The easiest software suite to run and grow your online business.
Shop Local offers retailers a variety of key software services to sell more and save time. Using Shop Local, retailers run their e-commerce business, grow their wedding and gift registry business, and instantly stock their website with products. Customers spend more money, registrants are happier, and stores avoid pricing errors.
Start with the free plan today. You can set up an online store in minutes with no technical knowledge.
Choose all of the services below or pick them piecemeal.
Shop Local offers best-in-class, award-winning e-commerce software. You can use Shop Local Store as your primary site or add it to an existing site.
Use our registry service to grow your wedding and gift registry business.
Shop Local is an award-winning, industry leader in powering gift registry services for indie merchants. We offer a comprehensive suite of services for store owners and registrants.
Shop Local's Syncing fills your online store with products from your popular brands.
Please note: a retailer must be an authorized dealer to Sync products
Shop Local's Wholesale service empowers your shop to place wholesale orders from 69 participating brands in a better way.
1
We Give Your
Business
A Free Account
yourstorename.myshoplocal.com
View Live Example:
babcockgifts.myshoplocal.com
You pick which services you'll be using, including the wholesale shopping, Online Store, Gift Registry, and Syncing services.
If you wish, you can use your own domain (e.g. yourstore.com).
2
Add Your Brands
You can add any brands to your account that you wish. To help you get started, Shop Local offers you a directory of 3,492 brands from which to pick.
3
Have Your Brands Do the Work For You
You can send Sync requests to brands that share products via Shop Local's Syncing service. Your account can be pre-populated with up to 75,154 products from 114 participating brands.
View Live Example:
Babcock's Juliska Home Page
4
Receive Orders
Your customers can checkout via your Shop Local Store. You'll receive an email with the customer's contact and order information. If you have real-time credit card processing set up with Shop Local, your Shop Local Store will ask the customer for their credit card information during checkout.
5
Grow Your Gift Registry Business
You can use Shop Local's award-winning gift registry software to offer an online registry service to your customers. Family and friends can visit registries on your Shop Local Store and make purchases from the lists. If you have a separate, third-party website, you can add a "Gift Registry” link that leads to your Shop Local Registry home page.
View Live Example:
Babcock's Gift Registry Home Page
6
Place Wholesale Orders Easily
When you need to place a wholesale order, you can use your Shop Local Store. Shop Local Wholesale reduces the number of steps required to place an order by 50%.
Jason Solarek, Bridge CEO, with the Shop Local 'ethos'
1,502 retailers use Shop Local's Online Store, including:
We believe there is strength in numbers. Each member helps others leverage the collective power and knowledge of indie stores.
1
We get customers to spend
more money with your store.
Stores that use Shop Local sell 18% more. Shop Local gives you a variety of tools to bring in more traffic and get visitors to spend more. Read the case study on 18%.
2
We make it easy.
You can set up an online store in minutes. With no technical knowledge, you can offer a powerful, full-featured website to customers. We help you accomplish in hours what other services require months to do.
3
We're retail experts.
We specialize in retail stores like yours. We understand your business. We bring you 20 years of experience and have overseen $130m+ in online sales for indie stores. Read the history of Shop Local and the team that created it.
4
We make the price right.
We offer plans and pricing designed for indie businesses. There is no set up fee. Enjoy our free plan. View retailer pricing.
Retailers that choose Shop Local Store often have a few traits in common, including:
Shop Local can rectify these issues quickly.
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