medusa
by medusajs
Medusa is an open-source commerce platform with a built-in framework for customising it. It gives developers ready-made building blocks such as products, carts, orders and payments for building online shops, marketplaces and point-of-sale systems.
- Stars
- 37k +5 a day
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Technical
- Language
- TypeScript
- Age
- 2473 days
What you can do with it
- Build a business-to-business or direct-to-consumer online shop with an admin dashboard
- Create a marketplace or distributor platform using ready-made product, cart, order and pricing modules
- Connect Stripe payments, S3 file storage and SendGrid email through provider modules
Make money with it
A freelance developer could build and maintain custom Medusa stores for small businesses as a paid service.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Run a custom online shop without paying monthly platform fees or per-sale charges from a hosted shop builder
- Build a tailored B2B ordering portal or marketplace for clients with pricing and workflows that off-the-shelf shop software cannot handle
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell (MIT-style terms in the licence file). Some folders may carry other terms.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Needs Node.js 22.22.0 or later and a PostgreSQL database, then run "npx create-medusa-app@latest my-medusa-store", or use Docker or the paid Medusa Cloud hosting.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Open-core model: some Enterprise Edition features (role-based access control) need a commercial agreement
- Requires coding skills; it is a framework rather than a ready-made shop
- Repository licence is flagged as unclear by automated detection, though the README states the core is MIT
Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
