Why developers like Spree

What is Spree?

The Spree storefront offers a full feature set and is built on common standards, so you don't have to compromise speed to market, efficiency or innovation. The modular platform allows you to easily configure, supplement or replace any functionality you need, so that you can build the exact storefront that you want.

Spree is a tool in the Ecommerce category of a tech stack.

Spree is an open source tool with 12.9K GitHub stars and 4.9K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Spree's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Spree?

Companies

40 companies reportedly use Spree in their tech stacks, including Marketplace, Ditto, and Amitum.

Marketplace

Ditto

Amitum

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Referral SaaSquatch

Emerging Technologies

CG Tech Stack

BookMeBus

storefront

Developers

35 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Spree.

Thingz

Test

skills

dennis

steakknife

Jonghun Yu

My Stack

Spree Integrations

AngularSpree

TaxCloud

Pros of Spree

Open Source

Great community and support

Ruby

Flexible e-commerce solution

Lots of extensions

Decisions about Spree

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Spree in their tech stack.

Simon Block

Founder at Der Mainbauer · Jun 14, 2023 | 8 upvotes · 81.3K views

Needs advice

Medusa

and

Spree

Hi folks

We want to move on from Shopify to a headless commerce system. We want to be able to manage multiple storefronts and integrate alternative order solutions like Whats App and social commerce etc. Same time we want to avoid full blown systems with a lot of unnecessary weight. My idea for the stack, so far:

Spree Commerce (Shop System),
Bloomreach (CMS),
Vue Storefront (Frontend)

I will have to integrate billing solution (like Invoice Ninja), LexOffice for accounting, Optimoroute for the salesman problem, and some more. So flexibility and "easy expandability" is a core demand. Having said that I came across Medusa. It looks promising and seems to check all the boxes. Any thoughts? Basically, it's a decision between Ruby and JavaScript, is it? Can you name me pros and cons of one or both of the systems? What are the serious challenges that I will face going down either one of the roads? Is there another solution that you would highly recommend?

I've linked our shop, currently running with Shopify.

Thanks

Der Mainbauer

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Spree's Features

More than 45,000 stores and growing, and an active community
Modular platform
Powerful Customization
Comprehensive API
Mature and Trusted Platform

Spree Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Spree?

Shopify

Shopify powers tens of thousands of online retailers including General Electric, Amnesty International, CrossFit, Tesla Motors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Foo Fighters, GitHub, and more. Our platform allows users to easily and quickly create their own online store without all the technical work involved in developing their own website, or the huge expense of having someone else build it. Shopify lets merchants manage all aspects of their shops: uploading products, changing the design, accepting credit card orders, and viewing their incoming orders and completed transactions.

Magento

Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality.

Solidus

It is an open source, eCommerce application for high volume retailers. Built with Ruby on Rails, this mountable engine provides a scalable, stable, and highly customizable platform for online commerce.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugin. And it's available for free. Packed full of features, perfectly integrated into your self-hosted WordPress website.

Saleor

Saleor is a rapidly-growing open source e-commerce platform that has served high-volume companies from branches like publishing and apparel since 2012. Based on Python and Django, the latest major update introduces a modular front end powered by a GraphQL API and written with React and TypeScript.

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