We are building a multi-tenant SaaS application where our users can easily build e-commerce sites of their own; very similar to what Shopify offers, except that this will be tailored to a specific kind of goods industry - custom integrations with industry partners, integrations with our users' company CRM systems, etc.
Examples of customisations:
- A single admin should be able to manage multiple stores
- Obviously, like Shopify, each store would have its own set of users / customers and subdomain
- The order processing mechanism should be different for each store - store A might need to call an external API to place the order while store B might just need to add an entry in a spreadsheet.
Within our team, we have extensive Ruby on Rails experience, so I think going with Spree or Solidus is the way forward.
But we are finding it hard to choose between one over the other as this will be a long term investment.
Does anybody have enough experience with both of them to be able to objectively compare?
From the 2 you've mentioned only Spree has a built-in multi-store mechanism. Solidus is a single-tenant application.