The latest Spree Commerce 4.1 comes with a fully responsive and easily customizable frontend built for mobile devices in mind. It was designed from scratch implementing several UX best practices. As a result of several types of optimizations, the new Spree UX scores very highly in Google Lighthouse testing, even on low performance hosting options and with poor mobile internet connections. This potentially leads to more organic search traffic, more conversions, more sales and more value brought by Spree 4.1 to the business owners. Spree Commerce 4.1 is available after 6 months in development, 6000+ hours spent between 25+ core team members, tested in 3 release candidates by several community testers providing feedback and contributing. As a result of this effort, the Spree community will be able to launch high-performance mobile-first E-Commerce applications within weeks from project kickoff saving hundreds if not thousands of hours on development and QA. See the .
Extensions are the primary mechanism for customizing a Spree site. They allow Spree developers to share reusable code with one another. Using extensions, features which would otherwise consume quite a lot of effort and time can be easily added to a Spree website without having to built them from scratch. Extensive features like product subscription, asset management, marketing, admin reports, roles and permissions, gift cards & promotions, delivery slots, item returns, social media marketing, one page checkout and many more are easily available on GitHub for various Spree versions.
Spree Commerce multi-vendor marketplace
Spree lets you launch within a few weeks a fully-featured multi-vendor marketplace with an unlimited number of SKUs from as many vendors as you can effectively onboard. This is possible thanks to the . You may see a live demo of a multi-vendor marketplace built with Spree Commerce .
Success Stories
Many well known and successful brands and startups are using Spree Commerce for their e-commerce businesses. The case studies are featured on the Spree Commerce Website and include: , Garmentory, Huckberry, Superpedestrian, Mitchells, FCP Euro, Farmdrop, Packhelp, Greetabl, MilanStyle, Felix Gray, Southern Kitchen, , .
Spree Commerece history
On July 1, 2011, Spree received $1.5 million in seed funding from AOL and True Ventures. On February 25, 2014 Spree raised an additional $5M in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital. Also participating were Vegas Tech Fund, Red Swan as well as existing investors True Ventures and AOL Ventures. On September 21, 2015 it was acquired by First Data. After the First Data acquisition, developers from and now maintain and develop the Spree Commerce Open Source project. Vinsol also develops Spree extensions. In 2016 an OpenCommerce Conference was held in New York to showcase newest e-commerce projects running on Spree 3.x version.
