B2B buying is repeat buying: the same consumables, the same components, ordered on a rhythm. Requisition lists and quick order are Adobe Commerce’s tooling for that rhythm - and together they cut reorder time from minutes of catalog browsing to seconds. For merchants, that friction reduction shows up directly in reorder frequency.
Requisition Lists
Persistent, named lists of products with quantities: “Monthly cleaning supplies”, “Site 4 spares”. Buyers maintain multiple lists, add to them from any product page, and check out from a list in one action - or add selected items only.
Details worth knowing:
- Lists are per company user, with configurable limits (default 999 items per list, adjustable)
- Adding to cart from a list copies items - the list persists unchanged, ready for next month
- Lists survive catalog changes gracefully: discontinued items show as unavailable rather than breaking the list
For consumable-heavy businesses, requisition lists are the highest-adoption B2B feature - they map exactly to how purchasing departments already think.
Quick Order
Fast entry for buyers who know SKUs: a form accepting multiple SKU/quantity rows, or CSV upload of the same. Quick order validates each line - found, salable, quantity available - and reports problems per line rather than failing the lot.
Two details make it production-ready:
- Partial success handling: buyers add the valid lines, fix the flagged ones. Never force an all-or-nothing retry of a 60-line order
- SKU accuracy: quick order surfaces how wrong your SKU data is. A supplier catalogue where SKUs changed last year produces a wall of red lines - fix the data, not the form
Making Them Discoverable
These features only pay when buyers find them:
- Put “Quick Order” in the account navigation and (for known B2B traffic) the header
- Train key accounts directly - a ten-minute walkthrough with your top twenty accounts drives more adoption than any UI tweak
- Watch the analytics: list usage and quick-order completion rates tell you whether the tools are serving or confusing
The Configuration Checklist
- Enable both features under Stores > Configuration > General > B2B Features
- Set list-count and item-count limits to match real customer behaviour, not defaults
- Verify salability messaging: quick order should respect backorder rules per your stock policy, or it will contradict the catalog
- Test CSV upload with the messiest real customer spreadsheet you can find - that is the actual specification
Reorders are the margin engine of B2B. Every second removed from “I need the usual” is conversion you keep forever - requisition lists and quick order are how Magento removes them.