Your Bridge has a new feature: You can now easily assign your business's POS and website software.
In the example shown, the store has selected Intuit: Quickbooks as their POS software. When assigning Intuit: Quickbooks, Bridge software shares that 59 other businesses also use this POS software.
The store has selected Shopify as their website software. By assigning Shopify, Bridge software notifies the store that 103 other businesses also use this website software.
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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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July 7, 2019
July 7, 2019
Hereβs a new idea: a wedding website after the event can become a βthank youβ site and share what happened. This idea and more can be gleamed from this weekendβs Times article about building a wedding website.
The Times suggests a couple could self-host a website and have a website designer custom build it, but Iβd highly discourage that as itβs very time consuming and expensive. Arenβt weddings already enough of this? :) Using a wedding site platform that is hosted by the provider is the way to ...
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June 25, 2016
June 25, 2016
Many store owners ask me "Should my store sync its POS system with its website?" Some stores have already synced the two and are proud that their website has the same content as in their store.
My answer: syncing a store's POS and its website is not currently a good idea.
Reason: POS systems are not meant to power websites.
When retailers enter data into their POS, they often just enter this data for products: 1. UPC 2. SKU 3. Retail price 4. Product name (this often contains the brand name)