Great value for money

Spree is open source, so there are no license or transaction costs. “Open source empowers the CxO in giving back control over budgets and architecture.” On top of it all, you have total ownership of your Ecommerce assets, increasing your business valuation.

Market proven

Spree is being successfully used in a number of industries and use cases – as an online store – domestic or for international sales, a multi vendor marketplace, a B2B platform, a backend engine for a native mobile app, an omnichannel dashboard for online, retail, call center sales.

Short time to market

Spree is built with Ruby on Rails, which simplifies repetitive developer tasks and greatly speeds up delivery. Airbnb, Groupon, Kickstarter, Linkedin, Shopify, Slideshare, Square, Zendesk are among the websites built with Ruby on Rails.

Rich functionality

Spree is a fully featured Ecommerce platform out of the box, comes with tens of officially supported and maintained extensions and hundreds of 3rd party integrations. Its modular architecture makes it lightweight, yet robust.

Extensible

Do you need to differentiate from competition with a unique functionality reflecting your business model? Or a beautiful storefront? Spree empowers you to do both, because it’s a set of building blocks which developers can move around at will.

Scalable

Spree is cloud-ready, so lets you be cost-efficient on slow days, yet handles busy days or rapid growth with ease. With the right architecture and infrastructure Spree fits unlimited SKUs or orders and scales up to millions of users per day.

Active community and a dedicated core team

An active community of developers keeps spree moving forward submitting pull request or issues, but it takes a group of focused developers and testers collaborating closely to release new versions and resolve any ongoing issues. Spree core team has your back day by day!

Up to date

Spree not only keeps up to date with Ruby, Rails and its dependencies, but also undergoes major refactoring with every major release, recently introducing new features, modern REST API V2 and soon GraphQL support. Is that exciting, or what?

Public development roadmap

Spree is being developed according to publicly available project roadmap, so you have both a high level overview and an in-depth visibility into every single pull request. Feel free to code review, comment or contribute yourself.

Works well with any frontend

Spree out-of-the-box comes with a Rails-based storefront, which may be enriched with javascript Single Page Apps, but it also integrates well with any decoupled frontend application – web, mobile native or any other. React and Angular apps go really well with Spree.

Hundreds of 3rd party integrations

Spree usually serves as an Ecommerce backend engine for a whole ecosystem of 3rd party solutions, including 3PLs, Analytics, Marketing tools, Payment methods, Retail / POS, Search, Shipping, Tax solutions. Spree also integrates well with 3rd parties through Segment.com.

Payment methods

Spree makes use of Active Merchant, easily connecting to tens of payment processors. It also supports Apple Pay, PayPal, Amazon Pay and AfterPay allowing you to skip checkout altogether streamlining checkout experience and increasing conversion. For multi vendor marketplace development Stripe Connect or Braintree Marketplace comes in handy.

Success stories

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