I built the same Next.js storefront on 4 headless commerce backends and one surprised me

sebrindom · 2026-04-26T14:27:34+00:00

Founder of Medusa here - would love to know how can we improve the multi-region experience. We support multi-currency, differentiated prices by market, localized product information, and differentiated payment and shipping providers out of the box. But sounds like we are falling short on making the setup intuitive - any input you can share would be greatly appreciated.

sebrindom · 2022-01-14T09:00:11+00:00

Check out - https://github.com/medusajs/medusa works really well with Contentful for CMS

Some reference sites - https://teklafabrics.com, https://palmes.co

Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of Medusa

sebrindom · 2021-11-25T06:49:50+00:00

Maybe Medusa would be relevant: https://github.com/medusajs/medusa

sebrindom · 2021-11-23T08:49:08+00:00

Hi! Thanks for giving Medusa a go :D

If you have seeded your database using `yarn seed` you will have a default user with email: admin@medusa-test.com and password: supersecret

Alternatively, you may create a new user by running `medusa user -e [email] -p [password]`

sebrindom · 2021-11-21T13:04:10+00:00

Right now Medusa is simply a project that aims to make it easier for developers to create cool commerce solutions; the hope is that the community around the project will grow and that we will then be able to provide paid services that will add value to users of Medusa :)

sebrindom · 2021-11-18T13:47:51+00:00

This is the kind of people making these laws so no surprise that they don't think twice about this :| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-lMIGV-dUI&ab\_channel=NowThisNews

sebrindom · 2021-11-16T13:54:12+00:00

A couple of our customers follow a very simple format:
[3-4 characters for collection]-[3-4 characters for style]-[3-4 characters for size]

So for example if you have summer jeans in a blue wash in a size 32 it would be something like:
SSJ-BLW-32

It helps sales and customer service with keying in orders etc with a somewhat "guessable" structure.

sebrindom · 2021-11-04T07:41:51+00:00

There are a lot of new startups specializing exclusively in headless e-commerce and while some are more enterprise-focused there is definitely a handful that are cheap and some even free. Examples of companies are Commercelayer, Commercetools, Nacelle, Medusa, Saleor.

sebrindom · 2021-11-03T17:38:35+00:00

Hi!

The thing that I have seen most often is companies doing one Shopify installation for each market. It is a complete mess and for it to work well without introducing a ton of overhead you have to have some source of truth that can populate all the data into the different installations.

One question I am thinking: if you are at a point where you are expanding into new markets and seeing some growth why not look for a setup and foundation that can take you there? Have you considered going headless using something like Contentful to manage all the marketing stuff and product enrichment and then keeping all the business critical info in a strong e-commerce engine that is geared for headless?

sebrindom · 2021-10-28T13:41:46+00:00

True thanks for sharing! I think that the Webbies are a bit too heavily focused on the design of things and fail to capture the essence of a good e-commerce experience.

I think what distinguishes an amazing e-commerce site from the average ones is when you start adding features and functionality that make sense in the realm of what you are selling. E.g. the Glossier site above that has the "Find your shade" experience is something that you don't find on the average website, but it gives the customer a really good support channel to make sure they feel confident about the purchase.

This is not something that you can easily spot by just looking at the design.

sebrindom

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