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August 27, 2025·Community

New B2C Marketplace Starter

Carla Böddeker

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Carla Böddeker

MercurJS joins our official Starter library as a Medusa-powered B2C marketplace starter from RigbyJS, designed to help you launch multi-vendor marketplaces in minutes.

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Building a multi-vendor marketplace with Medusa is now easier than ever with the addition of a B2C marketplace starter. It joins our suite of specialized Medusa starters, which are ready-made templates with pre-built backend and frontend logic designed to take you straight to production.

The new marketplace starter is built by Rigby, a Medusa Expert Partner, who has successfully built multiple marketplaces and understands exactly what it takes to create platforms that work for customers, vendors, and admins alike. One of the cases, Patyna, we previously covered on our blog.

Built on Mercur: The Limitless Marketplace Platform

This starter is powered by Mercur, Rigby's marketplace solution that transforms Medusa into a full-featured marketplace platform. A marketplace is an online commerce store that allows multiple vendors to sell their products within the same commerce system, where customers can purchase from any vendor and vendors can manage their orders separately.

You can still build a marketplace with Medusa’s core platform using our Marketplace Recipe. However, if you’re looking for a more opinionated foundation with pre-built features such as vendor dashboards, multi-vendor carts, and commission management, the marketplace starter provides exactly that.

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The starter is already powering production marketplaces for enterprise clients, proving its reliability and scalability in demanding environments. This battle-tested foundation has enabled companies to rapidly deploy custom marketplace features while maintaining full control over their platform. Built specifically for Medusa, Mercur delivers proven marketplace functionality without the limitations of traditional SaaS solutions.

Production-Ready Marketplace Features

The Rigby B2C Marketplace Starter ships with a lot of the foundational marketplaces features, you can find an overview of the main ones below:

Customer Experience

  • Multi-vendor cart in unified checkout: Customers can purchase from multiple sellers in a single transaction with automatic payment splitting
  • Advanced search and filtering: Powered by Algolia for lightning-fast product discovery across large catalogs
  • Vendor profiles and reviews: Build trust with detailed seller information and customer feedback
  • Real-time messaging: Direct communication between buyers and sellers via TalkJS integration
  • Region-based filtering: Show only products available in the customer's location

Vendor Management

  • Complete seller dashboard: Full control over products, orders, earnings, and customer communication
  • Easy product listing: Streamlined interface for adding and managing inventory
  • Automatic payouts: Direct earnings transfers via Stripe Connect integration
  • Review management: Tools to respond to customer feedback and maintain reputation

Admin Control

  • Vendor verification system: Two-step approval process to ensure marketplace quality
  • Commission management: Flexible rules for different categories, products, or specific sellers
  • Request management: Handle seller applications, product submissions, and dispute resolution
  • Global product management: Centralized catalog control for consistency across vendors
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Deploy in Minutes with Medusa Cloud

If you want to test out the marketplace starter, it can easily be hosted on Medusa Cloud:

  • Fork the Mercur Marketplace Starter
  • Sign up for Medusa Cloud and connect your forked repository to automatically provision databases and set up your production environment.
  • Configure environment variables from the Medusa Cloud Dashboard to add your marketplace-specific configuration, like Stripe Connect, Algolia, and TalkJS credentials for built-in payments, search, and vendor messaging.

The combination of the Rigby B2C Marketplace Starter and Medusa Cloud means you can have a fully functional, scalable marketplace deployed and ready for vendors in minutes. For a full guide visit the MercurJS deployment Docs.

The Rigby B2C Marketplace Starter is available now at medusajs.com/starters.

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