📦 Spree 5 Feature Spotlight: Store Standards & Digital Product Sales
Every store is different — and now, Spree 5 gives you full control to tailor your store’s units, formats, and digital selling experience with precision.
In Spree 5, you can now define store-wide standards like size units, weight units, and time zones — all customizable per product when needed. On top of that, Spree’s digital product selling experience has been completely overhauled to be smoother and more secure for both merchants and customers.
Together, these features reflect the spirit of Spree 5: the biggest and most flexible open-source eCommerce release to date.
Set It and Forget It: Store-Wide Standards
Running a global business? Selling both physical and digital goods? Managing a product catalog with wide variations in dimensions or weights?
Spree 5 introduces store-level settings that allow you to:
- Define default units for dimensions, weight, and time
- Customize these settings per store, if you’re using Multi-Store Management
- Override units on a per-product basis, for edge cases or special items
This helps ensure accurate shipping rate calculations, consistent product display across regions, and localized time-sensitive events (like sales or limited-time offers).
By removing manual work and inconsistencies, Spree helps your operations scale with clarity and precision.
Digital Products: A Streamlined Experience
Selling digital products has never been easier with Spree 5’s new digital checkout flow.
Whether you’re offering eBooks, videos, music, software, manuals, or any downloadable content, you now get:
- A dedicated digital checkout experience, optimized for fast, frictionless conversion
- Configurable download settings, including:
- Maximum number of downloads per customer
- Download link expiration periods
- Full control over asset associations, delivery permissions, and user access
It’s a cleaner, more secure way to manage digital sales — with all the flexibility Spree is known for.
Why It Matters
Digital goods are a fast-growing segment of eCommerce — and Spree 5 is designed to support this shift. Whether you’re blending physical and digital products, selling online courses, or running a digital-only storefront, Spree’s new features enable you to do it all with ease.
And combined with Spree 5’s other enhancements (like the redesigned admin dashboard, multi-store architecture, and automatic taxons), you now have the infrastructure to serve customers around the world — however they prefer to buy.
Spree 5: Power Meets Precision
With Store Standards and Digital Product Sales improvements, Spree 5 empowers merchants with the kind of configurability that used to require heavy customization or third-party services.
Now, it’s all built into the core.
👉 Read the full release announcement: Spree 5 – The Biggest Open Source Release Ever
💡 Start selling smarter — and thank you for supporting Spree Commerce open-source!
Why Spree Commerce?
Spree Commerce is a fully open-source eCommerce platform trusted by thousands of developers and merchants around the world. Built with modern Ruby on Rails and React, Spree offers full control over your storefronts, backend logic, and integrations — no black boxes, no vendor lock-in.
With Spree, you can:
- Build exactly the experience you want, not just what’s offered out of the box
- Customize anything — checkout flows, product logic, admin tools, and storefront themes
- Integrate with any service or API, from payments to fulfillment to marketing
- Launch fast, iterate quickly, and scale on your own terms
Whether you’re running a DTC brand, a B2B marketplace, or a multi-store empire, Spree gives you the freedom to innovate without limits.
🛠️ Open source. Developer-friendly. Fully customizable.
