Your customers shop everywhere — phone, laptop, tablet, marketplaces. The Bagisto Shop API helps you meet them on every screen.
It decouples your storefront from your commerce engine, so you can build any frontend on a backend that already handles catalog, cart, and checkout.
Here’s what it is, why it pays off, what you can build with it, and where to try it live.
What Is the Bagisto Shop API?
The Bagisto Shop API is the storefront-facing layer of Bagisto‘s headless toolkit. The idea is simple: one backend, any frontend.
Instead of rendering pages on the server, it exposes your storefront data and actions as clean, predictable API calls.
It speaks both REST and GraphQL, so developers use whichever style fits their stack — no second-class transport.
And it covers the full shopping journey, not just product listings:
- Catalog — products, categories, search, filters, attributes, reviews.
- Cart & checkout — add to cart, coupons, shipping and payment methods, place order.
- Customers — registration, login, profile, addresses, order history.
- Engagement — wishlist and compare lists.
- Storewide context — channels, locales, currencies, countries, CMS content.
If a shopper can do it on a Bagisto storefront, the Shop API can power it.
Why a Shop-API-First Approach Wins
Choosing the Shop API isn’t just a technical preference — it’s a growth strategy.
Separating the experience from the engine unlocks advantages that compound over time:
- Speed to market — build the frontend and backend in parallel and ship faster.
- Build any frontend — React, Vue, Next.js, Flutter, native apps, or a PWA.
- True omnichannel — web, app, marketplace, and kiosk share one source of truth.
- Performance and SEO — fast, decoupled frontends you can optimize on their own.
- Future-proof — connect the next channel to the same API, no rebuild.
The result: a storefront that adapts to your business instead of constraining it.
What You Can Build With It
Because the Shop API is frontend-agnostic, it powers almost any commerce experience:
- A headless storefront or PWA — a fast, app-like site that wins on speed and SEO.
- A native mobile app — iOS and Android on the same cart and checkout as the web.
One backend, many experiences — all consistent, all in sync.
Everything Your Storefront Needs
A headless store is only as good as the capabilities behind it.
The Bagisto Shop API ships with the full storefront feature set, ready to wire into your frontend:
- Products & discovery — listings, detail pages, search, filtering, and sorting.
- Cart & checkout — coupons, shipping and payment selection, and order placement.
- Customer accounts — registration, login, profile, addresses, and order history.
- Wishlist & compare — the engagement features shoppers expect, built in.
- Multi-channel, locale & currency — sell across regions and languages.
You’re not assembling missing pieces — you’re connecting a complete storefront.
REST or GraphQL — Your Choice
The Shop API treats both transports as first-class, so your team picks the one that fits:
- REST — familiar, cache-friendly, and easy to integrate with almost any tool.
- GraphQL — request exactly the data you need in one round trip.
Same data, same capabilities — you choose the developer experience.
Built for Easy Integration
Powerful doesn’t have to mean complicated. The Shop API drops into any frontend with little friction:
- Simple authentication — a storefront key for public calls, tokens for customer actions.
- Predictable responses — clean JSON with conventional structures.
- Standard conventions — familiar pagination and patterns mean fewer surprises.
Point your frontend at the API, authenticate, and start building.
Explore the Docs and Live Playground
The fastest way to understand the Bagisto Shop API is to use it.
Start with the full reference, then fire real requests at the live demo:
- API documentation — Every endpoint, with request and response details.
- REST playground — Hit live Shop API endpoints and inspect the JSON.
- GraphQL playground (GraphiQL) — Write queries and see responses instantly.
- Live demo — The hosted environment behind these APIs.
The API documentation walks through authentication, parameters, and every response shape.
The REST playground lets you call endpoints like the catalog and cart, then read the exact JSON your frontend will receive.
The GraphQL playground (GraphiQL) is interactive — explore the schema, build a query, and run it in the browser.
Together they let you validate the Bagisto Shop API against your use case before writing a line of code.
What’s Next
The Shop API is one half of Bagisto’s headless story.
Next we’ll cover the Bagisto Admin API — managing catalog, orders, customers, and settings programmatically.
There’s more coming too: an agentic install flow that hands an AI agent the integration work.
Ready to go headless? Explore the Bagisto Shop API and build the storefront your customers deserve.
