Item: Spree
Rating: 7
Author: Steven Duran

Overall Satisfaction with Spree

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spree is being used by our eCommerce department. We built our online store on this platform and we utilize it to support re-sellers and wholesale customers as well. Our business sells physical media items like books, CDs, DVDs in addition to non-physical media items like MP3's, eBooks, and PDF downloads. This eCommerce platform is the primary tool that supports this line of business.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Adaptability of the platform
Open source code base.

Cons

Not enough out of the box options
CMS is clunky at times

Return on Investment

Allowed us to customize business practices
Expensive to support from a developer standpoint

Alternatives Considered

BigCommerce, Shopify, Shopify Plus, Magento Commerce, part of Adobe Commerce Cloud, WooCommerce and Squarespace

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.

Other Software Used

Infinisource iSolved, Google Analytics, Xero

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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