When we compared our registry service to other registry software, we found 17 unique ways that our registry service helps gift givers, registrants, & merchants. Many other registry services don’t offer these 17 features below.
6 Ways Our Service Helps Gift Givers in Ways That Other Services Do Not
Gift Giver’s Experience (E.g. Friend or family member giving a gift)
The gift giver can easily find the registrant’s gift list because the service helps merchants rank
21 ways Gift Reggie is making it difficult for gift givers, registrants, and merchants
April 3, 2024
Our registry service handles 80,000 gift and wedding registries. We often come across other registry software and can see how it's affecting the merchant that is using it.
While eating breakfast and browsing the web via my phone, I recently came across RFD, a merchant in Albany, NY, that uses Gift Reggie (an app that is added to a Shopify Store).
I observed 21 problems while reviewing the merchant's registry service. I initially wrote the issues down on a paper tablecloth...
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π With the natural motifs and expressive colors you know so well, we've added an absolute novelty to serve you Carmen. In the collection's goblets, where each foot presents a fruit in a tile, the cushion is made of faceted glass, creating an exotic dance between the transparency of the body and the exuberance of the base. Ceramic glasses, of different dimensions, reproduce the decoration of the goblets in high relief, allowing to harmoniously combine all pieces. In addition to creating a scene ...
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Enjoy this long Calaisio bread basket for celebrations, parties, and large family meals. Its stunning rustic colors, which come from organic exotic vines, will enhance the flavor of your bread and make it ideal for serving handmade sourdough bread, pastries, muffins, rolls, or bagels. Dimensions are 19.25 inches long by 9.25 inches wide. Have a great day and indulge in your locally made bread with a complimentary bread basket that has similar color tones.
Enjoy this long Calaisio bread basket for celebrations, parties, and large family meals. Its stunning rustic colors, which come from organic exotic vines, will enhance the flavor of your bread and make it ideal for serving handmade sourdough bread, pastries, muffins, rolls, or bagels. Dimensions are 19.25 inches long by 9.25 inches wide. Have a great day and indulge in your locally made bread with a complimentary bread basket that has similar color tones.
Part of my job is to review registry software. I ensure it works well for retailers, registrants, and gift-givers (family and friends). I also assess whether it offers good value (price vs. results).
When looking for registry software, some retailers consider MyRegistry.com for their registry service. I reviewed a retailer's site using MyRegistry.com and assessed how a customer would make a registry purchase. For privacy purposes, I blurred the store's name in the screenshots shown.
It is immediately identifiable by its glamorous plumage; however, even if presented only in silhouette, the wood duck would still be recognizable by its unique shape consisting of a famously boxy, crested head and long, broad tail. Luckily, Herend's figurine features all dimensions and kaleidoscopic colors of this perching waterfowl and combines multiple patterns and painting techniques to expertly capture this North American beauty.
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Today’s The Wall St. Journal shares a funny story about the importance of displaying product dimensions in e-commerce.
This article shows the value of a brand. If the teakettle in the article shown had a Le Creuset logo, we’d know it was regular size. Tip: Look for trusted brands when shopping online.
The article doesn’t touch on this, but this dimensions problem also relates to POS systems. There is a trend among retailers to output their ...
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Your Bridge now makes it easier for you to connect with and sell your brands’ products. We have added a new page to invite brands to sync products. This page significantly reduces the number of steps that your store takes to invite a brand.
There is no charge for a member to send sync invites or sync products with a brand. Product Syncing is free for retailers, sales reps, trade marts, and interior designers. Participating brands pay for the service.
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Make an impression with these attention-getting pieces. Mouthblown using a technique perfected over generations, the Murrine Glass Vases feature an array of colors making each piece unique.
Dimensions: All 3 have an 8.5" diameter base with these heights and capacities:
Small: 25.5"H, 236 oz.
Medium: 30.5"H, 245 oz.
Large: 33.5"H, 256 oz.
Also available in equally impressive Medium and Large bowls! Stop in at the Shadyside store and be wowed!
Last week, Amazon bought iRobot, the company that makes Roomba, the robot vacuum cleaner, for $1.7b. Why? Yes, their 'Rosie from the Jetsons' has AI and is in your home (which is where Amazon wants to be), but the reason Amazon wants it is because customers want it. Which leads us to ask: Why do customers want Roomba? Because it does something that humans find annoying and hate doing: cleaning. Roomba has spotted the value that robots bring to the world and it's not simply being ...
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When you run an online store, a major cost is adding and updating products. Adding 1,000 products to your website often costs about $750 and requires 50 hours. What if there was a cheaper, quicker way? And what if you could offer better product data at the same time? There is: Smart Products.
The Smart Products service outputs in your Bridge Store all the products from a brand that you sell, with professional pictures, accurate prices, and product dimensions. This service is...
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Saks Fifth Avenue just launched a new website. Since more than 600 stores rely on Bridge Store to power their websites, I decided to compare the new site, which likely cost millions of dollars, to an indie retailer's Bridge Store software. An indie store pays pennies compared to Saks' millions, so the Saks site must be a million times better, right?
After a careful review, I'm happy to share that our indie stores have the better website. And, it sort of 'saks' for Saks that it spent millions ...
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Retailers know that Bridge offers the easiest online tools to help them sell more. For this reason, the distributor Vista Alegre, which is Portugal’s largest producer of porcelain products, promotes Bridge in its advertisements. Retailers using Bridge and reading Tableware Today will see the logo and know that the products shown are already available to sell via the store’s respective Bridge Store. If the retailer does not use Bridge yet, it may join the brand on Bridge for free.&...
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Your shoppers can now more easily know how the size of a product. On your Results pages, your software now outputs the length, width, diameter, height, and capacity.
In the example shown, we see that these Juliska are products are 11" and 9" wide. This makes comparing products easier, more accurate, and faster.
With this updated feature, your business no longer has to put dimensions in product names.
This new feature works in 'Shopping' and 'List' views.
Your store and your shoppers can now more easily know how big something is. Below a product's name, your software now outputs the length, width, and height.
In the example shown, we see that this Juliska glass is W 3" x L 3" x H 6.5". An alternate way to enter this would be D 3" x H 6.5".
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This graphic from the cover of ‘The Business Book’ caught my eye. Bridge helps businesses eliminate unnecessary steps, and it’s beneficial to lay out all the steps Bridge helps retailers skip.
Without Bridge’s Smart Products service, retailers would go through the following steps when adding a product to their website:
1. Realize they need a product on their website.
2. Google the product.
3. From the Google results, identify the correct product.
4. Download the ...
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November 14, 2019
November 14, 2019
How can you promote your store's gift registry?
Take some inspiration from The Flower Shop in Auburn, Alabama. The florists and gift shop sent their clients an attractive email announcing their Bridge Registry.
By using Bridge, The Flower Shop was able to quickly create an online store with a gift registry--and have it filled with 13,000 products. Their Bridge Store was instantly populated with 4,500 Herend products, 1,800 Vietri products, 400 Arte Italica products, and 300 Annieglass products. ...
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May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018
Why use Bridge?
1. Easily show pictures online for all the items that you sell. Bridge has 60,000 pictures.
2. Help your brides and their families. Over 20,000 brides have used Bridge's software. It's easy to use and full of features. Since the software has 1,000s of pictures, the brides are happy family and friends can see the items they'd like.
3. Beat Amazon. Since Bridge has 60,000 items pre-loaded, your store can offer greater selection than Amazon.
4. Increase your Google ranking. Bridgeβs ...
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