Medusa

Open source · OSI-approvedStatus: unknown

Commerce building blocks rather than a fixed storefront

Medusa is a set of commerce modules - cart, orders, pricing, inventory, fulfilment - exposed as APIs you compose, rather than a themed storefront you customise around the edges.

That suits businesses whose selling model does not fit the standard template: subscriptions, marketplaces, B2B pricing tiers, or bespoke fulfilment.

Decisive facts

Modular commerce primitives usable independently
Multi-region pricing, tax, and currency handling
Any front end: the storefront is entirely yours
Extensible admin with custom widgets and routes
Self-hostable on ordinary Node infrastructure

Backend Platforms Content Management typescript self-hosted ecommerce nodejs headless

Alternatives to Medusa

Shopify

Hosted commerce covering storefront, checkout, and payments

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