Category Archives: Announcements

Spree Commerce development in 2020

January 13, 2021

Spree Commerce in 2020 has moved forward on many fronts to address the growing demand for flexible and scalable open-source ecommerce solutions as the digital transformation has sped up significantly.

2020 has brought 2 major version releases delivered by tens of contributors, several use cases demonstrated with demo sites, accessibility and security regulations compliance, and several developments within the spree community.

Tell us what you need in 2021 and we’ll deliver! Continue reading

Spree 4.1 - blazing fast, mobile-first E-Commerce platform with superior UX and SEO

Spree Commerce 4.1 is now available and here are 9 good reasons to upgrade or use it for a new E-Commerce project

March 2, 2020

The latest Spree Commerce 4.1 is available after 6 months in development, 6000+ hours spent between 25+ core dev team members, tested in 3 release candidates by several community testers providing feedback and contributing.

As a result of this effort, the Spree community members will be able to launch blazing fast, mobile-first E-Commerce applications with superior UX and SEO within weeks from project kickoff saving hundreds if not thousands of hours on development and QA.

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Abandoned cart recovery with Mailchimp Ecommerce

December 4, 2019

Most online stores are losing revenue by leaving orders behind. When a customer adds products to the cart but doesn’t complete the checkout, that order is lost. Mailchimp Ecommerce automates sending out email reminders with the abandoned cart contents and tracks all recovered sales in a dashboard. It also comes with several other automations and email marketing tools. 

 TL;DR: It’s basically free money with hardly any dev work. Just install it and watch the recovered orders roll in.

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Spree 4.0 for Rails 6 released 

October 9, 2019

Spree Commerce in 2019

Spree Commerce is the most complete and up to date E-Commerce framework with Rails 6 support, modern REST API V2 for any headless implementation with a React or PWA frontend, GraphQL support coming soon, API v2 JavaScript / TypeScript SDK, newest Boostrap 4 and a new customizable UX templates on the way.

Spree also has the most up to date 3rd party integrations bulletproofed by high-volume retailers. Spree integrations range from marketing automation solutions (Mailchimp E-Commerce), analytics (hundreds of integrations available through Segment.com), taxation (upgraded Avalara AvaTax extension) to payments (Stripe for online stores and marketplaces, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, AfterPay and many more).

Finally, Spree has the biggest community of users and developers on Slack and the most active community of contributors on Github among Rails based E-Commerce frameworks. Continue reading

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Launch a multi vendor marketplace within a few weeks with Spree Commerce

April 22, 2019

Spree lets you launch within a few weeks a fully featured multi vendor marketplace with an unlimited number of SKUs from as many vendors as you can effectively onboard.

Check out this multi vendor marketplace demo. Please note that it uses the latest highly optimized Spree UX with superior page load speed and SEO.

Contact us to request vendor access and super admin access and review the admin dashboards functionality. Continue reading

Storefront API v2 JavaScript & TypeScript SDK available!

March 19, 2019

We’re very happy to announce the release of the official JavaScript and TypeScript SDKs for Spree Storefront API v2!

With this SDK, JavaScript and TypeScript developers can easily build amazing storefronts in React, Vue or Angular with Spree serving as a headless eCommerce backend.

SDK makes using Spree API v2 super easy, handling all of the heavyweight tasks as XHR calls, data processing, data normalization, and error handling. Thanks to this developers can focus on creating Single Page Apps, PWAs, one-page checkouts, and unique user flows that will amaze end-users. Continue reading