Create your wedding registry at Glassworks and Feathers to explore a wide range of top brands and suppliers with a multitude of options to suit your style. Enjoy personalized service to help you select the perfect home decor, along with free local delivery and nationwide shipping.
You'll be dealing real people, not robots, for customized service to suit your needs. Our Registry Experts are here to guide you through the process—whether you prefer an in-store appointment or need assistance creating

We're happy to see The Gift Shop in Thomasville, GA using their free marketing tools to promote their registries in-store.
 

The store created in-store displays to highlight some of their registrant's gift choices. Each display has a custom flyer with the registrants' names, picture, and event date. The store also added each registry's unique QR code to the flyer. Customers can easily scan the code to browse the registrant's list while walking around in-store.
 

Each registry on Shop Local

Each month, our Leaderboard reports the best performers from among 1,500 indie stores, 3,000 brands, and 300,000 products with no man hours. Leaderboard results are automatically tallied and published on the first of each month; it’s as if I have an omnipotent robot that does this work for me. Automation like this is crucial to running a successful business. 

Amazon, Walmart, and other retail giants spend massively on automation because this will decide the winners. In 2025, retailers will

While at lunch, I sketched out a comparison between an indie store that doesn’t use Shop Local’s wedding registry software vs. an indie store that does. I show why a retailer using our software likely receives 400% more orders. Conversely, I believe a store not using our software is selling just 25% of what it could be. 

The reason our software produces more orders is that it retains more customers along the sales funnel—from finding the registrant’s gift list, to encouraging one to add a

Indie Store Does Not Use Shop Local Gift Registry Service...
500 products offered online —> 5 products added by bride/registrant to their wedding registry list —> 🎁 1 order —>  😞 Unhappy brides, store owners, brands, and sales reps
 

Indie Store Uses Shop Local Gift Registry Service...
5,000 products offered online —> 50 products added by bride/registrant to their wedding registry list —> 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁 10 orders —> 😄 Happy brides, store owners, brands, and sales

Promote registry service --> Get more registries --> Promote registry service

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now see key statistics for your business in 2024 on the new Success Summary page.

What statistics are shared?
For retailers, the 2024 Success Summary page shares:

• Online retail sales
• Retail sales ranking among all online retailers
• Number of shopping bags created
• Number of retail orders received
• Average online retail order amount
• Number of new customers gained
• Top online spending customer
• Day with the most online sales
• Most popular brand sold
• Most popular

We’re seeing all major wedding registry merchants, such as Amazon and Zola, offer a post-registry completion discount. We tracked 11 major retailers and found their discounts ranged from 10% to 20%—with the largest, most successful players offering the highest (20%).
 

Post-Registry Discount/Retailer:

• 20% Amazon
• 20% Bloomingdale's
• 20% Zola
• 15% Anthropologie
• 15% Crate & Barrel
• 15% CB2
• 15% Target
• 10-20% Macy's
• 10% Pottery Barn
• 10% West Elm
• 10% Williams Sonoma

Results recorded February 24, 2025. Results

Congratulations to the following members for being the top gift registry performers in February 2025:

Top-3 Retailers
🥇 P.S. The Letter in Fort Worth, TX 
🥈 Friend & Company in New Orleans, LA
🥉 Pieces of Eight in Lafayette, LA

Top-3 Retail Movers
🥇 Glassworks and Feathers and Cheeks in Pittsburgh, PA / +816%
🥈 Galleria Riverside in Columbus, GA / +706%
🥉 Fincher's in Greenwood, MS / +573%

By gift registry sales / % change in February 2025 online revenue vs. prev. month

Top-3

The Wall St. Journal recently shared how Skechers has become a major shoe player by marching to its own drumbeat. 

Started in 1992, Skechers is the third largest seller of shoes in the world. But the company's history goes back even further: the founder's first company, LA Gear, which flamed out, was started in the 1980s.

Skechers grew by focusing on comfy and affordable shoes and didn't sign expensive promotion deals with active athletes. (It does partner with ex-athletes like Howie Long.)&

Our team often reads blog posts written by Austin Kleon, a New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age. Recently he posted an image for his “Practice and Suck Less” challenge. 

Our team took inspiration from this to create a new challenge for our retailers: "Promote Wedding Registries and Get New Registries." A retailer can promote their registry service for 31 days to get new wedding registries.

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Promote

Each month, our Leaderboard reports the best performers from among 1,500 indie stores, 3,000 brands, and 300,000 products with no man hours. Leaderboard results are automatically tallied and published on the first of each month; it’s as if I have an omnipotent robot that does this work for me. Automation like this is crucial to running a successful business. 

Amazon, Walmart, and other retail giants spend massively on automation because this will decide the winners. In 2025, retailers will

The problem an indie store faces is it needs to juggle many software services, including these four:

• The software that runs their online store.
• The software that runs their online gift registry.
• The software that gets them product data. (They get the products’ pictures and prices from this service.)
• The software to placeholder wholesale orders. 
   

The above requires four different companies. Reasons? 

• No company makes an online store and wedding registry software.  
• No company makes

Thank you to Kathleen Drake for sharing her experience after buying a gift from Northcutt's on Main, a merchant using Shop Local software for their e-commerce and registry services: 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Easy-to navigate website: clear payment instructions, easy to locate wedding registry, easy to add note to gift recipient, offered a place to include delivery instructions, great selection of gifts—a great shopping experience!”

~ Kathleen Drake in AL

Shopped at Northcutt’s on Main in Dothan, AL

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Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've added a new Benefits page to share the benefits and features of your registry service.

The Benefits page displays real statistics that are specific to your Online Store. These stats, like total number of registries serviced over the years and number of brands & products, help build trust—higher numbers better reflect your store's expertise and are more appealing to potential customers and new registry sign-ups.
 

The Benefits page shares the

This video walks through how an indie store can offer a successful wedding registry service. 

An indie store on average sells $78,000 in wedding gifts. (Some of our retailers sell $1m+!) We can help your store get a share of the billion dollar registry market.

Webinar includes:

• What is Shop Local and how it is good for your indie shop.
• Example of a merchant using Shop Local’s wedding registry service.
• 5 reasons why your indie shop should have an online wedding registry service:
  1. There is

I predict that 70% of wedding gifts will be given online by 2030. (Already, 50% of wedding gifts are given online today.) I call this future online growth the 'wedding registry wave,' and my company's mission is to help indie stores capture this wave. 

Specifically, our company helps indie merchants up their online game by improving their website operations. We're giving them e-commerce and wedding registry software that is modern, easy to use, and pre-populated with gifts from leading

We’re helping our indie stores get new wedding registries. We’re sending SMS text messages to past customers and registrants encouraging them to promote the retailer’s wedding registry service. 

Details: 

1. We’re sending this text message to customers that bought off a registry list in 2024:

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Hi [gift giver's first name],

Thank you for buying a beautiful wedding gift for [registrant name] & [co-registrant name]. They loved it.

💘 Valentine’s Day is coming up. If you need something

Great news: We've made a free poster for your indie store for Valentine's Day. This poster will help you get more wedding registries. February is the second most popular month (after January) for brides to open a wedding registry. Now is your month!

This poster can also be printed smaller and be a flyer. You can place this in an upright display.

You can customize the template by placing your website address and QR code on it.

Please find the poster template attached. You can get your unique QR code

Austin Kleon, the author and creativity guru, offers these four posters for free.  This inspired me to wonder if Shop Local couid offer free posters to our 1,470 indie stores. Indie stores need marketing materials, yet often lack the resources to create them. 

The posters could even be printed small as flyers and put in upright displays.  

We already offer free marketing materials to members. We offer two flyers: a review flyer and a wedding registry flyer.  If they wish,