Platform decisions, migrations and the business side of running a store — replatforming, total cost of ownership, compliance and risk.
Shopify Payments prohibits nicotine. The PACT Act killed your shipping options. Here is what actually happens when a vape brand gets deplatformed — and the migration path off Shopify onto self-hosted Medusa.
Platform fees are the visible cost and rarely the largest. A three-year model comparing hosted SaaS against self-hosted Medusa, including the lines people leave out.
Both are TypeScript, both are self-hosted, both are good. The differences are in the extension model, the API style, and how much structure you want imposed.
Magento's EAV model, configurable products and multi-store hierarchy do not map one-to-one onto anything. How to extract, translate and cut over without losing B2B logic.
Two credible open-source commerce platforms with opposite technical bets. Which one fits depends far more on your team than on the feature lists.
WooCommerce data lives in WordPress's generic post tables. Extracting it cleanly, mapping variable products, and deciding what to do with thirty plugins.
Not a feature grid written by someone selling one of them. Where Shopify genuinely wins, where Medusa does, and the revenue point where the maths flips.
Catalog, customers, orders, subscriptions and the redirect map that decides whether you keep your rankings. A working plan for moving off Shopify, from people who have done it.
The decision framework, the sequence, the costs and the failure modes. A platform-agnostic guide to moving an existing store onto Medusa without breaking revenue.
