Check the company before you extend the terms.
A first B2B order is a credit decision made from an email address and a company name. Verify AI checks whether the company and its address exist, and scores the order the same way it scores a consumer one.
Three things that happen every week
A new trade account orders a pallet of stock on day one and nobody knows who they are.
The company address is a virtual office and the phone number never answers.
Draft orders and quotes go out before anyone checks anything.
The shape of it for your business
- STEP 1
Score the draft order
The Shopify draft order action scores a quote before it converts, so the check happens while the order can still be changed.
- STEP 2
Include the company details
Company name and company address are first-class fields on the API. Both are checked for real-world existence rather than accepted as typed.
- STEP 3
Read the address and customer families
Virtual offices, reshipper addresses, and country mismatches surface as named factors with a severity, not as a single number.
- STEP 4
Decide on terms with a record
The score and its reasoning are stored against the order, which is what you want in front of you the next time that account asks for a larger limit.
Where to start
Everything runs on every order. These are the parts this business tends to care about first.
What b2b & wholesale ask
Is this a credit check?
Can we score orders that came in over the phone?
Do B2B orders cost more to verify?
It is the same engine either way
Score the orders you already know the answer to.
Five free credits is roughly twenty orders. Point them at last month and see whether the scores agree with what happened.
5 credits on signup · no card required