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Why headless commerce?


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Scalable

Virtually unlimited scalability


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Flexible

Create all conceivable UIs and flows


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Open

Components are open source


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Fast


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Integrations


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Conversion

Scalable

Growth is the goal of every ambitious enterprise. But what happens when your e-commerce platform can't keep up with that growth?

For many companies running on traditional, monolithic systems, this is the harsh reality. Their architecture has a built-in ceiling. A headless architecture, with Odoo as your powerful backend, fundamentally breaks through this ceiling.

Always stay 'Open for Business'

The most direct benefit of headless scalability is performance. During peak moments, such as Black Friday or a product launch, a traditional system fails because the frontend (the 'shop window') and the backend (the 'checkout' and the 'warehouse') are inextricably linked.

In a headless architecture, these components are separated. You can scale the frontend (which handles most visitors) independently using tools like Serverless functions and a CDN. While enormous numbers of visitors browse your website at lightning speed, your Odoo backend stably and efficiently processes the actual orders. Your website remains operational and fast, regardless of the traffic or issues in the backend.

Growth in complexity

True scalability goes beyond just visitor numbers; it’s about handling increasing complexity. This is where Odoo excels as a headless backend.

Multi-Brand, Multi-Language, Multi-Currency: Want to expand into another country, launch a B2B label, or sell in dollars? With Odoo, you manage all these data streams centrally. You can then connect multiple, totally different frontends (websites or apps) to that single Odoo backend, each with its own brand identity and language, without duplicating data. An external PIM platform like Akeneo can also be connected.

Unlimited Products & Variants: Your catalog is the core of your business. A headless system doesn't slow down if you go from 50,000 to 10,000,000 products. Because the product data is decoupled from the presentation, the loading speed remains high. The same applies to complex products; whether you have ten or a thousand variants (sizes, colors, materials) on a product page, the headless frontend loads only what is necessary, without delay.

The More Complex, The More Necessary

The conclusion is simple: scalability with headless Odoo is not a technical gimmick, it is a strategic necessity. It allows you to grow without constantly hitting the technical limits of your platform. The rule of thumb is clear: the more complex your ecommerce operation becomes, the more value a headless architecture adds.

Stop developing completely new websites over and over again. Start with headless and build your foundation. Then you only need to (re)develop parts. This way, your online revenue won't be set back, but will continue to grow more steadily.

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Built for growth

The Alokai headless architecture combined with Odoo is built for virtually unlimited growth.

Multi anything

Create brands, websites, apps, dashboards in multiple languages without restrictions.

Flexibel en snel

Keep scaling

The Odoo backend is minimally loaded. During busy times, the websites and apps continue to perform.