# WeWeb for ecommerce frontend?
**URL:** https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-for-ecommerce-frontend/3592
**Category:** How do I?
**Created:** [July 19, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-for-ecommerce-frontend/3592 "2023-07-19T13:58:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@thedew](https://community.weweb.io/u/thedew)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-for-ecommerce-frontend/3592/1 "2023-07-19T13:58:21Z")
Hello!
Anyone has any thoughts or experience on using WeWeb as an ecommerce front end and using a platform such as BigCommerce or Shopify as the backend?
Thanks!
David
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### Author:  [@Quentin](https://community.weweb.io/u/Quentin)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-for-ecommerce-frontend/3592/2 "2023-07-24T09:12:17Z")
E-commerce is a totally different use-case as creating SaaS apps or CRMs for example (which WeWeb is made for).
While it’s totally doable to create a frontend on top of Shopify with WeWeb, we would recommend using tools like [Shogun](https://getshogun.com/)
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### Author:  [@benFortunato](https://community.weweb.io/u/benFortunato)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-for-ecommerce-frontend/3592/3 "2024-01-25T03:59:41Z")
Not sure I’m understanding the suggestion. What would prevent one from using a headless e-commerce platform and then connecting to a WeWeb front end through an API? Is it not possible to make API calls from WeWeb?
> **[REST API data source | WeWeb documentation](https://docs.weweb.io/plugins/data-sources/rest-api.html)**
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> Learn how to work with REST APIs in WeWeb
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### Author:  [@andreas](https://community.weweb.io/u/andreas)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-for-ecommerce-frontend/3592/4 "2024-01-27T17:23:36Z")
@Quentin can you further explain, why you’d recommend some other software over WeWeb for this. Wouldn’t the REST API, as @benFortunato mentioned, be sufficient for this? Where do you see disadvantages of WeWeb for this?
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### Author:  [@benFortunato](https://community.weweb.io/u/benFortunato)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-for-ecommerce-frontend/3592/5 "2024-01-31T13:46:02Z")
See a similar discussion on e-commerce here: [WeWeb.io to build marketplaces - Ask us anything - WeWeb Community](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-io-to-build-marketplaces/3106)
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### Author:  [@Joyce](https://community.weweb.io/u/Joyce)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-for-ecommerce-frontend/3592/6 "2024-02-01T23:13:34Z")
Hi @andreas 👋
> [@andreas](#):
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> why you’d recommend some other software over WeWeb for this
I think it really depends on how much of a specialized tool you want to work with.
A tool like Shogun is dedicated to ecommerce. It has features dedicated to ecommerce that WeWeb doesn’t have. For example, it has an in-built content management system and A/B testing features.
We don’t have these features because our mission is to provide you with a no-code frontend builder that gives you complete freedom in terms of design and third-party integrations. So if you prefer a modular approach with more flexibility (working with your preferred CMS and A/B testing tool for example), WeWeb might be a better fit.
Neither approach is inherently good or bad.
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### Author:  [@andreas](https://community.weweb.io/u/andreas)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/weweb-for-ecommerce-frontend/3592/7 "2024-02-02T08:37:47Z")
Thank you, @Joyce, for the clarification.