CUSTOMER STORY

Ulta Beauty

How Ulta Beauty is digitally transforming their business with headless commerce and MACH architecture

+1.3M
SKUs
7 Days
to Launch BOPIS
300
Commerce APIs

The Challenge

Ulta Beauty’s monolithic platform could no longer meet their commerce needs, so they decided to rethink all of their technology and make the move to modern commerce architecture across their entire organization.

Moving away from the monolith towards a MACH architecture opens up ways to enhance omnichannel capabilities for Ulta Beauty and their consumer experience like never before. Expanding into new markets while scaling up existing ones has become day-to-day business.
Hauke Rahm
VP Customer Success, commercetools

The Solution

With the need to scale rapidly and make changes to their platform with more flexibility, Ulta Beauty’s only real choice to meet those needs was to go with a headless and MACH approach.

ULTA Beauty promotional image featuring Pink Grapefruit Pamplemousse Rose scented gel hand wash, Maximum Lashes defining mascara, Brightening Vitamin C body scrub, and a displayed makeup compact in soft coral-peach shade.
Partner info
Ulta Beauty is a leading American beauty retailer specializing in cosmetics, skincare, haircare, and salon services.
Region
Americas
Industry
Retail
Migrated from
Oracle ATG
Markets
1
Headquarters
Bolingbrook, Illinois, US
Worked with partners
Amplience, HCL, Google Cloud

Top capabilities for Ulta Beauty

Catalog

Imports very large catalog and category trees with ease and efficiency.

BOPIS

Customers are able to purchase products online and collect in-store.

Channels

Thousands of offline retail channels digitized under a single platform.

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