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Stellar Shop: Headless Commerce Migration

Next.jsShopify Storefront APIVercel EdgeAlgoliaStripe

The Asteroid

An established retailer's monolithic Magento store was hitting scaling limits during flash sales. 40% cart abandonment rate and 12-second checkout times were costing them $2M annually in lost revenue.

Deflection Plan

  • 1Migrated to headless Shopify with Next.js frontend
  • 2Implemented edge-cached product pages
  • 3Built progressive checkout with form persistence
  • 4Created inventory sync system for multi-warehouse
  • 5Set up A/B testing for conversion optimization

Impact Crater

Checkout Time
2.1s
-82%
Cart Abandonment
18%
-55%
Flash Sale Capacity
50k/min
+400%
Annual Revenue
+$1.8M
+24%

Mission Log

Discovery

2 weeks

Mapped product catalog and integrations

Prototype

2 weeks

Core checkout flow validation

Build

6 weeks

Full storefront and migration scripts

Launch

2 weeks

Parallel run and cutover