E-commerce

The commerce stack we build on, in the open

We build stores on Medusa v2 and publish the plugins that come out of that work. Every capability named on this page has documentation behind it and a repository you can read.

The stack

One backend, one admin, one place the numbers live

Medusa v2 is an MIT-licensed commerce framework that runs on your own infrastructure. Nothing here is a tier you can be moved off, and nothing is a setting screen with a ceiling.

A backend you host

Node.js and TypeScript over PostgreSQL, deployed where you choose. The database is yours, the commerce logic is code, and a rule your business genuinely needs gets written rather than worked around.

A storefront that is its own application

The shop talks to the backend over an API, so it is a Next.js application rather than a theme. Redesigning it is a frontend project, not a replatform.

An admin the plugins extend

Marketplace status, costs and margin render as extra columns in one product table. Three integrations add three columns instead of three near-identical product lists nobody keeps in sync.

Plugins

Seven plugins, each doing one job, each documented from the docs that ship in its own repository.

None of these is on the public npm registry. Each one installs as a pinned git dependency from its repository, and each keeps the Medusa packages it needs as peer dependencies, so it builds against the version you already run.

Our own store

We are our own customer

Our platform's subscription and usage billing is built on a Medusa store we host ourselves. The platform reports metered facts to it over a single narrow endpoint and writes every batch to a durable outbox before the first send, so a serverless function torn down mid-request costs a delayed delivery rather than lost revenue.

Medusa is the only writer of the deduplication key. One derivation, one writer, and therefore no second charge when a delivery is retried.

That is also where the plugins came from. They were written for problems we had, and released because there was no good reason to keep them to ourselves.

See our open source

Services

What we build with this stack, and what each piece of it looks like as a project.

Questions

The things worth knowing before you commission any of this.

Want to see whether this fits your shop?

Message us

Tell us what you sell, where you sell it and which part of the process somebody is holding together by hand.

We will tell you honestly whether this stack is the right answer, and what the first piece worth building would be.

Zanek

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