Wholesale registration with approval on Shopify

Every field is optional to enable. These are the built-ins; you can add your own text, select, number or checkbox fields on top.

Every submission lands in one list, newest first: applicant, company, submitted date, and a checks column that shows what the system could verify on its own: VAT valid, VAT invalid, no tax ID supplied, licence attached. Approve and Reject are the only two buttons, and both are one click.

Rejection is not silent: the applicant gets an email you can edit, and the record stays in the queue as rejected so nobody re-litigates the same company in three months.

Reviewing every application by hand stops scaling around the point it starts working. Pro lets you approve automatically when the VAT number validates against VIES, or when the applicant's email domain matches an allowlist you maintain, useful when you already know the twenty retail groups you sell to.

Anything that does not match a rule waits for review. Auto-approval never rejects; it only shortens the queue.

New customer accounts are hosted by Shopify. The sign-in and registration screens are rendered by Shopify on Shopify's own domain, and apps cannot modify them; there is no theme file, no injection point, and no supported API to add a field. Any app that claims to customise that form is either using classic accounts or overlaying something on a page it does not control.

Classic customer accounts are barely better. The register form accepts a note field and nothing more: no validation, no file uploads, no approval state, no way to reject. You end up with a free-text blob attached to a customer who is already fully registered.

So Prime Lock adds its own form block through an app proxy instead, served under your domain and your theme. Because enforcement is tag-based and the tag lives on the customer record, the flow behaves identically whether your store runs classic or new customer accounts, and it keeps working the day Shopify changes the account screens again.