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Move from Magento 1 end-of-life to Spree Commerce 4.1

Move from Magento 1 end-of-life to Spree Commerce 4.1

Magento 1.9, and in fact all Magento 1 versions, have reached their end of life and will no longer receive any quality updates or security fixes. All Magento 1 users are encouraged to move away to another version or an alternate platform. If you’re looking for a customizable, scalable, open-source E-Commerce platform for the years to come, then Spree Commerce 4.1 might be a good fit for your project.

As of June 2020, Magento Open Source 1 will no longer receive any support or software security patches. If you’re using any third-party extensions or customizations these might be already unsupported as “maintenance of extensions, customization or other modifications to the Magento codebase, including compliance with security and privacy standards (PCI, SOC, ISO, etc.), are the express responsibility of the merchant.”

Let’s discuss what lies ahead.

Re-platforming concerns and opportunities

Obviously, the main reason for moving away from Magento 1 is its end of life.

But there could possibly be other reasons to leave Magento 1 behind, such as:

Here are some of the Magento forum issues with thousands of page views but very little answers:


Concerns you might be having before moving away from Magento 1:

Moving to Spree might be an opportunity to start fresh and leverage benefits Spree brings while addressing the most painful Magento 1.x issues and bottlenecks. At the same time, you could keep all your historical data and Google search results traffic.

So when moving to Spree might make sense?

How is Spree different than Magento?

The most important difference is that Spree Commerce is built using Ruby on Rails while Magento is built using PHP. Software development experts agree that Ruby on Rails is great for MVP development, quick iterations and scaling your business. It’s simple, more elegant and automates many repetitive developer tasks, so the apps you build are easier and cheaper to maintain while bringing more job satisfaction to your dev team. Which is important in the long term.

Late last year, Y Combinator, an accomplished investment fund and startup incubator, has published a list of its top 100 graduate companies ranked by valuation as of October 2019. 8 out of 10 most valued companies in the ranking built their online platforms using Ruby on Rails.

4 Ruby on Rails powered marketplace platforms – Airbnb, Doordash, Instacart, Postmates – gross 76% of all merchandise sold (GMV) by all top 100 marketplace platforms on the Andreessen Horowitz “Marketplace 100”, a ranking of the largest and fastest-growing private consumer-facing multi-vendor marketplace E-Commerce websites.

In addition, 2 out of 10 fastest-growing marketplace platforms in the Andreessen Horowitz Marketplace 100 ranking were built using Ruby on Rails.

All of these fast-growing businesses using Ruby on Rails can’t be wrong.

For what use cases Spree might be a good fit?

Popular technical use cases:

Popular business use cases:

9 reasons to move from Magento to Spree

The latest Spree version brings long-term value to the users, business stakeholders and developers:

Spree Commerce in 2020

Spree, similarly to Magento, is a self-hosted open-source E-commerce platform built with Rails 6 with a modern UX, optional PWA frontend, REST API, GraphQL (under construction), several official extensions and 3rd party integrations. Over 1 million downloads and counting! 

Move and improve from Magento 1 end-of-life to Spree Commerce 4.1Check out Spree:

Make sure to:

For Ruby on Rails and JavaScript developers the Spree ecosystem is a set of building blocks allowing them to quickly respond to business needs:

Get in touch for a free discovery call and a re-platforming quote

If you’re looking for a long-term, scalable, open-source E-Commerce platform with solid community support and a network of reliable development partners, feel free to reach out to get a free re-platforming quote. We’ll connect you with a trusted Spree development partner.

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Let's use Spree to build exactly what your business needs

Let's use Spree to build exactly what your business needs

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