothing |
Where RocketX pulls ahead
- A true native app experience: iOS and Android apps built for B2B ordering — not a website wrapped in a shell.
- One cart on every surface: a full web app in any browser on any computer or device, plus the native apps — the same server-side cart everywhere, cached on the device and synced back the moment the connection returns.
- Rich media where the order happens: print brochures as PDFs and product video live beside the catalogue — and still open with no signal.
- Barcode scanning into the cart: point at the shelf or the box and the line is in the order.
- Quality checks before the order leaves: the cart flags recent duplicates and attributes every change to a name and a timestamp.
- Implemented by the people who built it: RocketX sets the platform up for you directly — no agency in between, no agency fees, no hand-offs where quality slips, and support from the team that knows the code.
- Orders come together faster: search answers under a second at your real catalogue size, and the whole team builds one cart at once — the pilot measures the difference on your own numbers.
Where they are the right choice
Choose Adobe Commerce if your requirements are genuinely bespoke, you have an agency or an internal team to run it, and a build measured in quarters is acceptable. That is a legitimate choice for a large merchant — it is not the shape of a wholesaler who needs ordering working now.
The way to settle it is not a comparison page — ours included. It is a 4–6 week pilot against your own catalogue, with measures agreed up front. If the pilot misses them, you walk away owing nothing.
Get My Custom Quote See the flat pricing Business case (PDF)Competitor information verified against the linked sources in August 2026; platforms change, and if anything here has gone stale, tell us and we will correct it. Also compared: Shopify B2B · Pepperi · Sana Commerce · B2B Wave · OroCommerce · BigCommerce B2B Edition · StoreHippo.