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The State of Ecommerce Platforms in 2018: Cloud Commerce, Open SaaS and The API Economy

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Headless Commerce is a version of CaaS ecommerce in which the shopping cart is decoupled from the CMS. In these use cases, brands often use WordPress or Adobe Experience Manager as the CMS of choice and plug in a decoupled ecommerce shopping cart solution to serve as the cart. drawer = cart/checkout). WooCommerce.

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5 Types of Ecommerce Business Models That Work Right Now

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Drop Shipping. The simplest form of ecommerce, drop shipping lets you set up a storefront and take the customers’ money. Wacky Hippo is an example of an ecommerce site using drop shipping. I’m holding off on drop shipping for now. If you have dev skills, you can use X-Cart.

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