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The Shopify Storefront API exposes products, cart operations, and checkout URLs, but a headless storefront still needs a deliberate plan for cart IDs, customer state, cache boundaries, and checkout handoff.
Storefront API carts rarely fails on features; it fails on unstated assumptions about data, permissions, and day-to-day operation.
Storefront API carts succeeds when scope boundaries and failure paths are agreed before components are chosen or content is migrated.
Acceptance of Storefront API carts should be demonstrated on the genuine path with real content, real accounts, and representative traffic rather than staged examples.
When scoping Storefront API carts with stakeholders, bring the questions above plus the documentation below so decisions trace back to published platform behavior.
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Terminology and platform behavior in this note trace back to published docs, not secondhand summaries.
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