commercetools sells Composable Commerce, an API-first SaaS commerce backend hosted in Google Cloud and AWS regions. Pages here cover replacing it with self-hosted Medusa or Saleor.
Comparing commercetools Composable Commerce with Medusa, an MIT-licensed headless commerce framework you host: API-first design in both, customization through modules against commercetools extensions, which Medusa features need its Enterprise Edition, and the operating work you take on.
Comparing commercetools with Saleor's BSD-licensed GraphQL commerce platform: channels for multi-market pricing and stock, promotions, multi-warehouse fulfillment, extending through apps and webhooks, and running Saleor yourself against a SaaS with no production rate limits.
Moving from commercetools to Medusa: exporting products, categories, customers, prices and orders from the Merchant Center or the HTTP API, mapping product types and custom fields to Medusa modules, rebuilding extensions and integrations, and switching storefront API calls.
Moving commercetools data into Saleor: exports in CSV or JSON, mapping product types, attributes, channels and standalone prices, importing through Saleor's GraphQL API, rebuilding discounts and checkout logic, and running both backends until order flows are verified.
Cost of ownership by component: commercetools subscription and add-ons, which it does not publish, against Medusa's open-source core or Enterprise Edition, PostgreSQL, Redis and server and worker instances, integration work and the engineers who run the platform.
What you can take out of commercetools: Merchant Center CSV and JSON exports by resource type, Custom Objects as JSON only, inventory and order export limits, the size limits for files you plan to re-import, querying the HTTP API for anything else, and verifying completeness.
commercetools offers five isolated regions on Google Cloud and AWS. This page covers what a region choice covers for customer and order data, and when national rules or a sovereign-cloud requirement mean running Medusa or Saleor in infrastructure you choose instead.
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