The Benefits of Composable Commerce Architecture

Last Updated on June 28, 2022 by Editor Futurescope

Composable eCommerce architecture is an approach to designing an application system that empowers your business to deliver better technology-driven customer experiences. The basic idea is that you should be able to open and close the software components in your composable commerce solution like lego blocks. You should be able to assemble and “compose” them (hence the name) faster and more flexibly, delivering better outcomes for your business, developers, and customers.

Improve development times

In a world where businesses must move at the speed of digital, composable eCommerce architectures are becoming necessary. They allow you to build and deploy features more quickly than traditional models. This means you can build and deploy features faster or even more frequently, allowing you to keep your customers engaged in ways that conventional models simply cannot match.

You can also build and deploy features to different environments—production, staging, QA—and devices—mobile and desktop—more quickly when using a composable architecture.

More flexibility to try new things and respond to market changes

As your business grows, the demands on your eCommerce platform will change. You might want to add a new feature that wasn’t in the original plan for your site, or you may decide that you want to modify the design of an existing feature. Or perhaps you need to adjust, so it’s easier for customers with disabilities? All these things can be done more easily when you have a composable architecture in place because it allows you to use smaller pieces of software instead of one monolithic application.

Lowers costs

• Reduced maintenance and upgrade costs: Composable eCommerce architecture is easier to maintain and upgrade, which means that it can save you money on your operations budget. This is because all the parts are decoupled from each other so that they don’t need to be updated in unison with one another. They can also be replaced individually without affecting the rest of your system or requiring additional training or support from developers.

• Reduced support costs: Because composable eCommerce architecture has been designed from scratch with ease of use, there should be fewer bugs and errors than would have been found in a traditional monolithic design. This makes it easier for users to identify issues quickly, which will reduce support calls made by customers having difficulties using your site or apps (and therefore reduce operational costs).

Make it easier to work with multiple software vendors

With composable architecture, it is easier to integrate with other software vendors. Rather than having a monolithic system, you can plug in the pieces of functionality that you need from different vendors into your eCommerce solution. This allows for much more flexibility in how your eCommerce software works and what kind of data it produces.

You’ll also be able to choose multiple systems for different functions depending on what type of business you are operating and how much control over the end-user experience (UX) you want to have. For example, suppose your business needs something straightforward like inventory management and customer relations management (CRM). 

In that case, many options available on the market today will give you precisely what they need without having any extra features or limitations built in that aren’t necessary for their purposes. Still, they may not fit well into another company’s needs (such as shipping solutions).

What are the components of composable eCommerce?

Think of your eCommerce architecture as the foundation of your house. It holds everything together and helps you build a robust and resilient business.

The components of composable eCommerce are: Front-end, Back-end, Data, Design, Testing, Analytics, Security and Operations (monitoring), Support (integration), Deployment, and more.

Composable architecture helps deliver better outcomes for businesses, developers, and customers

Composable architecture helps deliver better outcomes for businesses, developers, and customers:

• Customers have a better experience: A composable eCommerce architecture provides the flexibility to build custom components and scale them up or down. When you need to update the design of your product page, for instance, it can be done in minutes rather than days or weeks.

• Developers have more flexibility: Composable eCommerce allows developers to use component-based design patterns that would enable them to build reusable chunks of code across multiple projects without having to start from scratch each time—substantial cost savings over time and improving productivity today.

• Businesses can respond more quickly to market changes: A composable eCommerce system allows companies to respond faster than ever because they’re not locked into their infrastructure decisions anymore; they can make changes on the fly without impacting other systems running concurrently with theirs (like in-store operations). This means that companies can act even faster than those who don’t have this capability built into their IT architecture.

About a composable eCommerce implementation 

A composable eCommerce implementation is made up of two things: Components and compositions. The component is the individual unit or piece on which you can build a complex, customizable experience for your users. Components can be anything from a simple button to an entire design pattern composed of multiple parts. Composition refers to how these pieces work together to create an experience; this is where the magic happens.

Components (independent functional units)

Components are independent functional units of an application or website. They can be used to create new functionality and build unique, context-specific experiences for customers to help meet their specific needs.

For example, a component might be used to generate a product name based on the title of an article you’re reading on Huffington Post. This way, you can easily reuse the same logic across multiple platforms without having to rewrite it in each language (e.g., Python).

Compositions (how you put the components together)

The way you put the components together is called a composition. It’s the result of your composable eCommerce implementation. It can be used to create unique, context-specific experiences for customers to help meet their specific needs—and no two compositions are alike.

Compositions will differ from each other based on the type of components that have been used in their composition, as well as how they’ve been configured. For example:

• A customer with a purchase history may see a different product recommendation than someone who’s never purchased anything from your store.
• Someone interested in learning more about an item might see additional information unavailable elsewhere on your site or app (like videos).

It is a modular software architecture methodology that puts the customer’s needs at the front and center by driving IT development.

It is a modular software architecture methodology that puts the customer’s needs at the front and center by driving IT development. It’s an approach to building software systems that emphasizes flexibility, changeability, maintainability, and testability over time.

The fundamental idea behind composable eCommerce is to build reusable components (components) that can be assembled into more significant artifacts (assemblies). An artifact is a unit of deployment in your system architecture. For example, an assembly may be composed of one or more components or modules compiled into a single group representing an application service or product for use by your customers or users.

In summary

Composable eCommerce is a way of thinking about your eCommerce architecture that helps you build more flexible, sustainable, and innovative systems. It’s not a product or a specific technology solution but an approach to designing your eCommerce systems. We call it platform thinking – because we believe that the best software platforms are flexible enough to support any business logic or integration you want to implement.