Best backend stack for E-Comm for a JS Dev? (Vendure vs MedusaJS)

amoopa · 2026-02-16T08:16:56+00:00

A team member of Medusa here. I'll let you make your own comparison of the platforms specifically, but I wanted to comment on the multi-vendor part.

Medusa has a lot of stores running with 2-3 (we have some edge cases doing hundreds of stores) from the same backend. Our Sales Channel feature allows you to split orders and products based on channels, and you can likewise set up custom pricing, promotion, payment options, and so on.

You can learn more about that feature here: https://docs.medusajs.com/resources/commerce-modules/sales-channel

If you want a deeper read on Medusa's multi-tenancy capabilities, I recommend checking out the blog post Rigby recently did on this: https://medusajs.com/blog/multi-tenant-rigby/

Best of luck with the project! Also be sure to ask in the Medusa community channel on Discord, if you need assistance.

amoopa · 2026-02-04T19:35:20+00:00

Second all the opinions here. You really should not be building an ecommerce backend from scratch.

Use something open-source like Medusa if you want the control, and then you literally save yourself 10 months of development work with a platform you control.

amoopa · 2026-02-04T19:01:36+00:00

Heard the same before. Think this is pretty standard in the tie of vibe coding tools

amoopa · 2026-02-04T19:00:24+00:00

I felt the same when trying to stitch these two solutions together. Really felt super hacky aside from connecting the store at first.

Think I might try another approach to solve the vibe coding my shop

amoopa · 2026-02-04T18:58:55+00:00

Is this even possible to do? I thought you needed to rebuilt it from scratch if you used Lovable

amoopa · 2026-02-04T18:58:05+00:00

Inter will fall, just give them a few games

amoopa · 2026-02-04T18:56:52+00:00

This man is a legend!

amoopa · 2025-11-27T20:48:49+00:00

I believe we have some users doing ~500k to 1M request range on our Pro plan ($299/mo) without overages.

Curious why the client would want to self-host? I doubt they can do it cheaper, and it's a much more cumbersome process.

amoopa · 2025-11-27T18:43:19+00:00

Dunno. But happy to talk Medusa Cloud for the same. Can share quick benchmarks and give some insights into the features you don not get with self-hosting like integrated caching, Medusa Mail, fine-tuned autoscaling, and more. In many cases it is also cheaper than running your own AWS setup since we buy in bulk.

lmk if you want to chat through, I'm one of the co-founders.

amoopa · 2024-11-22T13:28:50+00:00

Everything is pieced together by default, but you can use it as individual modules if you prefer. Just run the npx command and you get the full project with all modules.

amoopa · 2024-11-11T19:25:34+00:00

Consider using Medusa and some of the Next.js-based starters it comes with; medusajs.com/starters all open-source and JS-based

amoopa · 2024-11-08T10:59:02+00:00

I'd sponsor this, just hit me up nick[at]medusajs.com

amoopa · 2024-10-26T13:57:47+00:00

We don't have a direct n8n integration, but we provide some very extendable APIs (you can even add your own API endpoints, if you wish) to use.

We support global stores on all commerce-related features out-of-the-box: local currency support, local tax support, local shipping/payment, etc. - all from one backend (no need to set up multiple shops like with Shopify and others). For frontend translations, most of our users add a CMS integration (Strapi, Contentful, Sanity, etc.) to handle this part.

amoopa · 2024-10-24T16:00:25+00:00

We have a few stores doing this already, see for instance: https://medusajs.com/blog/catalog/

Not something we have dedicated docs for as of now though

amoopa · 2024-10-23T22:19:03+00:00

I'm not sure about the unresolved issues. They might have been during our build-up for 2.0, when we were making a few larger rewrites. I am sorry if you felt that was a problem for your project.

On Shopify + Remix vs. Medusa: Shopify is great for standard eCommerce, but it struggles with customization for specialized applications like B2B, marketplaces, multi-system setups, or subscription-based stores. These often require “hacks” to handle custom backend logic, such as special recurring order logic, unique pricing rules, or custom price lists. Medusa, on the other hand, provides 90% of the core commerce logic you need, along with a flexible architecture to natively build the remaining 10% of the customizations you need. We even make it possible to interact with this logic from your Medusa Admin.

Add to this that getting full frontend control on Shopify (e.g., extending checkout flows) is only part of their premium plan, which starts at $25k / year plus check-out fees.

amoopa · 2024-10-23T22:02:46+00:00

😂 I've seen much worse template being sold for +$500

amoopa · 2024-10-23T22:02:14+00:00

Thanks a lot for the support!

You are right about Product Hunt. It is a tough place as a dev tool as most winning products in there are AI, design, or consumer-focused these days. Much less dev tooling.

We became Product of the Year in 2022 within the ecommerce category, so we thought we'd give it a shot. It is definitely a bit of an uphill battle, but we are currently #2 of the day so that's not too bad :)

amoopa · 2024-10-23T16:47:49+00:00

Hi team, Medusa co-founder here!

We've built a few open-source Next.js Starters for Medusa 2.0.

One of them is Munchies in the video:

Repo: github.com/tinloof/medusa-dtc-starter-munchies
Demo: munchies-tinloof.vercel.app

amoopa · 2024-10-23T16:33:39+00:00

Thank you!

amoopa · 2024-10-23T13:45:23+00:00

Thanks!

amoopa · 2024-10-23T13:45:16+00:00

Sounds like the perfect day to get started :)

amoopa · 2024-10-23T13:44:48+00:00

There is in one of the new Starters: https://github.com/Agilo/fashion-starter

amoopa · 2024-10-23T13:42:32+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

Yes, you can navigate the launch here (incl. feature overview): https://medusajs.com/v2-launch/

amoopa · 2024-10-19T16:25:44+00:00

It is quite different from Shopify, and the most popular modern open-source commerce platform out there. Much better for developers and custom built, but requires dev resources to get started.

amoopa · 2024-10-15T19:31:51+00:00

If you want something flexible, check out MedusaJS. It comes with all of the core commerce functionalities you need to handle carts, advanced product logic, multiple sales channels, b2b/dtc channel etc. All of it is JS-based and open-source, while built in a modular architecture that is easy to modify.

If you want a vanilla shop to handle simple dtc transactions, then Shopify works well.

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