How Spree Commerce Store Can Help You Scale Up Business

Posted by Manik Juneja on October 28th, 2015

Many free, open source e-commerce platforms do perform as promised, providing online businesses the power to bring their products and services in front of their target consumers effectively. However, few have the ability to scale, severely to limit the potential that your online business has regarding growth and development. Fortunately, the few open source e-commerce platforms that offer scalability do so excellently, allowing your e-commerce site to grow as your business does. Spree Commerce is one of the most sought after storefront platforms today, and it is also one of the most scalable. If you want an e-commerce site that can cope with the high demands of your business concerning traffic and large product catalogs, Spree is worth considering because this platform is more than capable of expanding your site as your business grows. 

When talking about scalability, two things come to mind— throughput and product catalog size. When it comes to e-commerce management, throughput is usually given more attention, as it determines the real scalability of your web application in terms of the number of requests that it can serve in any given period. An e-commerce site that is unable to process client requests and at the same time entertain huge influxes of visitor traffic needs a great deal of enhancement because your website's throughput can hugely affect your business' scalability. 

Website throughput varies between pages because resource requirements and functionalities also differ between them. It affects scalability because the more requests that your site can serve, the better your operations run and the fewer computing resources you will likely need to process them. Running volume tests on your Spree site is the best way to get an accurate picture of its scalability. By simulating huge numbers of users accessing your store at the same time, you can realistically measure how well it performs under significant load. 

Spree Commerce has almost the same features as in an equally popular counterpart, Magento Enterprise. However, many business users because of its greater reliability in terms of faster indexing, full page caching, page load time, extension options, and scalability prefer it. The fact that Spree Commerce is an open source software also adds to its appeal to businesses who wish to cut down on their running costs without necessarily compromising the quality of their e-commerce site as well as its growth and future scalability. 

About the Author: 

Mr. Mayank Tandon who is associated with Vinsol has written this article. Vinsol is web and mobile apps Development Company started in 2000. They work on Ruby on Rails, iOS and Android. They also develop e-commerce applications on Rails and Spree Commerce, which is an open source ecommerce platform. 

They have worked for some of the big brands and startups across the globe. They follow agile methodology for development and adhere to lean principles for quickly developing Valuable Products for their clients.