End-to-end headless e-commerce for WordPress is now live. The official BigCommerce blueprint is now available on the Atlas portal, so you can have a fully functional headless e-commerce site up and running in less than 10 minutes.
Every merchant wants a powerful and highly customizable ecommerce site. They expect an easy way to manage their inventory and the ability to easily personalize their front-end shopping experience with their best-of-breed vendors of choice. All of this comes at full speed.
while headless composable commerce In many ways it is the future of e-commerce, but new technologies and increased complexity are making it difficult for agencies and developers to upgrade and modernize their workflows.
Analyzing the architecture and working across platforms to build an API-centric solution from scratch would cost hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars, making it prohibitive for most merchants.
until now.
The Atlas BigCommerce Blueprint streamlines production with end-to-end headless commerce for WordPress, so you can get your first headless ecommerce store into production faster. Create composable stores on a proven architecture with pre-packaged plugins, connected endpoints, and world-class developer resources to reduce friction in getting started .
what’s in the box?
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Atlas has grown to be the best all-in-one solution for learning, building, and delivering headless WordPress. The BigCommerce blueprint (joining the ranks of other Atlas blueprints for headless WordPress) is a working example that has everything you need to connect your commerce engine of choice to headless WordPress.
Try our new BigCommerce blueprints for free with your Atlas sandbox account!
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Blueprint is a complete storefront starter project built on Atlas and connected to the BigCommerce e-commerce platform. This allows you to start running headless ecommerce projects without starting from scratch.
BigCommerce Blueprint users are setting up the basics of their ecommerce site in less than 10 minutes, replacing a process that would take hours, if not weeks, to start from scratch.
BigCommerce Blueprint also extends Atlas’ functionality with two plugins to quickly connect to the BigCommerce platform. Includes:
- Complete the starter blueprint on your storefront. built on the atlas Faust.js On the front end, the starter headless storefront is BigCommerce platform.
- BigCommerce Atlas Connector: An API that allows you to sync third-party products to your WordPress database Atlas Content Modeler (ACM) Model via WP Admin.
- BigCommerce Atlas Product Blocks: Custom blocks related to Products and WP Engine Ecommerce that can be used to render ecommerce content in WP Editor.
- Configured Tools such as Faust.js, WPGraphQL: The BigCommerce Blueprint installs all the tools and provides demo content to get you started right away.
Keep updates reflected in your ecommerce platform through webhooks and custom data stored in Atlas.
Why are merchants going headless?
Headlessness is all the rage, and for obvious reasons. The performance benefits associated with headless sites are unparalleled, and the flexibility offered by this modern web architecture makes it easy to scale and pivot on a dime.
Additionally, as businesses look to adopt a composable or modular approach to e-commerce, headless will play an even bigger role, providing an efficient pathway to connect existing architectures and codebases. .
Gartner predicts that organizations that adopt a composable approach will implement new features 80% faster than their competitors.
But just as headless and composable commerce continues to grow in popularity, so does the list of headless options, costs, and different platforms.
Streamlining the headless e-commerce experience was the primary motivation for building the Atlas BigCommerce Blueprint. It brings much-needed simplicity to an area that has become unnecessarily complicated.
Who is the BigCommerce Blueprint for?
The BigCommerce Blueprint is for any site owner or developer interested in exploring headless WordPress through the lens of ecommerce, but it can also be used to:
- Agencies needing a scalable solution for building headless e-commerce client sites.
- Companies with existing e-commerce storefronts and large product catalogs.
- Online retailers looking for a configurable approach to multichannel or omnichannel e-commerce.
If you’re interested in considering a new solution for your growing e-commerce site, the BigCommerce Blueprint is a great headless head start for building a unified e-commerce experience across customer touchpoints. That’s the way it was.
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