Headless Commerce
Separating a store's front-end (what shoppers see) from its back-end commerce engine, so either can be changed independently.
In practice
It gives a business more flexibility to redesign the customer-facing experience - or launch new touchpoints like a mobile app - without rebuilding the underlying inventory, pricing, and order logic, at the cost of more custom development work than a traditional all-in-one platform.
A brand keeps its existing order-management backend but builds a custom, faster storefront on top of it using a headless commerce architecture.
Why it matters
It unlocks a level of front-end flexibility - custom storefronts, apps, kiosks - a traditional all-in-one platform usually can't match, at the cost of needing dedicated development resources.
Worth knowing
- Front-end and back-end communicate through APIs, allowing either to be replaced independently.
- Best suited to businesses with the technical resources to build and maintain a custom front-end.
- Enables consistent product and pricing data across multiple customer-facing experiences at once.
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