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Best use of free code for ecommerce. We can customise as per need from client by use of web developer and we are done Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
technical barriers as well as no support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I'm still a student in college so for me flexibility and ease of use are top priority. The top features of most e-stores (product pages, payments, etc) were in-built as packages. This made implementation very easy. Sometimes I needed extra features and this was made possible through installation of plugins. Open source feature of Spree made customization possible and the code being very well defined was a plus point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Documentation is sparse. Thankfully, the code is clearly defined. The software seems to be out-of-date as far as the packages are concerned. The features of the store I built went out-of-fashion at some point and we decided to do away with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As a Ruby on Rails developer, Spree is probably the best RoR based solution available in the e-commerce space and offer a fairly easy to setup and configure approach for those familiar with Rails development cycle. It can also be extended through a number of engines and plugins but be forewarned that unless those extensions are extremely popular, you may have to fork and upgrade to work with latest Spree yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Spree isn't the most intuitive e-commerce solution to use and if you're training non-technical staff to use, expect a fair amount of hand-holding as you teach your team about taxonomies and product variants and how to correctly set things up to offer correct pricing and desired options at checkout. Spree is flexible enough to handle nearly any scenario, but that power and flexibility also means complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Spree is highly customisable and has a long history of users and is widely used in production in several highly successful stores. It comes with all the things you would expect from a modern store, and is neatly packaged as engines separated into different gems, which each handle separate parts of the business logic. Spree is also easily extendable through plugins, which can be found for most normal demands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Deface. Extending/Overriding methods through class_eval. Having used Spree since 2.0-stable, the upgrade path has been nothing but trouble for our team. Because of client demands, we have to make changes to the layout, controllers and models through a combination of deface and class_eval, but this essentially makes Spree impossible to keep up to date. Spree also accepts pull requests way too easily, and upgrading to a new minor version regularly demands rewriting of entire components. This got to the point where we decided to throw out our entire application running 2.1-stable, and replace it with a fresh install of 2.4-stable and then redo all the custom work, because it was actually saving us time. Still, we're now back where we started – stuck with a Spree installation that we can not feasibly keep up to date without major work.
Spree also does a lot of N+1 queries out of the box, and up until recently didn't have any decent fragment caching built in. Now, with Solidus (http://solidus.io/) being released (a fork of Spree) I'm eager to make the switch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When it comes to an eCommerce opensource, According to me as a ROR developer Spree will be on the top. It has all basic features and easy to customize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Support for the gems and addons which is been lacking a lot in past months. Few dependent gems are getting outdated. Spree group should consider this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is built on top of ruby on rails. It is open-source and its easy to get support when its needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometime its hard to migrate from an older version. Its also hard to know which extensions are still working on newer version of spree Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
