Headless Commerce Guide

What is headless commerce?

Your commerce engine handles products, carts and checkout. Your frontend is built separately and talks to it through APIs.

Benefits

• Faster, custom storefronts
• Omnichannel selling
• Freedom to swap tools

Common pitfalls

Teams often underestimate content: without a visual CMS, merchandisers lose the ability to update the storefront themselves.

A reference architecture

Commerce engine + visual headless CMS + modern framework + edge hosting.