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Pros

Highly Customizable Platform: Many users have praised Spree Commerce for its highly customizable platform that allows them to create visually appealing and unique online stores. They appreciate the ability to customize various aspects of their store's design and layout, giving them a competitive edge in the e-commerce market.

Flexibility and Scalability: Several reviewers have highlighted the flexibility and scalability offered by Spree Commerce. This makes it easy for businesses to adapt their online store as their needs change and grow over time. Whether it's adjusting product listings, adding new features, or expanding into new markets, Spree Commerce provides the necessary tools to support business growth and evolution.

Open-source Advantage: Developers find Spree Commerce particularly useful due to its open-source nature, which provides them with more freedom and control over the software. It also fosters collaboration within the developer community, enabling knowledge sharing and continuous improvement of the platform.

Spree Reviews

5 Reviews

You can build virtually anything with Spree!

Rating: 7 out of 10
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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

  • Adaptability of the platform
  • Open source code base.

Cons

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

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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Steven Duran
Platform Director - Saint Joseph Communications in Sales at 5 Stones (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Spree
4 years of experience
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Great way to collect info - easy to use!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Spree for all of our website transactions. It is basically the shopping cart function that allows a customer to pay for goods, then the funds are transferred to our accounts. We do not use it for wholesale business, only eCommerce. It helps us gain quick access to payments.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Searching by email is difficult sometimes. There is no way to sort customer lists by most recently logins, etc. It can cause lengthy searches when trying to locate.
  • Issues with hackers, security seems low at times - firewalls need to be improved.
  • There needs to be more search fields for things like phone numbers, addresses, etc.

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!
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Colin Darcy
Dealer Services Manager (Canada) and Eastern United States in Customer Service at Nidecker SA (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Spree
3 years of experience
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ATS perspective

Rating: 3 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spree is used as our e-commerce platform and applicant tracking system. Our marketing and selling department manages the e-commerce side, while HR is in charge of posting and tracking jobs and applications.

Pros

  • Simple platform to post jobs
  • Straightforward record of job applications

Cons

  • 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

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe it fits the needs of small businesses. I can't imagine our version supporting a larger enterprise, but I could be wrong about how it's used.
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Aurora Dolan
People Operations Strategist in Human Resources at Sightglass (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Spree
1 year of experience
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How we use Spree

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spree is a shopping cart and is used on our website Lovemomiji.com. We are an e-commerce business selling Momiji dolls globally from two hubs at the time of writing - UK & USA.

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.

Cons

  • No particular weaknesses reported by our developers. They are using Spree on other sites too.
  • Back end is visually ok rather than cutting edge design but functionality is all there.

Likelihood to Recommend

I can only really comment on our usage which is B2C where it is very good.
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Cameron Read
Co-Founder at MomijiHQ (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Spree
1 year of experience
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Easy to get up and running.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spree is used as the storefront for our website.

Pros

  • Payment gateways.
  • Promotions.
  • Uses prevailing software patterns.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Spree is great if you're running a standard e-commerce business and want to have a customized site and experience. Deviating from in small ways is fine, but if you want to start slicing off functionality, like inventory, shipping, etc. it's a real pain.
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Verified User
Technician in Engineering (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Spree
13 years of experience