The Ultimate Guide to Going Headless in eCommerce
Increasingly, modern and forward-thinking eCommerce businesses are abandoning monoliths in favor of more agile approaches. Should your business take a more headless or composable approach to scale your eCommerce growth? Learn more and download the white paper here for free.
Discover the pros and cons of headless and composable commerce
What is Headless Commerce?
In the context of eCommerce, headless architecture refers to a system where the presentation layer (your online shop front ends) – the “head” – is separated from the back-end system – “the body”.
Headless Commerce: Pros and Cons
Headless systems offer better agility and higher scalability, ensures flexibility, and is the best way to provide an omnichannel experience for your customers. However, they can be expensive to set up and ultimately require lots of configuration for out-of-the-box features.
Composable Commerce: Best of All Worlds?
Composable platforms have built-in back-end flexibility and scalability. You can add or remove each component as needed. APIs allow components to ‘talk’ to each other and stay compatible.
Is a headless or composable eCommerce solution best for you?
Who is a headless for?
Headless eCommerce platforms are well suited for established, high-growth businesses who want to quickly adapt to new market requirements and trends. Headless solutions require that you’re willing to take ownership of your technical customer touchpoints and presentation layers.
Who is composable for?
Composable solutions are brilliant for fast-growth enterprise brands that need components to be scaled independently. You need to make sure which components are ready-to-use, who will take care of the maintenance, and which complexities you really need in your tech stack in order not to over-engineer a standard use case.
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