{"id":7671,"date":"2021-03-30T14:37:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:25:29","slug":"supporting-the-spree-commerce-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/supporting-the-spree-commerce-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting the Spree Commerce Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being open-source, the community has always been a vital part of Spree Commerce\u2019s development; from feature suggestions to code commits, you have helped pave the way to make Spree Commerce the ecommerce platform it is today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest version, Spree 4.2, introduces several powerful new features &#8211; more on that below &#8211; and is the collaborative work of 34 individuals worldwide who contributed over 1700 commits since the previous version.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of the fantastic support Spree continues to receive, we have decided to return the favor and <\/span><b>boost our support of the Spree Commerce community<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to help build the open-source ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do we plan to support the Spree Commerce community?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re an agency that already uses or is considering using Spree Commerce, or if you\u2019re an agency that specializes in custom eCommerce development, we would like to offer you our free support:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a <\/span><b>private <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/slack.spreecommerce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Slack channel<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for your:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ongoing projects support and Q&amp;A<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">roadmap discussions, feature requests<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>showcasing your projects<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Spree <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/success-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">marketing efforts<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">publishing <\/span><b>your Spree-related posts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spree blog<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including <\/span><b>your Spree extensions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/spree-contrib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spree_contrib<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an <\/span><b>intro meeting<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the latest <\/span><b>Spree 4.2 release<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you already have your own Spree store or have a personal Spree project in the works, we\u2019d like to invite you to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">join the <\/span><b>Spree community<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/slack.spreecommerce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Slack channel<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>reach out<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to our community support team directly <\/span><b>with any questions or requests <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by contacting: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">community@spreecommerce.org<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also have plans to add a Partners section to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spreecommerce.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which will list all of the agencies with the most contributions of various kinds to the Spree open-source project. If your agency has a proven track record of implementing Spree, we would like to include you on the list &#8211; free of charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s new in Spree 4.2?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For those of you that have yet to see the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">release notes<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, here are some of the new, key features included in the release:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">multi-currency and multi-language support <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">out of the box<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">multi-store &#8211; host <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">multiple brands\/stores<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on one instance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">responsive <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">admin panel<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">improved transactional emails using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-docs.spreecommerce.org\/customization\/emails#overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Postmark templates<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WCAG 2.1 AA <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/introducing-wcag-guidelines-to-spree-commerce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">compliant storefrontLatest language and framework version support<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/spree\/spree#installation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anywhere<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; cloud, VPS, Docker, Kubernetes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To top it off, Spree Commerce 4.2 is now available with:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/demo.spreecommerce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>default mobile-first storefront<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; modern, fast, SEO-optimized<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/api.spreecommerce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>headless<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; for mobile apps or custom storefronts in any tech<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/use-cases\/spree-pwa-progressive-web-application\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>PWA<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; offline shopping experience as with a native mobile app<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ll go into more detail on each of these features in upcoming blog posts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019d like to <\/span><b>ask the community for feedback and feature requests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> regarding the Spree roadmap for 2021-2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can reach out to us on the Spree slack or by email: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">community@spreecommerce.org<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spree Commerce competitive advantages<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many other ecommerce platforms out there that are open-source, SaaS, or PaaS. It\u2019s not always clear what the differences are between each platform. So what exactly separates Spree Commerce from the rest of them?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>quick MVP launch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; ready to launch in weeks\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>use any 3rd party integrations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for payments, shipping, taxes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>headless-ready<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; use it with any mobile app or storefront<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>no vendor lock-in<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; you are not tied to a single vendor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>you control your dev roadmap<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; nobody will tell you \u201cno\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>you control your dev spending<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; budget for launch &amp; growth<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>no expensive license costs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; it\u2019s free forever<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>intellectual property is fully-owned by you<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; use it or sell it\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spree also gives you the flexibility to change. No <\/span><b>SaaS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><b>cloud<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ecommerce platform will provide you with the ability to<\/span><b>:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>customize<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; you can fully adjust Spree functionality, no limits\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>evolve<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; you can build new features, A\/B test, pick the best one<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>pivot<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; change your business but keep your data, integrations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spree is <\/span><b>future-proof<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; it will serve your needs for many years:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>omnichannel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; for web, mobile, retail, B2B orders, and returns<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>headless ready<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; use its API to talk to other services<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>frontend agnostic<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; use it with any frontend app or tech stack<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope you are all as excited as we are about <b>strengthening our community<\/b>. We can\u2019t wait to hear your feedback and feature suggestions to deliver an <b>even better, more versatile<\/b> ecommerce platform with the next release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being open-source, the community has always been a vital part of Spree Commerce\u2019s development; from feature suggestions to code commits, you have helped pave the way to make Spree Commerce the ecommerce platform it is today.\u00a0 The latest version, Spree 4.2, introduces several powerful new features &#8211; more on that below &#8211; and is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":7672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreecommerce.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}