Headless WooCommerce: Compact, fast, future-ready
- Independent of WooCommerce design templates with modern frontend technologies
- Enjoy faster load times and superior user experience with Headless WooCommerce
- APIs make your shop future-ready and easily expandable
Headless WooCommerce with WordPress & GraphQL: The ultimate power combo for your shop
A headless shop with WooCommerce, WordPress, and GraphQL is a powerful combination that offers you the best of three worlds. WordPress with WooCommerce provides a stable and proven foundation for your online shop, including all essential e-commerce functionalities. GraphQL enables efficient and flexible data queries between the frontend and backend, allowing you to fetch only the information you truly need. With the headless architecture, you can connect this backend to any frontend of your choice, creating a unique and high-performing shopping experience tailored to your needs and those of your customers.
This combination offers you maximum flexibility in designing your shop, optimal performance, and the ability to future-proof your business while showcasing it across multiple channels.
Your benefits at a glance
Experience and Expertise
We admit it – making WooCommerce headless is not exactly easy. But with experience from multiple successful projects, we are your ideal partner.
Transparent process
From analyzing the current state to launching your headless system, we are by your side to ensure a smooth project process.
Support and maintenance
Even after the launch, we are here for you and your shop – ensuring long-term satisfaction so you can focus on what truly matters to you.
Process steps for the implementation of a headless WooCommerce
1.
Define requirements
Let us discuss your goals and requirements for the headless shop together. What features are important to you? What design and technology would you like to use?
2.
Select the technology stack
We recommend the right technology stack for you. For example, we have had good experiences with WooCommerce, GraphQL, Vercel, and Stellate.
3.
API design plan
We plan the structure of the GraphQL API together and determine which data is needed for your frontend.
4.
Plan frontend
Together, we decide how your frontend will be developed and which components are needed.
5.
Set up GraphQL API
We install and configure the WPGraphQL plugin to create a GraphQL interface for WooCommerce.
6.
Integrate Stellate
We set up Stellate as a GraphQL caching layer to further optimize your API’s performance.
7.
Set up frontend
We set up the chosen frontend framework and connect it to your GraphQL API.
Why use a headless e-commerce system?
- Headless means that the frontend (the “showcase” of your shop that customers see) is separated from the backend (the area where data and functions are managed). Both communicate via an interface (API), such as GraphQL.
- This allows you to use any frontend technology and design your shop freely, without limitations from the backend.
- You simply keep your existing backend, into which you have likely already invested significant time, effort, and money—whether for functionality or for setting up your products.
- You leverage the proven functionality of WooCommerce as a backend and combine it with a modern, flexible frontend. This enables you to deliver a unique and powerful shopping experience for your customers.
- Headless offers you maximum freedom and control over your online shop, making it ready for the future of e-commerce.
We are by your side
Switching to Headless WooCommerce is forward-thinking but no easy task. It requires in-depth knowledge of various technologies such as APIs, GraphQL, and frontend frameworks, as well as an understanding of the architecture and functionality of WooCommerce.
Many shop owners underestimate the effort involved and encounter unexpected challenges that cost time and money. We have years of experience in developing headless WooCommerce projects and are familiar with the typical pitfalls. With our expertise, we guide you safely through the entire process – from planning and conception to the launch and maintenance of your shop. This saves you valuable time, avoids unnecessary costs, and ensures a smooth transition to a future-proof and high-performance online shop.