Medusa vs Wix eCommerce

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.

Wix eCommerce is a hosted offering for building an online store, with omnichannel sales support and tools for abandoned cart recovery and digital products. It includes an app marketplace and is available on the web, iOS, and Android. The Free plan costs nothing and requires no credit card. It includes reliable web hosting, a drag-and-drop editor, no-code design features, and thousands of templates. Wix eCommerce lists three additional plans: Core, Business, and Business Elite. Core includes 50 GB of storage and five site collaborators; Business provides 100 GB and ten collaborators; Business Elite includes unlimited storage and 100 collaborators. Wix was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. The stated plan details make storage capacity and collaborator limits the explicit distinctions among its named paid tiers, while the free tier provides hosting, templates, and a visual editor for getting started.