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Re-platformed to headless commerce

A monolithic store became a headless, edge-rendered storefront across four channels, with one unified cart and inventory truth.

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Retail case study — Re-platformed to headless commerce

+212%

online revenue

Timeline

5 months

Team

6 engineers

The challenge

What was breaking

  • 01A decade-old monolith made every change a week-long ordeal.
  • 02Four channels, four inventories, constant stock mismatches.
  • 03Mobile load times were losing the checkout before it began.

The approach

How we tackled it

  • 01Modeled the catalog as structured content, not pages.
  • 02Stood up an edge storefront behind a single commerce API.
  • 03Migrated channel-by-channel with the old store selling throughout.

The solution

What we shipped

  • 01One headless frontend serving web, app, kiosk, and in-store.
  • 02A unified cart and a single source of inventory truth.
  • 03Search and personalization tuned against real revenue data.

In pictures

A closer look

The new headless storefront
The new headless storefront
Component-driven frontend
Component-driven frontend
Edge rendering layer
Edge rendering layer

The results

+212%

online revenue

3.1s

faster LCP

+18%

avg order value

4

channels unified

"For the first time, the number on the website matches the number in the warehouse. That alone changed how we plan."
VP E-commerce, Heritage retail group

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