We are pleased to share that Le Jacquard Français products are ready for Syncing. 

Le Jacquard Français joins our network of 105 premium brands that Sync products with 1,430+ retailers.

Visit Le Jacquard Français' Shop Local Account:
View the 489 Le Jacquard Français products you can Sync with here:
https://lejacquardfrancais.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 "Le Jacquard

FOR BRANDS

Good news: Your brand has an easy solution to grow its sales network during the June trade shows. You're invited to display your ready made Shop Local poster. The poster contains:

• Text explaining the benefits of your Shop Local Product Syncing service
• Your logo
• Your slide
• The number of products you Sync with a retailer
• Two examples retailers
• Labor costs avoided by using the service
• Expected increase in sales
• A QR code leading to your Shop Local page

How to Get Your Free Poster:

• We'll handle it

Congratulations to the following members for being the top gift registry performers in May 2026:

Top-3 Retailers
🥇 P.S. The Letter in Fort Worth, TX
🥈 Babcock Gifts in Memphis, TN
🥉 Table Matters in Birmingham, AL

Top-3 Retail Movers
🥇 Margaret Pierce in Tulsa, OK / +533%
🥈 The Carriage House in Indianola, MS / +313%
🥉 Caroline & Company in Lafayette, LA / +240%

By gift registry sales / % change in May 2026 online revenue vs. prev. month

Top-3 Wedding Registry Brands
🥇 Juliska   
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https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/macys-earnings-q1-2026-m-stock-4a2cf228?st=vfi9jo&

Big Tech often wins due to efficiencies, which include scale and automation, because these lower costs. 

Shop Local helps indie shops gain similar efficiencies.  For example, we reduce website product maintenance costs by 92%.  This empowers the indie shop to lower prices—to better match Big Tech’s prices, or reinvest this savings in other areas of their business.  

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: Your brand can offer sponsored products to drive product performance via the "Sponsored Products" service. This service promotes your brand's products on Synced retailers' Shop Local Stores and will be promoted to shoppers, registrants, and store owners.

The ads only run on retailers' sites that already sell your brand. A brand can’t run ads on retailers' sites that don’t sell its brand yet. This feature will be available in the future.

The products

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now instantly download and print monthly flyers featuring your graduation, baby, wishlist, and other celebration registries for easy in-store promotion.

What's Included on the Flyer:

• Your store's logo.
• All registries for the selected month.
• A link and premade custom QR code for each registry.
• A link and premade custom QR code for your store's registry home page.
• A link and premade custom QR code for registrants and customers to leave a review.

These

We're pleased to share that Shop Local has teamed up with Kitchen2Table to help the rep agency's retailers and brands. These webinars will help Kitchen2Table retailers and brands sell more.

Webinar Dates:

• For Brands: Wednesday, May 20th at 10:30 am ET
• For Retailers: Wednesday, June 3rd at 10:30 am ET

6 Benefits for Brands:

1. Brands sell 18% more.
2. Increase the quantity of your product offered online by your retailers.
3. Get new customers.
4. Make reordering easier for your stores.
5. Learn about orders in real-time

FOR BRANDS & DISTRIBUTORS

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now schedule a stock or price update to process on a specific date. This update will occur at 3 AM EST on the selected date.

This feature helps your business save time by planning in advance. This also ensures your changes are live before peak shopping hours. 
 

How to Schedule a Stock Update:

1. Log in to your Shop Local account.
2. Hover over Products. From the drop-down menu, click Mass Update via Excel.
3. For the

For Brands & Distributors

This slide deck walks through how adding pictures makes your site more engaging.

Slide deck walks through how to add:

1. Images to products to make listings more compelling.
2. Slides that highlight your products.
3. Collection images to showcase lifestyle imagery.
4. Business and team images on your homepage.

Related help documents:

• Add a Picture to a Product
• Quickly Add Pictures to Many Products
• Add and Update Slides
• Add Picture / Lifestyle Image to a Pattern / Collection

We’re delighted to welcome Nolan Family Pharmacy to the Shop Local family. Referred by Bitsy Sherlock of Werner Frank, the store joined Shop Local to launch its online tabletop and bridal registry business.  

Offering thoughtful, personalized gifts for family, friends, and home, Nolan Family Pharmacy has chosen Shop Local as its gift registry provider to meet the growing demand for gifts and registries in the Pike Road, Alabama area. 

The store instantly received great benefits:

• Customers

We evaluated Shop Local, Gift Reggie, and MyRegistry using an AI visibility grader from Algorythmic https://algorythmic.co/—an SEO and AI search consultancy focused on how brands perform across Google and AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini.

📊 The Results

• Shop Local: 82 Good Visibility
• MyRegistry.com: 78 Moderate Visibility
• Gift Reggie: 73 Moderate Visibility
• Zola: 50 Poor Visibility 

Result: Shop Local scored 10+ points higher.

🔍 What the AI Found

The biggest difference came down to how well each

FOR BRANDS & DISTRIBUTORS

Your brand can now designate a collection as a premium collection. This collection will only be available to a retailer that is granted premium collection access. The steps below walk through how it works.
 

1. Brand Setting
The Premium Collections setting can be found on your Brand Settings page.

Here are the steps:

1. Log in to your Shop Local.
2. Roll over Management at the top of the page, then click Brand Settings.
3. Scroll down to the "Premium Collections" section. Set

Your Shop Local store has an updated feature: We’ve upgraded your SEO by adding embedded structured data. This is machine-readable data built into your website that helps AI tools and search engines better understand your content.

Structured data helps AI tools and search engines understand key details about your store, including:

• Active product listings
• Location and hours
• Associated brands
• Product collections and departments
• Top gift items
• Public registry data (registrants’ names, registrants’ gift

Thank you to Waverly Kundysek for sharing her experience after registering at The Ivy House, a merchant using Shop Local software for their e-commerce and registry services: 

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“We had an amazing experience using the Ivy House Registry website. From start to finish, everything felt seamless, intuitive, and thoughtfully designed... it is a beautiful platform with truly unmatched service!"

~ Waverly Kundysek in TX

Registered at The Ivy House in Dallas, TX

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Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to communicate with your registrants. 

What’s New:  
"Communicate with the Registrant" Page:  You’ll now find a quick-access link in the left-hand navigation on the Registrant’s Overview page—making it simple to reach out at the right moment.

Enhanced Email Templates
Choose from a variety of ready-to-use templates designed to save time and drive engagement:

• General communication
• Welcome messages
• Incentive offerings
• Redemption