Question 1

Is Medusa.js better than Shopify for custom commerce?

Accepted Answer

For businesses with custom requirements, Medusa.js offers significantly more flexibility than Shopify. **Shopify** locks down checkout customisation (Shopify Plus only above $2,500/mo), imposes API rate limits that throttle large catalogues, charges **0.5–2% transaction fees on non-Shopify Payments**, and ties merchants to Shopify's hosting and platform roadmap. **Medusa.js is fully open-source under MIT** — your storefront, checkout, pricing rules, promotion logic, and integrations are entirely customisable with **zero transaction fees, no GMV tax, and no licence lock-in**. The upstream pitch from medusajs.com is direct: *"Own your commerce platform, with no GMV tax or licenses."*

**When to pick Shopify:** standard D2C storefronts under ~$5M GMV with a small team, no custom checkout requirements, no ERPNext/back-office integration depth needed.

**When to pick Medusa.js (Mithtech's typical scope):** complex B2B with tiered pricing, multi-region commerce with per-country tax/currency rules, multi-vendor marketplaces, retailers unifying online + offline POS, brands requiring deep ERPNext integration for sales-order-to-fulfillment-to-GL, or any commerce project where Shopify's transaction fees would exceed the cost of a Medusa implementation within 12–18 months.

Question 2

What does Medusa.js cost — and what does Mithtech charge to implement it?

Accepted Answer

**Medusa.js itself is MIT-licensed open-source — zero licence fees, zero per-order fees, zero GMV tax, no limits on products, orders, customers, or storefronts.**

**Hosting options (client picks one):**
- **Self-hosted on Mithtech-managed VPS / DigitalOcean / Hetzner / AWS / Azure** — ₹8k–30k/month depending on traffic and warehousing complexity. Most cost-efficient for ₹50L+ GMV brands.
- **Medusa Cloud** (medusajs.com hosted) — *"Starts from $29. Cancel anytime."* Push-to-deploy from GitHub, full source-code ownership retained, useful for clients who want zero ops overhead. Pricing scales with usage; final number depends on traffic.

**Mithtech implementation** (one-time, paid to us, delivered as Mithtech-owned Git repo): **₹3–6 L** for a single-region D2C storefront with ERPNext integration in a structured timeline; **₹6–12 L** for multi-region or B2B-configured deployment with custom modules in 10–16 weeks. We never resell Medusa Cloud subscriptions or take a margin on Medusa licences — the platform is free, our value is the engineering.

**Total 12-month cost example (mid-market D2C, 25k orders/year):** ~₹4 L Mithtech implementation + ₹15k/mo hosting (₹1.8 L/yr) = ~₹6 L year-one all-in. By contrast Shopify Plus at the same volume is ~$2,500/mo + ~$50k–80k in transaction fees = ~₹40–50 L/yr. Payback on Medusa is typically under 6 months for any brand above ₹2 cr GMV.

Question 3

Does Medusa integrate with ERPNext for inventory and order management?

Accepted Answer

Yes — and this is one of Mithtech's most-deployed integration patterns. We build bidirectional bridges between Medusa and ERPNext that sync in real-time:

1. **Order placement** — checkout in Medusa fires a Subscriber → creates a Sales Order in ERPNext with the correct Customer, Items, Warehouse, and Payment Entry context.
2. **Inventory sync** — Stock changes in ERPNext (purchases, transfers, adjustments) push to Medusa's Inventory Module via API; Medusa reservations on order placement push back to ERPNext.
3. **Customer master** — Medusa Customers are mirrored as ERPNext Customer doctype records with address book, payment terms, and tax templates.
4. **GL postings** — completed orders auto-create Journal Entries (revenue + tax + COGS) per the configured Chart of Accounts; payment captures auto-reconcile against Sales Invoices.
5. **Returns / RMA** — Medusa returns trigger ERPNext Stock Entry (back into the warehouse) + Credit Note + Payment Entry refund.

Implementation pattern: Mithtech ships this as a **custom Medusa Module** plus a thin Frappe app on the ERPNext side. Both sides are Mithtech-owned code in the client's Git repository — no third-party SaaS middleware, no per-order integration fees, no failure point we can't debug. Production-deployed across D2C, B2B distributor, and quick-commerce clients.

Question 4

What's the deal with Medusa v2 vs v1, and is Bloom production-ready?

Accepted Answer

**Medusa v2** (latest **v2.14.1**, April 24, 2026) is the current generation and the only version Mithtech deploys for new clients. v2 introduced the modular architecture — **Modules**, **Workflows**, **Module Links**, **Subscribers**, **Scheduled Jobs**, **API Routes** — that makes the platform genuinely composable. v1 (the original Medusa, last v1.x release in early 2024) is **legacy** — Mithtech does not start new v1 projects.

**v1 → v2 migrations:** if you have a legacy v1 store, Mithtech provides a guided migration path — schema mapping, custom-module conversion, storefront re-wire, payment-and-fulfillment provider re-binding. Typical migration scope: 4–10 weeks depending on customisation depth. Honest disclosure: a v1 → v2 migration is rarely cheaper than a fresh v2 build for stores under ~5,000 SKUs; we'll quote both options during scoping.

**Bloom (chat-to-app AI builder):** still maturing as of April 2026 — useful for prototyping a Medusa store from natural-language prompts (*"two weeks to live with Bloom"* per upstream). Mithtech uses Bloom internally for sprint-zero scaffolding but production stores still get the full TypeScript engineering treatment from our team. We don't ship un-reviewed Bloom output to production — every line of generated code is reviewed, hardened, and version-controlled before deployment.

Question 5

What does Mithtech actually build and modify on top of Medusa.js?

Accepted Answer

Mithtech is an expert Medusa.js implementor — we **modify, develop, and deploy** the open-source platform. The TypeScript 85.5% codebase is exactly our team's daily stack. All work delivered as a Mithtech-owned Git repository with full source, deployment scripts, and runbook — the client owns the IP, Mithtech provides ongoing support and iteration retainers. Concrete scope from production deployments:

1. **Custom Medusa Modules** — wholesale-tier pricing engines, subscription-billing modules, configurable-product (build-your-own-bundle) engines, multi-vendor commission ledgers, India-GST-aware tax modules with HSN/SAC codes, multi-warehouse routing logic.
2. **Custom Admin extensions** — React widgets surfacing ERPNext customer 360 inside the Medusa admin order view, branded admin themes per client, custom bulk-action workflows (e.g., bulk repricing across thousands of variants).
3. **Custom Workflows** — order-to-fulfillment orchestration with multi-warehouse routing, returns/RMA with ERPNext stock + payment integration, B2B approval chains (manager → finance → ship), subscription-renewal cycles.
4. **Custom storefronts** — Next.js (default), TanStack Start (Mithtech preference for new projects in 2026), or Astro — all SSR-first, performant on mobile, optimised for Indian network conditions. We follow our own ecommerce-storefront-best-practices skill internally.
5. **Integration bridges** — Mithtech-built TypeScript modules connecting Medusa to ERPNext, Frappe CRM, Polygin Integration (WhatsApp order updates + abandoned cart), Smartflo (CCaaS sales calls), n8n (cross-system automations), DocuSeal (e-sign for B2B), and payment gateways (Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree, Stripe, PayPal).
6. **Deployment infrastructure** — Docker Compose for operator, Kubernetes Helm chart for enterprise scale, or Medusa Cloud push-to-deploy. We support all three, and clients can migrate between them as scale demands.
7. **Performance tuning** — PostgreSQL index optimisation on order/inventory tables, Redis cache configuration, Bull queue tuning for background jobs, CDN configuration for storefront assets, and database read replicas for high-traffic catalogues.

Mithtech does not resell Medusa Cloud subscriptions or take any margin on the platform itself. The platform is free, our value is the engineering depth.

Medusa Commerce — Headless Commerce on Medusa.js

What can Medusa Commerce do?

MIT-licensed · v2.14.1 (April 24, 2026) · 32.8k+ GitHub stars · 4.3k forks · TypeScript 85.5%

How does Medusa Commerce work?

Audit & scope

Deploy on your infrastructure

Customise & integrate

Train & roll out

Operate & evolve

Medusa Commerce vs the alternatives

Estimate your savings with Medusa Commerce.

Frequently asked questions about Medusa Commerce

Get Medusa Commerce running in weeks, not quarters.

Products that pair with Medusa Commerce — Headless Commerce on Medusa.js

Medusa B2B — Wholesale Commerce on Medusa.js

POS & Retail Billing on Medusa.js

Polygin Store

Event Ticketing Systems

Directory & Listing Sites

WordPress Migration — to Medusa, Payload & Modern Stacks

Know your budget? Plan your Medusa Commerce — Headless Commerce on Medusa.js stack.

Medusa Commerce — Headless Commerce on Medusa.js

What can Medusa Commerce do?

MIT-licensed · v2.14.1 (April 24, 2026) · 32.8k+ GitHub stars · 4.3k forks · TypeScript 85.5%

How does Medusa Commerce work?

Audit & scope

Deploy on your infrastructure

Customise & integrate

Train & roll out

Operate & evolve

Medusa Commerce vs the alternatives

Estimate your savings with Medusa Commerce.

Frequently asked questions about Medusa Commerce

Is Medusa.js better than Shopify for custom commerce?

What does Medusa.js cost — and what does Mithtech charge to implement it?

Does Medusa integrate with ERPNext for inventory and order management?

What's the deal with Medusa v2 vs v1, and is Bloom production-ready?

What does Mithtech actually build and modify on top of Medusa.js?

Is Medusa Commerce — Headless Commerce on Medusa.js free and open source?

Can Medusa Commerce — Headless Commerce on Medusa.js be self-hosted on your own server?

How does Medusa Commerce — Headless Commerce on Medusa.js compare to Shopify or WooCommerce?

How does Mith Tech implement Medusa Commerce — Headless Commerce on Medusa.js for businesses?

Is Medusa.js better than Shopify for custom commerce?

Get Medusa Commerce running in weeks, not quarters.

Products that pair with Medusa Commerce — Headless Commerce on Medusa.js

Medusa B2B — Wholesale Commerce on Medusa.js

POS & Retail Billing on Medusa.js

Polygin Store

Event Ticketing Systems

Directory & Listing Sites

WordPress Migration — to Medusa, Payload & Modern Stacks

Know your budget? Plan your Medusa Commerce — Headless Commerce on Medusa.js stack.