Solidus

What do you like best?

Solidus is a highly capable e-commerce platform that is quickly diverging from its legacy as an fork of the Spree project. Spree was left to dwindle to nothing. This stems from an acquisition by First Data. There is a very lively attempt to continue with the Spree codebase, but the level of engineering and the community is superior in favor of Solidus.

What do you dislike?

There is a lot of complexity around inventory/stock management that a lot of stores simply will not need. And for very large stores this can get in the way of scaling if it is not rolled out the right way.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If your budget for your site build is less than 30K please consider other options such as shopify.

If your looking to build a complex business and scale it out fast, then this might be the way to go.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Solidus excels at:

*Time to market

*Ability to hire talented Ruby engineers to evolve and maintain the site

*Lower cost than comparable SaaS and On-Premise platforms