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The ecommerce platform to build, sell, and scale your way.

Whatever your creative design, unique business model, or groundbreaking idea, you can build it on Swell.

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The power of headless commerce, without the headaches.

Modern dashboard

Manage everything from our intuitive dashboard.

Good user experience isn't just for your customers. Our dashboard makes work more enjoyable: simple for new users, and customizable for power users.

Product modeling

Configuring product options is fast and easy.

Manage your product variations including size, color, add-ons or personalization with the flip of a switch. No more plugins or complex code, just your product options, the way you want them.

Custom checkout

Build completely custom checkout flows.

Checkout is one of the most important parts of the customer experience. Thanks to our powerful APIs, you can create any shopping experience you can imagine.

However you want to sell, there’s a way to do it on Swell.

Subscriptions

Sell any physical or digital product in your catalog as a subscription—without external apps.

  • Custom subscription schedule intervals
  • Quizzes to personalize shopping
  • Credit card expiration notifications
  • Fulfillment separate from billing
  • Trial periods, promos and discounts
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DTC retail

Build, sell and scale your business on a flexible platform with extensive built-in features.

  • Unlimited product variants and attributes
  • Visual storefront editor
  • Easy setup for popular payment gateways
  • Multi-currency and multi-language
  • Abandoned cart recovery
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B2B & Wholesale

Give wholesale customers a seamless self-serve buying experience that feels like DTC.

  • Flexible API syncs existing tools and systems
  • Customized pricing for customer groups
  • System management user permissions
  • Online invoicing and multi-part payments
  • Tax accounting integrations
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Marketplaces

Sell an expansive inventory of products from different vendors in one place.

  • Flexible API syncs existing tools and systems
  • Centralized product inventory management
  • Customized pricing for customer groups

Try Before You Buy

Give customers the option to try or test your products at home before paying.

  • Customized pricing for customer groups
  • Authorization amounts for credit cards
  • Custom trial periods by product
  • Manual admin adjustments to orders

Omnichannel

Create seamless buying experiences and sell across marketplaces, social platforms and advertising channels.

  • Multi-channel inventory management
  • Social media integrations
  • Powerful central admin dashboard

International

Sell globally with features that make cross-border commerce easier than ever.

  • Multi-currency display
  • Manual and automatic price conversions
  • Multi-language display
  • Tax accounting integrations

Launch fast, and stay ahead of the curve.

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  • Build fast with headless themes

    Create sophisticated experiences fast with less resources. Start with a storefront theme and focus on what makes your business unique.

  • Advanced features out of the box

    Increase revenue with native features like customer groups, subscriptions, and headless storefronts.

  • Scale without stress

    Swell's autoscaling servers and global CDN mean you can grow faster with a small team at a fraction of the cost.

  • Wholesale and B2B

    Sell to retail and business customers from one catalog. Set up bulk pricing tiers and account-specific pricing.

  • Awesome developer experience

    Developers can clone our storefronts, use their preferred stack, and have a Git-based workflow.

  • Built-in integrations

    Connect payment gateways including Stripe, Braintree, and PayPal. Improve your workflow with Mailchimp, Zapier, Slack, Algolia, and ShipStation.

Made for developers

Build your way.

Create anything you can think of with our robust APIs, multiple storefronts, and flexible content modeling.
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Headless storefront themes

Get all the benefits of headless, without starting from scratch. Swell supports several frameworks and providers for creating editable storefronts with modern frontend tooling.

Webhooks for everything

Develop sophisticated applications based on system events, including on custom models.

Perfect for JAMstack

Use our clientside JS library for building shopping experiences with your favorite web framework, and node SDK for custom backend functions.

Fully managed infrastructure

Our edge caching, global CDN, and auto-scaling API services adapt to handle busy promotional periods and bulk content updates.

Customizable data models

Keep all of your data together. Add fields to standard models and create new ones to handle your unique content and business logic.

25+ Integrations

Integrate with a click

Save your developer’s time for the things that are unique to your business.

Start your next big thing.

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