Glossary: Ordering
Line sheet
A line sheet is a short document that lists the products a brand offers to wholesale buyers, with pictures, SKUs, wholesale prices and order rules. Brands send it to retailers and use it at trade shows to take orders.
In detail
A line sheet is the wholesale equivalent of a product catalog, in compact form. A buyer should be able to pick products and place an order from it without further questions. It is usually a PDF or spreadsheet, one row or one block per product, grouped by collection or season.
A useful line sheet has a few fixed fields: a photo, the product name, the SKU or item number, the wholesale price, the MSRP, the case pack and minimum order quantity, the available sizes or variants, and the lead time or ship date. Add your terms at the top or bottom: minimum order value, payment terms, shipping and how to reorder.
Line sheets age quickly. A price change, a discontinued item or a new season makes the document wrong, and a buyer who orders from an old copy creates work for you. Many brands keep one master source, such as a spreadsheet or product feed, and generate each line sheet from it with a date on the first page.
A line sheet does not replace an online ordering page. Buyers still need to turn the list into an order. The best setup pairs the document with a place to order, such as a quick order page where the buyer pastes SKUs or uploads a file, so that the line sheet becomes an order in a few clicks.
Example
A candle brand sends a 3-page line sheet with 12 items. Each row shows a photo, SKU CAN-014, wholesale price $15, MSRP $30, case pack of 6 and a minimum order of 12 units, with Net 30 terms noted at the bottom.
On Shopify
A line sheet is a document you build outside Shopify. Inside Shopify B2B, the catalog assigned to a company or market decides which products and prices the buyer can access, so the online store can hold the same information in a live form.
Source: Shopify Help Center: Catalogs and pricing in B2B (read October 4, 2026).
In BSS B2B apps
BSS B2B Quote's Quick Order page lets a buyer add many SKUs at once, including by uploading a CSV or XLSX file, and adds them to the cart. That turns a line sheet into an order. Quick Order needs an Online Store 2.0 theme.
Learn more
Read the Quick order and RFQ hub for guides, use cases and setup docs, or the complete Shopify B2B guide.