Vape & e-cigarette merchants
Shopify banned your vape store. Move it where no one can.
On 8 July 2026, Shopify removed every vape, e-liquid and ENDS store globally. It was categorical, not case-by-case. We move deplatformed merchants onto Medusa — self-hosted, open-source commerce with no account for any platform to close.
Everything your vape store does, rebuilt.
Products & variants
Your full catalogue, moved intact.
Customers & order history
Nothing left behind, nothing re-keyed.
Subscriptions
Recharge and Bold plans rebuilt on Medusa.
Age gating
State blocks and 21+ checks in your own checkout.
Payments
A high-risk gateway wired in, swappable if a processor drops you.
SEO & URLs
Every link 301-mapped so you keep your rankings.
Why Medusa for a vape store
Another hosted platform buys you months, not a business — the coalition that pushed Shopify wants every platform to follow. Self-hosted Medusa is the one version where the decision to sell is yours.
- ✓No account to banIt runs on infrastructure you control. There is no vendor to evict you.
- ✓Age gating you own21+ checks and state blocks live in your checkout, not an app that can be pulled.
- ✓Swappable paymentsWhen a processor drops your category, you change a module — not the whole store.
- ✓Your data, exportableProducts, customers and orders sit in a Postgres database you can read and back up.
Four phases. You keep selling through all of them.
Audit
We read your store and hand back a written plan and a fixed quote. Free.
Extract
Everything out first — before store access becomes a question.
Rebuild
Backend and storefront rebuilt to parity: age checks, gateway, shipping, tax.
Cutover
Full redirect map, both stores in parallel, then DNS on a quiet morning.
Typically four to eight weeks from signed plan to cutover. Already suspended? Bring what you have and we’ll tell you what can be rebuilt.
Get a free migration audit for your vape store.
Send your store URL and roughly how many SKUs. About three working days later you get a plan and a fixed quote, yours to keep.