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Northwind Commerce

Headless storefront rebuild that cut checkout time by 42%.

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faster checkout
42%
faster checkout
lift in conversion rate
18%
lift in conversion rate
from build to launch
3 wks
from build to launch

The challenge

Northwind's storefront ran on a decade-old monolith. Every campaign needed an engineering ticket, checkout abandoned at nearly 70%, and the team couldn't ship a landing page without a two-week queue.

The approach

01

Headless architecture

Decoupled commerce logic from presentation so marketing could ship pages without touching the checkout code.

02

Checkout re-engineering

Rebuilt the funnel from five steps to two, with saved payment and address defaults.

03

Design system handoff

Shipped a component library so Northwind's team could build new pages independently.

The impact

Checkout time dropped 42% in the first month, and the team shipped their first independent landing page two weeks after handoff — something that used to take a full sprint.

Our new platform handles 10x the load with a fraction of the incidents. The migration was seamless.
Tom Whitfield
CTO, Northwind Commerce

Discipline

Web Development

Timeline

10 weeks

Team

2 engineers, 1 designer

Tags

Next.js · Commerce · Design System

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