Why Building An Ecommerce Site With Spree-Commerce Makes Business Sense:
One of the most important decisions when launching an online Ecommerce business is choosing a suitable technology platform. This decision will ultimately influence all other aspects of the company, including the success of the online ecommerce store itself. Some of the important functions that the shopping platform should be able to handle in addition to the look and feel of the site include: management of inventory, delivery tracking, discount management, and overall client buying patterns to name a few. Essentially, the platform helps in managing the operation of your store and thus choosing the right one will ultimately dictate the amount of time, money, and effort that is involved in running a successful online business.
In our experience, most businesses will benefit both in the short and long term using Spree-commerce. I should also mention; at LD Studios we have a natural bias toward anything that is built with Ruby on Rails. Our business model is based on building custom software with Ruby on Rails for Small businesses to Enterprise clients. We still work with other technologies but after spending more than ten years building custom software, Ruby on Rails is almost always is the best choose for our clients. This platform allows for rapid development, which means it takes less time and money that other traditional platforms such as PHP (Magento). Why spend more time and money when you don’t have to, especially when you are not giving anything up? There is a time a place for using other platforms, but unless you are Google and have the resources to create your very own platforms (i.e. AngularJS, Go programming language), you are probably best served utilizing Ruby on Rails and Spree E-commerce.
Spree-commerce is one of the newer and currently fastest growing ecommerce platforms that is becoming a rival of Magento (PHP technology) as well as Shopify. (Shopify is built utilizing Ruby on Rails, but does not allow for some customizations, which is why we prefer Spree). One of the biggest reasons we have shifted away from the other two platforms is because of its flexibility and scalability (Thank you open-source community and Ruby on Rails). Spree Commerce is a free and open-source technology (as is Magento); however, unlike Magento, Spree is built with Ruby on Rails. The Spree platform has a great reputation for producing fast and elegant sites. The commonly used statistic is Spree takes 1/10th the code as Magento. We have all heard: Time is Money, well, with Spree, your site can be built up to about 10 times faster. This means it will cost you less in the long run even if your hourly rate is a bit higher (RoR developers are slightly more expensive per hour across the US than php developers, but they are cheaper from a project completion standpoint). The last major reason for our bias toward Spree is security. When you hire the right team of developers, your site will arguably be more secure than when you use off the shelf technologies such as woocommerce.
Overall, we have worked with multiple platforms and have even partnered with development teams that specialize in Magento. This Magento team actually hired us to build the backend of the store using Ruby on Rails including the login portals and payment system. They did this to regain control of the budget and regroup to get the project released on time for their client.
If you are a small business looking to build a custom ecommerce site, Spree Ecommerce is the way to go. Why spend more time and money using some different platforms when you don’t have to? And better yet, have us build it: contact us! :)
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