Webito separates the commerce backend from the storefront that renders it, which is what makes it headless: but it also ships the storefront, so going headless does not mean commissioning a front-end build first. You start with server-rendered themes controlled by design tokens you edit visually, and if you later want a bespoke front end, you build against the same storefront API the bundled themes use, keeping catalogue, tax, orders and B2B logic on the platform.
The usual headless trade-off
Classic headless platforms give you an API and a blank page: nothing renders until someone builds a front end, and every content change afterwards routes through a developer. Traditional platforms give you a storefront you cannot meaningfully escape. Webito's position is to ship both sides: a real storefront out of the box, and an API that makes replacing it a normal project rather than a migration.
Design tokens, not theme code
Restyling is done through tokens: colour, typography, radius, spacing: edited visually and applied consistently across every page the theme renders. That covers the majority of what merchants actually want to change without touching templates, and it keeps the result coherent rather than a collage of one-off CSS overrides.
Pages and content, without a second CMS
Landing pages, editorial content and a blog with taxonomies are part of the store rather than a bolted-on system with its own login. Pages are composed from blocks, content is translatable across your active locales, and everything is rendered server-side so it is indexable: with per-page metadata, canonical URLs and structured data emitted by the storefront.
When you do go custom
The storefront API and webhooks are documented and are the same interface the bundled themes consume, so a custom front end is not a privileged integration path with different behaviour. You keep tax determination, order processing, B2B pricing and invoicing on the platform, and own only the layer you actually wanted to own.
This page explains how the platform behaves. It is not tax advice: your registrations, filings and thresholds remain your responsibility, and your accountant should confirm your specific position.