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In this section of the documentation, you will find resources to learn more about the User Module and how to use it in your application.

Refer to the Medusa Admin User Guide to learn how to manage users using the dashboard.

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Medusa has user related features available out-of-the-box through the User Module. A module is a standalone package that provides features for a single domain. Each of Medusa's commerce features are placed in Commerce Modules, such as this User Module.

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Learn more about why modules are isolated in this documentation.

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User Features

User Management: Store and manage users in your store.
Invite Users: Invite users to join your store and manage those invites.

How to Use User Module's Service

In your Medusa application, you build flows around Commerce Modules. A flow is built as a Workflow, which is a special function composed of a series of steps that guarantees data consistency and reliable roll-back mechanism.

You can build custom workflows and steps. You can also re-use Medusa's workflows and steps, which are provided by the @medusajs/medusa/core-flows package.

For example:

export const highlights = [ ["12", "Modules.USER", "Resolve the module in a step."] ]

import { 
  createWorkflow, 
  WorkflowResponse,
  createStep,
  StepResponse,
} from "@medusajs/framework/workflows-sdk"
import { Modules } from "@medusajs/framework/utils"

const createUserStep = createStep(
  "create-user",
  async ({}, { container }) => {
    const userModuleService = container.resolve(Modules.USER)

    const user = await userModuleService.createUsers({
      email: "[email protected]",
      first_name: "John",
      last_name: "Smith",
    })

    return new StepResponse({ user }, user.id)
  },
  async (userId, { container }) => {
    if (!userId) {
      return
    }
    const userModuleService = container.resolve(Modules.USER)

    await userModuleService.deleteUsers([userId])
  }
)

export const createUserWorkflow = createWorkflow(
  "create-user",
  () => {
    const { user } = createUserStep()

    return new WorkflowResponse({
      user,
    })
  }
)

You can then execute the workflow in your custom API routes, scheduled jobs, or subscribers:

import type {
  MedusaRequest,
  MedusaResponse,
} from "@medusajs/framework/http"
import { createUserWorkflow } from "../../workflows/create-user"

export async function GET(
  req: MedusaRequest,
  res: MedusaResponse
) {
  const { result } = await createUserWorkflow(req.scope)
    .run()

  res.send(result)
}

</CodeTab> <CodeTab label="Subscriber" value="subscriber">

import {
  type SubscriberConfig,
  type SubscriberArgs,
} from "@medusajs/framework"
import { createUserWorkflow } from "../workflows/create-user"

export default async function handleUserCreated({
  event: { data },
  container,
}: SubscriberArgs<{ id: string }>) {
  const { result } = await createUserWorkflow(container)
    .run()

  console.log(result)
}

export const config: SubscriberConfig = {
  event: "user.created",
}

</CodeTab> <CodeTab label="Scheduled Job" value="scheduled-job">

import { MedusaContainer } from "@medusajs/framework/types"
import { createUserWorkflow } from "../workflows/create-user"

export default async function myCustomJob(
  container: MedusaContainer
) {
  const { result } = await createUserWorkflow(container)
    .run()

  console.log(result)
}

export const config = {
  name: "run-once-a-day",
  schedule: `0 0 * * *`,
}

</CodeTab> </CodeTabs>

Learn more about workflows in this documentation.

Configure User Module

The User Module accepts options for further configurations. Refer to this documentation for details on the module's options.