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
Your Shop Local Store has an updated feature: You can now change your page view to view your Store as a customer without logging out of your account.
Your Shop Local Store has two view modes:
Admin Mode
This mode is designed for administering your account. You can perform functions unique to owning your account, such as adding, editing, and deleting content.
Public Mode
This mode is designed to see your account as a customer sees it or for use while sharing your
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Mottahedeh's votive collection make the perfect double holiday gift. First a wonderful fragrance fills your room then after the candle is done you are left with a beautiful covered porcelain container. Use it for jewelry bedside, in the bathroom for small goods or the entrance foyer to hide your keys and spare change.
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How to switch your account to visitor mode to hide admin features and wholesale prices.
September 7, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to switch your page view to Visitor Mode. The new purple bar at the bottom of the page allows you to toggle between Office Mode and Visitor Mode.
Office Mode is designed for administering your account. You can perform functions unique to owning your account, such as adding, editing, and deleting content.
Visitor Mode shows your account as a visitor (customer) may see it. Turning on Visitor Mode hides admin features and...
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The sparkling handmade items in Beatriz Ball PIELES Croc Collection are sophisticated, rich in textures, and add cool modern décor to any table. They make a luxurious grouping for the bar, too.
The PIELES Croc ice bucket, in Beatriz Ball's signature sand-cast metal, is alive with realistic surface detail, and is beautifully hand-polished to a brilliant shine. The shapely piece is textured inside and out and includes built-in handles for easy lifting. Works beautifully with the PIELES ...
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Inspired by wildlife, but at home in the most civilized of interiors, these luxe frames add a touch of glam to any room. Beatriz Ball frames feature textures and motifs that elevate any photo into a work of art.
The three Pieles Croc frames--holding 5x7, 4x6 and 3x3 inch photos--are distinguished by intricate crocodile hide textures glowingly rendered in a silvery sandcast aluminum alloy.
With boldly sophisticated styling, the square FRAME Pieles Croc 3 x 3 makes a glamorous gift for men. ...
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Your Bridge Store has a new feature to encourage customers to complete a registry purchase. Your Bridge Store now displays gift givers' names on a registry's list. This strategy is designed on two principles:
Consumers are more likely to make a purchase if they see that others have made a purchase.
Consumers are more likely to make a purchase if they know the name of an existing gift giver.
Beatriz Ball Croc pieces are sophisticated, rich in texture, and add a cool modern vibe to any environment. In the silver tone of the company’s signature polished metal, or the luxurious gold tone of Sierra Modern, these pieces definitely make a statement.
Explore Beatriz Ball's Croc texture in Frames, Trays, Bowls, Servers, Placemats, and more!
I think that Zola, an online provider of gift registries, may be harming local stores. Zola allows brides to pick things from any site, such as an indie store’s gift registry. Zola may then encourage the registrant to bypass that local store and use those gift funds with Zola. This is an issue because Zola has handled more than 650,000 registries, and its revenue is estimated to be $130m. Millions of dollars may have been diverted away from indie, brick-and-mortar stores to Zola&rsquo...
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Inspired by wildlife, but at home in the most civilized of interiors, these luxe frames add a touch of glam to any room. Beatriz Ball frames feature textures and motifs that elevate any photo into a work of art.
The three Pieles Croc frames--holding 5x7, 4x6 and 3x3 inch photos--are distinguished by intricate crocodile hide textures glowingly rendered in a silvery sandcast aluminum alloy.
With boldly sophisticated styling, the square FRAME Pieles Croc 3 x 3 makes a glamorous gift for men. ...
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Jim Collins, in his book BE 2.0, explains how purpose and mission are important to companies. To help explain this, he uses the metaphor of crossing a mountain range and seeing a star on the horizon. Your purpose is to reach the spot on the horizon below the star. The current mission is climbing up the mountain you’re on. The next mission is climbing up the next mountain and so forth in order to get closer to the spot on the horizon. You will have many missions, and may never ...
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Beatriz Ball Croc trays are sophisticated, rich in texture, and add a cool modern vibe to any environment. In the silver tone of the company’s signature polished metal, or the luxurious gold tone of Sierra Modern, these trays definitely make a statement.
Beatriz Ball’s SIERRA MODERN Croc Extra Large Rectangular Tray with Handles (Gold) is generously sized, and is at home on the bar, the coffee table, and the ottoman. A copious size, radiant gold-tone finish and never-polish shine
The sparkling handmade items in Beatriz Ball PIELES Croc Collection are sophisticated, rich in textures, and add cool modern décor to any table. They make a luxurious grouping for the bar, too.
The PIELES Croc ice bucket, in Beatriz Ball's signature sand-cast metal, is alive with realistic surface detail, and is beautifully hand-polished to a brilliant shine. The shapely piece is textured inside and out and includes built-in handles for easy lifting. Works beautifully with the ...
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Let’s imagine a retailer wants to operate an online store. What would the retailer and its customers experience when using Bridge vs other software? We found that a retailer using Bridge can go from having no web store to one with thousands of products in under an hour. And, there’s no charge. Other software doesn’t offer this ability.
To highlight our findings, we put together this comparison graphic showing Bridge Store and Shopify. (We chose Shopify to ...
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Inspired by wildlife, but at home in the most civilized of interiors, these luxe frames add a touch of glam to any room.
Beatriz Ball frames feature textures and motifs that elevate any photo into a work of art. The three Pieles Croc frames--holding 5x7, 4x6 and 3x3 inch photos--are distinguished by intricate crocodile hide textures glowingly rendered in a silvery sandcast aluminum alloy. With boldly sophisticated styling, the square FRAME Pieles Croc 3 x 3 makes a glamorous gift for men. ...
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We offer a universal domain service (UDS) to retailers, brands, and sales reps. What does this service do? The universal domain service elevates your business' brand and may increase your Google ranking. Specifically, the service hides ("masks") the 'bridgecatalog' part of the website URL.
In the example shown, we Google two stores' names in Texas. The two stores both use Bridge Store to power their online business. The Ivy House does not use the universal domain service...
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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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Your Bridge now helps you share files more easily. You can easily load PDFs, Excel files, price lists, and more via your Bridge Library. Your business friends will see your files on their Dashboard, as well as in their respective Library.
In the example shown, Babcock Gifts, the premier gift shop of Tennessee, can view files from Mary Jurek, DeVine Corporation, Badash, Casafina, and BIA Cordon Bleu.
When viewing a file on the Dashboard, you can like it, save it, or download it. You can ...
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You can customize your home page slides. You can add pictures of your store, products, events, and more.
In the examples shown, we see how the Seattle-based store Timothy de Clue loaded a picture of a wine glass with the Pike Place Market in the background. Persnickety, a shop based in Madison, MS, added a picture of its store's exterior.
By default, your Newsfeed slideshow includes slides promoting gift cards, your gift registry, and reviews. You can hide these if you wish. You can also ...
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