# Order Management in Mercari Global Marketplace

DevFeed: [Order Management in Mercari Global Marketplace](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/order-management-in-mercari-global-marketplace-56770.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://engineering.mercari.com/en/blog/entry/20251010-order-management-in-mercari-global-marketplace/>)

Author: Yuichi Takada

Published: 2025-10-10T10:00:23Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Mercari Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mercari-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/consistency.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consistency.md>), [distributed-transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-transactions.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orchestration.md>), [system-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/system-design.md>)

## AI overview

Mercari's Cross Border Engineering team describes a flexible order management system for its global marketplace. The design separates item lifecycles, supports independently defined state transitions, and uses Saga orchestration to coordinate distributed transactions across services while maintaining data consistency.

## Source excerpt

Hi! I'm takady, a backend engineer at Cross Border (XB) Engineering. In this post, I'll share how we designed and built a flexible order management system from the ground up. Background While the existing Mercari Japan's marketplace has a mature order management system, it's not easily expandable to global marketplace requirements because of the following [...]