🤖 Spree 5 Open-source Ecommerce: Automate Merchandising with Automatic Taxons
In fast-moving eCommerce environments, keeping your storefront fresh can feel like a never-ending task — especially as product lines grow and seasons change. Manually assigning products to categories, collections, or homepage sections takes time and is prone to human error.
Spree 5 introduces Automatic Taxons — a powerful new feature that brings automation to merchandising, allowing you to dynamically assign products to categories based on configurable rules.
It’s one more reason why Spree 5 is the most powerful open-source eCommerce release ever.
What Are Automatic Taxons?
A taxon in Spree is a way to group and display products — think categories like “Summer Collection,” “Top Rated,” or “Sale.”
With Automatic Taxons, you can now define rules that auto-assign products to these categories based on:
- Tags — e.g.,
bestseller,organic,luxury - Availability dates — such as future release windows or seasonal launches
- Sales status — including discounted items or flash sale products
- Vendor or brand — to group products from specific suppliers
- Any combination of these!
Once defined, the system automatically updates product associations — no manual work needed. When a product matches the criteria, it appears in the right collection. When it no longer qualifies, it’s removed.
Example Use Cases
Here’s how merchants are already using Automatic Taxons in Spree 5:
- Auto-populate a “Back to School” collection based on tag + release date
- Create a live “Under $50” collection using price-based tags
- Build a dynamic “New Arrivals” or “Just Dropped” section
- Maintain a constantly refreshed “Top Sellers” grid with zero admin effort
It’s automation that saves your team hours — and ensures customers always see the most relevant and up-to-date product groupings.
A Merchandiser’s Secret Weapon
This feature isn’t just about saving time. It’s about enabling smarter, more agile merchandising — the kind that drives conversion and keeps your storefront engaging.
Automatic Taxons also pair beautifully with other Spree 5 features like Bulk Tagging, Custom Storefront Themes, and Multi-Store Management to give you unprecedented flexibility and speed.
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.
