Our Work / Ace Hardware
Headless commerce for helpful retail
A headless Shopify build for Ace Hardware: a custom storefront on Shopify’s commerce engine, designed to make a deep range easy to shop.
Context
Ace Hardware is known for helpful, neighbourhood service. That reputation needs to come through online as strongly as it does in store.
Challenge
A large, varied hardware catalog is hard to present well in a standard theme. The storefront needed more flexibility and speed than an off-the-shelf setup allowed.
Approach
We decoupled the frontend from Shopify, building a custom storefront for browsing and search while Shopify handles catalog, checkout and operations.
What we built
Design
- Storefront UX and UI
- Category and product page design
Development
- Headless Shopify architecture
- Custom frontend build
- Shopify catalog and checkout integration
Launch
- Cross-device QA
- Go-live support
The store
Outcome
A flexible, fast storefront that makes a big catalog easy to shop, with Shopify running commerce behind it.
Live store: acehardware.com
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