Announcing Spree 5: The Biggest Open-Source Release Ever

[damianlegawiec]

We’re thrilled to unveil Spree 5—the most feature-packed open-source release in Spree Commerce’s history! This milestone is more than just an upgrade. It transforms the platform into a future-ready, mobile-first, no-code, enterprise-friendly eCommerce solution that still adheres to its open-source roots. And it’s completely free to use and customize as you require.

New Admin Dashboard Experience

Spree 5 introduces a fully redesigned admin dashboard with improved UX for a day-to-day productivity boost:

• New Admin Dashboard UX: Redesigned experience for managing Store settings, Products, Orders, with multiple key metrics charts for more day-to-day visibility.
• Multi-store management: Ability to easily add a new Store and import Products or Payment methods from an existing store, while sharing Products, Locations & Inventory, Customers, Shipping methods, rates and markets, Payment Methods across all Stores.
• Store Standards & Formats: Set store-wide units like size, weight, and time zone — and customize them per Product.
• Digital products: A streamlined digital checkout flow. Now you can also set a download expiry date and a maximum number of downloads for product-related digital files.
• Custom Domains: Manage and connect custom domains directly from the admin.
• Shipping Method Management: Improved setup experience with ability to set estimated delivery times.
• Bulk Operations: Perform bulk actions on Products and Customers to save time at scale when merchandising or performing customer service activities.
• Tags: Tag Products for easy merchandising and Orders or Customers for filtering and bulk admin operations.
• Automatic Taxons: Auto-assign Products to appear in Categories or Collections based on conditions such as Tags, availability date, sales status, or Vendor.
• Promotions Management: A completely revamped and more intuitive promotions UI
• Currency-Based Promotion Rules: Apply discounts only in selected currencies.
• Coupon Code Batches: Generate and export unique coupon codes into a CSV format.
• Admin-placed Orders + Customer Payment Links: Create orders as an Admin on behalf of a customer and email them a secure payment link to finalize checkout.
• Export to CSV: Export large data sets (orders, products, customers) for offline manipulation and reporting.
• Returns & Refunds: An improved returns & refunds flow to make daily operations smoother and more intuitive.
• New Reporting Engine: Robust new reports with a CSV export feature and a flexible architecture for building custom reports.

A Mobile-First, Customizable Storefront

Spree 5 introduces a modern storefront that looks and performs beautifully on all devices and can be customized without any developers involved:

• Storefront Themes: Create, clone and edit multiple custom website themes with ease. Swap themes with a click of a button for various seasons and sales objectives.
• Mobile-First Storefront: A fast, responsive storefront with fast no-code customization of any section on any page, including all eCommerce pages, any number of shoppable landing pages, a built-in blog, T&C pages.
• Drag & Drop Page Builder: Easy page configuration, including styling and content management with an ability to create new shoppable landing pages with a library of pre-built page sections. Image uploads with caching and fast delivery.
• Quick Checkout with Wallets: Support for Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Link with the new official Stripe integration for Spree.
• New Checkout Flow: Completely redesigned and customizable checkout, with offsite payment support (BNPL, bank redirects, checks) and ability to toggle guest checkout on and off
• Inject Custom Code: Add custom scripts to header, body or checkout without developer help.
• Full-Text Search: Fast and accurate product and category search with PostgreSQL.
• Built-In Blog: Create shoppable content to improve product discoverability and conversions as well as SEO under the shop domain – all from a single dashboard.
• Contact Form: Enable customers to reach you via email directly from the storefront.
• SEO Management: Full control of meta tags, slugs, photos for Products, Taxons, Pages with search engine indexing settings and a live preview of Google search results.
• Password-Protected Storefront: Gate your site behind a password when needed.
• Sitemap Generator: Easily generate and manage your storefront sitemap.
• Policies: Manage legal policies like T&C, returns, shipping, or privacy with ease.

Full announcement

Read the full announcement here

We want to thank all open source contributors that participated in this effort! ❤️

New Contributors

• @mintlify made their first contribution in User docs fixes #12352
• @chrislaai made their first contribution in Add missing menu icon colors #12468
• @henrikbjorn made their first contribution in Specific importmap for Spree Admin #12491
• @dimidev made their first contribution in Fix: Add missing email param and remove unused title param #12496
• @asecondwill made their first contribution in update to match the default credentials. #12529
• @caiodsc made their first contribution in fix: add two words connector on checkout agreement text #12562
• @chandruv21 made their first contribution in Updated ruby installtion steps #12595

Full Changelog: v4.10.0...v5.0.0

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This discussion was created from the release v5.0.0.