1.7+ Trillion
searches every year
99.999%
uptime SLA available
382%
ROI according to Forrester Research
17,000+
customers across 150+ countries
Headless ecommerce Search
Create Search & Discovery for your headless ecommerce
Provide rich product- and content-based customer experiences in a headless ecommerce framework across all your devices and channels.
Start your headless journey with an improved search experience
Headless ecommerce across all channels
You can put our search-as-a-service platform to work with your traditional ecommerce website application, single-page app (SPA), progressive web app (PWA), mobile app, in-store kiosk, business app, and more, all from a single unified platform. Our API-first platform comes with front-end libraries for many popular frameworks.
Dump your data silos
Index all your product information, plus any editorial and help-desk content. Our search platform comes with an advanced crawler, integration with leading ecommerce platforms, and API clients in 11 languages. No matter which back-end system is housing your product data and content for your ecommerce store, we can index and release in any front-end experience.
Power true personalized, omnichannel experiences
Create a unified personalization strategy across your customer touchpoints.
One omnichannel search platform and AI personalization engine means a consistently personalized user experience.
As visitors interact with your brand across your touchpoints, Algolia learns about their preferences and personalizes accordingly, making their every experience more rewarding.
Develop and iterate 10X faster
Algolia’s API first approach allows you easily to experiment with new experiences and front ends without the need for back end engineering
Front-end flexibility for an optimal user experience
Our front-end implementation is totally flexible, allowing you to build the experience that best meets your needs and promotes your brand. We provide transparent, fully customizable ranking and personalization algorithms.
Improve business agility with centralized merchandising
Powering all user experiences from a single platform empowers your business teams to leverage search management tools for efficient optimization of the storefront.
Go API first with your headless architecture
Algolia is part of an ecosystem of best-of-breed ecommerce solutions. So whether you call your platform headless commerce, composable commerce, a microservices architecture, Jamstack, MACH, or serverless, our API-first approach marries well with it.
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Headless ecommerce solution FAQs
Algolia's API-first solution is compatible with all headless ecommerce platforms. We also offer native integration with Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Magento, and Shopify.
Yes, you can build your own front end by leveraging our InstantSearch components, and you can use our guides if you want to build more-advanced versions. You can also start from a prebuilt packaged ecommerce search and discovery template.
You can start with a free trial and find out how it works for you. Then, our competitive general pricing would apply.
No, but we work with partners who help retailers move to headless ecommerce. Find out more.Another popular mobile app pattern for maximizing small-screen real estate during a mobile search is faceted search, which lets the searcher narrow their results by applying filters, typically by selecting options provided in a "tray"-style overlay. Faceted search is often utilized by retailers in ecommerce (and the mobile equivalent, m-commerce) and by travel service providers, as well as in online search tools on media websites.
One relatively new application for searching on mobile devices is voice search. According to eMarketer, in 2019, 40% of all U.S. Internet users were using voice search, which has grown more popular, albeit slowly.