Announcing Spree 5: The Biggest Open-Source Release Ever
We’re thrilled to unveil Spree 5—the most feature-packed open-source release in Spree Commerce’s history! This milestone is more than just an upgrade. It transforms the platform into a future-ready, mobile-first, no-code, enterprise-friendly eCommerce solution that still adheres to its open-source roots. And it’s completely free to use and customize as you require.
Whether you’re an ambitious startup, an established brand re-platforming, or an enterprise business looking to expand, Spree 5 free open-source eCommerce platform gives you the tools to build precisely the eCommerce experience you need — faster, easier, and more flexibly than ever before.
Let’s take a look at what’s new and why it matters.
New Admin Dashboard Experience
Spree 5 free Community Edition introduces a fully redesigned admin dashboard with improved UX for a day-to-day productivity boost:
- New Admin Dashboard UX: Redesigned experience for managing Store settings, Products, Orders, with multiple key metrics charts for more day-to-day visibility.
- Multi-store management: Ability to easily add a new Store and import Products or Payment methods from an existing store, while sharing Products, Locations & Inventory, Customers, Shipping methods, rates and markets, Payment Methods across all Stores.
- Store Standards & Formats: Set store-wide units like size, weight, and time zone — and customize them per Product.
- Digital products: A streamlined digital checkout flow. Now you can also set a download expiry date and a maximum number of downloads for product-related digital files.
- Custom Domains: Manage and connect custom domains directly from the admin.
- Shipping Method Management: Improved setup experience with ability to set estimated delivery times.
- Bulk Operations: Perform bulk actions on Products and Customers to save time at scale when merchandising or performing customer service activities.
- Tags: Tag Products for easy merchandising and Orders or Customers for filtering and bulk admin operations.
- Automatic Taxons: Auto-assign Products to appear in Categories or Collections based on conditions such as Tags, availability date, sales status, or Vendor.
- Promotions Management: A completely revamped and more intuitive promotions UI
- Currency-Based Promotion Rules: Apply discounts only in selected currencies.
- Coupon Code Batches: Generate and export unique coupon codes into a CSV format.
- Admin-placed Orders + Customer Payment Links: Create orders as an Admin on behalf of a customer and email them a secure payment link to finalize checkout.
- Export to CSV: Export large data sets (orders, products, customers) for offline manipulation and reporting.
- Import from a CSV: Ability to import Products or Customers from a CSV file.
- Returns & Refunds: An improved returns & refunds flow to make daily operations smoother and more intuitive.
- New Reporting Engine: Robust new reports with a CSV export feature and a flexible architecture for building custom reports.
Take a sneak peek at Spree 5’s new admin dashboard: Spree 5 Admin Sneak Preview
Enterprise Edition Admin Features
Besides the free open-source Community Edition, we’re also releasing an improved Enterprise Edition which is a preferred solution for medium to large projects as it comes with advanced B2B eCommerce, multi-vendor marketplace or multi-tenant eCommerce features.
The Enterprise Edition comes at an annual license cost but for complex projects it dramatically shortens time-to-market, reduces project delivery risks and cuts the internal costs of ownership – maintenance, upgrades, feature and integration development.
The improved enterprise features include:
- Audit Log: Monitor, track, and search every admin action across your entire team for visibility, record keeping, accountability, and security.
- Multi-vendor Marketplace Vendor Management: Onboard, manage, and approve vendors, while curating the marketplace product catalog, capturing multi-vendor orders and payments.
- Stripe Connect integration: automatically split and payout payments to marketplace vendor accounts while leaving the sales commission with the marketplace or facilitate returns and refunds the other way
- Shopify & WooCommerce Integration: Sync product catalogs from the vendor to the marketplace, send orders to the vendor’s system, pull shipment tracking, and send it by email to the customer
- Multi-tenant / white-label SaaS platform: host thousands of stores for your customers, resellers, and franchisees – all using a single platform, giving each tenant the ability to customize and manage their eCommerce business
A Mobile-First, No-code Customizable Storefront
Spree 5 free Community Edition introduces a modern storefront that looks and performs beautifully on all devices and could be customized without any developers involved:
- Storefront Themes: Create, clone and edit multiple custom website themes with ease. Swap themes with a click of a button for various seasons and sales objectives.
- Mobile-First Storefront: A fast, responsive storefront with fast no-code customization of any section on any page, including all eCommerce pages, any number of shoppable landing pages, a built-in blog, T&C pages.
- Drag & Drop Page Builder: Easy page configuration, including styling and content management with an ability to create new shoppable landing pages with a library of pre-built page sections. Image uploads with caching and fast delivery.
- Quick Checkout with Wallets: Support for Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Link with the new official Stripe integration for Spree.
- New Checkout Flow: Completely redesigned and customizable checkout, with offsite payment support (BNPL, bank redirects, checks) and ability to toggle guest checkout on and off
- Inject Custom Code: Add custom scripts to header, body or checkout without developer help.
- Full-Text Search: Fast and accurate product and category search with PostgreSQL.
- Built-In Blog: Create shoppable content to improve product discoverability and conversions as well as SEO under the shop domain – all from a single dashboard.
- Contact Form: Enable customers to reach you via email directly from the storefront.
- SEO Management: Full control of meta tags, slugs, photos for Products, Taxons, Pages with search engine indexing settings and a live preview of Google search results.
- Password-Protected Storefront: Gate your site behind a password when needed.
- Sitemap Generator: Easily generate and manage your storefront sitemap.
- Policies: Manage legal policies like T&C, returns, shipping, or privacy with ease.
Integrations That Empower Your Business
Spree 5 delivers new no-code integrations with leading payment and marketing tools available from the admin dashboard:
- New Stripe Integration: Native Stripe Elements SDK integration supports credit cards, wallets, regional methods, BNPL, and more.
- Stripe Connect (Enterprise Edition): Split marketplace payments, vendor onboarding, and manage payouts for marketplaces.
- Klaviyo Integration (Enterprise Edition): Sync customer and product data, create flows, and manage marketing directly from Klaviyo.
Why Spree 5 Is a Game-Changer
With Spree 5 free Community Edition, you’re not just getting an eCommerce platform.
You’re gaining:
- A blazing-fast, mobile-first storefront boosting conversions and loyalty
- A fully redesigned admin dashboard boosting your team’s productivity
- No-code tools to empower your merchandising, operations, and customer care.
- Deep integrations with Stripe and Klaviyo.
- Open-source freedom with enterprise-grade scalability.
Whether you’re building a D2C brand, a B2B store, a multi-vendor marketplace, or a multi-tenant eCommerce platform, Spree 5 gives you full control and customizability, flexibility, and performance — all within a modern, developer-friendly Ruby on Rails foundation.
Spree 5 Demo: Evaluate the Biggest Release Ever
Experience firsthand the transformative capabilities of Spree 5, the biggest and most feature-rich Spree Commerce open-source release ever.
👉Check out the Spree 5 storefront demo
This live Spree 5 demo lets you explore the new customer-facing storefront, showcasing the sleek, modern checkout experience, comprehensive payment options powered by Stripe, and the intuitive, mobile-first user interface.
If you’re interested in exploring the brand-new Admin Dashboard—packed with powerful new management tools and improved workflows—we encourage you to:
- follow these instructions and either set up your own Spree instance locally
- or a set up a cloud-hosted environment with Render.com or any other provider.
Follow our straightforward installation instructions to get up and running quickly thanks to the Spree Starter bundle.
See for yourself why Spree 5 is the ideal solution for businesses looking for flexibility, scalability, and cutting-edge commerce experiences.
Ready to Get Started?
Spree 5 free Community Edition is here to power your next big idea. Join the thousands of businesses worldwide choosing Spree for their most mission-critical eCommerce projects.
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