🏷️ Spree 5 Open-source Ecommerce: Bulk Operations & Tagging for Scale
Running a growing eCommerce business means dealing with hundreds — if not thousands — of products, customers, and orders. Doing that efficiently requires smart tools that scale with your team’s needs.
That’s why Spree 5 introduces enhanced Bulk Operations and Tagging capabilities — empowering merchants to move faster, stay organized, and unlock powerful segmentation and merchandising workflows.
This is yet another reason why Spree 5 is the biggest open-source release ever — focused not just on features, but on saving your team time.
Bulk Operations: Work Smart, Not Hard
Managing one product or customer at a time is fine when you’re just starting out. But as your catalog and customer base grow, you need to act at scale.
With Spree 5’s new bulk operation tools, you can now:
- Update multiple products at once — pricing, availability, categories, or shipping classes
- Tag or untag groups of customers based on behavior or profile
- Perform customer service actions like bulk archiving or segmentation
The improved UX makes it easy to select records in the Admin Dashboard and apply actions across the board, without custom scripts or risky database updates.
Tagging for Smarter Merchandising and Segmentation
Spree 5 also introduces flexible tagging for products and customers, allowing you to:
- Group and filter products by tags such as:
bestseller,seasonal,new,clearance,sustainable, etc. - Curate product collections quickly by selecting tags (more on this in our next post about Automatic Taxons)
- Segment customers with tags like:
VIP,wholesale,newsletter subscriber,high-value,returns-risk, and more
Tagging can be done one-by-one or in bulk, and becomes a foundation for dynamic storefront displays, marketing automation, and personalized customer service.
Save Time, Gain Control
What used to require development effort — or third-party tooling — is now built right into Spree 5. These enhancements reflect the platform’s focus on daily productivity, and help merchants spend less time clicking and more time growing.
Whether you’re onboarding hundreds of SKUs or managing thousands of customer records, Spree 5 makes high-scale eCommerce more manageable.
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.
