SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Feb. 26, 2014) – GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today announced its partnership with Spree Commerce, a leading open source platform for e-commerce. The goal of the partnership is to provide the easiest, most flexible and extensible e-commerce platform for small businesses. This is a key step in GoDaddy’s continued commitment to democratize technology for small businesses, enabling them to succeed online.
“Many of our customers do not have the technical expertise to build a successful online store, yet they all want to serve their customers who are increasingly online and mobile,” said GoDaddy Head of Product for Presence and Commerce Sandeep Grover. “With GoDaddy, our vision is to make it simple for any small business to create an eye-catching store that will stand out and help them sell more. With Spree Commerce on the back-end, we’ll be translating the great open-source work of the Spree community into a store experience available to the masses.”
“We’re pleased to partner with GoDaddy to provide a technology solution that can scale to tens of thousands of stores,” said Spree Commerce CEO Sean Schofield. “We also look forward to GoDaddy joining our worldwide open source movement, which is constantly innovating together to improve our platform’s capabilities.”
By working with Spree Commerce, GoDaddy builds on an industry-leading open-source ecommerce platform. In addition to leveraging over 5,000 source code contributions, GoDaddy is committing to contribute back to the Spree open-source community.
“GoDaddy is embracing open ecosystems and communities in open source. This commitment not only allows GoDaddy to be a leader in the hosting and domains industries by adopting and contributing to the latest innovations in open source, but also expand our large-scale systems expertise,” said GoDaddy CTO Elissa Murphy. “Over the next year, GoDaddy will adopt and contribute new innovations focused on the VSB (very small business) customer to these communities.”
The new Online Store built on Spree Commerce will be available in the spring of 2014. In addition e-commerce solutions, small business owners can also utilize GoDaddy’s full set of offerings, which range from domain names and Website Builder tools and services that help customers Get Found online, to personalized email addresses with Microsoft Office 365 compatibility and more.
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About Spree Commerce At Spree Commerce, our mission is to empower the world’s sellers. Spree Commerce began as an open source e-commerce platform in 2008. The modular platform allows for easy customizations and upgrades so developers and store owners can configure Spree for their specific needs. Spree’s vibrant, international community has been an important factor in the company’ success. Almost 500 developers have contributed to the Spree platform, and it is now one of the top open source projects in the world. In 2012, the company launched the Spree Commerce hub. The hub automates back-end operations for storefronts using any platform, not just Spree, including stores operated by some of the world’s largest e-commerce retailers.
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GoDaddy's mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and more than 59 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business. To learn more about the company, visit www.GoDaddy.com.
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