All things APIs and the future of commerce.

A quick guide to creating a custom Commerce Layer dashboard app — list resources, view details, and extend your workflows using our starter templates.

Unlock new workflows in Commerce Layer by adding custom apps to your dashboard — flexible, secure, and tailored to your team’s needs.

This tutorial shows how to build a gift card purchase flow using Commerce Layer APIs, React components, hosted checkout, and Zapier for activation — fully integrated into a Next.js app.

This guide explores how gift cards work in Commerce Layer, covering their features, lifecycle, API integration, and the new dashboard app — with real examples for digital and physical use cases.

How to build a reusable authentication wrapper for your Commerce Layer-powered React app, handle token management across markets, and keep tokens fresh with local storage validation.

How to create a personal wishlist using Commerce Layer’s SKU Lists by linking products to a customer and make it shoppable using Commerce Layer Links.

Our new Rules Engine empowers businesses to create sophisticated marketing strategies with highly customizable logic, enabling complex, multi-condition incentive programs.

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a highly customized microstore using Commerce Layer Links, transforming a standard SKU list into an interactive shopping experience with cart and checkout functionality.

Our new Subscription App simplifies recurring order management with a user-friendly tool to manage, filter, and edit subscriptions across your organization.

The Stores API provides more granularity to manage inventory, localized payment methods, and shipments more intelligently.

In 2024, Commerce Layer achieved several security certifications and distinctions that show our investment in keeping our clients and their customers safe.

Links are a no-code tool you can use to bring your stock online today and sell on any channel, in any market.

Links are a no-code solution that enables stock to be sold anywhere. They are part of a unified commerce vision that has driven our product development from the beginning.

Get innovative with your checkout. This tutorial brings a fun Pokemon example right into the shopping cart.

Our Gift Card app empowers you to create and manage a gift card strategy with ease and flexibility.

Whether you're looking to create gift sets, product kits, or promotional packages, the Bundles App quickens Bundles creation and improves your overall product bundling strategy and provides the tools you need to bring your ideas to life quickly and efficiently.

In this blog post, we present a proximity-based shipping service using Commerce Layer and Google Maps. This approach ensures faster deliveries and optimized costs by dynamically selecting the nearest stock location to the customer's address.

Now available for all CL clients, our Price List Scheduler helps schedule sales periods and tests pricing models

Our new Inventory App empowers your support and warehouse staff to keep track of inventory levels and ensure accurate stock counts.

Our revamped Dashboard improves navigation, expands user access provisioning, enables region selection for data, and more.

Our new Price Lists app streamlines price management and makes it easier to execute your pricing strategy.

Build better campaigns and drive growth and customer retention with our new Promotions App.

Our new SKU and SKU Lists apps make it easy for merchants to set up their SKU data in Commerce Layer.

Learn why and how to create a data model for your product catalog with best-in-class CMSs Contentful, Contentstack, and Sanity.

Our new Authentication API streamlines user and customer authentication by making it more straightforward to grant and revoke access via JWTs.

Our Metrics API is a powerful resource used to measure the health of a business. Coupled with Retool, you can visualize your sales data to gain better insights into the health of your business.

Our Metrics API is a powerful resource used to measure the health of a business. Coupled with Retool, you can visualize your sales data to gain better insights into the health of your business.

Our new Provisioning API streamlines admin operations and makes it easier for our users to create organizations, determine roles and permissions, and access API credentials.

Our new Stock Transfers app keeps orders running and helps maintain a smooth fulfillment flow, especially when running with multiple warehouses

In this article, we use OpenAI's ChatGPT to generate prices for articles (SKUs) added to a cart. To do this, we utilize Commerce Layer's External Prices API and custom logic to get prices based on criteria we provided to ChatGPT.

While many ecommerce devs might think it unconventional, it's perfectly OK to model a product catalog with a CMS. After all, it's just content. We use Sanity CMS to illustrate the point.

Our new Custom Apps allow you to build your own versions of our open-source Dashboard apps, allowing you to manage your own Commerce Layer admin experience.

Our Shipments API improvements allow you to create and manage shipments after order approval, opening up all sorts of possibilities for your shipments model

SunGod partnered with Strava to launch a campaign called “The Design Your SunGods Challenge". Learn all about it along with 8 ways to jumpstart your promotional strategy.

Our new Custom Apps allow you to build your own versions of our open-source Dashboard apps, allowing you to manage your own Commerce Layer admin experience.

Expanding our promotions engine with our new "buy x, get y" promotion type and a few new options to help manage multiple promotions running simultaneously.

Manage customer experiences and shipment flows with our brand new Customers and Shipments apps, now available in the Order Management section of our Hub.

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This new release enables our brands to build sophisticated subscriptions that attract customers and drive revenue.

In this article, we dive into a number of complexities that brands face when building subscription and how you might address them when building out your subscription and recurring payments model.

This new release enables our brands to build sophisticated subscriptions that attract customers and drive revenue.

Learn how to build a cool Slackbot and integrate it with Commerce Layer using our JavaScript SDK, Nodejs, and the Slack bolt library.

Learn how to give your customers a way to be authenticated so that they can access to a dedicated set of features such as saved addresses and payment sources, order history, dedicated markets and price lists, and more.

Learn more about fundamentals of authentication and how it can add value to your ecommerce experience.

This new release enables our brands to build sophisticated subscriptions that attract customers and drive revenue.

Removing friction from checkout will increase conversions and lift ROI of the marketing programs that bring traffic to your site.

An overview of many common considerations that developers need to plan for when building subscriptions into their ecommerce experiences.

Learn how to build a sleek, modern, and user-friendly conference swag digital store using composable commerce APIs, micro-frontends, and the Commerce Layer Nextjs Demo Store project.

Calculating VAT or sales tax can be challenging. Use Commerce Layer's integrations with either TaxJar or Avalara to simplify the process. You can also use our API to connect any external tax calculator, or even build your own.

Micro frontends are an architecture style that extends the composable nature of microservices to the user interface. See them in action and start using micro frontends in your projects today.

We're proud to announce the release of our new My Account application, enabling brands to implement a customer account function instantly.

Today, we're proud to announce the first release of our new Dashboard, which will empower users to manage Commerce Layer data and resources more efficiently.

I decided to sit down with the Commerce Layer CTO Massimo Scardellato to discuss how we deliver fast API response times. We discussed caching at the edge servers powered by our CDN.

Today, we’re happy to announce the public release of our Metrics API, a brand new API that enables our clients to extract, organize, and analyze any data they want from our platform.

Learn how to create a styled dynamic email template, write a lambda function in Zapier to intercept the payload data from Commerce Layer, and apply the template before sending the email through SendGrid API.

We are announcing a partnership with Rapha, the world's leader in cycling apparel. Rapha will use our API and suite of tools to scale their international ecommerce business, sell across multiple channels, and expand into new businesses.

Introducing the Demo Store, a project that gives developers a template to quickly launch their stores and the underlying source code to serve as the foundation of a custom store.

In addition to our existing train of developer tools, we have revamped our existing Postman collection. In this article, we will explore our new Postman workspace and show you how to get started with it.

We makes integrating with any local payment gateway like Twitter possible, allowing you to explore any option your customers demand. In this article, you will learn how to get started with our payment gateways, external payment gateways, and payment methods.

Please welcome microstores, self-contained stores that are configured and spun up instantly, with no development required, that can then be accessed via URL or QR code and used to immediately drive transactions from the first contact with a customer.

You can use our webhooks technology to send order confirmation emails to your customers when they make a new purchase. At the end of this tutorial, you will understand how to use Zapier and SendGrid to send plain order confirmation emails.

This tutorial will give you a little taste of how powerful Commerce Layer external promotions feature is, by showing an example where we use an AWS Lambda function to trigger a special discount on a customer's birthday.

Local payment gateways are a necessity as you scale internationally. In this article you'll earn why, and how Commerce Layer enables you to add any payment gateway anywhere, making it easy to expand your business into new markets.

We provides a list of specific events you can monitor and transmit real-time data from using webhooks. In this article, we will introduce our webhooks mechanism and guide you through a couple of simple demo examples so that you can see it in action.

We are enterprise-level platform available to anyone. Starting today, our Startup plan will include 100 free orders per month. We also added a new intermediate, self-service plan for brands that are growing fast, but not ready for a large-scale engagement yet.

Commerce Layer provides a JavaScript SDK that makes it quick and easy for developers to interact with our commerce APIs. In this article, we’ll look at some fundamental technical details about how it works.

Learn how to integrate Sanity with Commerce Layer by looking at how we built our starter template using Sanity Studio, Next.js, and our React components library.

Shopify is a popular ecommerce platform that helps merchants grow their businesses, until it comes to expanding internationally. Learn how to extend Shopify with Commerce Layer, enabling brands to scale internationally without the trade-offs.

The fastest way to get started with headless commerce and Commerce Layer. Let's build a simple ecommerce product page with static content, make it shoppable using Commerce Layer's dropin javascript library, and deploy the application to the cloud.

Personalization is one of the key ingredients for boosting repeat purchases and increasing customer retention. That's why it is a must in ecommerce and you simply cannot let your competitors beat you at this.

Not only an out-of-the-box, hosted payment solution for developers who are working with Commerce Layer and looking for a one-stop integration, but also and above all a powerful reference tool to build your own custom checkout experience with unlimited flexibility.

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Terms like omnichannel and multichannel are often used interchangeably, but the two approaches are quite different. Learn where they diverge and how Commerce Layer can help you develop true omnichannel experiences.

A well-designed and architected DOM provides unparalleled flexibility in achieving operational excellence goals, today and scale as your ecommerce business grows.

Today, we are proud to announce that Commerce Layer closed on a $16 million Series B funding round led by Coatue Management, with participation from our existing investors Benchmark and Mango Capital.

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Creating a seamless customer journey across all channels isn't an easy task unless you can leverage a reliable omnichannel payment framework.

Discover why and how Commerce Layer can be a great alternative to Shopify, especially if you want to go headless and expand your business internationally.

Today, we are thrilled to announce a $6 million Series A funding round led by Benchmark, with additional participation from Mango Capital, DAXN, PrimeSet, SV Angel, and NVInvestments.

The Jamstack is going to be as disruptive as the blockchain, but much more sustainable, bringing huge benefits to businesses while keeping the planet green.

Commerce Layer pricing is changing. Learn more about the reasons behind and how we decided to support our clients better.

Thoughts and takeaways while flying back home and getting ready for the next event in London.

An opinionated, yet adaptable approach to build enterprise-grade ecommerce, the Jamstack way.

Static sites are disrupting the web development industry. They are fast, scalable and secure by design. All amazing features that will make your ecommerce shine without breaking the bank

The journey that led us to build Commerce Layer, the platform for digital agencies, ecommerce makers and innovators.