Best Headless eCommerce Platforms for WordPress

A landscape video rather than a build. The setup is why anyone splits the store from the site at all: content and merchandising want different tools, and the checkout is the one part nobody wants to own.

Then seven platforms against the same criteria — BigCommerce, Shopify, Swell, Commerce Layer, Commerce.js, Snipcart, and WooCommerce — and where each one lands when WordPress is doing the content half. The spread is wide: some of these are a full commerce backend with an API bolted on, and some are a cart you sprinkle onto pages you already have.

There’s a written version on the WP Engine developer blog.