Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now remove a collection’s name from all product names within that collection with a single click. This saves you time from editing each product manually.

By default, our software automatically outputs the collection name on a product's Details page. By default, Shop Local displays the collection name on each product’s Details page. If the collection name is also included in the product name, it appears twice. This feature helps you avoid redundancy

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can download new registry flyers for your store. These flyers can be printed for use in-store, included on mass emails to your customers, or shared on social media--just in time for the new year.

We've now added the following flyers:

• My Wedding Registry Flyer: Presents Design
• My Wedding Registry Flyer: New Years Design
• General New Years Flyers

In this example, we see Fragile's New Years Design flyer. The flyer shows the benefits and bonuses of registering

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: Your home page now displays multiple photos that you added--helping you visually tell your business's story.
 

How to Access this Feature:

1. Please visit your account's Shop Local home page.
2. Please look for the area "Photos."
3. In this area, you can see the photos you've added. To add more photos, click the edit links to do so. Please note: To add photos, you'll need to be logged in.
    

Tips:

• Add photos of your team and store. Highlight what makes your

FOR BRANDS AND DISTRIBUTORS

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now add monogram information on a brand level or a product level. 
 

1. New Setting: Brand-Level Update

We have added a new setting that lets you update your monogram fee. This can be updated via your Brand Settings (Roll over Management > Click Brand Settings).
 

A. On this page, you’ll see a “Product Options” section.

• Use the drop-down under “Default monogramming charge” to select the fee charged for

We launch about 50 new features each year (plus hundreds of smaller updates). (Then there are hundreds of fixes, which I hate to count!)

We recently chatted about Taco Bell’s test kitchen and its new menu items. This got me thinking about our process for promoting new features and measuring their success. I hope this assessment inspires you to review your company’s product or service launches. 

Our Current Process

When we launch a new, notable feature, we often do this:

• Create a news post that

Your Shop Local Store has two new features.  Registrants can now share their wedding registry effortlessly using the Share Tray link at the top of their gift list. With one tap, they can send their registry via text, email, or AirDrop—making it easier than ever to keep friends and family connected to their gift list. 

We’ve also added each registrant’s QR code to the bottom of their gift list, giving shoppers a fast, mobile-friendly way to browse and purchase gifts. Retailers can also

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature.  A Shipping Information link has been added directly to each registrant’s gift-list homepage.

With this update, customers can quickly view the registrant’s preferred shipping method before they begin ordering, rather than only upon checkout. The link also provides helpful details about sending bridal shower gifts. It includes a contact number so customers can call ahead to confirm an item is in stock before placing an order.

How to Access this

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We’ve added a dedicated page that makes it easier to view contact and social media details for your registrants.

With this update, you can quickly see each registrant’s email, phone number, and Instagram handle for any month you choose. This helps streamline outreach, follow-ups, and marketing efforts.

The page also displays each registrant’s wedding website provider, along with a direct link to their wedding website. This makes it easy to check that they’

Your Shop Local Store now has a new feature: We've added a Pick Up Manager to your Orders page. This feature lets you quickly view orders customers have requested to pick up in-store, helping your store sort and prioritize them more efficiently.

What You'll Find on the Pick Up Manager:

• Order Date, Order ID, and Total Paid for the Order: By default, it will show the most recent orders at the top of the page.
• Pick Up Date: Information will be left blank unless the Order Status has been updated

Brands & Distributors: You’re Invited 💌
Join us on Tuesday, November 18th @ 10:30 AM ET for a live webinar. 
 

Why Join?

We’ll show you how to:

• Access the new Registry Performance page.
• View detailed reporting.
• Track which products, retailers, and registrants are driving your sales.

After this webinar, you'll be able to answer:

• What are my top 10 wedding registry retailers?
• What are my top 10 wedding registry products?
• How many units have been added to wedding registries?
• What percent

FOR BRANDS & DISTRIBUTORS

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've added a new Registry Performance page. The page helps your business know how your products are performing on registries on your Synced retailers' sites. 
 

What You’ll Find on the Registry Performance Page:

You can filter the data by year, and the page includes the following sections:

1. Registry Sales as Percent of Network Orders: Understand how much of your total sales are driven by wedding registries.
2. Most

Your Shop Local Store now has a new feature: We've added the Registry Competition Tracker. This feature helps you compare your store’s gift registry offers against leading national registry providers.

What It Does:

The tracker shows how your business competes against top retailers, sorted by highest registry completion discount. Current competitors include:

• Amazon
• Zola
• Bloomingdale's
• Target
• CB2
• Crate & Barrel
• Anthropologie
• Macy's
• Williams Sonoma
• West Elm
• Pottery Barn

How to Access this Feature

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We have added a new tool that enables you to add pictures to many products at once. The "Add Product Images" page allows you to add images to your products by dragging the image from your computer or by browsing to the file.

How to Access this Feature

1. Log in to your Shop Local.
2. Roll over Products. In the drop-down menu, click Add Pictures.
3. Prepare your images based on the image requirements.
4. Drag and drop your image files into the "Upload Image" section or

FOR BRANDS & DISTRIBUTORS

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can download a new flyer for your brand. This can be sent to retailers via email, shared on social media, or displayed in your showroom—just in time for the Atlanta Market. 

Your flyer is automatically pre-populated with your brand name. Shop Local URL, number of Synced products, and number of Synced retailers. This makes selling your products easier and faster.

In this example, we see Juliska’s flyer. It shows the

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can download and print a flyer that promotes your store offers Gift & Wedding Registry.  

What's Included on the Flyer:

• Your store's logo.
• Your store's bonus offerings.
• Your store's website address.
• A link and premade custom QR code for your store's registry home page.

These custom flyers save your store time because they’re pre-made with no extra work needed. The QR codes make it quick and easy for registrants to view registry offerings directly

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now edit MSRP pricing for your Syncing brands.

About this feature:

Your store Syncs with brands that participate in the Syncing service to share products. By default, Syncing brands set the MSRP for these products. If you wish, you may increase a brand's MSRP by a percentage. This will affect all of the Synced products that appear in your account from this brand. Your store will not be able to decrease the pricing.

How to access this feature:

1. Log in

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature:  We've made the "email registrant templates" easier to locate and added more features for retailers to communicate with Registrants.  

What’s New:

Communicate with the Registrant Card:  From the Registrant's Overview page, there is now a large area with email templates located on the left-hand side of the Overview Page.  

These email templates include:

• General
• Welcome
• Incentive Offerings
• Steps for linking a wedding website with your store's

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now download a flyer with your monthly registries to easily promote them in-store. 

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 custom flyers save your store time because they’re pre-made with no

FOR BRANDS & DISTRIBUTORS

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've added the ability for your business to add an internal ID and note for your authorized retailers. 

What’s New:

• Internal ID: This is the unique account number your business uses to track a retailer (e.g., AB123456).
• Internal Note: This allows you to store additional details to help manage or locate a retailer (e.g., “We list this store as ‘One and Only Gifts LLC’ in our system, but they are ‘Luxury Gift Shop’ on Shop

I sometimes think of ourselves as digital landlords. Our clients rent their retail 'property' from us and pay a monthly rent. We are responsible for keeping the building up-to-date, the roof patched, and the sidewalk clean.  This real estate metaphor came to mind again recently when The Wall St. Journal shared how interior designers spruce up rentals and thereby rent them for more.

Article excerpt:
"[The upgraded rental property] Perch came online in December 2023, for a nightly rate of $1,