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Commerce Layer

Headless commerce API platform providing checkout, order management, promotions and POS endpoints for building stores and agent-driven purchases across channels.

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Commerce Layer is a headless commerce API platform for building stores and agent-driven purchases. It covers universal checkout across markets and currencies with any payment gateway or tax calculator, distributed order management and inventory across locations, a promotion engine with a visual editor or JSON DSL, and a POS system using the same API in store. The Developer plan is free with 100 live orders a month; Enterprise pricing is quoted. There is no trial period.

Why it stands out

Vendor positions its checkout and order APIs for transactions made by AI agents as well as people.

What Commerce Layer does

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  • Stateless checkout API embedded with one line of code
  • Distributed OMS covers reservation, shipping, returns and subscriptions
  • Promotion rules set via visual editor or JSON DSL
  • POS shares inventory, gift cards and promotions with online channels
  • Shareable Links turn SKUs or selections into purchasable microstores
  • Free Developer plan: 1 organisation, 2 markets, 1,000 SKUs
  • Enterprise adds Metrics API, Provisioning API and custom roles

How ecommerce teams could use it

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Illustrative scenarios written by ecommerceguide from the product's documented capabilities. They are not customer case studies.

  1. Apparel brand selling in several countries from a custom storefront

    Running one cart and checkout across markets with different currencies, tax rules and payment gateways

    Intended outcomeMarket-specific price lists, payment gateways and tax calculators are configured in Commerce Layer and called by the same stateless checkout API.

  2. Retailer with physical shops alongside an online catalogue

    Store associates need to sell items held in other locations and share purchase links with customers

    Intended outcomeThe POS system uses the same API as online, with store-level stock, endless aisle and shareable Links carrying shared payments, gift cards and promotions.

  3. Team adding commerce to an existing marketing site or mobile app

    Wanting checkout, subscriptions and inventory without rebuilding the front end

    Intended outcomeCommerce Layer's APIs add multi-currency pricing, localised checkout and subscription handling to the existing site or app.

Who it suits

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Best for

You have developers to build against APIs for checkout, orders, promotions and POS, and can start on the free Developer plan.

Probably not for

You want a ready-made storefront or an app store install, since Commerce Layer ships APIs only and offers no trial period.

Business size
Any stagePricing runs from a free Developer plan with 100 live orders a month to a custom-quoted Enterprise tier.

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