The Fast, Cloud-Native Laravel Headless eCommerce API

Cloud-native, ultra fast and scalable to billions of items
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Build headless, ultra fast online shops, marketplaces or complex B2B applications incl. drop-shipping or affiliate systems with the most widely used cloud-native, API-first Laravel headless ecommerce API platform that scales from 1 to 1,000,000,000+ items.

The Aimeos headless ecommerce distribution is Open Source, available for free and can be installed in less than 5 minutes. Developed by a worldwide community since 2015, Aimeos is available in more than 30 languages and includes an impressive list of features.

Laravel Headless eCommerce Highlights

Laravel is the most popular PHP framework, with expressive, elegant syntax. Accompanied by Aimeos, the leading headless eCommerce API platform for Laravel, you can build a full-featured headless eCommerce application to enjoy features like:

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World-class JSON REST and GraphQL APIs

Build custom frontends, progressive web applications (PWAs), and native mobile apps with the Aimeos JSON REST API based on the industry-standard JSON:API specification. Manage shop content efficiently through the GraphQL Admin API.

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Multi vendor, multi channel and multi warehouse capable

Use the Aimeos sites extension, which offers tree-like multi-tenancy out of the box, to create sub-sites for regional or niche marketplaces, individual vendors, and country-specific portals.

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Bundles, events, vouchers, virtual, configurable, custom and group products

Use all the product types your shop needs and combine them with paid downloads, priced configurable attributes, and custom input attributes. Create complex product types and manage them efficiently with reusable dataset templates.

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For shops from one to 1,000,000,000+ items that render in 20ms

Scale to an eCommerce platform larger than Amazon with the #gigacommerce extension. Use Elasticsearch to scale virtually without limits as your product catalog grows.

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Turn every product into a subscription with recurring payment

Sell products, services, or virtual goods at arbitrary intervals, and let Aimeos automatically capture payments from the payment provider whenever subscriptions renew.

Headless eCommerce API in Action

Aimeos provides production-ready, standardized JSON:API and GraphQL endpoints out of the box. Query product catalogs, faceted filters, customer baskets, and checkout workflows with zero boilerplate using any modern frontend framework.

GraphQL: Query Products with Pricing and Media

query GetProductCatalog {
  products(filter: { status: 1 }, sort: "-created_at", slice: { limit: 8 }) {
    id
    label
    url
    prices {
      currencyid
      value
      costs
    }
    media(type: "default") {
      url
      label
    }
  }
}

JSON:API: Fast, Cacheable REST Request

# Fetch products with prices and media in a single round-trip
curl -X GET "https://your-shop.com/jsonapi/product?include=price,media&fields[product]=label,url" \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.api+json"

Storefront Fetch: Next.js, Nuxt & TypeScript

// Native fetch in Next.js Server Components or Nuxt 3 composables
const res = await fetch('https://your-shop.com/jsonapi/product?include=price,media', {
  headers: { 'Accept': 'application/vnd.api+json' },
  next: { revalidate: 60 } // Next.js ISR edge caching
});

const { data, included } = await res.json();

Laravel Headless eCommerce Showcases

Explore live headless storefronts built with React, Vue, and Next.js on top of Aimeos APIs. Check out more Laravel headless showcases.

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Featured Headless Case Study

Discover how engineering teams build high-volume marketplaces with Next.js and Aimeos Laravel headless JSON:API:

appy.rs – Next.js Marketplace on Laravel JSON:API

Multi-supplier marketplace connecting 15 automated supplier feeds. Next.js App Router storefront querying Aimeos JSON:API with sub-500ms response times at the 95th percentile across 50,000+ items on a single server.

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What Developers & Agencies Say

Our old Magento setup took days to import product catalogs and bogged down our infrastructure. With Aimeos, we built a headless Laravel architecture that imports 10 million products in under 30 minutes. API response times remain rock solid under peak traffic.
Ranko M. CTO, Automotive Platform
Before choosing Aimeos, we prototyped a Node.js stack, but memory consumption and writing order processing from scratch were blockers. Aimeos on Laravel provided out-of-the-box JSON:API endpoints that integrate seamlessly with our Next.js storefront, keeping response times under 500ms across 50,000 products.
Pascual Solutions Lead Architect, appy.rs Marketplace
Hands down the most scalable eCommerce framework in the PHP ecosystem. Connecting Aimeos with modern Vue and React storefronts gave our clients loading speeds faster than any SaaS solution, with zero ongoing transaction fees.
Rubén A. CEO & Tech Lead, Digital Commerce Agency

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The simplest way to headless eCommerce for Laravel

Get your own shop in less than 5 minutes by simply executing the following command. It will create a fully working Aimeos Laravel headless eCommerce installation including demo data which you can customize according to your needs.

composer create-project aimeos/aimeos-headless myshop

Laravel headless eCommerce FAQ

Is Aimeos Open Source?

Yes, the Aimeos Laravel headless eCommerce platform is Open Source and available under the LGPLv3 licence. The Laravel integration itself is licensed using the MIT license. Both allow you to modify and/or redistribute the Aimeos source code. You can use it in any of your client projects for free and without restrictions.

How much does it cost?

Nothing! It's free of charge and, most importantly, you can use it for all your Laravel ecommerce projects without paying anything.

There are only a few extensions for B2B, marketplaces and #gigacommerce offered by the Aimeos company which are not available for free. In addition, the Aimeos company offers paid support if you need 1:1 developer support. They also offer support for all Aimeos LTS versions up to five years.

Can I use Vue.js or Nuxt with Aimeos?

Yes. Aimeos is completely frontend-agnostic. No specialized backend extensions are required—any Vue.js, Vite, or Nuxt 3 application can connect directly to the standard JSON:API or GraphQL endpoints.

Aimeos delivers cache-optimized JSON:API responses designed for ultrafast Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with Nuxt 3 and reactive client-side hydration with Pinia. You get dynamic faceted filtering, multi-currency pricing, and basket/checkout workflows out of the box.

Can I use React.js or Next.js with Aimeos?

Yes. Aimeos provides full support for React.js, Next.js, and React Native directly through its native APIs without requiring any dedicated frontend extensions.

For Next.js storefronts (using either the App Router or Pages Router), Aimeos acts as a high-throughput headless engine. You can leverage React Server Components (RSC) and Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) against Aimeos's cached endpoints for sub-20ms page loads, while streaming customer cart and checkout data in real time.

What are the benefits of Aimeos over Magento?

Aimeos is much more lightweight. The Aimeos Laravel headless ecommerce platform only contains around 1/5th of the code of the Magento core for roughly the same feature set. In addition, the optimized data structures make Aimeos extremely fast. You can achieve a render time down to 20ms for cached components without the problems of a full page cache as used by Magento.

It also scales much better than Magento. Magento works fine up to 50k products but will get slower and slower with more products. Contrary to Magento, Aimeos can utilize Elasticsearch or Solr as drop-in replacement for storing and/or searching/filtering products. Thus, building Laravel headless eCommerce applications with 1,000,000,000+ products is possible without any performance loss by using the #gigacommerce extension.

Moreover, Laravel is currently the best PHP framework. It's much easier to use than the old Zend framework Magento is based on and developers are more productive when using Laravel. There's also a lot of documentation and videos available for Laravel and it has a very big developer community.

How does Aimeos compare to other headless solutions like Medusa or Sylius?

While MedusaJS (Node.js) and Sylius (Symfony) are popular headless alternatives, Aimeos delivers key architectural advantages for demanding eCommerce projects:

  • Unmatched Speed & Scale: Aimeos core renders cached API responses in under 20ms and scales from single-product shops to 1,000,000,000+ items using drop-in Elasticsearch/Solr indexing (#gigacommerce).
  • Native Multi-Tenancy & Multi-Vendor: Aimeos includes hierarchical multi-site and marketplace data structures out of the box, without requiring third-party plugins.
  • Pure Laravel Architecture: Teams already using PHP and Laravel avoid the operational complexity of managing a separate Node.js runtime (Medusa) or Symfony's heavier configuration layers (Sylius).
  • Enterprise-Grade Feature Breadth: Aimeos ships battle-tested support for complex catalog structures (configurable products, bundles, vouchers, custom attributes), recurring subscriptions, and multi-warehouse fulfillment.

Can Aimeos run as a self-hosted headless eCommerce backend?

Yes. Aimeos is 100% self-hosted and on-premise capable. Unlike proprietary SaaS headless platforms that impose per-transaction fees, GMV penalties, and API rate limits, Aimeos deploys directly on your own infrastructure—whether standard Linux servers, Docker containers, Kubernetes clusters, AWS, or GCP.

You retain complete data ownership, guaranteed GDPR and regulatory compliance, and total freedom to customize every database query and business logic rule without vendor lock-in or artificial catalog constraints.

Does Aimeos support multi-vendor setups?

Yes, you can use Aimeos to host an unlimited number of vendors within one Aimeos installation. Vendors will have their own frontend and backend so you can create Laravel ecommerce SaaS platforms similar to Shopify for example.

There's also a Laravel marketplace extension available to build (multi-level) marketplaces in Aimeos. Then, vendors manage their own products and all these vendor products are aggregated into one or more marketplaces. Customers can buy products from different vendors just like they can do at Amazon.

Does it support multiple languages and currencies?

Yes, multi-language and multi-currency are the DNA of Aimeos. The Laravel ecommerce package supports an unlimited number of languages. It also has full support for right-to-left languages like Arabic in frontend and backend. Additionally, Aimeos includes translations for 30+ languages.

Contrary to other solutions, Aimeos also has full multi-currency support. Where competitors only support one currency with fixed conversion rates, you can add individual prices for all currencies in Aimeos. Thus, your Laravel ecommerce shop can display 4.99€ instead of 5.04€ if your original product price is $5.99. Furthermore, you can combine multiple currencies with multi-level tier-pricing / block pricing for all product types supported by Aimeos.

Is my required payment gateway supported?

Aimeos uses the Omnipay PHP library for payment handling and there are more than 100 Omnipay drivers for connecting to different payment gateways. There's an official list of supported payment gateways at the Omnipay site but there are more drivers available. Just use Google to search for "omnipay " to see if there's a driver available if it's not listed in the official list.

Please note that the quality of the drivers can vary and some are not fully compliant with Aimeos or are only available for older versions.

Can Aimeos be customized?

Yes, Aimeos is incredibly flexible and can be fully customized according to your needs. There are more than 2,500 settings available to configure Aimeos.

In addition, you can add, remove and overwrite any functionality in Aimeos in your own extension, so updating Aimeos is easy.

Does it support B2B setups?

Yes, Aimeos is capable of handling complex B2B setups using the specialized Aimeos B2B extensions.

Examples of common B2B setups supported by Aimeos:

  • Several portals using product data inherited from a common product database
  • Products, prices and/or other data only shown to some customers and groups
  • Dropshipping of products by vendors with different prices
  • B2B marketplace setup

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