MODERNIZE YOUR TECH STACK

Adapt To Shifting Demand With Headless Commerce

Kibo takes a hybrid approach to headless commerce, allowing front-end and back-end communication while providing the tools marketing and merchandising teams need to handle their side of the business.

Kibo’s Unified Commerce Platform is built API-first and on a microservices model that supports headless commerce strategies while also giving your digital commerce teams a best-in-class front-end.

Headless Commerce

What Is Headless?

Headless commerce is a digital commerce strategy and platform architecture that decouples your digital platform’s front-end (what your customers and store associates see) from the back-end (where the data live and transactions occur).

This allows your developers a ton of freedom to create custom shopping experiences across cutting-edge channels like voice assistants, wearables, and smart appliances as well as more traditional channels, like social media, text, marketplaces, call centers, and more.

The Advantages Of Going Headless

Sell Everywhere And Anywhere

With Kibo’s API-first platform, you can give your customers the ability to place orders on other platforms such as mobile apps, social media, AR/VR experiences, or marketplaces (like eBay or Amazon) and feed those orders directly back into your system for processing

Manage Your Products On External Platforms

Regardless of where your products are sold, Kibo lets you manage all your products and inventory in a single catalog. Updates to your catalog will be updated on outside platforms as the API calls come in.

Give Your Employees the Power to Manage Headless Commerce

Because there’s no traditional front-end, most headless commerce architectures are very developer-centric, which leaves your day-to-day business users largely out of the equation. But with Kibo, everybody wins.

Stay Top Of Mind

From Instagram to airport kiosks, retailers are all looking for innovation that puts them front and center when consumers are browsing. With Kibo’s API platform, retailers can effectively stay top of mind with customers.

Client Case Study

AMMEX, a manufacturer of disposable gloves used by hospital workers, implemented Kibo’s headless commerce system in order to support increased online ordering. The modern, extensible technology is designed so that changes in site volume would not disrupt the customer experience in any way. When COVID-19 hit, AMMEX experienced a dramatic increase in online traffic. Their site never slowed down and their inventory availability, ordering, and checkout worked seamlessly.

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Spike In Online Traffic

During the height of COVID, AMMEX was able to meet a 8X spike in demand, as essential workers shopped for PPE, with no degradation in performance in order processing or site performance.

Headless Commerce

Chip Away At Your Technical Debt

Some retailers “go headless” because they want to add robust, customized CMS-driven experiences. Others pursue headless as a step on a larger path of digital transformation. These companies are carrying along technical debt—like legacy platforms—that has accumulated over years. For these retailers, decoupling the front and back-ends of their stack is a less disruptive option than a full replatforming.

If this sounds familiar, then Kibo can help you transform your business and tech stack incrementally, by securely integrating with and connecting your various technologies.

Rather than contending with a full rip-and-replace, with headless you can ease into the Kibo platform over time.

Headless Commerce

Give Your Non-Technical Teams the Power of Headless Commerce

Traditional headless commerce makes non-technical teams entirely dependent on developers, however Kibo’s hybrid API platform allows non-technical teams to take control.