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
How to view the biggest price changes among all of your brands.
January 25, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has an updated feature: We can now more easily view price changes for your Synced products. The Syncing Product Price Changes page shows price changes made by your Syncing brands in the last 30 days.
By default, the Price Changes page is sorted by price change percentage. This helps your store easily identify the biggest price changes among all of your brands.
Your store can also now sort the Price Changes page by date changed. This helps your store identify the...
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How to quickly view information about the sales reps assigned for your brands.
August 8, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has an updated feature: You can now easily view and manage your sales reps.
The 'My Sales Rep' page allows you to quickly view information about the sales reps assigned for the brands sold by your store. On this page, your store can view contact information for your sales reps. Your store can also edit a sales rep assigned to a brand.
In the example shown, we see the 'My Sales Rep' page for B.C. Clark, a tabletop and jewelry store in Oklahoma.
Your Shop Local Store has an updated feature: You can now more easily manage who subscribes to emails, including the customer service, sales, and product & data manager emails. You can now more quickly view, add, and remove subscribers.
Previously, one would see all subscribers’ emails in one field, with emails separated by a comma. To add a subscriber, one had to type the team member's email into this field. With this update, all of the subscribers appear in a vertical ...
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How to view more order details in your Order Status Update emails.
May 11, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: we've launched a new format of your emails notifying you and customers of orders. The emails now include product pictures, brand logos, registrant pictures, various font enhancements, and more.
Previously, the email format was basic text (no pictures or logos).
In the example shown, we see an Order Status Update email to a customer from The Cook's Station, a kitchenware store in South Carolina. In the email, we see the store's logo along...
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How to easily view and edit your relationship with your brands.
April 18, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has an updated feature: We've made it easier to manage your relationship with a business and the brands it manages. Clicking on a brand's logo opens a modal where your store can view and edit its relationship with the brand.
Previously, your store could edit its relationship with a business but not easily edit its relationship with a brand.
Now, the updated modals allow your store to view and manage the relationship with a business and the brands it ...
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How to connect with or invite the sales reps assigned to your brands to sell more and quickly access their contact information.
March 20, 2023
Your Online Store has an updated feature: you can now more easily connect with your sales reps.
On a brand's home page, you can invite your sales rep to join you on the Shop Local platform. Your store can also edit or remove a sales rep assigned to a brand.
Connecting with your sales reps helps your store contact the right rep more quickly, sell more products, and work more efficiently.
How to navigate between images for products on a registry list.
March 1, 2023
Your Bridge Shop Local Store has an updated feature: it's now easier to view products' images and browse to other related images on a registry list.
In the example shown, we see a registry list at The Ivy House, a fine china store in Dallas. In the product image thumbnail, we can see the number of pictures that correspond to the product. At the top-right of the image thumbnail, one can click the enlarge icon to open the product image modal.
In the product image modal, we can see the new ...
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How to encourage registry customers to purchase from a registry by sharing previous gift givers' names
February 16, 2023
Your Bridge Store has an updated feature to encourage customers to complete a registry purchase. Your Bridge Store displays gift givers' names on a registry's list.
Previously, the gift givers' names were only displayed by rolling over "Purchases" at the top of a registry list.
Now, the gift givers are also displayed in a box at the footer of a registry's list.
In the example shown, we see a registry list at The Ivy House, a fine china store in Dallas. At the ...
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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:
Your Bridge Store has an updated feature: You can now more easily manage who subscribes to emails, including products newsletters and wedding reminders. You can now more quickly view subscribers, as well as add and remove them.
Previously, one would see all subscribers’ emails in one field, with emails separated by a comma. To add a subscriber, one typed the team member's email into this field. With this update, all the subscribers appear in a vertical list. To add a subscriber, ...
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Your Bridge now helps more customers learn about your free shipping offer. If your store offers free shipping, a blue banner will display at the bottom of a product's Results and Details pages.
Before this update, customers would have to view their shopping bag in order to view your store's free shipping offer.
In the example, we see a Juliska Berry & Thread Whitewash Dinner Plate.
At the bottom of the page, we see the blue free shipping banner displayed.
Bridge has updated how a store records a purchase for a registry list. This method uses the best practice for creating a digital copy of an order. Stores need to add a purchase to a gift list for a variety of reasons, including:
A customer purchased a gift in-store.
A customer purchased a gift via telephone.
A customer purchased online via Bridge, and then called the store to add to the purchase.
A customer purchased a gift via another online outlet (
Bridge has updated your gift registry software to make it easier for registrants and their friends to view product pictures. When a product displays more images, shoppers are more likely to purchase it. With this updated feature, your registries should convince more shoppers to make purchases.
Here is how the feature works: When a product has more than one photograph, a link will appear over the product's picture displaying the number of photographs available. In the example shown, we ...
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We have updated your 'Join Us On Bridge' page. The page now outputs how much time and money a store will save by joining you on Bridge.
In the example shown, we see Juliska's Join Bridge page. The page shares that a store would normally spend $518 to add Juliska's products to its website and pay $130 over the course of a year to maintain those products. Using Bridge and the Smart Products service, the store can save this money completely: syncing ...
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We're updated two features on your gift registry lists:
On a gift registry, customers buy gifts and a threshold may be met for gifts desired. When this occurs, no more gifts for the item are needed. When this occurs, the software needs to visually alert other customers to choose other gifts. With our update, purchased items now show a gray, translucent screen over them with a blue ribbon "Gifting Completed." Previously, we simply
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.
You can now add more links in your header area. In the example shown, DeVine Corporation has added links to all of its brands as well links to other key pages.