Medusa vs Shoptet

Medusa is an open-source commerce platform for teams building custom commerce features and store operations. Its framework supports custom API endpoints, business logic, data models, workflows, automations and third-party integrations. Commerce Modules cover inventory tracking, cart totals, payments and order management; the product also lists product management, multiple sales channels, multi-warehousing, regional settings and an advanced promotion engine. Merchants use a customizable admin dashboard to configure and operate a store. Listed integrations include Stripe and PayPal for payments, ShipStation for fulfillment, Sanity and Strapi for content management, and Algolia and Meilisearch for search. Medusa can be deployed to a hosting provider or run through the maker’s managed Medusa Cloud. Cloud pricing lists a 0.0% GMV platform fee and unlimited orders, products, sales channels, regions and currencies, with usage allowances for search, email and storefront edge requests before usage charges apply. There is no transaction fee, but abandoned cart recovery is not available. The free plan is available; paid plans start at $29 a month.

Shoptet is a hosted service for building and running an online shop, available on the web, iOS and Android. It lists omnichannel sales, digital products, abandoned cart recovery and an app marketplace among its capabilities, and states that it has no transaction fee. The Free plan costs nothing and supports 10 products. The other listed plans scale by catalog size: Basic supports 100 products, Business 1,000, Profi 5,000, Enterprise 50,000 and Premium 100,000. Shoptet also lists a 30-day trial. The maker, Shoptet, was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. Its hosted model and mobile platforms make it available beyond a web interface, while the product limits identify the catalog capacity offered at each named plan. The listed capabilities include tools for digital goods and abandoned carts, plus an app marketplace and sales across multiple channels. Product capacity is the only plan detail provided for Basic, Business, Profi, Enterprise and Premium.