Posted February 27, 2013 by Sean Schofield Comments Coming Soon: Split Shipments! We’ve been grappling with the issue of complex Spree stores that require sophisticated shipping and warehouse logic for several years now. While it has always been manageable to get this to work on indiv...
Register Now for SpreeConf 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 by Sean Schofield Comments SpreeConf DC Registration Opens Today – Special Early Bird Rate We’re excited to announce that registration for SpreeConf DC starts today. The conference will be held May 20th to 21st in Washington, DC...
Exploits found within Core and API Posted January 31, 2013 by Ryan Bigg Comments Please upgrade your Spree stores now to their latest gem versions 1.3.2, 1.2.4, 1.1.5 or 1.0.7. Thanks to the work of Egor Homakov , we have located and patched two serious exploits within Spree. The firs...
What’s the best way to collect sales tax online? Posted January 30, 2013 by Erin Granville Comments If you have an online business, you already have to collect sales tax for at least one state—your home state—and you may soon have to collect sales tax in more states. So what’s the bes...
Posted January 29, 2013 by John Dyer Comments The Spree team has been working hard the last few months to make our API really robust. In November we announced the complete refactoring of the API to include a brand new Backbone.js based administration interface and a new documentation ...
Customer Spotlight - Combat Gent Posted January 24, 2013 by Lynne Brehmer Comments We’d like to introduce you to Combat Gent , a Los Angeles based startup in the fashion tech industry who uses Spree for their e-commerce site. Combat Gent is an online menswear brand that offers afforda...
How will online sales tax collection affect businesses? Posted January 23, 2013 by Erin Granville Comments Most online businesses already have to collect sales tax on some transactions. If your business has a physical presence in a state with sales tax—even if it’s just your home offi...
Spree’s Plans for Improving Internationalization Support Posted January 17, 2013 by Ryan Bigg Comments When launching an international e-commerce store there are three areas you need to think through: Translation – How to translate the site’s static text and database stored text to th...
How would an online sales tax law change the current sales tax situation? Posted January 16, 2013 by Erin Granville Comments Right now, online retailers only have to collect sales tax for states where they have a physical presence. But many expect Congress to change that . In the prev...
Posted January 09, 2013 by Sean Schofield Comments Each year we like to summarize what we’ve accomplished together as a community. It’s also become a bit of an annual tradition to do this recap in January since we’re always too busy at the end of the calendar year to do it then. There...
Spree 1.3.1 and 1.2.3 Released Posted January 07, 2013 by Sean Schofield Comments Last week the Rails team announced a new release which addresses an important security vulnerability . This is a Rails security problem, but since Spree relies on these insecure versions of Rails, all Sp...
Spree provides free community-based support in addition to the paid hosting and support options . Community support consists of help provided on a volunteer basis through the use of the
Announcing a Brand New Spree 1.3 Theme Posted December 20, 2012 by Sean Schofield Comments Yesterday we announced the brand new Spree 1.3.0 release. Even though that release was packed full of awesome goodness (including a major redesign to the admin), we didn’t want to stop there. So...
Posted December 19, 2012 by John Dyer Comments Spree 1.3.0 has now been officially released. We’ve been working on this release since late August and it’s truly been a group effort. There were 867 commits by 31 different authors. Only a few of those authors actually work for Spree Com...
Posted December 17, 2012 by John Dyer Comments Spree 1.3.0.rc2 is now available. The final release for Spree 1.3.0 is expected later this week barring any last minute discoveries so we need your help with testing. Please report any issues you encounter. We’ll have a comprehensive set ...
Posted December 03, 2012 by Sean Schofield Comments Spree 1.3.0.rc1 is now available. The final release for Spree 1.3.0 is expected shortly so we need your help with testing. Please report any issues you encounter. If you’ve been following the recent admin refactoring on the master br...
Posted November 07, 2012 by Brian Quinn Comments Moving the API forward We’ve been focusing on our API a lot recently, and several different projects have helped improve it significantly. We’ve also discovered a number of areas where we’d like to make some minor and major improvements...
Posted October 02, 2012 by Sean Schofield Comments New Admin Interface Available Back in February we held out first ever SpreeConf and announced our plans to do a complete redesign of the admin interface for Spree. At our second SpreeConf six months later, our designer Alexey (aka dev...
Posted August 31, 2012 by Sean Schofield Comments Spree 1.2.0 has now been officially released. We’ve been working on this release all summer and it’s truly been a group effort. There were 961 commits by 32 different authors. Only a few of those authors actually work for Spree Commerc...
Spree 1.2.0.rc1 is now available. The final release for Spree 1.2.0 is expected shortly so we need your help with testing. Please report any issues you encounter. Please see the Github compare for a complete list of changes in this release.
Posted July 27, 2012 by Andrew Hooker Comments Spree 1.1.3 has been released. This is a patch release to be compatible with the new Rails 3.2.7 release . The newest version of Rails contains a minor security release fix so you’re encouraged to update at your earliest convenience. This...
Rejected Logo Options for Spree Posted July 20, 2012 by Sean Schofield Comments Over two years ago we asked our friends at Dynamo to come up with a cool new logo for Spree. They came through with the awesome logo that we all know and love today. I thought it would be fun, however, to ...
Complete Redesign of Spree Analytics Posted July 16, 2012 by Sean Schofield Comments We’re pleased to announce a completely redesigned version of the analytics dashboard that ships with Spree. This dashboard is automatically available to all stores running Spree 1.0.x or higher and wi...
Posted July 12, 2012 by Sean Schofield Comments Spree 1.0.6 has been released. This release is just a minor patch release to fix a few issues with attr_accessible and the latest Rails 3.1.6 release. The previous Spree 1.0.5 release has been yanked since it was not compatible with the ...
Upcoming Changes to Checkout Customization Posted July 11, 2012 by radar Comments A lot of our users have complained about how hard it is to customize the checkout flow of Spree. Some of our users wanted to remove the delivery step when shoppers had only digital goods in their cart. O...
Posted July 05, 2012 by Andrew Hooker Comments We have just released several new versions of Spree which contain important security fixes. A vulnerability exists in Product Scopes that could allow for unauthenticated remote command execution. There is also a potential XSS vulnerabilit...
Posted July 05, 2012 by GeekOnCoffee | Comments We have just released several new versions of Spree which contain important security fixes. A vulnerability exists in Product Scopes that could allow for unauthenticated remote command execution. There is also a potential XSS vulnerabili...
Posted June 25, 2012 by schof | Comments Spree 1.1.2 is now available as a release candidate (rc1.) This means that the official release is imminent and we request your assistance in testing the code before we do so. We recommend you upgrade to 1.1.2 as soon as possible due to securit...
Posted June 18, 2012 by schof | Comments Someone recently complained on the spree-user mailing list that they were disappointed with the lack of certain i18n features in Spree. We certainly have no problem with constructive criticism and we often have friendly debates about the merits...
Posted June 02, 2012 by schof | Comments It’s been almost five years now since I began the Spree project. It started with a blog post and a strongly held conviction that there had to be a better way to do e-commerce. In the past week we have also reached two symbolic milestones. 3,000...
