Brink Commerce for CTOS

A commerce platform built for engineering teams and CTOs

Most commerce platforms ask your team to work around them: brittle integrations, monolithic deploys, and a roadmap that bends to the platform's limitations instead of your architecture. Brink is built API-first and composable from the ground up, so your team builds on it instead of around it.

Modern architecture that scales

Why CTOs choose Brink Commerce

A platform built on composable, event-driven infrastructure, not a monolith wearing an API.

Ready for whats next

API only by design

Every capability, products, pricing, stock, orders, is a documented REST endpoint. There's no dashboard logic to reverse-engineer, and nothing your team can't reach programmatically.

No lock-in

Composable at the core

Brink is MACH Alliance-certified: replace one piece of the stack, a provider, a service, without touching what already works or committing to a full replatform.

Autoscaling microservices

Microservices that scale independently

Independent services, each owning a single domain, deploy and scale on their own. A spike in checkout traffic doesn't strain product search for example.

Expand across channels

Headless without limitations

No frontend to fight with or work around. Build the storefront, app, or experience your team actually wants, on top of a backend that stays out of the way.

Under the hood

The architecture you're actually building on

Every capability rests on the same set of engineering guarantees.

Independent services, built to work together

Catalog, pricing, stock, tax, discounts, orders, and checkout each run as their own Go service, with its own database, API, and event stream. Use one, use five, or replace one later without touching the rest.

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Safe writes, even when systems retry

Every write is idempotent and conflict-safe. Sequence-number-based optimistic concurrency means retries, duplicate webhooks, and out-of-order events never corrupt state.

An event-driven backbone built for recovery

Every meaningful change publishes a schema-validated event via EventBridge or webhook. Failed deliveries retry automatically, and outages can be recovered with a replay instead of manual fixes.

Serverless infrastructure that scales with demand

Built on AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, and Step Functions. No servers to provision, no capacity planning before Black Friday — it scales up and down automatically.

No hidden functionality in the Merchant Portal

The Merchant Portal runs on the same public APIs as any integrator. Anything it does, you can build, automate, or replace via the API — no private UI-only logic.

The same permissions and audit trail for every actor

Every API call — human, integration, or AI agent — follows the same access model: OAuth 2.0 client credentials with tightly scoped permissions like deliveries/write or orders/read.

Operational stability you can trust

Infrastructure that behaves predictably, in production and under load.

Event-driven by default

Every meaningful change, a price update, a stock movement, an order status, publishes an event, so downstream systems stay in sync without polling.

Consistent behavior across channels

Web, app, marketplace, and B2B all run on the same order and checkout model, so there's one integration pattern to maintain, not one per channel.

Built for peak load

Serverless infrastructure scales automatically with demand, so a traffic spike is a normal Tuesday, not an incident.

Our products are built to last; we take pride in that. It's not just about the initial purchase; it's about creating a long-lasting relationship with our customers. So we wanted to own our roadmap without being tied down by platform limitations
Espen Jensen
CIO at Bergans
Bergans of Norway

The architecture

The three architecture domains of Brink Commerce

1. Management API

The Management API serves as the central hub for machine-to-machine integrations, catering to systems such as ERP and PIM. This domain encompasses essential services such as:

  • Store: Facilitates the integration of store information.
  • Tax: Manages taxation details.
  • Product: Handles product information and management.
  • Price: Manage pricing data.
  • Inventory: Manage stock and inventory data.
  • Discount: Enables the application of various discount types.

2. Shopper API

The Shopper API is designed to cater to front-end integrations, irrespective of the technology stack. It aligns perfectly with the JAMstack architecture, enabling web apps to interact with Brink Commerce. Key functionalities of the Shopper API include:

  • Session Management: Creating and managing user sessions for personalized experiences.
  • Cart Operations: Building and managing shopping carts.
  • Checkout Process: Enabling smooth and intuitive checkout experiences.
  • Provider Endpoints: Providing endpoints for payment, shipping, and other essential integrations.

3. Order Management API

he Order Management API enables client integrations serving systems like ERP, WMS, OMS, and CRM. This domain facilitates:

  • Order Fulfillment: Ensuring efficient order processing and fulfillment.
  • Communication: Enabling effective CRM communications for enhanced customer relationships.
  • Integration: Integrating with back-end systems for a unified workflow.

a platform you can trust

Zero downtime, by design
Five years. Zero seconds of downtime on checkout and payment. That's not a slogan, it's what the architecture is built to deliver.
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100% actual uptime on checkout and payment, since day one
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99.99% uptime contracted, and we've delivered better, every year
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Millions of transactions processed annually without a single outage
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The same stack powers multiple merchants above 1 billion SEK in annual revenue
100% uptime

Getting started

Less guessing and plumbing, more building

Brink Commerce comes with resources built by developers for developers.

Brink Commerce developer docs

API reference, guides, and integration setup for building on Brink's Management, Shopper, and Order APIs.

Read the docs

Brink Commerce SDK

Official TypeScript SDK for the Shopper API, with built-in session/checkout token handling and support for all 18 provider integrations.

Get the SDK

clear value

What this means for you

Cleaner architecture

Domain boundaries stay clean because the platform is built that way, not because your team enforces it by convention.

Happier developers

Less time on workarounds and platform quirks, more time on what actually differentiates the product.

Faster delivery without technical debt

Ship a new integration or a new market without adding a maintenance burden that slows down the next one.

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I want to Build

a commerce foundation ready for what comes next
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with powerful pricing, promotion, and checkout tools
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I want to Grow

into new markets with  multi-market capabilities
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orders and operations with full control
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