#1 most frequent
United States of America
40.9%9 installations of 22
What is Spree?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Media
Top Performing Features
Visual customization
Users can customize the look & feel of the storefront; storefront is visually attractive.
Category average: 7.9
Custom functionality
Users are able to customize the functionality of their eCommerce operation with custom code or add-ons.
Category average: 8
eCommerce security
Security measures are in place to prevent a breach of sensitive payment information.
Category average: 8.3
Areas for Improvement
Promotions & discounts
Includes tools for offering and redeeming coupons, promotional codes, and time-based discounts.
Category average: 7.8
Branding
Storefront is part of a unified customer experience of the brand across channels (social media, physical store, website, etc.)
Category average: 7.8
CMS
Beyond product catalog, includes basic content creation and management features such as blogging capabilities.
Category average: 7.3
Who Buys & Uses Spree
#2 most frequent
India
27.3%6 installations of 22
#3 most frequent
Poland
13.6%3 installations of 22
You can build virtually anything with Spree!
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
Other Software Used
Infinisource iSolved, Google Analytics, Xero
Great way to collect info - easy to use!
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.
Return on Investment
- We've had some issues with hackers, Spree did a good job to improve security so that customer info is protected.
- We can really cut down on phone time with customer info updates, allowing for us to on more important tasks
- We can search for customers, previous orders, etc. With our old ERP system, we didn't have that option, we now have that on both Spree and Netsuite.
Other Software Used
Stripe, ElasticHosts, Yotpo
ATS perspective
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
Return on Investment
- We are able to quickly post and update jobs with minimal implementation time
How we use Spree
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.
Return on Investment
- Spree is a shopping cart and so is back-office. The key point is that it allowed us to build a fully customised front end which has allowed us to increase sales dramatically as part of an overall marketing strategy.
- It is robust and copes with our peak loading.
- Promotions are flexible but may need initial developer input to customise for a particular business.
Other Software Used
WinMan ERP Software, Braintree, PayPal Payments
Easy to get up and running.
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.
Return on Investment
- Decent plugin ecosystem
- Easily add and manage new products