I am doing research on creating a B2B ecommerce platform similar to Alibaba. My reading and current experience has led me to Spree commerce (since I have built a few apps using RoR before).
Spree looks like an amazing solution but I am really confused by converting the Vanilla Spree app into a marketplace app that could facilitate multiple merchants/sellers.
I have managed to install a standard Spree installation after which I've tried to incorporate spree_drop_ship and spree_marketplace but this results in numerous dependancy issues. It seems that the latter part of the installation is not maintained anymore and has not been for quite a while.
My question is simply: what is the suggested way to transform Spree into a multivendor marketplace seeing that the original marketplace gems are not maintained anymore?
PS. I have looked at a similar post here
Personally I would recommend going for a custom marketplace solution if your are having time. I’m not saying this just because I run a web application development agency, but because I’m a big fan of Amazon’s business model where they always focus on long-term growth. This is the biz model that I would recommend for every eCommerce marketplace entrepreneur.
There are answers for you http://motivesense.com/multi-vendor-ecommerce-platforms/