Case Study: Scout & Nimble achieves a shoppable designer-room marketplace and scalable growth with Spree Commerce

Scout & Nimble uses Spree for its online marketplace for shoppable designer rooms and home decor

Scout & Nimble is a designer‑driven marketplace for shoppable rooms and home décor, founded in 2013 by Jesse and Sam Bodine after growing out of a popular blog. The company needed a design‑forward eCommerce solution that could showcase heavy visual content, provide e‑design tools for interior designers, handle large traffic, and support rapid growth while preserving high customer service and managing designer onboarding.

They built a custom Spree‑based platform (Ruby on Rails) with room‑building e‑design tools, Shop Room and Quick Shop features, automated server scaling, and PayPal integration to create intermediary accounts and transfer commissions. The result is a scalable marketplace where designers can showcase and monetize curated rooms, customers can confidently shop by room or designer, and Scout & Nimble can grow designer participation and sales without compromising service.

Scout & Nimble

Jesse Bodine

Scout & Nimble