Workarea Commerce Platform

Workarea is an enterprise-grade commerce platform written in Ruby on Rails. It uses MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis. Workarea also uses a whole lot of gems you can see in our gemspec.

Workarea Commerce Cloud
Documentation
Demo
Getting Started
Plugins
Extension
Deploying
Sites Running Workarea
Contributing
Slack

Workarea Screenshot

Features

Workarea combines commerce, content, search, and insights into a unified platform to enable merchants to move faster and work smarter. Out-of-the-box features include:

Storefront

Mobile-first frontend
Localization support
First-class SEO
Built-in analytics
Cart and checkout
Customer accounts
Discounts
Basic taxes
Shipping services

Content

Responsive CMS
Asset management
Localized content
Intelligent merchandising
Content-based navigation

Search

Product search
Search-driven categories
Filtering and sorting
Search merchandising
Results tuning
Advanced reporting

Insights

Robust dashboards
Sales reports
Trending reports
Search reports
Advanced insights

Admin

Site planning and automation
Workflows for common tasks
Inline insights
Search-first administration
Commenting
Audit logs for changes

Demo

You can run a demo version of Workarea via Docker by running the following command:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/workarea-commerce/workarea/master/demo/install | bash

If you are using MacOS or Windows, this will require you to increase Docker's memory allocation to at least 4GB. Go to your Docker preferences, select the advanced tab, and adjust the memory slider.

Once complete, you can view the Workarea Storefront at http://localhost:3000 and the Workarea Admin at http://localhost:3000/admin. The seed data provides an admin user with an email/password of [email protected]/w0rkArea!.

See the README in the demo directory for more information.

Getting Started

We'd suggest checking out our introductory overview article on Workarea to wrap your head around the technology. Read the Workarea developer overview article.

Then try following our guide on creating a new Workarea Rails app

If you have any problems, reach out on our public Slack. We're happy to help!

Watch the Quickstart Video: https://vimeo.com/370085475

Plugins

Workarea extends functionality with a library of plugins. These plugins add everything from additional content blocks, to wish lists, to payment gateway integrations and more. Here are some of the most popular plugins:

Plugin	Description
API	Provides APIs for storefront and admin
Blog	Integrated blogging
Reviews	Adds product reviews
Google Analytics	Integrates GA with Workarea's analytics
Paypal	Adds Paypal checkout
Wish Lists	Adds customer wish lists
Sitemaps	Autogenerating sitemaps
Share	Adds page sharing via social media or email
Package Products	Allows displaying products as a group in browse and details pages
Gift Cards	Adds Workarea-native digital gift cards

To see a full list of open-source plugins, check out the Workarea Github organization. More plugins like B2B functionality, order management, and running multiple sites are available through the Workarea Commerce Cloud.

Extension

Workarea is meant to be extended and customized to fit merchant needs. It's built as a collection of Rails Engines so the Rails guides on customizing engines apply. Workarea also includes the Rails Decorators to provide a easy and familiar path for Rails developers to customize Ruby classes. To read more, check out our documentation on extension.

Deploying

Workarea is fairly complex application to host, we recommend our Commerce Cloud hosting.

If you'd like to host on your own, we have some documentation to help:

Contributing

All contributors in any way are expected to follow the code of conduct.

Looking for how to contribute code?

We encourage you to contribute to Workarea! Check out our articles on contribution on https://developer.workarea.com.

Looking for how to submit a bug?

Please check out our article on how to submit a bug for how to proceed

Looking for how to report a security vulnerability?

Please check out our security policy for how to proceed.

License

Workarea Commerce Platform is released under the Business Software License