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title: "Bates B2B API"
description: "Bates wholesale availability by size and width and dealer pricing, with fill-in and drop-ship orders placed within your limits through its Envoy portal, or reviewed and placed in Bridge until verified."
canonical: https://brdg2b.ai/brands/bates
updated: 2026-10-16
---

# Bates B2B API

Bridge to Brands is a product of RunOps Inc.

Bridge to Brands reads live warehouse availability, dealer price and retail price from the Bates dealer portal (Wolverine Worldwide) and places fill-in and drop-ship orders within your limits (placed from Bridge until verified) through one normalized REST API and MCP server. Availability is returned per colourway, by size, width and delivery window.

An agent connected to Bridge to Brands can search Bates’s catalog, read live availability and price, and place a fill-in or drop-ship order within your limits — or, until the brand is verified for placing, stage it for you to review and place in Bridge.

Bates sells tactical and uniform boots to independent retailers through the Bates dealer portal (Wolverine Worldwide). Buyers use it to check what is in the warehouse now, what lands in later delivery windows, and what each colourway costs at dealer and retail price.

Bridge to Brands signs in to that portal with your store's own Bates dealer login (entered once in the web app, never through an API key) and turns it into the same normalized products, availability grids, ship-tos and orders every other brand returns. Your agents, code and spreadsheets do not need to know how the Bates portal is built.

## Capabilities

| Capability | Value |
|---|---|
| Live availability (at-once and future windows) | Yes |
| Dealer and retail price | Yes |
| Width as a size axis | Yes |
| Bulk lookup by UPC / SKU / style (200 per call) | Yes |
| Search | Yes |
| Fill-in orders to your ship-tos | Yes |
| Drop-ship to a consumer | Yes |
| Consumer phone required for drop-ship | No |
| Store email required for drop-ship | No |
| PO number length | Up to 35 characters |
| Order placing | Needs written permission |
| Confirmations & tracking | Confirmations only — tracking not available |

## Questions

### Does Bates have a B2B API for retailers?

As of 16 October 2026, Bridge to Brands gives authorized Bates dealers API and agent access to their own account: we connect to the Bates dealer portal (Wolverine Worldwide) with the store's dealer login and expose availability, dealer and retail price, fill-in and drop-ship ordering through a normalized REST API and an MCP server.

### Can I check Bates wholesale availability by API?

Yes. As of 16 October 2026, GET /v1/brands/bates/products/{style_id}/availability returns the Bates availability grid per colourway: size and width columns by delivery window (at-once and future), with quantities as the portal shows them, order limits, dealer and retail price, and an as_of timestamp.

### Can I place Bates drop-ship orders through an API?

Yes. As of 16 October 2026, POST /v1/orders with kind "drop_ship" places a Bates order to a consumer address in the Bates dealer portal (Wolverine Worldwide) where the brand is verified and you allow it, and otherwise stages it there for you to review and place in Bridge. Bridge to Brands checks the brand's rules first: a PO of at most 35 characters.

### Does Bridge to Brands place Bates orders in the portal?

As of 16 October 2026, Bridge to Brands places Bates orders in the Bates dealer portal (Wolverine Worldwide) where the brand's submit path is verified and you have turned it on, within your caps and confirmation settings. Bates is not yet verified for submit, so orders come back as staged_in_portal: you review the basket in Bridge and place it in a signed-in portal window there, with no portal login.

### Can Claude or ChatGPT use my Bates dealer account?

Yes, through the Bridge to Brands MCP server at https://mcp.brdg2b.ai/mcp. As of 16 October 2026, Claude connects with an API key or OAuth and ChatGPT with OAuth; tools such as get_availability and place_order act on Bates with the key's scopes, and every call is metered to that key.

### Can I search the Bates catalog by API?

As of 16 October 2026, yes: GET /v1/brands/bates/products?q= and the MCP tool search_products search the Bates dealer portal (Wolverine Worldwide) by free text and return matching styles with their colourways and dealer prices.

### Can Bridge to Brands place Bates orders for me?

As of 16 October 2026: Placing Bates orders is built but needs Bates's written permission before it turns on, so orders are staged and you review and place them in Bridge, in a signed-in portal window with no portal login.

### Does Bridge to Brands return Bates order confirmations and tracking?

As of 16 October 2026, confirmations only: Bridge to Brands reads Bates order confirmations and status from the Bates dealer portal (Wolverine Worldwide), but tracking is not available for Bates; check shipments in the portal.