Medusa.js Development

Commerce, without the constraints.

We build flexible, high-performance commerce platforms with Medusa.js and modern headless architectures.

Why headless commerce

The platform stops being the ceiling

Traditional platforms tie your storefront to their backend. That is fine until you need a checkout step, a pricing rule, or an integration the platform does not support — and you start working around the tool instead of with it.

Own the storefront

The frontend is your codebase, not a theme. Change the buying experience without fighting a template system.

A backend you can call

Commerce logic sits behind an API, so the same catalogue and orders can serve web, mobile, POS, and internal tools.

Integrate without workarounds

Connect an ERP, a warehouse system, or a bespoke pricing engine directly instead of gluing apps together.

Scale what needs scaling

Storefront, admin, and background jobs run separately, so traffic spikes do not slow down operations.

Why Medusa

A commerce framework, not a platform you rent

Open source, self-hostable

No per-transaction platform fee and no vendor holding your catalogue. You can run it wherever you want.

Modular by design

Cart, pricing, inventory, fulfillment, and payments are separate modules you can extend or replace individually.

TypeScript end to end

The same language and types across storefront, server, and custom modules, which keeps a small team fast.

Extensible without forking

Custom logic lives in your own modules and workflows, so upgrades stay possible as the project grows.

A real admin included

A working dashboard from day one, extensible with your own pages for the parts of the business it does not know about.

Standard Node tooling

PostgreSQL, Redis, and Node — infrastructure most teams already know how to run and hire for.

Honest fit

Medusa is not always the answer

We build on Medusa often, which is exactly why it is worth saying when it is the wrong tool. If Shopify or WooCommerce would serve you better, we will tell you before you commit a budget.

Medusa makes sense when

  • Your checkout, pricing, or fulfillment rules do not fit a standard platform
  • You sell across regions or channels with genuinely different logic
  • You need deep integration with an ERP, POS, or internal system
  • You want to own your data, your hosting, and your roadmap
  • You have engineering capacity, or you are hiring a partner who does

Shopify or WooCommerce may be better when

  • You need a standard catalogue and checkout live in a few weeks
  • Your team is non-technical and needs to change everything self-serve
  • You depend on a specific app ecosystem that only Shopify has
  • Budget is better spent on marketing than on engineering right now
  • You do not expect to need custom commerce logic at all

Architecture

What a Medusa build looks like

A typical shape. The modules and integrations change per project, but the separation between storefront, commerce server, and data stays the same.

Client
Next.js storefrontMobile appMedusa Admin
API
Store APIAdmin APICustom API routes
Medusa server
ProductCartOrderPricingInventoryFulfillmentPaymentCustom modules
Data
PostgreSQLRedisFile / CDN storage
Integrations
StripeHeadless CMSERPShippingSearchAnalytics

What we build

The parts most stores actually need

Custom storefrontsCheckout flowsPaymentsProduct catalogsInventoryMulti-region and multi-currencyPromotions and discountsB2B and wholesale pricingSubscriptionsAdmin extensionsData migrationThird-party integrations

FAQ

Questions we get asked

Do we have to self-host?

No. Medusa can run on managed infrastructure or on your own servers. We usually deploy with Docker to a provider you control, and we can hand over the infrastructure entirely or keep running it for you.

Can we migrate from Shopify or WooCommerce?

Yes. Products, variants, customers, and historical orders can be migrated. The work that takes time is not the data — it is reproducing the rules, integrations, and edge cases your current store has accumulated.

How long does a build take?

It depends on catalogue complexity, how many systems have to talk to each other, and how much of your commerce logic is genuinely custom. We scope this properly before quoting rather than giving a number up front.

Is Medusa production-ready?

It runs real stores today. It is a framework rather than a hosted product, so it expects an engineering team behind it — which is the trade-off you are accepting in exchange for control.

What happens after launch?

Someone has to own upgrades, monitoring, and the integrations that break when a third party changes an API. We offer that as an ongoing arrangement, or we document and hand over to your team.

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Have something you want built?

Small enough to care about the details. Experienced enough to build the difficult parts. Tell us about the problem and we'll come back with a technical direction, scope, and timeline.

You work directly with the people building your product.