How to let customers know that your store will call them to receive payment for their order.
January 17, 2023
Some Bridge merchants do not accept credit cards online. The merchant calls the customer (after they placed the order) to collect the customer's credit card information. For merchants that do not accept cards online, your Bridge has an updated feature that makes it easier for customers to expect a call from the store. A customer will now see a banner with a green telephone icon on the final checkout page. The banner displays this message:
You can customize the 1 pound box of Alioto’s premium Belgium chocolate covered almonds or raisins with your logo on a gold foil sticker.
It is the perfect, and perfectly delicious, way to say Happy Holidays to your clients and customers!
...so make the best of it and give some!
Give the gift of Alioto’s premium Belgium chocolate covered almonds. These decadent delights are a holiday highlight! We have milk and dark chocolate, in 1 pound boxes, 1 pound, and 1/2 pound bags with decorative bows.
And not to be forgotten, Alioto’s Belgium milk chocolate covered raisins. Equally delicious and hard to stop eating once you start! They come in 1 pound and 1/2 pound bags with festive bows.
End a sour year on a ...
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Celebrate Sweet Home Chicago with this magnificent ornament. The 4” hand painted ornament with Swarovski crystals captures the beautiful skyline and some of it’s iconic buildings.
This ornament will be one you look forward to putting on the tree, or on display, each year.
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Your Bridge now makes it easier to speed customers to popular areas of your site. Your header now displays links to your gift card page, popular products page, and sale products page.
These three links appear if you have fewer than six custom links. If you have more than six custom header links, these default custom links will not appear. If this is the case for your store, you are welcome to add these links manually.
If your site does not have any products on ...
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Indie Retailers Get Sales Boost from Product Syncing Service
Sales increases ranged from roughly 4.5 percent for brands such as Arte Italica and Spode to more than 13.5 percent for Beatriz Ball and Vietri
January 2, 2018, Allison Zisko
NEW YORK—Main Street retailers are benefitting from a tabletop product-syncing service offered by Bridge, an e-commerce platform that includes file sharing and a social network.
Indie Stores Report Double-Digit Growth in 2017 by Sharing Products
Forty-two brick and mortar Main Street retailers that participated in Bridgeβs annual survey said their sales grew up to 50% for a brand by using Bridgeβs product-syncing service.
"I do about 20% more business a year by being a part of the Bridge network,β said Mary Beth Wood, owner of the Crystal Plate in Gainesville, Georgia, and a user of the Bridge software. "It gives me more time to sell ...
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June 21, 2017
June 21, 2017
Carol Schroeder, a shop owner that writes about retail, suggests in her weekly column that stores give up and let Amazon and other online entities eat their lunch. Upon reading this, I had to ask: "pardon me?"
Carol appears to be wearing a troglodyte's writer cap. Steer clear of her advice. Bridge encourages you to use the most efficient tools to get online, get found in Google, and sell.
Excerpt from Carol's column:
"...Most of us didn't go into retailing in order to handle faceless orders ...
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December 30, 2014
December 30, 2014
Alioto's will be closed 1/1, 1/2 and 1/3/15...Happy New Year!
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