Marketplace Platform

Markeptlaces
Build scaleable multi-vendor
marketplace experiences
Medusa provides an optimal foundation for custom marketplaces. Build from scratch
or use the marketplace starter with pre-built multi-vendor marketplace features.
Trusted by leading marketplaces




Marketplace Recipe
A marketplace tailored to your needs
Use our recipe to set up a marketplace with multiple vendors with own products and orders. Adapt our logic to fit your business.

MercurJS
Go live fast with the Marketplace Starter
Mercur is a prebuilt marketplace starter by our Expert partners at RigbyJS. It comes with vendor dashboards, marketplace-ready admin features, and a B2C storefront. All ready to deploy.
- Unified multi-vendor checkout
- Automatic split payments & payouts
- Vendor dashboard for products & orders
- Vendor verification & commissions
- Vendor profiles & reviews
- Customizable B2C storefront
- Advanced product search & filtering
- Real-time buyer–seller messaging
- Region-based product filtering
Flexibility at the core
Seamless multi-vendor shopping experience
Give customers a smooth experience with unified checkout, fast search, vendor profiles, reviews, messaging, and more.

Simple, scalable payouts
Automate vendor payments and fees
Medusa’s payment architecture supports Stripe Connect and other providers for automated payouts and fee handling. Control your marketplace’s revenue model without building from scratch.

Built for multi-vendor models
Add seller roles, products, and logic
Use Medusa’s framework to introduce custom user types like vendors and sellers. Associate them with products, orders, and customers to manage your marketplace with complete control and visibility.

Core commerce primitives
Headless marketplace software with no limits
Medusa gives you the building blocks for core commerce like carts, products, and orders. Orchestrate them for your unique marketplace business model. Integrate with any service, connect to your existing tools, and own the full user experience across both sides of the marketplace.
Cloud platform
Open-source flexibility with cloud reliability
Medusa Cloud lets you scale your marketplace with confidence. Get the freedom to customize with the security, uptime, and support of cloud infrastructure — all while avoiding vendor lock-in.

Real-world examples
Trusted by leading marketplaces
Medusa is the world’s most popular open-source commerce platform. Learn why leading marketplaces choose our flexibility.

Connecting 1000+ sellers
Seamlessly integrated multiple ERPs to handle large order volumes

Custom features in half the time
Aid distribution to 500k individuals through Medusa

TTM -30%, traffic +34%
Boosting performance for Poland's biggest vintage marketplace

+€4bn revenue
Building the Booking.com for mobile heating and cooling
Framework for customizations
Faster time to market with our framework
Our developer-first framework makes it easy to build custom integrations and features: from data models and workflows to UI extensions and APIs.
No hacks, no workarounds - just clean, scalable customization.
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create-order-in-erp.ts
sync-order-to-erp.ts
A workflow step performs a query or action in a system. Steps can receive inputs from previous steps and return data to be used in subsequent steps. You can resolve services in your steps, allowing you to build business logic involving Medusa’s core commerce modules, third-party systems, or custom systems.
To connect multiple steps together you create a Workflow. Creating a Workflow is like writing any other function. Behind the scenes Medusa generates a representation of your workflow that enables automatic retries of steps if they fail.
If step retries don't succeed, Medusa will rollback previous steps. A rollback will call a step's compensation method, ensuring your data is kept consistent across systems.
You can trigger your workflows anywhere in Medusa. Use your workflows in Subscribers to start them in response to an event. Start them in response to requests with API Routes. Or have them run on a defined schedule with Scheduled Jobs.
src > workflows > steps > create-order-in-erp.ts
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A workflow step performs a query or action in a system. Steps can receive inputs from previous steps and return data to be used in subsequent steps. You can resolve services in your steps, allowing you to build business logic involving Medusa’s core commerce modules, third-party systems, or custom systems.
create-order-in-erp.ts
sync-order-to-erp.ts
src > workflows > steps > create-order-in-erp.ts
123456789101112import { createStep, StepResponse } from "@medusajs/framework/workflows-sdk"export const createOrderInERP = createStep("create-order-in-erp"async (order: StepInput, { container }) => {const erpService = container.resolve("erp")const createdOrder = await erpService.createOrder(order)return new StepResponse(createdOrder)})
To connect multiple steps together you create a Workflow. Creating a Workflow is like writing any other function. Behind the scenes Medusa generates a representation of your workflow that enables automatic retries of steps if they fail.
create-order-in-erp.ts
sync-order-to-erp.ts
src > workflows > sync-order-to-erp.ts
1234567891011121314151617181920import { createWorkflow, WorkflowResponse } from "@medusajs/framework/workflows-sdk"import { createOrderInERP, transformOrder } from "./steps"export const syncOrderToERP = createWorkflow("sync-order-to-erp",(input: WorkflowInput, { container }) => {const medusaOrder = retrieveOrder(input.order_id)const createdOrder = when({ medusaOrder }, ({ medusaOrder }) => {return medusaOrder.status === "completed"}).then(() => {const preparedOrder = transformOrder(medusaOrder)return createOrderInERP(preparedOrder)})return new WorkflowResponse(createdOrder)})
If step retries don't succeed, Medusa will rollback previous steps. A rollback will call a step's compensation method, ensuring your data is kept consistent across systems.
create-order-in-erp.ts
sync-order-to-erp.ts
src > workflows > accept-quote.ts
123456789101112131415161718import { createStep, StepResponse } from "@medusajs/framework/workflows-sdk"export const createOrderInERP = createStep("create-order-in-erp"async (order: StepInput, { container }) => {const erpService = container.resolve("erp")const createdOrder = await erpService.createOrder(order)return new StepResponse(createdOrder, createdOrder)},// In the face of errors, we roll back and delete the orderasync (createdOrder, { container }) => {const erpService = container.resolve("erp")await erpService.deleteOrder(createdOrder)})
You can trigger your workflows anywhere in Medusa. Use your workflows in Subscribers to start them in response to an event. Start them in response to requests with API Routes. Or have them run on a defined schedule with Scheduled Jobs.
create-order-in-erp.ts
sync-order-to-erp.ts
src > subscribers > sync-order-to-erp.ts
123456789101112131415161718192021222324import {type SubscriberConfig,} from "@medusajs/framework"import syncOrderToErp from "../workflows/sync-order-to-erp"export default async function handleOrderPlaced({event: { data },container,}) {const orderService = container.resolve("order")const order = await orderService.retrieve(id)await syncOrderToErp(container).run({input: {order},})}export const config: SubscriberConfig = {event: "order.placed",}
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