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.
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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 the price of a headless Shopify rebuild is fixed after a short intake, and the store goes live in 8-10 weeks. You get freedom in design and full control over load speed and findability.
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.
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455 examples in the LabWith 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 freedom in design and load speed.
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.
A single-country store with 50 to 200 products is the baseline. A multi-language store costs more, because translated routes, hreflang and per-market content add build work, and a marketplace with multiple brands is the largest project. After a short intake we fix the price. The Shopify license and Cloudflare hosting are not included; you pay those monthly.
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.
