2024 · E-commerce development

GeckoGas

GeckoGas is a headless Shopify storefront that Niro Digital built in 2024 for a CBD brand selling across seven European markets, with seven locales, an age gate, volume-tier pricing and an AI support chatbot.

Client: Gecko Gas
Industry: CBD e-commerce
Year: 2024
What we did: E-commerce development

Visit geckogas.com

The constraint

GeckoGas sells CBD in seven European markets and wanted one storefront to serve all of them rather than a separate store per country. Every market needs its own language and its own domain, a CBD product needs an age gate before anything else loads, and wholesale buyers need a different path through the site than retail shoppers. We built a Next.js front end on Shopify's Storefront API: the proxy maps each market domain to its locale, the catalogue, cart and checkout hand-off come straight from Shopify, and volume-tier pricing, product reviews, a wholesale request flow and an AI support chatbot sit on top. Shopify stays the system of record, so the storefront runs without a database of its own.

The system

//01One header carries locale switcher, search, account and cart across all markets

GeckoGas age verification modal over the home page

//02An 18+ age gate blocks the storefront before any product loads

GeckoGas product listing with filters, product count and sort control

//03Catalogue listing with filters, product count and sort, rendered from Shopify

GeckoGas product page with strength meter, price and 3x / 5x volume tiers

//04Product page with strength meter, benefit list and live Shopify price
//05Volume tiers on the product page: 3x at -10%, 5x at -20%

//06Product reviews from our own review platform, embedded in the page

//07Slide-over cart with line-item editing and a Shopify checkout hand-off

//08A wholesale request form for B2B buyers on the same storefront

//09Contact form validated server-side, delivered by email

//10Searchable FAQ with category tabs and expanding answers

//11Support chatbot in production, grounded in the live catalogue and the FAQ set

//12The Czech market on geckogas.cz: same code, translated end to end

What changed

//01Seven markets run from one codebase instead of one store per country.
//02Shopify stays the system of record, so there is no second product database to sync.
//03Wholesale buyers get their own request flow without a second website.
//04Routine questions are answered by a chatbot reading the live catalogue and FAQ.

What we'd do differently

The repo still carries an unstable GraphQL passthrough route and a test route that should have been deleted before launch, not left behind a flag. We would also plan the review and analytics integrations earlier: each arrived as its own bolt-on, and the storefront now depends on three separate vendors for what a visitor reads as one page.

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