Next.js + Medusa Starter Templates
Full-stack ecommerce starters pairing a Next.js storefront with a Medusa v2 open-source backend. Product management, Stripe payments, and admin dashboard included.
3 templates available
Christmas Gift Store
A festive, holiday-themed e-commerce application for selling Christmas gifts, decorations, and seasonal products. The ready-to-buy Next.js storefront provides server-rendered pages and full SEO support; mobile, backend, and alternative framework ports are available on demand. The storefront uses shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS for a beautiful, responsive UI with holiday-ready theming, and connects to Medusa or another headless commerce API. Perfect for seasonal pop-up stores, gift shops, or holiday marketplaces that need to launch fast and look professional.
Perfume Store
A luxury-styled perfume and fragrance e-commerce app built for premium brand presentation. The ready-to-buy Next.js storefront features rich product pages with scent profiles, bottle size variants, gift set options, and server-rendered collections. Mobile, backend, and alternative framework ports are available on demand. The design uses shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS with an elegant, minimalist aesthetic suited for luxury goods. Easy to customize — swap product data, update branding, and deploy. Perfect for perfume brands, fragrance boutiques, or niche scent marketplaces.
Groover Multi-Purpose Store
A fully-polished, multi-purpose e-commerce template engineered for brands that need the full feature set on day one — not a minimal starter you outgrow in a month. Groover ships with a live Medusa-backed catalog, category + collection merchandising, search with multi-facet filtering (category, collection, price, sale, stock, sort), product-detail with variant selection + image gallery + stock messaging + related products, Stripe Elements checkout with provider-aware setup panels, account dashboard with guest order lookup and authenticated order history, customer auth with login/register/logout/profile edit, wishlist with guest browser persistence and signed-in customer sync, blog list + detail, store directory, track-order page, branded 404, About/Contact/FAQ/Terms legal shell, GTM-friendly dataLayer wired into PDP/cards/wishlist/cart/checkout/search, locale + RTL foundation with persistent language switcher, PWA installability baseline, theme switching that applies before hydration and persists in both local storage and cookies, header active-route navigation with live mini-cart summary, skip-link / focus accessibility basics, app-level and route-level loading fallbacks, a recoverable error boundary, generated robots.txt and sitemap.xml, shared SEO metadata helpers, and a Playwright / Vitest / Lighthouse test harness. Every copy string lives in a typed content map so rebranding is a find-and-replace pass, not a code rewrite. Deploy it as-is or use it as the most complete starting point you can buy for a serious storefront.
What you get
Medusa v2 starter templates ship with a complete open-source commerce backend (products, inventory, orders, customers, Stripe payments, admin dashboard) plus a Next.js storefront. Unlike Shopify, you own the database and every line of backend code.
Medusa runs on Node.js 20+ with PostgreSQL and exposes a typed JavaScript SDK. The admin dashboard is a separate React app included in the same monorepo. Stripe is wired up via the official Medusa plugin.
There are zero platform fees, zero revenue share, and no vendor lock-in. This makes Medusa attractive for D2C brands planning long-term growth, stores that need custom checkout flows, and teams that want to avoid Shopify platform taxes.
Best for
- D2C brands planning for significant long-term volume (where Shopify fees become expensive)
- Stores that need custom checkout flows Shopify doesn't allow
- Teams with Node.js engineering capacity who want full backend control
- Multi-region stores that need custom tax, shipping, or pricing rules
- Developers evaluating headless commerce who want to own the full stack
How to decide
You need to operate a backend
Medusa is self-hosted. You (or your ops team) are responsible for uptime, database backups, security patches, and scaling. Budget for a DevOps cost you don't have with Shopify.
Customization ceiling is much higher
Because you own the backend, you can customize pricing rules, checkout steps, fulfillment logic, and integrations in ways Shopify never permits. This is the main reason teams choose Medusa.
Upgrade cadence is under your control
Medusa is versioned like any open-source library. You choose when to upgrade, rather than being forced onto a platform timeline.
Frequently asked questions
Is Medusa actually production-ready?
Yes. Medusa v2 is a major rewrite that shipped in 2024 and is used by real D2C brands in production. It's maintained by a commercial team and has strong community support.
How does Medusa compare to Shopify for total cost?
Shopify has a lower initial cost and zero ops overhead. Medusa has higher upfront engineering and ops cost but no per-transaction platform fees. The crossover point depends on volume — typically Medusa wins for stores above roughly $1M GMV/year.
Can I swap backends later?
The MVPHub storefront templates abstract the backend behind an API layer, so you can replace Medusa with Shopify or a custom API without rewriting your frontend. The admin dashboard is Medusa-specific, though.
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Ready to launch your store?
Every template ships with source code, documentation, and free updates. Pick a starter kit and go live in days, not months.