Why Reorder

SaaS fees are a tax.Own your subscriptions.

Build predictable recurring revenue (MRR) without giving away 1–3% of your GMV to third-party apps. Reorder keeps your customer data, renewal schedules, and retention flows 100% inside your Medusa database with zero transaction fees.

Reorder vs SaaS Platforms
Time horizon:
$75,000/mo
$10k/mo$900,000/yr GMV$300k/mo
$50
$15~1,500 recurring orders/mo$150
Net retained capital (1 Year)+100% kept
$19,458

Money you avoid paying to SaaS platform fees & GMV cuts. With Reorder, this stays in your margin.

Cumulative platform cost trajectory
Traditional SaaS taxes scale forever; Reorder stays virtually flat.
Recharge fees
$15,858
Shopify Advanced
$4,788
Reorder (hosting)
$1,188
Total advantage
+$19,458
Benchmark: Recharge Standard $99/mo + 1.25% revenue + $0.19/tx, plus mandatory Shopify subscription vs.
100% MIT Open Source on Medusa Cloud hosting.
See complete line-by-line fee comparison

Own your stack

Own the engine behind your recurring revenue.

External SaaS keeps your revenue data and margin on its servers. Reorder runs inside your Medusa stack: same database, same deploy.

  • Zero GMV commission on renewals
  • No per-order SaaS transaction fees
  • Flat hosting cost that stays flat as you scale
  • Data stored in your database
  • Orders and customers in one database
  • No API sync, no stale or duplicated renewals
  • MIT licensed — self-host and extend freely
  • Admin-native Medusa workflows for your team
  • Full data export, never held for ransom

Zero Commissions & No Vendor Lock-in

Subscriptions should grow LTV, not SaaS fees.

Subscriptions exist to maximize lifetime value, but external tools eat exactly that: a 1–3% GMV cut plus per-order fees. Reorder keeps schedules, renewals, and customer data in your Medusa database — so revenue compounds for you.

  • 0% commission on renewals. No GMV cut, no per-order fee. Every renewal grows your margin, not a vendor invoice.

  • Subscriptions live in your database. Schedules, renewals, and retention events sit in the same database as orders and customers.

  • MIT licensed, no lock-in. Self-host or extend the code. Leaving never means losing your subscription data.

SaaS Platforms

Vendor-controlled
  • Engine runs on vendor serversTheir outage pauses your renewals.
  • Subscription data exportable on requestHistory readable only while subscribed.
  • Upgrades and API changes forced on youYou migrate on their schedule, not yours.

Three external dependencies between you and your renewals.

Reorder

You control
  • Engine runs in your deploySame stack as the rest of your store.
  • Data lives in your databaseOrders, customers, and subscriptions together.
  • MIT license, fork it anytimeLeave with everything, no migration project.

Zero external dependencies. Renewals answer to you.

medusa.config.ts
Reorder
ProductsSubscription variants
CartsRecurring cart creation
OrdersRenewal order placement
CustomersSubscriber profiles
PaymentsSaved payment methods
AdminManagement UI widgets

One stack. Zero external dependencies.

Native Medusa Ecosystem

A Medusa module, not another integration.

External subscription apps bolt onto your store with embeds and duplicate logic. Reorder is a Medusa module: same APIs, same workflows, same admin — subscriptions behave like native commerce, not a foreign body.

  • Built on Medusa modules. Products, carts, orders, and customers — reused, not reimplemented.

  • Workflows and scheduled jobs. Renewals, retries, and dunning run on Medusa orchestration.

  • Admin UI extensions. Your team works inside Medusa admin, no second dashboard.

The AI-Native Advantage

Built for agents, not vibes.

AI coding assistants are only as good as the codebase they touch. Reorder ships every workflow with a written spec and tests — so AI can extend billing logic reliably instead of guessing through untested code.

  • A spec behind every workflow. Renewals, dunning, and retention are documented before they are coded.

  • Tests guard the money paths. Billing logic is covered, so changes can't silently break charges.

  • Agents extend without fear. Your team — or AI assistants — customize on solid ground.

reorder / workflows
All checks passed
Specdefined

Intent written before code

Workflowgenerated

Renewals, retries, dunning

Tests8/8 passing

Billing paths covered

Shipsafe to deploy

No guesswork in production

AI reads the spec, tests confirm. Billing stays safe.

roastloop.eu
Roastloop storefront coffee subscription checkout

7 / 14 / 30 days

Subscription cadences configured in Medusa Admin

Skip / swap / pause

Self-serve subscriber portal, no support ticket

MRR / churn / LTV

Built-in analytics inside Medusa Admin

Live store

See it running in production.

DTC store running Reorder end to end: recurring coffee subscriptions on Medusa v2, zero external SaaS, and no second dashboard.

Roastloop — specialty coffee store powered by Medusa v2

See Roastloop in action

Stop paying a tax on your recurring revenue.

Replace expensive SaaS with native Medusa subscriptions. Own your customer data, automate retention, and keep 100% of your MRR.