What You Actually Get When You Run Medusa.js (2026)
Medusa v2 in practice — the modules you get free, the four places your code hooks in, and the honest boundary where the commerce layer stops and your…
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21 min readWhat Shopify Really Costs an Indian Seller (2026)
Shopify Payments does not work in India, so you pay a platform fee on top of a gateway. But COD is exempt and UPI carries no bank MDR — which means your…
Commerce
13 min readShopify and GST: Why Your Invoices Are Not Compliant (2026)
Shopify does not split CGST and SGST, does not derive place of supply, and has no IRN. Nine of the sixteen mandatory Rule 46 fields have no native…
Commerce
15 min readShopify to Medusa Migration: The Honest Guide (2026)
How to migrate from Shopify to Medusa.js without wrecking your SEO or your customer base — what exports, what doesn't, the forced password reset, phased…
Commerce
14 min readWhy Are Businesses Leaving Shopify in 2026?
The real reasons merchants move off Shopify in 2026: fees that scale with revenue, a locked checkout, undocumented limits, and limited data export.
ERPNext how-to & fixes
14 min readWhy ERPNext Reports Can Ignore User Permissions (and Which Version Leaks)
On Frappe v15, build_match_conditions() returns an empty string when a user holds User Permissions but their role grants neither read nor select. Callers…
ERPNext how-to & fixes
14 min readERPNext Scheduler Shows Process Not Found in Docker — It's a False Negative
Frappe's System Health Report reports the scheduler as Process Not Found whenever the scheduler runs in its own container. It is a file-lock bug, not an…
ERPNext how-to & fixes
14 min readERPNext Strict User Permissions Hides Every Purchase Invoice (And Asset and Shipment Are Still Broken)
Strict User Permissions plus a Company User Permission set to Apply to All Document Types empties the Purchase Invoice list with no error. ERPNext fixed…
ERPNext how-to & fixes
12 min readFrappe v16 Chrome PDF 504: the v16.24 bug that hangs your gunicorn worker
Every PDF download returns 504 on frappe v16.24.0–v16.24.2. A directory path reaches read_file, kills the CDP reader, and blocks the worker forever. Here…
ERPNext how-to & fixes
14 min readERPNext v16 Custom Report Filter Bugs: The Shape Assumption That Breaks Them
Three real Frappe/ERPNext filter-shape bugs, each with its exact version boundary. One shipped in v16.14.0 and was fixed in v16.21.0. One is open but…
Commerce
13 min readWhy medusa db:migrate Hangs Forever — and How to Diagnose It
medusa db:migrate stops dead after creating the migrations table, with no error and no CPU. The confirmed cause is Medusa forcing SSL on any…
Commerce
13 min readMedusa v2 Multi-Location Inventory: Why Checkout Fails on Stock You Actually Have
Medusa v2 confirms a cart against summed stock across every linked location, then reserves the whole line from location_ids[0]. The order is created…
Commerce
14 min readMedusa v2 Workflow Compensation Cannot Cross the Process Boundary
Medusa v2's Workflows SDK rolls back database writes when a step fails. It cannot un-emit an event, un-send an email, un-write to your ERP, or un-charge…
ERPNext how-to & fixes
13 min readHow to Automate Payment Reconciliation in ERPNext (Fix the Timeout)
ERPNext Payment Reconciliation times out when matching 2000+ payments against 5000+ invoices. This guide fixes the timeout with batch processing, adds…
Manufacturing & distribution
13 min readHow to Handle Unfulfilled SO Quantities in ERPNext Production Planning
ERPNext Production Plan's 'Get Items from Sales Orders' misses partially delivered orders, shows wrong pending quantities, and ignores material…
Manufacturing & distribution
12 min readHow to Set Up Quality Inspection in ERPNext Manufacturing
ERPNext Quality Inspection blocks Stock Entry submission when readings fail — but only if configured correctly. This guide covers QI template setup…
Commerce
11 min readHow to Fix Medusa v2 Checkout Performance with 1000+ Variants
Medusa v2 checkout slows to 8+ seconds when your store has 1000+ product variants. The root cause is a quadratic variant pricing lookup. This guide…
Commerce
14 min readHow to Add COD + Shiprocket Fulfillment to Medusa v2 for India
Medusa v2 has no built-in COD payment method or Shiprocket fulfillment module. This guide builds both from scratch — the COD payment provider, Shiprocket…
Commerce
14 min readSelf-Host Medusa v2 on Hetzner with Coolify: Production-Hardened Docker Setup (2026)
Deploy Medusa v2 on a Hetzner ARM server with Coolify for automated Docker management. Covers the production issues that break most deployments — admin…
Commerce
12 min readHow to Build a Razorpay Payment Provider for Medusa v2 (UPI, Cards, Netbanking)
Medusa v2 has no official Razorpay plugin. This guide walks through building a custom payment provider module for Indian payment methods — UPI, cards…
GST & compliance
10 min readBrazil NF-e in ERPNext: Why Shipment Waits for SEFAZ Clearance (2026)
In Brazil, goods cannot legally leave the warehouse until the state SEFAZ authorises the NF-e and returns cStat 100. How the clearance model couples…
GST & compliance
10 min readEU VAT Triangulation in ERPNext: The Two Words Luxury Trust Turned On
Article 141 lets the middle party in an EU A-B-C chain skip registering for VAT in the destination country — but only if the invoice says 'Reverse…
GST & compliance
10 min readUganda EFRIS in ERPNext: Beyond VAT After the 2025 Expansion
Uganda's EFRIS is no longer a VAT-only obligation. Since 1 July 2025, businesses in 12 gazetted sectors must issue EFRIS e-invoices whether…
GST & compliance
10 min readUS Sales Tax in ERPNext: Wayfair Economic Nexus vs Tax-Engine Delegation
After South Dakota v. Wayfair, a US sales-tax obligation is triggered by sales volume, not physical presence — and ERPNext has no engine to track it…