Shopify handles stock, payments and fulfilment. We build the front end ourselves, for custom design, speed and visibility. Customer accounts, headless checkout. No template look, full Shopify functionality.
Book an intro →Headless Shopify means you use Shopify as the backend for products, inventory and payments, but build the frontend in Next.js or another modern framework. At NedDev a headless Shopify rebuild starts with a fixed price after intake and goes live in 8-10 weeks. The result: 3-5x faster page loads, design freedom and better SEO/AEO/GEO scores than a standard theme.
Headless Shopify is the right choice when a brand outgrows the limits of a Shopify theme and needs its own visual identity, multilingual support with hreflang, built on Next.js 16 with the Storefront API.
Our internal stack packages for multi-tenant SaaS. A Laravel + Filament starter, an audit-trail engine, and a tenant-impersonation package that runs across 12 clients.
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14 EXPERIMENTS · LIVE DEMOSWith headless Shopify you use Shopify as a pure backend, but the store itself runs on your own Next.js or comparable frontend. You keep every Shopify feature (Pay, fulfillment, apps) but gain design freedom and 3-5x faster page loads.
Go headless: if you want out of a theme, are scaling internationally or need a unique brand look. Skip it: if you optimize purely on SKU count or have no design ambition, in which case a Shopify Online Store 2.0 theme is enough.
From €18,000 for a single-country store with 50-200 products, €30,000 for a multi-language store, €50,000+ for a marketplace with multiple brands. Excludes the Shopify license and Cloudflare hosting (together around €100 per month).
The checkout stays on the Shopify domain for PCI compliance and to keep Shopify Pay. The rest of the store runs headless on your own domain. The safest and fastest setup according to Shopify itself.
