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GraphQL engineering for Retail & E-Commerce

Production GraphQL built for the compliance reality of Retail & E-Commerce. Not generic engineering adapted to your sector — sector-native architecture from the first design decision.

PCI-DSSCCPAGDPRSOC 2
Why GraphQL in Retail & E-Commerce

Retail and e-commerce GraphQL deployments face a multi-framework compliance landscape: PCI-DSS for cardholder data, CCPA for California consumer data, GDPR for EU customer data, and SOC 2 Type II for enterprise retail customer procurement requirements. The most important architectural decision for retail GraphQL systems is PCI scope reduction — using tokenization and PCI-compliant payment service providers to ensure that the GraphQL application never handles raw card numbers.

GDPR and CCPA create engineering requirements for retail GraphQL systems that most commerce platforms address inadequately: consumer rights must be implemented as functional system capabilities (deletion requests must trigger actual data removal, not a manual process), consent must be managed with the specificity these laws require, and data subject access requests must be answerable from live system data. We design retail GraphQL systems where these rights are implemented architecturally — not through compliance workflows that run separately from the system.

Compliance Context

Retail & E-Commerce engineering operates under a specific set of regulatory frameworks that govern data handling, security controls, audit requirements, and system availability. Every GraphQL architecture decision we make in this sector is evaluated against these frameworks — not added as a compliance layer afterward.

PCI-DSS
Required framework
CCPA
Required framework
GDPR
Required framework
SOC 2
Required framework
How We Deploy GraphQL for Retail & E-Commerce
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PCI-DSS scope reduction through tokenization — raw card data never reaches the GraphQL application

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GDPR/CCPA consumer rights implemented as GraphQL system capabilities — deletion, access, portability

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SOC 2 Type II evidence generation for enterprise retail customer procurement requirements

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Consent management architecture built into the customer data platform

Engagements

Our Retail & E-Commerce case studies include GraphQL technology deployed in production — compliant from architecture, delivered on fixed-price timelines. Not proof-of-concept work. Production systems serving regulated organizations.

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We deploy engineering teams that build GraphQL systems compliant with PCI-DSS, CCPA, GDPR, SOC 2 from the first architecture decision. Fixed price. No discovery phase. Production delivery.

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