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Monolithic eCommerce doesn’t provide the front-end flexibility that headless systems have. Keep reading to see if going headless is right for your business.

Should you move away from monolithic eCommerce? | Codal

The eCommerce industry continues to grow and evolve as brands seek to stay competitive in digital commerce. One way eCommerce companies are seeking to gain market share is by implementing a headless eCommerce architecture. In this environment, the front-end presentation layer of an eCommerce store is decoupled from its back-end.

Headless eCommerce: Should your organization make the switch from monolithic eCommerce?

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Are you evaluating headless commerce platforms? Check out our review of Shopify’s headless capabilities.

Shopify Headless Commerce Review | Codal | eCommerce Dev

If your company is considering switching from a traditional eCommerce system to a headless architecture, Shopify Plus can be an invaluable resource. Many well-known brands, such as Koala, Inkbox, and Impossible Foods, have teamed up with Shopify to adopt the headless commerce approach.

A Review of Shopify Headless Commerce

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If you're planning on adopting a headless eCommerce approach for your online business, check out BigCommerce. Learn more about what it has to offer here.

BigCommerce Headless Commerce | Codal | Development Agency

By the year 2022, annual retail eCommerce sales are expected to reach $6.5 trillion. As the number of consumers who prefer to do their shopping via online stores over brick and mortar shops increases, brands are pressed to create beautiful, engaging websites, platforms, and applications that facilitate smooth user experiences.

A review of BigCommerce headless commerce

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Utilizing analytics and data gathered through extensive research, Codal creates digital products tailored to your customers, ensuring the finished solution caters to all user types. 

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Whether you’re building a new website, mobile application, internal business platform, or any other digital product, Codal is here to guide you through the process with speed and efficiency. Using advanced technologies and a data-based approach, our award-winning designers and developers create solutions that facilitate practical and meaningful experiences for your business’ customers, employees, and stakeholders. This means stronger user engagement, streamlined workflows, fewer support issues, and optimized revenue. 

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Product Design & Development | Codal | UX Design Agency

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We help your business launch digital commerce experiences that drive sales and create genuine customer delight.

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For more than a decade, Codal has been helping businesses thrive in the eCommerce landscape. With superior UX/UI design, we give your business the tools it needs to enhance its digital presence, expand its customer base, as well as create and manage additional streams of revenue. By establishing a sophisticated and agile eCommerce tech stack, we ensure scalability, so your business can rapidly adapt to new industry trends, consumer behaviors, and emerging technologies. Codal is currently a trusted partner of both Shopify and BigCommerce—two of the top eCommerce platforms on the market today. 

Our eCommerce solutions

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Codal drives strategic process improvements and best practices to help you successfully deliver quality services to customers. 

Launch seamless and intuitive digital journeys that cater to users of all types and help you forge more meaningful connections with customers.

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Our service design process

With the right blend of people, processes, and technology, your business can unlock its full potential—and that’s where Codal’s service design team comes in. We integrate sophisticated digital technologies with various back- and front-end systems to enhance the user experience (UX) and streamline internal workflows. Effective service design enables stronger communication between your business, its customers, and its third-party service providers, so you can continuously refine processes and optimize revenue as you scale. 

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Service Design | Codal | Web Design and Development Chicago

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Collecting, visualizing, and analyzing massive amounts of data to discover actionable insights is a crucial part of creating a sound business strategy.

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Every growing business needs a strategy for collecting and analyzing data. But with so many different approaches and available technologies, it can be difficult to know where to start, or how to get more value from your current tools. Codal can help your business uncover new opportunities, drive strategic decisions, and optimize revenue by harnessing the power of data.

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We stand up intelligent, cost-effective microservices architectures that let businesses achieve true scalability.

Go to market faster with a platform that’s flexible, designed to scale, and provides long-term value.

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Our microservice architecture process

Trading in your business’ monolithic system for a microservices architecture can come with many benefits, such as greater programming flexibility, the ability for development teams to work independently of each other, and a faster time-to-market for application modifications. Codal helps determine whether or not microservices are right for your business, then creates a roadmap for success. We implement microservices to enhance the overall agility, scalability, and security of your business—resulting in lower costs, streamlined workflows, and optimized revenue.

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Wondering if trading in your monolithic system for a microservices architecture is best for your business? Codal can help.

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Microservice architecture

Codal can guide your business through a hassle-free transition from the old to the upgraded, allowing you to migrate systems and solutions without the hassle.

Modernize your legacy technology and guide your business through a hassle-free transition from the old to the upgraded.

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The process of switching from a legacy platform to a more advanced solution—without disrupting your business’ customer experience or internal workflows—requires significant time, resources, and technical expertise. Our award-winning team collaborates with the key players on your end to determine which platforms and tools are best suited for your scaling business. Then we execute the new platform transition and integrate any third-party solutions, establishing a technological infrastructure that supports efficient UX updates, robust security, and superior data analytics.