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Shopify Plus vs. Headless: How We Actually Decide
Cortexley Team·Engineering··7 min read
In this article
The question we start with
Not 'which is better' but 'what does your catalog and content roadmap actually require.'
When Shopify Plus wins
Catalog complexity is moderate, the team wants to self-manage merchandising, and time-to-launch matters more than architectural flexibility.
When headless wins
Content and commerce need to share a design system, or the roadmap includes non-standard checkout or app-like features.
The migration cost nobody mentions
What actually breaks when you move platforms, and how to budget for it honestly.
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