+1 for Spree

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On Aug 13, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Drew Purdy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Short Answer:
> 
> Use spree, it can do exactly what you want.
> 
> Long Answer:
> 
> 1)  It will take less time to customize spree than build your own shopping 
> cart.  You might think your own shopping cart is easy to build and w/ stripe 
> today it makes it much easier.  But, if you start thinking about variations 
> of products, adjustments, promotions, and coupons... you'll realize there is 
> more logic than meets the eye to a shopping cart.
> 
> 2)  Spree is superior to ror ecommerce.  The blog post was written about 
> spree prior version .60 and prior to spree being essentially rewritten for 
> rails 3 and rails supporting engines full force in rails 3.1.  I could go 
> into a rebuttle issue by issue w/ the blog post but its not worth it.  If you 
> read in the comments below I think there was enough discussion on that post 
> in 2010 to cover those issues.
> 
> 3)  Customizing spree is surprisingly easy.  Just look at a few examples of 
> using deface to change things and you'll be up and running pretty quickly.  
> Spree has some amazing extensions and support that you will probably find an 
> addition to spree via an extension someone else wrote rather than doing it 
> yourself.
> 
> 4)  Take a look at spreeworks.com and shopify.com if the volume of orders and 
> customization is low these solutions might be a better fit.
> 
> What is my experience with spree?  I was a cofounder of www.stickermule.com 
> and we really pushed the boundaries on using spree and couldn't be happier w/ 
> the choice we made.
> 
> Drew
> 
> On Sunday, August 12, 2012 10:03:21 PM UTC-7, Scott Olmsted wrote:
> Anyone used Spree or ror_ecommerce for an e-commerce site? My client wants to 
> sell biological samples by credit card or purchase order, post a few pdfs and 
> other files on the page for each product, and perhaps export a file to 
> Quickbooks, including taxable status. Will customizing Spree take longer than 
> creating from scratch? What about using ror_ecommerce? Any validity to the 
> author's claims and criticisms of Spree? (http://ror-e.com/posts/1)
> 
> Thanks, Scott
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