First, you’d need to decide which Spree edition is a good fit for your project:

Community Edition

To use the Spree Community Edition, available for free, you’d need to either be a Ruby on Rails developer or hire a dev team - in-house or from a proven agency. You’d also need to self-host it at an extra cost.

Enterprise Edition

To use Spree Enterprise Edition, called Vendo, you’d need to sign a contract for a paid license, and probably cutomize its code base to your needs - yourself or using a hired dev team. Then host it at an extra cost.
So what sets both versions apart? Here’s a feature comparison of the two editions and here’s an in-depth overview. To start using Spree, either version, the steps are usually:
1

Hire a development team

You need to be a Ruby on Rails developer or hire a dev & devops team.
2

Setup Hosting

Spree gives you freedom of hosting anywhere you want.
3

Install Spree

Your developer needs to install and set up Spree.
4

Customize Spree

Spree is fully customizable. Enterprise Edition comes with many more features.
5

Maintain & Optimize Spree

Spree requires dev & devops attention to keep running smoothly.
Not a developer or devops yourself? Talk to us about hiring a team for your project.

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Looking for Developer Documentation?

This Spree user documentation is intended for business owners and site administrators of Spree e-commerce sites. Everything you need to know to configure and manage your Spree store can be found here. If you are a Spree developer, you may find the Developer Guides to be of benefit to you, though we strongly urge you to read through both sets of guides. BTW Give Spree a GitHub Star, why dont’t ya? Thank you for supporting Spree open-source!

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