Snipcart as Headless Ecommerce

You have complete flexibility. Product information (name, price, image) is defined directly on your website. For inventory, you can either manage it within the Snipcart merchant dashboard, or we can configure it to sync with your existing CMS or back-end system for a single source of truth.

When a customer clicks "Add to cart," Snipcart's shopping cart appears as an overlay on your site. The entire checkout process happens within this secure overlay. It is fully PCI compliant and integrates with major payment gateways like Stripe and PayPal, so all payment data is handled with the highest level of security.

Snipcart is the definition of headless because the front-end (your website) is completely decoupled from the back-end (the Snipcart dashboard). Snipcart simply provides the commerce functionality via APIs and JavaScript, without imposing any constraints on how your website is built or designed.

Yes, almost certainly. As long as we can add HTML and JavaScript to your site, we can integrate Snipcart. This makes it a perfect solution for static sites (like Jekyll or Hugo), modern frameworks (like Next.js or Nuxt.js), and traditional content management systems (like WordPress or Craft CMS).

The main advantages are flexibility, speed, and ownership. You are not locked into a specific platform's theme structure or ecosystem. Your website remains incredibly fast because it's not weighed down by a monolithic platform, and you maintain full control over your content and design.

Yes. The Snipcart merchant dashboard provides comprehensive tools to configure custom shipping rates and methods, integrate with automatic tax calculators (like TaxJar), and create flexible discount codes and promotions for your customers.

Snipcart is incredibly powerful but may not be the right fit for enterprise-level stores with thousands of products and extremely complex back-end logic. It also has a smaller app ecosystem compared to a giant like Shopify, so more complex integrations may need to be custom-built.

Our process is straightforward. We start by configuring your Snipcart account with your payment, shipping, and tax settings. We then add the necessary JavaScript to your website and transform your existing product listings into "buyable" products by adding the required HTML data attributes. Finally, we fully test the end-to-end purchasing flow.