Headless commerce platform overview
There was a wave of Software as a service and it is still there. API as a service is a latest wave. Headless commerce platform is one of the kinds of services which is making noise in the industry. We are going to get overview of headless commerce platform and see who are the industry leaders in the domain.
The headless commerce platform keep frontend and backend separate to ease out the integration. Its API lets you engage with your customers via all kind of clients, such as — mobile apps, web applications, voice assistants, AR/VR applications, social networks, and others.
The platforms are scalable and highly available. They built on top of cloud technologies which gave them reach over multi location and quick response for any request from any location.
In a plain English, “You don’t need a database or backend infra for your e-commerce. Only frontend (mobile app or web application) needed to run your business. Other things will be managed by headless commerce’s APIs.
Headless platform decoupled the presentation layer gives you the freedom to run multiple stores across various front-end solutions. One of the best USP of headless platform is Create commerce experiences in multiple platforms with its APIs. The core components of the platform are open to extension, so you can increase efficiencies and reduce bottlenecks.
Platform have to have great infrastructure to support multiple vendors with great deal of security and rights management. New product introduction to the website should be very quick and the platform is able to support multiple pre-defined fields (which is required for a e-commerce) and if a business needs a field then they can utilize custom fields and store/retrieve values.
Platform lets a business to store customer information, as well as configure discounts. Platform also has API for pricing, taxes and cart calculation.
CommerceTools and BigCommerce are the leaders in the industry. They have close to 100% uptime SLA and multi-layered approach for enterprise-grade security.
If you want to explore API docs, then refer below links:
This is a re-post of my original post on blogspot — https://santosh-yadaav.blogspot.com/2021/01/headless-commerce-platform-overview.html
