Shop Local and Shopify
A merchant uses both: They use Shopify's online store and Shop Local's Online Store. They often add a link on their Shopify store leading to their Shop Local Store and Registry services.
For this path, please see our integration solutions below.
A merchant replaces Shopify's online store with Shop Local's Online Store. With this approach, they may still use Shopify's POS but no longer use its online store.
For this path, please click here to learn about replacing Shopify online store.
- Integration: Adding a Link
- Integration: API
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Why Use Shopify's Store & Shop Local's Registry Service
Integration: Adding a Link
More than 100 merchants use Shop Local and Shopify because the two services have different features and strengths. A retailer may use Shopify as its primary website and use Shop Local's Gift Registry service and Syncing service. (Shopify does not offer its own registry service—it only offers those by outside, third-party app developers.) Merchants often add a link “Gift Registry” on their Shopify store that leads to their Shop Local Gift Registry home page.
Integration: API
- Easily sync products from Shopify to your Shop Local Store.
- Save time: More quickly add products.
- Save on labor costs: Avoid having to pay for data entry.
- Reduce errors that are caused by manually copying data between two systems.
Free. There is no additional charge to use Shopify integration tools.
- Breed & Co. / TX: shop.breedandco.com
- Caroline & Company / LA: www.carolineandco.com
- Gaines Jewelers / FL: gainesjewelersonline.com
- Peridot Home / AL: shopperidothome.com
- Rhodes Home & Gift / SC: rhodesboutique.com
- CASANOI by Porcel / CA: casanoi.us
- OLIVIA RIEGEL® / TX: oliviariegel.com
19 Reasons Shopify Merchants Use Shop Local's Registry Service & Shopify
Jeffrey Bannon / Owner / Jeffrey Bannon in Charleston, SC
Retailers often switch from a third-party Shopify registry app to Shop Local's registry service. (They may still use Shopify's POS.)
Gift Registry Service
Gift Reggie App
Your set up time:
Effect on your labor costs:
Full e-commerce suite:
App is not an online store.
Your sales leads from Google:
Increases your registrants' product choices:
- Our merchants share that a merchant should not pull stock from its POS's inventory when an item is bought online as a gift on a registry.
- Merchants report this is not the right process because often a registrant (i.e. bride) will change their mind about what they'd like or how many they'd like.
- Due to this, our merchants recommend that a retailer deliver most or all gift purchases in the form of a gift credit initially. Merchants report this is the easiest way to deal with a registrant's changing preferences and stock because this approach reduces returns and frees up stock to be sold more quickly vs. being held for a registrant.
- Shop Local's registry accounting software allows you to easily sell products as registry gifts and then distribute them to a registrant when desired as a physical product or a gift card. Our accounting software has helped merchants manage and distribute $146m in gifts.
See the Difference: Gift Registry Comparison Videos
Gift Reggie App Review & Comparison
View the full Gift Reggie review
Gift Registry Comparison: Shop Local vs. Gift Reggie
Below please find a comparison of a merchant that used the Gift Reggie Shopify app and then switched to Shop Local’s Registry service.
Jeffrey Bannon's Gift Registry Home Page
- More visually appealing.
- Easier for friends and family to find registrants.
- Easier for registrants to log in and update their registries.
