Optimizely Customized Commerce vs. Spree

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Optimizely Customized Commerce
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Optimizely Customized Commerce is a headless PaaS commerce solution built to scale commerce results for enterprise brands.N/A
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
Optimizely Customized CommerceSpree
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Optimizely Customized CommerceSpree
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Optimizely Customized CommerceSpree
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Optimizely Customized CommerceSpree
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Customized Commerce
7.5
26 Ratings
2% below category average
Spree
5.6
4 Ratings
31% below category average
Product catalog & listings8.525 Ratings4.44 Ratings
Product management4.825 Ratings5.04 Ratings
Bulk product upload8.721 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Branding5.223 Ratings3.73 Ratings
Mobile storefront7.020 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Product variations7.021 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Website integration8.724 Ratings5.94 Ratings
Visual customization8.623 Ratings9.33 Ratings
CMS8.925 Ratings3.02 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Customized Commerce
8.6
19 Ratings
13% above category average
Spree
5.2
4 Ratings
37% below category average
Abandoned cart recovery8.615 Ratings5.34 Ratings
Checkout user experience8.619 Ratings5.14 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Customized Commerce
8.8
17 Ratings
6% above category average
Spree
9.1
4 Ratings
9% above category average
eCommerce security8.817 Ratings9.14 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Customized Commerce
7.1
25 Ratings
5% below category average
Spree
4.2
4 Ratings
56% below category average
Promotions & discounts8.421 Ratings4.03 Ratings
Personalized recommendations8.421 Ratings4.23 Ratings
SEO4.421 Ratings4.43 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Customized Commerce
8.1
25 Ratings
4% above category average
Spree
6.1
4 Ratings
24% below category average
Multi-site management8.620 Ratings5.12 Ratings
Order processing8.819 Ratings5.74 Ratings
Inventory management8.815 Ratings5.02 Ratings
Shipping8.716 Ratings5.44 Ratings
Custom functionality5.723 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Optimizely Customized CommerceSpree
Small Businesses
Ecwid by Lightspeed
Ecwid by Lightspeed
Score 10.0 out of 10
Ecwid by Lightspeed
Ecwid by Lightspeed
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Optimizely Customized CommerceSpree
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(26 ratings)
7.4
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
4.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
2.7
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Optimizely Customized CommerceSpree
Likelihood to Recommend
Optimizely
Our experience may be unique because we opted for an Epi core team to implement our website/console set-up and connection to our PIM and ERP. The experience may have been different with a 3rd party or it may not have. That said, we have been live with our primary website for almost 2 years and I still do not consider it was ever "done". We have been going back and forth on functionality issues and bugs since launch. I have low confidence that changes made the previous day will 100% be online the next - so my team rechecks the work they did the previous day to ensure everything is online. The addition of a second channel and enhancement requests have compounded the issues. I feel this product would work fine with singular or less complex market SKU offerings.
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.
Read full review
Pros
Optimizely
  • Episerver has a robust discount engine. This engine, combined with "visitor groups" allow our marketing department to categorize customers and offer a variety of discounts to targeted customers at specific times.
  • Episerver has a full-featured, storefront experience that can handle everything you might want for an e-commerce website.
  • Episerver offers A/B testing that can be helpful for trying out new content ideas and tracking the results.
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.
Read full review
Cons
Optimizely
  • Support. Episerver used to have direct support and access to the tech team to discuss and resolve issues. The new support portal is not enough for developer needs.
  • Quality Assurance. We find issues in the Episerver code that should have been resolved in QA before release.
  • Sales. Episervers sells the framework as a solution while showing Alloy. While it helps Episerver sell more, it puts the implementation partner into trouble as the client thinks they bought the solution. Episerver does not provide a solution. It provides a framework that you can build a solution on.
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
Read full review
Likelihood to Renew
Optimizely
Really want to be able to spend more time and resources on rolling out new things with Episerver but at the moment we seem to be fixing alot of issues and pain points with the way our system was setup.
Read full review
Spree Commerce
No answers on this topic
Usability
Optimizely
The administrative interface is largely intuitive and relatively easy to use. The complexity of business needs and ability to customize can affect this (i.e. you have to set up and develop with the user in mind), but the basic structure is largely solid. There are some areas of redundancy (such as Commerce Manager overlapping with other administrative areas) that can sometimes cause confusion or offer some functions in one place, whereas other related functions are managed on a completely different page.
Read full review
Spree Commerce
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Optimizely
We had an incredible team at Episerver Supporting us with the go live, reviewing our integration, and pushing our integration partner to deliver a quality product
Read full review
Spree Commerce
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Optimizely
Fully understand what is OOTB feature of the platform before proceeding to develop. Then implement a customization of key features once you can prove they are working as OOTB to make them more user friendly and productive for the business. Eg pre order and e gift card
Read full review
Spree Commerce
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Optimizely
Optimizely Commerce Cloud offers a very wide range of features for admin users. There is less a need for an IT specialist or programmer to be involved when changes need to be made.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Return on Investment
Optimizely
  • Positive: We have a usable website - better than what we had before and we are seeing a constant increase in adoption.
  • Positive: Counter associates are using the website to help customers.
  • Negative: Too much time being spent QCing previous work.
Read full review
Spree Commerce
  • Decent plugin ecosystem
  • Easily add and manage new products
Read full review
ScreenShots

Optimizely Customized Commerce Screenshots

Screenshot of Customizable checkout workflow to tailor customers checkout experience and increase conversions.Screenshot of Catalogs, custom attributes, UOM, catalog restrictions, and multiple sites are managed at once.Screenshot of Personalized promotions based on user web activity to drive conversion and increase average order value.Screenshot of Customized Recommendations ReportingScreenshot of Personalization

Spree Screenshots

Screenshot of undefined