Name: MedusaJS
Brand: Medusa

This marks the end of an incredible year for Medusa. Below are the highlights 🎉

2022 Highlights

[**Sales Channels**](https://docs.medusajs.com/advanced/backend/sales-channels/) - Omnichannel managed in one place

[**Order Edit**](https://docs.medusajs.com/advanced/storefront/handle-order-edits/) - Easily edit orders post purchase

[**Customer Groups**](https://docs.medusajs.com/advanced/backend/customer-groups/) - Set up custom rules for e.g. VIP or B2B customers

[**Advanced Discount Conditions**](https://docs.medusajs.com/advanced/backend/discounts/) - Extensive promotional options

[**Price Lists**](https://docs.medusajs.com/advanced/backend/price-lists/) - Override prices based on custom conditions

[**Batch Jobs**](https://docs.medusajs.com/advanced/backend/batch-jobs/) - Add background processing capabilities for large operations

[**Tax Inclusive pricing**](https://docs.medusajs.com/advanced/backend/taxes/inclusive-pricing/) - Set final prices regardless of tax rates

[**Product Import/Export**](https://docs.medusajs.com/advanced/admin/import-products/) - Easily handle bulk price/product uploads

... along with a new [**Next starter**](https://docs.medusajs.com/starters/nextjs-medusa-starter/), an [**Admin redesign**](https://medusajs.com/blog/medusa-github-producthunt/), and much more.


Powerful new features


Our core team was not the only one shipping new features. We had more than 100 new community plugins added that you can access [**here**](https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=medusa-plugin).


+100 new community plugins

Reached 15k GH stars in November, bringing us among the top 0.01% of projects on the platform after a bit more than a year since going live.



+15,000 GitHub stars


Raised our Seed round in June from Dawn and LocalGlobe with participation from leading tech angels in the industry.

Read the [**TechCrunch coverage here**](https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/15/medusa-shopify-open-source-e-commerce-javascript-developers/).


$8M in funding


Our core team grew as we added six new locations to the list of countries with Medusa team members: 🇫🇷 🇭🇷 🇱🇧 🇵🇱 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 



6 new countries


Adoption skyrocketed as weekly NPM downloads grew to 6,000, a +750% increase from last year. Public companies, global marketplaces, and industry-leading retailers now use Medusa.



7x more weekly downloads


Our amazing developer community on [**Discord**](https://discord.com/invite/medusajs) also grew rapidly from ~500 to +4,500 by the end of the year.


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+4,500 community members


Medusa’s performance has significantly improved, with most endpoints now seeing sub-100ms response times in production environments - [outperforming Shopify’s 386ms](https://www.littledata.io/average/server-response-time/Shopify).

Read more in our [**latest product update**](https://medusajs.com/blog/medusa-1-7-release/).


Strong performance improvement


We hosted our very first Hackathon in October, and we were overwhelmed to see more than 120 submissions across +200 participants.

Read more about it [**here**](https://medusajs.com/blog/hackathon-winners/).


+200 Hackathon participants


We launched a complete feature set to handle B2B through native support for customer groups, differentiated pricing & discounts, separate product catalogs, and more.

Read more about our B2B features [**here**](https://medusajs.com/b2b-commerce-platform/), or check out [**our new B2B starter**](https://medusajs.com/blog/medusa-b2b-part-1).


B2B support


With our launch party and Admin revamp, we climbed to [**#1 launch of the day on ProductHunt**](https://www.producthunt.com/products/medusa) in the beginning of the year.


Product of the day


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Open source B2B commerce platform in Node.js with a composable architecture for building custom and scaleable B2B commerce applications.

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