Unlike traditional e-commerce platforms where all the features are closely integrated, Composable Commerce breaks down the various features of an e-commerce platform into independent and interchangeable building blocks.
According to Gartner, a leading research and advisory company, composable applications will accelerate business innovation with commerce being an important domain.
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Composable Commerce Principles:
Modularity: The commerce platform is decomposed into individual packages or components, each responsible for specific functions such as product management, cart, payment processing, search etc.
API-First: Each component in Composable Commerce has well-defined APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), allowing seamless communication and integration with other components, as well as with external systems and services.
Flexibility: Businesses can choose and integrate the components that suit their needs and requirements. This enables us to change a component rather than platform if something doesn’t work.
Scalability: Composable Commerce architectures are designed to be scalable, allowing businesses to easily scale like expanding to new markets or adding new channels. It uses auto-scaling to handle the additional traffic during cases like festive sale.
Tech Agnostic: Composable components are designed to work together seamlessly, irrespective of the technology or platform they are built on. Ex integration with ERP, CMS or LMS.
Shopify Commerce Components
Shopify is embracing a new approach to ecommerce with Shopify Commerce Components, which leverages the concept of composable commerce.
Here are some key things to know about:
Available only to enterprise-level merchants (those with a GMV exceeding $500 million).
Designed to be used in conjunction with a headless commerce approach, which means that the front-end of your store is decoupled from the back-end.
It requires significant development resources to implement.
Detailed documentation is to be released in coming months.
Shopify Commerce Components is a suite of more than 30 modular components that can be used to build an online store. These components include :
Storefront
Build custom storefronts using your preferred framework and hosting provider.
Headless API with Storefront API
Headless SDK with Hydrogen
Headless hosting with Oxygen
Storefront search
Low-code storefronts with Liquid
Content
Cart and Checkout
Flexible options within cart and check out like Payments, fraud protection and tax to name a few
Cart
Payment
Fraud
Checkout
Tax
Core commerce
Build your business with essential capabilities like Product catalog, Customer data, Marketing, B2B etc
Product catalog
Cross Market selling
Customer data
Custom data models such as Meta fields
Subscriptions
Discount
B2B
Data and compliance
Drive sales with secure and accurate customer data. Components include:
Data Analysis
Card data vaulting
Marketing insights
Security and Compliance
Shipping and logistics
Streamline your order logistics with fulfilment options and manage returns.
Fulfilment
Inventory
Shipping Labels
Order Management and Returns
Omnichannel
Sell anywhere while expanding new markets and channels :
Point of Sale
Customer Accounts
Social commerce
Overall, Shopify Commerce Components is a powerful new offering that gives enterprise merchants a lot of flexibility in building their online stores. However, it is not a good fit for all businesses
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