Spree vs. WooCommerce

WooCommerce

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
WooCommerce	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress, developed by WooThemes (recently acquired by Automattic). Like WordPress, it is designed to be an extendable, adaptable, open-sourced platform. WooCommerce allows merchants to sell physical products, downloadables, or services.	N/A

Pricing

Spree

WooCommerce

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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WooCommerce is a free and open-source plugin for WordPress. Merchants can host their WooCommerce store on any private hosting service, or with Automattic directly via WordPress.com. Some added features or services from the WooCommerce Official Marketplace may have one time or subscription pricing.

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Community Pulse
	Spree	WooCommerce
Considered Both Products	Spree Steven Duran Platform Director - Saint Joseph Communications Chose Spree Spree is probably the most robust of the platforms that we evaluated. Because it is HIGHLY customizable, you can virtually build anything that you can dream up from a business perspective. At that point, you are probably going to need a very dedicated development team to … Incentivized Helpful? Cameron Read Co-Founder Chose Spree 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	WooCommerce Kevin Miller Owner Chose WooCommerce WooCommerce has been here through many successes and failures for rivals but shopify has a ton of new features that, in my opinion, the WooCommerce team should take a look at. A modern facelift and a complete review of the systems and I think it'll get to where it needs to be. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce WooCommerce is cheaper and more customizable, making it easy to create a great-looking product and a polished purchasing and checkout experience. Our BigCommerce site required significant custom coding to get the desired functionality. That said, BigCommerce has been a very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce They both are great in terms of usability, Adobe Commerce (Magento) is powerful but provides limited customization than the WooCommerce whereas shopify is not free and same it doesn't support the customization as much as other platforms do. WooCommerce is free and customizable … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce Squarespace and Wix Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce In my opinion, Shopify is a much better option overall but perhaps more expensive then WooCommerce. I'd recommend Shopify for users with a higher budget as it will deliver a better website in the end Incentivized Helpful? DH dewansh hate Digital marketing executive Chose WooCommerce Initially due to budget i have selected the woo commerce but the they dont have customisation as we are need when our customer base is increasing thats why i shifted to big platform like shopify that give us alot of customisation but it comes with a price...but woo commerce is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce WooCommerce is great for customization and for customers whose needs grow with their business. With its add-ons, it works for customers of all sizes with a variety of e-commerce needs. It does need more technical development skills to set up compared to Wix or Shopify, which … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce From a functional perspective this can do everything that the others can do and for many developers it is the preferred platform for online stores that require a high level of customisation. It is an open source platform with a strong community of developers behind it who have … Incentivized Helpful? Calvin Hanson Marketing and Design Chose WooCommerce The level of customization and ease of integration with an existing WordPress website makes it a good choice. Snipcart is better for developers or small sites and Shopify is an amazing e-commerce-optimized platform but if you have an existing website on Wordpress, it is much … Incentivized Helpful? JM Jeff Montgomery CTO Chose WooCommerce We love the functionality of Wordpress itself, so that's why we ended up using WooCommerce to do checkout instead of going over to the Shopify platform. Wordpress allows us to do so much more with the backend code and customization of our website. We were not impressed with the … Incentivized Helpful? KK Kat Karpenko Wozny IT Manager Chose WooCommerce They're very similar to be honest, but from our experience and what I've seen online, WooCommerce seems to have better performance and pricing. I think they probably match in quality for most other features Incentivized Helpful? Swadesh Padhi Marketing Ambassador Chose WooCommerce None Incentivized Helpful? Jorge Edel Aguilar Avendaño CEO Veeme Media Chose WooCommerce WooCommerce is more complete. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce Since I don't use the e-commerce options constantly for my photography business, I didn't want to pay a monthly subscription and waste that budget during the months when I don't need any online booking options. WooCommerce allows me to install and uninstall plugins as needed to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce Woocommerce is a free option and since I work with mostly small businesses who do not have the budget to subscribe to an expensive product on a monthly basis, it makes it really easy to help these companies get set up with their e-commerce store. Plus, it offers all the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce We have used Shopify and definitely prefer it, since Shopify has been around longer and is more tailored to what we are trying to do. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce We were pretty sure we wanted a WordPress site so that we had more control over the site itself, having been burned by third-party vendor sites before. The fact that WooCommerce integrates so well with WordPress was a big selling point for us. Magento would have been too heavy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce While I haven't tried other e-commerce plug-ins, WooCommerce satiates and satisfies all areas one could hope for and look to when shopping around. And in cross-referencing other reviews there is certainly enough to show that WooCommerce is an immensely powerful program that can … Incentivized Helpful? Luke Hall Founder Chose WooCommerce WooCommerce is a good free version that's very customisable, but is not a smooth or polished platform. If you look at both dashboards between Shopify and WooCommerce you can see the difference is huge. WooCommerce seems to be built for websites that aren't focused entirely on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce I have used WooCommerce longer than other products that I have tried. WooCommerce fits my requirements mainly for the value it offers based on the features available for the cost. Incentivized Helpful? Darian Rawson Senior Designer Developer Chose WooCommerce Shopify is better in almost every way, but does come with a premium. Incentivized Helpful? Kejda Gjermani Digital Publisher Chose WooCommerce Platforms like Shopify are easier to set up and running and come with better default functionality. But if your business is successful you’ll quickly run into structural limitations: 1) can’t tweak the checkout flow 2) can’t make the site much faster or better for SEO 3) any … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WooCommerce There was no need to look further, woocommerce was the gold standard for a company our smaller size comapny Incentivized Helpful? Luis Escoffié Especialista en Marketing Digital y Comercio Electrónico Chose WooCommerce I like WooCommerce because it can be optimized, customized and adapted to every business needs. That's because it's WordPress core, it helps us customize stores in ways we can only imagine and also we can implement Google AMP and PWA easier and faster than with other platforms. … Incentivized Helpful? Kaushik Somaiya Owner Chose WooCommerce Shopify is a premium e commerce platform tailored just for online shops. While WooCommerce is a plugin which has main platform as WordPress. Shopify is costly to have. Most of the basic shop functions that are offered in shopify can be achieved using WordPress + WooCommerce … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Spree

WooCommerce

Online Storefront

Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
	Spree 5.6 Ratings 33% below category average	WooCommerce 8.0 Ratings 3% above category average
Product catalog & listings	4.40 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Product management	5.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Bulk product upload	7.30 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Branding	3.70 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Mobile storefront	4.00 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Product variations	8.00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Website integration	5.90 Ratings	9.40 Ratings
Visual customization	9.30 Ratings	7.20 Ratings
CMS	3.00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings

Online Shopping Cart

Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
	Spree 5.2 Ratings 38% below category average	WooCommerce 6.2 Ratings 21% below category average
Abandoned cart recovery	5.30 Ratings	5.50 Ratings
Checkout user experience	5.10 Ratings	6.90 Ratings

Online Payment System

Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
	Spree 9.1 Ratings 9% above category average	WooCommerce 8.5 Ratings 2% above category average
eCommerce security	9.10 Ratings	8.50 Ratings

eCommerce Marketing

Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
	Spree 4.2 Ratings 59% below category average	WooCommerce 6.4 Ratings 18% below category average
Promotions & discounts	4.00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Personalized recommendations	4.20 Ratings	5.20 Ratings
SEO	4.40 Ratings	6.40 Ratings

eCommerce Business Management

Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
	Spree 6.1 Ratings 27% below category average	WooCommerce 7.9 Ratings 1% below category average
Multi-site management	5.10 Ratings	6.80 Ratings
Order processing	5.70 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Inventory management	5.00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Shipping	5.40 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Custom functionality	9.30 Ratings	7.60 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Spree	WooCommerce
Small Businesses	Ecwid by Lightspeed Score 10.0 out of 10	Ecwid by Lightspeed Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Shopify Plus Score 8.9 out of 10	Shopify Plus Score 8.9 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
	Spree	WooCommerce
Likelihood to Recommend	7.4 (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Spree	WooCommerce
Likelihood to Recommend	My favorite scenario is when a customer calls and doesn't know their login for our website. We sell snowboards, very seasonal, so people tend to forget login and password info quite a bit. No need to send a reset or anything along those lines - I can reset the password and immediately tell them the update. Super easy! Incentivized Colin Darcy Dealer Services Manager (Canada) and Eastern United States Read full review	WooCommerce is best suited to customers whose website is built on the WordPress platform, and whose development team has a good understanding of plug-in implementation. If your website is not built on WordPress, but on Laravel or React (or any other non WordPress technology), then WooCommerce is not for you. WooCommerce is also great for customers who just need a simple online shopping experience. If your needs involve more complex or immersive features such as timed discounts, pick up locations, delivery reminders, or post shopping feedback surveys, know that you will need to purchase additional add-ons to make to get these features using WooCommerce set up on WordPress. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Highly customisable. Allowed our developers to generate a unique and flexible front end and cart facility. We handle 2 warehouses and plan to add several more. We use 13 currencies to cater for our main markets. Incentivized Cameron Read Co-Founder Read full review	Free base package means I can use it when I need to and not pay for it when I'm not using it I can customize the e-commerce options and integrate the calendar booking Payment processing is quick and easy and I can choose my provider Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	The return process is clunky. Performance when changing the contents of the cart. Needs very detailed documentation as to how calculations are made. For example, tax totals, shipping totals, etc. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Does not provide everything out of the box, for certain features you will have to install additional plugins. Their own addon plugins are costly. The Order table uses wp posts meta table, For those who have good amount of orders coming in, the table will keep getting larger by time that it might hog the server. Incentivized Kaushik Somaiya Owner Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Despite very rare glitches, more connected to an excessive number of plugins, that affect the speed of the site, we are extremely satisfied with the platform, the ability to import and export products, even though we just export them, as we have our proprietary system for updating inventories. We love the ease of upgrading, enhancing, innovating, and the freedom we have to do whatever we want, which is a plus, when you consider Shopify can take down your whole store as they please, if they think you aren't abiding to their TOS or their ever changing set of rules. Incentivized Rick Fitzgerald Owner/CEO Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	WooCommerce is highly customizable, feature rich, matured, ever evolving, and regularly updated plugin for WordPress. Since it is already extremely popular, you can find online tutorials to help you get started. Even if you face a problem, you can quickly get a solution from a helpful online community. You can use most of the popular payment gateways with WooCommerce. Besides that you have a full control over your website/shop. Incentivized Prashant Chaudhari Strategic Brand & Marketing Consultant Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	not muh support Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Spree is probably the most robust of the platforms that we evaluated. Because it is HIGHLY customizable, you can virtually build anything that you can dream up from a business perspective. At that point, you are probably going to need a very dedicated development team to support whatever business that you have created Incentivized Steven Duran Platform Director - Saint Joseph Communications Read full review	WooCommerce is cheaper and more customizable, making it easy to create a great-looking product and a polished purchasing and checkout experience. Our BigCommerce site required significant custom coding to get the desired functionality. That said, BigCommerce has been a very stable and reliable experience, whereas our WooCommerce site has had some security and reliability issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	We are able to quickly post and update jobs with minimal implementation time Incentivized Aurora Dolan People Operations Strategist Read full review	Being so easy to implement, I can design client websites and get their e-commerce store up and running easily. Because I turn over control of site management to my client after design is finished, WooCommerce is easy for them to learn and manage themselves. The customization options have allowed me to find solutions for most every business need. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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