Tax in Medusa: Regions, Rates, Overrides and When to Use a Tax Engine
Tax-inclusive versus tax-exclusive pricing, product overrides, and the point at which manual rates stop being viable and you buy an engine.
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Medusa Fulfilment: Stock Locations, Service Zones and Carriers
Why your shipping options are empty, how the fulfilment model actually fits together, and how to build a provider that talks to a real carrier.
Razorpay with Medusa: Payments for the Indian Market
UPI, netbanking, RuPay and the mandate rules that make Indian payments their own discipline. Integrating Razorpay with Medusa properly.
PayPal with Medusa: Integration, Buttons and Dispute Handling
Adding PayPal alongside cards, wiring the JS SDK buttons into a Next.js checkout, and the dispute and webhook behaviour that differs from a card processor.
Building a Custom Payment Provider for Medusa
The provider interface method by method, a working implementation, and the idempotency and webhook details that separate a demo from something you can take money with.
Multi-Language Medusa Storefronts: Routing, Content and hreflang
Medusa handles currency and tax per region, not translation. How to layer language onto that — URL structure, product content, and the hreflang most stores get wrong.
Medusa Storefront Performance: Where the Milliseconds Actually Go
Over-fetching, waterfalls and unoptimised images account for most of a slow headless storefront. How to find them and what to do about each.
Medusa Storefront SEO: Structured Data, Canonicals and Facets
Headless means you own every SEO decision, including the ones a hosted platform used to make. Metadata, Product schema, canonical rules and the faceted-navigation trap.
Deploying Medusa on AWS: ECS, RDS and the Parts That Bite
A production AWS architecture for Medusa — ECS Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, S3 — plus the networking and migration details that turn a two-day job into a two-week one.
Deploying Medusa on Railway: The Fastest Production Setup
Railway is the shortest path from a Medusa repository to a production deployment that is actually correct. The full setup, including the worker service everyone forgets.
Dockerising Medusa: A Production Image That Is Not 2GB
A multi-stage Dockerfile for Medusa v2, a compose file for local development, and the build-memory problem that catches every team once.
Medusa Environment Variables and Configuration, Done Properly
Every variable Medusa reads, which ones are security-critical, and how to structure configuration so a missing value fails at boot instead of at checkout.