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Migration8 min readFeatured

Magento to Headless Commerce Migration, Done Right

Hepek migrates enterprise stores from Magento to a custom headless commerce architecture, targeting zero downtime and 100% SEO preservation. Keep every order, customer, and ranking while gaining a faster, future-proof storefront.

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Architecture8 min read

What Is Headless Commerce, and When Is It Worth It?

Headless commerce splits the customer-facing storefront from the commerce engine that handles catalogue, cart, and checkout, connecting them through APIs. That decoupling buys speed, flexibility, and true omnichannel reach, but it also adds complexity and cost. Here is how Hepek explains headless in plain terms, and how we help teams decide when a custom headless build is worth it and when it is not.

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Performance8 min read

Core Web Vitals: The Speed Playbook for Ecommerce

Core Web Vitals are Google's real-user measures of loading, responsiveness, and visual stability, and they shape both search rankings and conversion. Hepek builds ecommerce stores that pass all three: LCP under 2.5s, INP under 200ms, and CLS under 0.1. This playbook covers the exact techniques, from image and font strategy to code-splitting, caching, and a global CDN.

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ERP Integration8 min read

Integrating E-Commerce with Odoo ERP

Connect a modern headless commerce storefront to Odoo ERP so inventory, products, orders, invoicing and CRM stay in sync automatically, with real-time or batch flows tuned to how your business actually sells.

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B2B9 min read

B2B E-Commerce Done Right

B2B buyers do not shop like consumers. They negotiate prices, request quotes, buy in bulk, pay on terms and route orders through approvals. Hepek builds B2B commerce portals that handle contract pricing, RFQ, company accounts and ERP integration so your buyers can self-serve and your sales team stops living in spreadsheets.

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Growth / CRO9 min read

The Ecommerce Conversion-Rate Optimization (CRO) Playbook

A practical CRO playbook for online stores: map the funnel to find where revenue leaks, cut cart abandonment at checkout, speed up your pages, build trust, sharpen product pages, and validate every change with A/B testing and clean analytics, across the USA, Europe, and the Gulf.

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Mobile9 min read

Mobile commerce: native app vs PWA vs responsive

Mobile now drives the majority of ecommerce sales worldwide. But shipping a great mobile store means choosing between a responsive site, a Progressive Web App, and a native app. This guide breaks down reach, push, offline, checkout, and cost so you can pick the right path.

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Content / CMS9 min read

Content-Driven Storefronts with a Headless CMS

A headless CMS separates content from presentation so your marketing and merchandising teams can publish across every channel without touching code. Here is how Hepek chooses between Contentful, Sanity, Payload CMS, and Strapi, and wires each one into a headless storefront for content, campaigns, and merchandising.

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Payments8 min read

Stripe and PayPal Payment Integrations That Convert

A practical look at how Hepek integrates Stripe and PayPal for e-commerce: higher checkout conversion, multi-currency selling across the USA, Europe, and the Gulf, subscriptions, PCI-conscious security, and webhooks that keep every order in sync.

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Tax & Compliance8 min read

Automated Tax Compliance With Avalara, Built Into Checkout

Hepek integrates Avalara AvaTax into your commerce stack so every order is taxed correctly in real time, across US sales tax, EU and Gulf VAT, and cross-border duties. Track economic nexus, manage exemption certificates, and automate returns filing with a full audit trail.

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Search & Discovery9 min read

E-commerce Search That Converts, with Algolia and Meilisearch

Hepek builds fast, relevant e-commerce search on Algolia or Meilisearch, with instant typeahead results, faceted filtering, tuned relevance, synonyms, and search analytics. Choose hosted SaaS or an open-source, self-hostable engine, with multilingual support for Arabic, German, Swedish, Bosnian, and English.

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Observability8 min read

Instrumentation & Monitoring with Sentry: Protect Every Sale

A broken checkout button or a silent payment failure can drain revenue for hours before anyone notices. Hepek instruments your storefront and backend with Sentry so errors, slow transactions, and release regressions surface in seconds, complete with the exact stack trace and the session replay of what the customer was doing.

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Notifications7 min read

Notifications & Messaging That Reach Every Customer

Hepek connects Slack, Twilio SMS, Resend, and Mailchimp into a single notifications architecture for your commerce platform. Internal teams get real-time ops alerts, customers get transactional SMS and email that lands, and marketing runs on segmented campaigns, all across the USA, Europe, the Gulf, and the Nordics.

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Localization8 min read

Localization & Multi-Language E-Commerce, Built In

Hepek builds multi-language e-commerce storefronts with a native language switcher, right-to-left Arabic support, multi-currency, region-specific pricing and tax, and hreflang SEO. Our own platform ships in English, Arabic, German, Bosnian, and Swedish, so localization is proven, not promised.

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