Retail software development
that survives peak.
Headless storefronts, OMS, PIM, loyalty, and fulfilment. We engineer for the 3am spike, the Black Friday morning, and the checkout page that supports peak trading traffic.
Scale is the easy part.
The hard part of retail isn't the traffic. It's the catalogue, the tax rules, the returns flow, the loyalty math, and keeping the storefront personal at scale. Anyone can put a CDN in front of a product page. Fewer can ship a fast checkout on a 400-million-SKU catalogue.
We build headless commerce on Shopify, BigCommerce, commercetools, and bespoke cores. Integrations with every OMS and ERP you've heard of. Custom storefronts that load in under 1.2 seconds on a 3G phone in Mumbai.
Our work in retail & commerce.
Explore the challenge, approach, technology and outcome. Project names are anonymised to protect client confidentiality.
Anonymised case studyCommerceFrontir: emerging-markets research.
Research clients access representative panels in markets that were previously unreachable.
React · Redux · PHP · Slim
Anonymised case studyCommerceOrdermint: E-commerce platform.
A web app for online retail, built with Django, AWS, Python, jQuery and Bootstrap. Catalogue, inventory, checkout and fulfilment run off one backend, so what shoppers see is always what the business can actually sell.
Django · AWS · Python · jQuery
Anonymised case studyCommerceServora: Custom application.
A web app for a focused workflow, built with Vue, Django REST Framework and PostgreSQL. The core workflow is modelled properly once, so data stays consistent and the product is straightforward to extend.
Vue · Django REST Framework · PostgreSQL
Anonymised case studyCommerceBulkbridge: E-commerce platform.
A web and mobile app for online retail, built with React, React Native, Node.js, Express, MongoDB and AWS. Catalogue, inventory, checkout and fulfilment run off one backend, so what shoppers see is always what the business can actually sell.
React · React Native · Node.js · Express
Anonymised case studyCommerceFreshdash: E-commerce platform.
A web and mobile app for online retail, built with Angular, Ionic and Django. Catalogue, inventory, checkout and fulfilment run off one backend, so what shoppers see is always what the business can actually sell.
Angular · Ionic · Django
Anonymised case studyCommerceDomotix: E-commerce platform.
A web app for online retail, built with Django and Python. Catalogue, inventory, checkout and fulfilment run off one backend, so what shoppers see is always what the business can actually sell.
Django · Python
The problems retail teams bring to us.
Replatforming without losing revenue.
Strangler migrations off Magento 1, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or bespoke .NET cores. Zero-revenue-impact cutovers with reconciled reporting on both sides.
Headless storefront builds.
Next.js or SvelteKit on the front, commercetools / Shopify Hydrogen / custom GraphQL gateway on the back. Measured on CLS, LCP, and conversion.
Unified commerce and OMS.
Stock, orders, fulfilment, returns across channels. One source of truth for the customer, the warehouse, and the finance team.
Personalisation at scale.
Recommendation services, loyalty engines, targeted promotions. Built on real-time event streams, not nightly batch jobs.
What we've built for retail, more than once.
Headless storefronts.
React / Next.js on the front, GraphQL gateway, edge-cached, personalised. Core Web Vitals green on every page.
OMS and warehouse glue.
Order orchestration, stock reservation, split shipments, partial returns. The boring ops work that makes the rest possible.
PIM and catalogue tools.
Enrichment workflows, translation, media pipelines. Built to let 40 merchandisers work in parallel without blocking each other.
Loyalty and promotions engines.
Rules DSL, eligibility services, redemption flows. Fast enough to score every basket in real time, flexible enough for marketing to own the rules.
Three ways to work with us
in retail.
Pick the shape that matches the commitment. Each model ships the same engineering standard. The difference is commercial and operating fit.
Dedicated teams
A cross-functional pod owning a workstream end-to-end.
Offshore development centre
A fully-managed engineering arm built under an agreed operating model.
Staff augmentation
Senior engineers plugged straight into your team.
AI in retail & commerce.
Search that understands what shoppers mean, product copy and imagery generated against your brand rules, and support assistants that check order status before they answer.
Explore AI developmentOne of their strengths is quickly building out a multi-disciplinary team to work on the development and delivery of features with different technical requirements. Their support has allowed us to accelerate our development work without building an internal team. They have also worked seamlessly with other third parties both during the acquisition of Dragonfly and development of our mobile app.
Answers for retail & commerce buyers.
Still wondering something? Ask an engineer
Yes. Headless storefronts with a composable back end: catalogue and PIM, cart and checkout, order management, promotions, and the integrations into payments, fulfilment, and tax. Headless is worth it when you need several front ends or fast merchandising change; when you do not, we will say so rather than sell you the architecture.
With load testing against realistic traffic shapes, not averages, and with capacity headroom agreed before the event rather than discovered during it. Caching strategy, queue-backed checkout, graceful degradation of non-critical surfaces, and a runbook your team holds. The goal is that peak day is boring for everyone.
All three, and the decision belongs at the start of the engagement. Platform builds win on time-to-market and operational simplicity; custom wins when your commercial model does not fit the platform's assumptions. Most of our retail work is a hybrid, with a platform handling commodity commerce and bespoke services carrying whatever makes the business distinctive.
27 published case studies in this sector, with more work we can only discuss under NDA. We staff engagements with engineers and delivery leads who've shipped in Retail & commerce before. The domain literacy is learned, not looked up.
We work to PCI DSS, consumer protection, tax regimes per market, and accessibility law. Every engagement starts with a compliance review so there's no ambiguity about which regimes apply. Every release ships with the audit trail your compliance team needs.
Yes. Most of our engagements connect to Shopify, BigCommerce, commercetools, Magento, plus OMS, PIM, and ERP back-ends. We adopt your existing integration patterns rather than imposing a new one, and we write data contracts before we write integration code.
We design for peak-ready checkout (Black Friday), agreed performance budgets, and multi-region CDNs from day one, not as a post-launch afterthought. Performance budgets, SLO commitments, and ops runbooks are written into the statement of work.
Either. Retail & commerce engagements run under all three of our engagement models. Dedicated teams, offshore development centres, or embedded staff augmentation. We pick the shape that matches your operating model, not our preferred one.
We agree discovery and start dates after reviewing your scope, engineer availability and any clearance or onboarding requirements. The proposal records the expected milestones.
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