Custom headless Shopify e-commerce store built by LOBBI

Headless Shopify e-commerce store

The power of Shopify, with a store that respects your brand and your processes.

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Why go headless

01

A design that looks like you

A Shopify theme imposes its style and its limits on everyone. Here, your store looks like your brand, not like whatever the theme allows.

02

Fast and well ranked

A store stripped of everything that slows overloaded themes down: pages that load fast and rank on Google as well as on AI engines.

03

Shopify keeps the critical part

Payments, inventory, orders and security stay with Shopify, on PCI DSS Level 1 certified infrastructure.

Our service

Building or migrating your store to Shopify Hydrogen, data and search rankings included.

Fully custom design

Shopify Hydrogen development

Migration from WooCommerce, PrestaShop or Magento

Transfer of products, customers and orders

Redirect plan and SEO monitoring

CRM, ERP and marketplace integrations

Custom Shopify extensions

Analytics and conversion tracking

Free audit and quote

Dedicated project manager

Hosting and maintenance

Hands-on training

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Our expertise

Our experience lets us offer the features and optimizations that make the difference.

Design without constraints

Animations, transitions, product pages, navigation: every screen is drawn for your brand, without the limits of a theme or a third-party app.

Performance

Server rendering, controlled caching and optimized images. Where a standard store gets heavier with every app installed, headless keeps control of what actually loads.

SEO & GEO

Technical structure, product structured data and content optimized for Google as well as AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini), where your customers now search.

Omnichannel

A single Shopify backend feeds your website, your mobile app, your in-store kiosks, your social channels and marketplaces. With no duplicate catalog.

Security and payments

Checkout, customer data and compliance stay with Shopify. No more plugin updates to watch and no vulnerabilities inherited from the WordPress ecosystem.

Scaling up

Traffic spikes, a new market, a new brand: the architecture absorbs growth without having to rebuild everything.

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions about headless commerce and migrating to Shopify.

What is a headless Shopify store?

Headless means the storefront is decoupled from the back office: Shopify still handles the catalog, inventory, orders, payments and security, while the site itself is custom-built with Shopify Hydrogen (React Router). Rendering, design and customer journeys are no longer dictated by a theme.

Standard Shopify or headless: how do you choose?

A Shopify theme is still the right call for a store with simple needs, a tight budget and a fast launch. Headless becomes relevant when you want design and features without constraints, strong performance, heavy traffic or omnichannel distribution. We settle the question with you during the audit, without pushing the more expensive option.

Why migrate from WooCommerce, PrestaShop or Magento?

These platforms make you responsible for the whole technical chain: conflicting plugins, risky updates, performance that degrades and a wide attack surface. At equal market share, a WordPress/WooCommerce site is roughly 250 times more likely to be infected than a Shopify store (Sucuri 2023 report). Migrating means handing payments, data and security to PCI DSS Level 1 certified infrastructure.

What happens to my data and my rankings during the migration?

We transfer products, variants, customers, orders and content, then build the 301 redirect plan URL by URL to preserve the rankings you have earned. Tags, structured data and performance are checked before the switch, and positions are monitored in the weeks following launch.

Is a headless store really faster?

Most standard Shopify stores fail at least one Core Web Vitals metric on mobile, mainly because of the apps stacked inside the theme. In headless, we control what loads: no imposed parasitic JavaScript, server rendering and caching under our control. The gain comes from that control, not from the technology alone.

Can I keep my Shopify apps and my business tools?

Apps that act on the back office (inventory, logistics, accounting) keep working. Those that inject content into a theme have to be re-integrated on the front end, or replaced by dedicated development. We also connect to your CRM, your ERP or your marketplaces to avoid double data entry.

Can a single store feed my website, my app and my kiosks?

Yes, that is the main point of headless: the same Shopify backend feeds the website, a mobile app, an in-store kiosk, social channels and marketplaces, with no duplicate catalog. It is also what lets you open a new country or a new brand without rebuilding everything.

What budget, what timeline, and how do we start?

A headless project is a bigger investment than a theme and is counted in months rather than weeks: scope, catalog size, data migration and integrations determine the quote. The audit of your current store and the quote are free: send us its address and we will tell you frankly whether headless is justified for you.

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iOS and Android connected to your catalog and your orders.

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