Commerce Layer

The company operates a B2B SaaS business providing headless commerce infrastructure via APIs. It creates value by decoupling commerce back-end capabilities—checkout, order and inventory management, promotions and POS—from presentation layers, allowing developers and digital teams to assemble custom front-ends and workflows. The platform supports multi-market and multi-currency configurations and unifies online and in-store operations through a shared API surface.

Revenue is generated from paid subscriptions and usage-based fees linked to order volume, with an initial free developer tier to reduce adoption friction and encourage experimentation. Additional value and revenue come from premium add-ons such as an enterprise-grade order management system and metrics APIs, which support more complex and larger-scale commerce operations.

Commerce Layer is an Italy-founded software company providing an API-first, headless commerce platform for brands and retailers. Its services include a universal checkout, distributed order management, promotion engine and point-of-sale capabilities, delivered via more than 400 API endpoints with high availability.

The company monetises through a SaaS model, with a free developer tier and paid enterprise plans that scale with order volume and optional add-ons such as enterprise OMS and metrics APIs. Its paying customers are businesses that need to build multi-market, omnichannel commerce experiences while retaining control of their own front-end and wider technology stack.