How is Amazon Business different from Amazon.com

Amazon Business is the B2B marketplace on Amazon. It gives business customers the selection, convenience, and value that they love about Amazon.com, but with features designed for businesses of all sizes. It provides sellers with a way to reach millions of business customers around the world.

Amazon Business is designed for business needs

Amazon Business provides businesses with a single, streamlined purchasing solution for a wide range of products. It helps organizations of all sizes consolidate procurement, minimize tail spend, and gain greater insight into purchasing. Customers can create multi-user accounts that allow them to choose from hundreds of millions of products on Amazon, including business-only items. All kinds of organizations around the world benefit from business-only pricing, easy price comparisons, quantity discounts, and free shipping with a Business Prime membership.

A seamless, familiar experience

On the homepage, registered Amazon Business customers can shop for all the products they need for their business in a familiar Amazon interface.

They can type in the name of a product or list of keywords related to it, or browse through product categories relevant to their industry. Content-rich product detail pages tell them everything they need to know.

Differences between Amazon and Amazon Business

                                       Amazon                                                                      Amazon Business        

                      Buyers     Individual Customers                                                Businesses, organizations with tax IDs, individual customers

                    Account    Single User                                                                  Multiple Users

                      Pricing    Retails                                                                          Business pricing, retail, negotiated pricing

        Tax exemption    As applicable                                                               Exemption for qualifying organizations

                  Payment     Credit card, Amazon.com Store Card                       Corporate cards, Amazon.com corporate credit

                  Products     All                                                                                 All, including business-only products

Quantity discounts     None                                                                            Tiered quantity discounts

                  Shipping     Prime, Seller Fulfilled Prime                                     Business Prime, Seller Fulfilled Prime

                    Insights     Order History                                                              Approval workflows, purchasing analytics