How deep is your experience in Retail & commerce?

52 projects delivered in this sector. We staff engagements with engineers and delivery leads who've already shipped in Retail & commerce — the domain literacy is learned, not looked up.

Which Retail & commerce regulations and standards are you familiar with?

We work to PCI DSS, consumer protection, tax regimes per market, and accessibility law. Every engagement starts with a compliance review so there's no ambiguity about which regimes apply, and every release ships with the audit trail your compliance team needs.

Can you integrate with our existing Retail & commerce systems?

Yes — most of our engagements connect to Shopify, BigCommerce, commercetools, Magento, plus OMS, PIM, and ERP back-ends. We adopt your existing integration patterns rather than imposing a new one, and we write data contracts before we write integration code.

How do you handle the scale and reliability demands of Retail & commerce?

We design for peak-ready checkout (Black Friday), sub-600ms performance budgets, and multi-region CDNs from day one, not as a post-launch afterthought. Performance budgets, SLO commitments, and ops runbooks are written into the statement of work.

Can we work with a dedicated team, or is it staff augmentation?

Either. Retail & commerce engagements run under all three of our engagement models — dedicated teams, offshore development centres, or embedded staff augmentation. We pick the shape that matches your operating model, not our preferred one.

How quickly can you start a Retail & commerce engagement?

Discovery typically runs two to four weeks from first call to signed statement of work. First-engineer start dates follow within another week or two. The exact timeline depends on the shape and on the clearance or onboarding your environment requires.

Sector · Retail & commerce← All industries

Retail & commerce engineering
that survives peak.

Headless storefronts, OMS, PIM, loyalty, and fulfilment. We engineer for the 3am spike, the Black Friday morning, and the checkout page that has to convert in 600ms.

projects in sector

Peak-ready

checkout engineering

<600ms

performance target

Multi-region

storefront deployments

Selected clients · 2010 – today

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What this sector teaches you

Scale is the easy part.

The hard part of retail isn't the traffic — it's the catalogue, the tax rules, the returns flow, the loyalty math, and keeping the storefront personal at scale. Anyone can put a CDN in front of a product page. Fewer can ship a genuinely fast checkout on a 400-million-SKU catalogue.

We build headless commerce on Shopify, BigCommerce, commercetools, and bespoke cores. Integrations with every OMS and ERP you've heard of. Custom storefronts that load in under 1.2 seconds on a 3G phone in Mumbai.

Selected work

Things we've shipped
in retail.

A sample of what we've built in this sector. Client names omitted — we share them under NDA when you want to dig into a specific engagement.

Where you call us

The four problems we're hired to solve.

/01

Replatforming without losing revenue.

Strangler migrations off Magento 1, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, or bespoke .NET cores. Zero-revenue-impact cutovers with reconciled reporting on both sides.

/02

Headless storefront builds.

Next.js or SvelteKit on the front, commercetools / Shopify Hydrogen / custom GraphQL gateway on the back. Measured on CLS, LCP, and conversion.

/03

Unified commerce and OMS.

Stock, orders, fulfilment, returns across channels. One source of truth for the customer, the warehouse, and the finance team.

/04

Personalisation at scale.

Recommendation services, loyalty engines, targeted promotions. Built on real-time event streams, not nightly batch jobs.

What we ship here

Four things we've built repeatedly.

/01

Headless storefronts.

React / Next.js on the front, GraphQL gateway, edge-cached, personalised. Core Web Vitals green on every page.

/02

OMS and warehouse glue.

Order orchestration, stock reservation, split shipments, partial returns. The boring ops work that makes the rest possible.

/03

PIM and catalogue tools.

Enrichment workflows, translation, media pipelines. Built to let 40 merchandisers work in parallel without blocking each other.

/04

Loyalty and promotions engines.

Rules DSL, eligibility services, redemption flows. Fast enough to score every basket in real time, flexible enough for marketing to own the rules.

How to engage

Three ways to work with us
in retail.

Pick the shape that matches the commitment. Each model ships the same engineering standard — the difference is in the commercial and operating fit.

Dedicated teams

A cross-functional pod owning a workstream end-to-end.

Offshore development centre

A fully-managed engineering arm built in-region.

Staff augmentation

Senior engineers plugged straight into your team.

Trusted by our clients

What partners
tell us.

Most clients renew for a second engagement. The ones who don't usually hire someone from our team to run the project in-house.

We are a mental health charity and not tech minded. We needed to improve our patient registration system but wanted a company that we can relate to. Hassan took the time to meet with me and patiently went through our process to find a personalised solution for us. Hassan's team did a great job streamlining our process and connected our registration system to our patient management software. Whenever we have a glitch, they resolve this quickly. Cloudini provides a personal and efficient service and we have adopted them to be our IT provider.

Tien Kuei

CEO · Power to Live Foundation

I am writing to wholeheartedly recommend Cloudini as a premier bespoke software development agency. Our journey with them has been nothing short of exemplary, far exceeding our initial expectations. While many agencies can develop based on strict specifications, Cloudini demonstrated an incredible commitment to our project that was truly unparalleled.

Robert McPherson

Managing Director · RBM Global Ltd

Dragonfly has been working with the team at Cloudini for several years now on building out our web-based platform and APIs. One of their strengths is quickly building out a multi-disciplinary team to work on the development and delivery of features with different technical requirements. Their support has allowed us to accelerate our development work without building an internal team. They have also worked seamlessly with other third parties both during the acquisition of Dragonfly and development of our mobile app. Cloudini has been instrumental in bringing our ideas to life and providing guidance to help us make the best technical decisions. I would recommend getting in touch with them if you're looking for support.

Rebecca Palser

COO · Dragonfly

Hassan and the Cloudini team have been indispensable partners as we rebuilt our client-facing applications into a single platform. As well as being exceptional technically, they consistently invest the time to understand the product and suggest how it can be enhanced and improved.

David Claridge

CEO · Dragonfly

Cloudini did some great work for Sainsbury's, bridging complex interactions between some older less flexible systems, some rigid vendor solutions and the new systems we were building. The software Cloudini developers wrote stood up well, long beyond the interim scope of it needing to work for 12-18m and was still in active use 5 years after its creation to good effect, since it was part of mission critical systems.

Fraser Pearce

Senior Engineering Manager · Sainsbury's

Retail · Frequently asked

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Retail & commerce engineeringthat survives peak.

Scale is the easy part.

Things we've shippedin retail.

Commerce 01 — emerging-markets research.

Commerce 02 — bottleless water e-commerce.

Commerce 03 — reusable mobile UI library.

Commerce 04 — Django order & product manager.

Commerce 05 — home-services marketplace.

Commerce 06 — predictive sales visualisation.

Commerce 07 — wholesale-direct mobile marketplace.

Commerce 08 — contactless grocery delivery.

Commerce 09 — event-planning marketplace.

Commerce 10 — on-demand delivery storefront.

Commerce 11 — browser-based gaming portal.

Commerce 12 — distributed e-commerce operations.

Commerce 13 — omnichannel point-of-sale.

Commerce 14 — agency client CRM.

Commerce 15 — evidence-based performance management.

Commerce 16 — antler scoring app.

Commerce 17 — natural deodorant DTC.

Commerce 18 — all-in-one small-business platform.

Commerce 19 — merchant e-commerce suite.

Commerce 20 — growth-stage e-commerce platform.

Commerce 21 — filmmaker video storage.

Commerce 22 — niche-device app partnership.

Commerce 23 — luxury apartment concierge.

Commerce 24 — life story timeline vault.

Commerce 25 — short-link bookmarker.

Commerce 26 — social Q&A scoring app.

Commerce 27 — voice-based social Q&A.

Commerce 28 — zone-based community marketplace.

Commerce 29 — recipe social marketplace.

Candy — mobile-first marketplace.

Commerce 31 — multi-vendor marketplace.

Commerce 32 — multi-branch restaurant e-commerce.

Commerce 33 — cafe & restaurant POS.

Shish Cafe — multi-branch operations manager.

Commerce 34 — custom commerce engagement.

Commerce 35 — specialist retail engagement.

RingScope — combat-sports media platform.

AlpineCraft — premium ski gear e-commerce.

Board Games International — novel reading & monetisation.

Commerce 39 — event-planning studio site.

Commerce 40 — specialist web engagement.

Shed Happens — phone camera to 3D digital twin.