We are pleased to share that Alva products are ready for Syncing.

Alva joins our network of 111 premium brands that Sync products with over 1,460 retailers.

Visit Alva's Shop Local Account:
View the 50 products you can Sync from Alva here:
https://allinoxusa.myshoplocal.com/

How to Sync

• ​​​Please log in to your Shop Local account.
• Please scroll up to the top. In the Top Bar's search field, please enter "Alva".
• On the search results page, where you see the brand's results, please click on the button "

We’ll be there Wednesday, June 18 -  Friday, June 20, 2025

We'd love to meet and hear about your sales goals for 2025.

Are you a brand or sales rep that uses Shop Local?
If so, we put together the following materials for you to share with your retailers. Please print these for use during the show:

1. Explanation Materials

1. A flyer explaining the benefits of the Shop Local service: View explanation PDF here
2. Flyer explaining the service for use in showroom:  https://bridge.myshoplocal.com/

We’ll be at the AmericasMart Tuesday, July 15 - Friday, July 18, 2025. 

We'd love to meet and hear about your sales goals.

Are you a brand or sales rep that uses Shop Local?
If so, we put together the following materials for you to share with your retailers. Please print these for use during the show:

1. Explanation Materials

1. A flyer explaining the benefits of the Shop Local service: View explanation PDF here
2. Flyer explaining the service for use in showroom:  https://bridge.myshoplocal.

Thank you to April Johnson for sharing her experience after buying a gift from Staffords of Spartanburg, a merchant using Shop Local software for their e-commerce and registry services: 

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"Easy to navigate bridal registry. I also loved that they informed me that the couple preferred to pick up their gifts in the store—less work for me! The online site also allowed me to mark my gift for the shower, as I will also have to buy a wedding gift..."

~ April Johnson in SC

Shopped at

We're excited to announce that Belleek Pottery, a high-quality fine china pottery brand from Ireland's Belleek Group, is joining the Syncing service. 🎉 

Belleek Pottery's products will be available for Syncing at the end of May. We'll keep our members updated on the exact launch date as we complete Belleek's boarding onto our platform.

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About Belleek
Promoting over 160 years of craftsmanship, Belleek Pottery is located in the quaint village of Belleek in Co. Fermanagh on the banks of the

Happy to see our partner celebrated in The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/dining/le-creuset.html?unlocked_article_code=1._04.2q-B.PbirAQQz4LcN&smid=url-share

We're excited to announce that SMEG, a high-quality kitchen appliance brand from Italy, is joining the Syncing service. 🎉 

SMEG's products will be available for Syncing by early May. We'll keep our members updated on the exact launch date as we complete SMEG's boarding onto our platform.

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About SMEG
SMEG has designed innovative household appliances for all everyday environments since 1948. The headquarters are situated in Guastalla, in Emilia Romagna, an outpost for a long view over the

To improve your wedding registry sales, first collect this information on your 2025 registries: 

• Average number of registries with couples’ pictures.
• Average number of items added per registry.
• Average number of registrants’ official wedding sites with links back to their registry list on your site.
• Average number of registry lists with a gift card option.   

Goals:

• All registries have couples’ pictures.
• Increase number of items added per registry.
• Increase number of registrants’ official

A recent The Wall St. Journal article shared some notable insights about Wayfair promotions. These facts should inspire more indie stores to run sales. 

Article excerpts:

• "Wayfair, which doesn’t tend to hold inventory, has suppliers cover nearly all of the costs tied to a promotion."
• "...of revenue generated during promotions, around 70% comes from non-promoted items."
• "Only about 30% of revenue during a promotion comes from items that are marked down, which Gulliver said “gives us some

As I approach my 50th birthday, time is on my mind. 

One of our platform’s major benefits is helping clients avoid wasting time. For example, a retailer that uses our service on average avoids $36,000 on Labor costs each year.  

My job is to convey these time savings whenever I can. We want to quantify time savings, such as by showing weeks or months saved on labor. (Reference: my napkin calendar sketch.) i have to let retailers, brands, and reps know we can stop the bleeding of time

While this may be the last issue of Tableware Today, it’s surely not the last of what the magazine has given us. What surrounds me and you has been touched and improved by Amy and Tableware Today in small and big ways. Over the last 19 years, thanks to Tableware Today, I’ve gained friends, grown my business, and enriched my life. In 2006, I was fresh into the tableware website scene and it was hot. I’m not talking limo rides, after-hours parties, and bottle service; I’m talking HTML, ColdFusion,

With tariffs on people’s minds, indie stores need new levers to attract customers. 

Your Online Store has a built-in solution to entice new customers: a newsletter discount feature. 

How It Works

• You can turn it on and see the discount (coupon) amount you’ll offer   
• For example, you can offer 10% off when one signs up for your news.

Our Insight

• Many retailers and brands are already offering this newsletter discount.
• In our research, we found that 37% of the top 30 tabletop

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now quickly edit a product's information directly on its Details page. 

Previously, one would need to click "Edit Product" on the Details page to edit a product's name or price.

With this update, one can now edit this information on the Details page. This takes fewer clicks and saves you time from visiting multiple tabs in the "Edit Product" modal.

Please follow the steps below to access this feature:

1. Log in to your Shop Local Store.
2. Browse to a

Get orders in now before price hikes possibly take affect due to tariff implementations.   We urge you to follow The Ivy House's example they recently posted on their social media page (see photo).  Send an email, a quick text, post on social media - anything you can do to get the word out.  Registrants do not want to lose their credit dollars!  

P.S. Thanks to The Ivy House for sharing such a smart idea 💡

Congratulations to the following members for being the top gift registry performers in March 2025:

Top-3 Retailers
🥇 Babcock Gifts in Memphis, TN
🥈 P.S. The Letter in Fort Worth, TX 
🥉 Friend & Company in New Orleans, LA

Top-3 Retail Movers
🥇 Fincher & Ozment Jewelers in Tuscaloosa, AL / +653%
🥈 La Dentelliere in Scarsdale, NY / +525%
🥉 Eleganz Plus in Brooklyn, NY / +403%

By gift registry sales / % change in March 2025 online revenue vs. prev. month

Top-3 Wedding Registry

In this example, we imagine 100 potential customers start on an online store's home page and wish to give a wedding gift online. On the store not using our software, 10 out of 100 customers will complete a gift-giving checkout. On the store using our software, 40 out of 100 customers will complete a gift-giving checkout—a 4x gain.

Details:

Indie Store Does Not Use Shop Local Gift Registry Service...

• 100 customers start on the retailer's home page —>
• 85 customers make it to the registrant's

P.S. ~ Thanks to our friend Ted for sharing this pic with us 

We have updated the display of lifestyle images and home page slides in your Online Store.

Slide Ratio

• The new slide ratio is 2:1 (width to height).  Previously, the ratio was 3:1 (width to height)
• The recommended image dimensions are now 1620 pixels wide by 810 pixels high (previously 1954 pixels wide by 620 pixels high).

For step-by-step instructions on how to add, update, or view slides, please follow this help document:
https://www.shoplocal.org/help-center.cfm/198/Add-and-Update-

FOR BRANDS/DISTRIBUTORS

Salisbury and Costa Nova helped their accounts sell 18% more. You can, too. Plus, We'll pay you $800.

Details:

• In their wholesale shipments to retailers, the brands included a flyer.
• The flyer explains how the store can instantly show what is in the box online and sell it.

How a Store Uses the Flyer in the Box

1. The store opens the shipment from your brand.
2. The store views the flyer and scans the flyer’s QR code.
3. The store signs up for a free Shop Local Store—which includes a free