Big Cartel vs. Spree

Big Cartel

Spree

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Big Cartel	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Big Cartel is an eCommerce platform built for artists, such as artists, designers, and musicians, to build an online store.	$9.99 per month
Spree	Score 7.4 out of 10	N/A	Spree Storefront is a modular, open source e-commerce platform with a large community, comprehensive API and integration features right out of the box. Spree is comprehensive enough for large ecommerce stores and easy enough for small online merchants.	N/A

Pricing

Big Cartel

Spree

Editions & Modules

50 Products: $9.99
per month
250 Products: $19.99
per month
500 Products: $29.99
per month
5 Products: Free

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Big Cartel	Spree
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Big Cartel	Spree
Top Pros	Pro Pricing model Pro Easy to use Pro Lot of configuration	Pro Post jobs Pro Open source Pro Quick and easy
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Ability to download Minus Customer lists Minus Search fields

Features

Big Cartel

Spree

Online Storefront

Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
	Big Cartel 10.0 1 Ratings 26% above category average	Spree 5.6 4 Ratings 31% below category average
Product catalog & listings	10.01 Ratings	4.44 Ratings
Product management	10.01 Ratings	5.04 Ratings
Branding	10.01 Ratings	3.73 Ratings
Mobile storefront	10.01 Ratings	4.01 Ratings
Product variations	10.01 Ratings	8.03 Ratings
Website integration	10.01 Ratings	5.94 Ratings
Visual customization	10.01 Ratings	9.33 Ratings
Bulk product upload	00 Ratings	7.34 Ratings
CMS	00 Ratings	3.02 Ratings

Online Shopping Cart

Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
	Big Cartel 10.0 1 Ratings 27% above category average	Spree 5.2 4 Ratings 37% below category average
Checkout user experience	10.01 Ratings	5.14 Ratings
Abandoned cart recovery	00 Ratings	5.34 Ratings

Online Payment System

Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
	Big Cartel 10.0 1 Ratings 18% above category average	Spree 9.1 4 Ratings 9% above category average
eCommerce security	10.01 Ratings	9.14 Ratings

eCommerce Marketing

Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
	Big Cartel 10.0 1 Ratings 29% above category average	Spree 4.2 4 Ratings 56% below category average
Promotions & discounts	10.01 Ratings	4.03 Ratings
Personalized recommendations	00 Ratings	4.23 Ratings
SEO	00 Ratings	4.43 Ratings

eCommerce Business Management

Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
	Big Cartel 10.0 1 Ratings 25% above category average	Spree 6.1 4 Ratings 25% below category average
Order processing	10.01 Ratings	5.74 Ratings
Inventory management	10.01 Ratings	5.02 Ratings
Shipping	10.01 Ratings	5.44 Ratings
Custom functionality	10.01 Ratings	9.34 Ratings
Multi-site management	00 Ratings	5.12 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Big Cartel	Spree
Small Businesses	Ecwid by Lightspeed Score 10.0 out of 10	Ecwid by Lightspeed Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM Digital Commerce Score 9.0 out of 10	IBM Digital Commerce Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Digital Commerce Score 9.0 out of 10	IBM Digital Commerce Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Big Cartel	Spree
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (1 ratings)	7.4 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Big Cartel	Spree
Likelihood to Recommend	Big Cartel LLC It's well suited for simple e-commerce and basic inventory management needs. Incentivized Andre Yeu Business Partner Read full review	Spree Commerce Spree is a great solution if you have a highly customized business idea and need a very robust eCommerce solution to support your very creative and detailed sales methods. Because it's an open source platform, there are a ton of ways that his platform can be customized to meet virtually any business idea that you can dream up. With that said, the platform requires dedicated development support to make sure everything is stable and supported at all times. Incentivized Steven Duran Platform Director - Saint Joseph Communications Read full review
Pros	Big Cartel LLC It's very easy to use and does not require a lot of configuration or setup. It has been extremely reliable. Clients never have issues with purchasing from it and it has always has been up for us. It's very fast. It loads quick both on the consumer/front end and also admin/backend. Pricing model is flat, not percentage of transactions. Incentivized Andre Yeu Business Partner Read full review	Spree Commerce Quick and easy access, nice interface when logging in. Access to customer's info, easy to change user names and passwords when issues arise with login. Easy to use for the most part - a lot of ways to search for information regarding customer's info. Incentivized Colin Darcy Dealer Services Manager (Canada) and Eastern United States Read full review
Cons	Big Cartel LLC For our needs I really can't think of anything! Incentivized Andre Yeu Business Partner Read full review	Spree Commerce For the ATS portion, ability to download applicants would be helpful We have to use our developers to change some simple things on the web format Incentivized Aurora Dolan People Operations Strategist Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Big Cartel LLC No answers on this topic	Spree Commerce I don't want to knock other products but let's say that the more famous shopping carts, although they have great functionality off the peg, are limited in terms of branding ability and further customisation. Invariably you get a site which looks and feels like many others. This will suit many companies as a low cost option which is very competent. However the fully customisable front end that we need, and will continue to develop, is not possible with these turn-key solutions. Incentivized Cameron Read Co-Founder Read full review
Return on Investment	Big Cartel LLC The basic plan at $10/month easily saves us that in time from having to manage our own e-commerce system on our own site. Incentivized Andre Yeu Business Partner Read full review	Spree Commerce Decent plugin ecosystem Easily add and manage new products Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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