Choosing a headless solution to gain flexibility and creativity

The challenge

• Providing non-traditional digital goods to the marketplace. 
• Ability to cross-reference and index data across many disparate sources
• Generate on-demand reports 
• Manage multiple buying models such as pre-paid, subscription, and one-time purchase

The Solution

In this situation, the architecture is truly headless because the React front end does not utilize any content management or managed hosting/deployment solutions. The Front-End development team publishes HTML/Javascript/AJAX code which utilizes Oracle’s Commerce Cloud’s API’s to surface functionality.   

eCommerce platform selection (Oracle Cloud Commerce)

• API-first architecture, which is inherently headless
• Transaction engine utilized to capture the transaction and trigger access to their digital asset portal
• Improved development times, enabling the company to produce a completely custom consumer site within just 2.5 months