Scaling Medusa: What Breaks First and How to Fix It
Traffic does not break Medusa — the database does, then the workers, then the catalog queries. The bottlenecks in the order you will meet them.
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The Real Cost of Headless Commerce: A TCO Model You Can Argue With
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.
Medusa vs Vendure: Two TypeScript Commerce Frameworks Compared
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 to Medusa Migration: Leaving EAV Behind
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.
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.
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 vs Saleor: TypeScript REST or Python GraphQL
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 to Medusa Migration: Escaping post_meta
WooCommerce data lives in WordPress's generic post tables. Extracting it cleanly, mapping variable products, and deciding what to do with thirty plugins.