Exploring Headless Commerce

Exploring the current state of headless commerce and how to best take advantage

One of the interesting side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the unprecedented acceleration and adoption of e-commerce by many companies.

However, is my experience that headless commerce is a very abused term and as someone brilliantly put it:

Headless Commerce is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, sp everyone claims they are doing it.

The purpose of this article is to explore a bit of the general concepts of Headless commerce as well as review some of the available technologies and platforms available for implementing a headless commerce solution.

What is Headless Commerce?

At it’s core every ecommerce website is composed of two functional halves, the frontend which handles the presentation layer and the backend that handless the business logic.

Traditionally, both systems are tightly coupled meaning both the frontend and the backend are…