New features, updates, tips, fixes and more:
November 2023
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November 28, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to view and browse through products in a collection. A product's Details page now displays thumbnail images for all products in the collection.
Previously, one could only click the "Next" button to navigate to the next product in the collection. If one wanted to view all products in a collection, one had to browse to a brand's Home (Collections) page. With this update, one can quickly view all products in a collection and......
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November 20, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier for gift registrants to share their registries. There is now a new "Share Your Registry" card on the Overview page that allows registrants to share their registry via mobile or email.
The registrant can share their registry by doing the following:- If a registrant wishes to share their registry via mobile, they can scan the QR code with their mobile phone and share the generated link with their family and friends.
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November 17, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've added a new Leaderboard page to your account. This page shares top-performing retailers, brands, and products.
The Leaderboard page shares the following information related to gift registry sales:- Top 20 Retailers
- Top 20 Gift Registry Brands
- Top 3 Retail Movers
- Top 3 Brand Movers
- Top 3 Gift Registry Products
Benefits to your business:- See top-selling products.
- Make informed decisions to increase your sales.
- Motivate your
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October 2023
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October 26, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has two new features to help you keep track of your registries: On the Registry Reporting page, you can now view your active registries by event type. On the Registry Lists page, you can view the current registries by registry type for a specific year.
With these two updates, your store can easily identify the number of active registries by event type.
In the examples shown, we see the Registry Reporting page for a store.- At the bottom of the page, we see a count
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October 10, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: we've made it easier to quickly identify best-selling collections.
A new green "Best Seller" banner indicates which collections are top sellers.
In the example shown, we see the Results page for a Beatriz Ball collection listed on The Ivy House's site. At the top of the page, we see the green "Best Seller" banner, signifying that the Vento collection is a top seller.
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October 4, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier for gift registrants to view and add gifts to their wedding registry. There is now a new "Add Gifts" page that showcases popular gifts that a registrant may wish to add to their registry.
The Add Gifts page is tailored to the registry type. For example, the Add Gifts page for a wedding registry displays the following content:- Popular Wedding Gifts
- Popular Dining & Entertaining Brands
- Popular Dining &
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September 2023
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September 28, 2023
FOR BRANDS AND DISTRIBUTORS
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: Interior designers can now view interior designer pricing for your brands and make purchases. If an interior designer is approved by your business, they can log in to your account and buy items at the wholesale designer price set by your business.
In the example shown, we see an interior designer logged in to BIA Cordon Bleu's account. The interior designer can place wholesale orders at the designer pricing set by ......
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September 26, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now adjust the price floors for your brands. The price floor feature helps your business avoid making a sale to a general public customer that is not profitable and/or that does not meet minimum reorder amounts from the brand.
Previously, all Syncing Brands had the same price floor level, and all non-Syncing Brands had the same price floor level. With this update, your store can update an individual price floor level for each brand you ......
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September 22, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now make a product tax-exempt.
With this update, your store can decide whether or not to charge tax on a product. This is handy, for example, when selling most food online in New York State, where such purchases are tax-empt.
Please follow these steps to access this feature:- Log in to your Shop Local account.
- Browse to the product you wish to make tax-exempt.
- On the product's Details page, click "Edit product&
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September 11, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've added a new Performance Statistics page to your account. This page makes it easier to access your account's stats.
Previously, this page was titled "How Shop Local is Helping My Business?" Now, the page is titled "My Account's Performance Statistics."
For Retailers, the stats displayed on the Performance Statistics page include:- Number of Visitors
- Number of Shopping Bags Created
- Number of Retail Orders
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September 7, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to switch your page view to Visitor Mode. The new purple bar at the bottom of the page allows you to toggle between Office Mode and Visitor Mode.
Office Mode is designed for administering your account. You can perform functions unique to owning your account, such as adding, editing, and deleting content.
Visitor Mode shows your account as a visitor (customer) may see it. Turning on Visitor Mode hides admin features and......
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August 2023
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August 31, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier for you and your registrants to view an overview of a registry. There is now a new Registry Overview page that displays information about a registry at a glance.
Previously, you or your registrant would need to visit different registry-related pages to view many of these links. This feature reduces the number of clicks needed to access pages.
The Registry Overview page displays the following information......
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August 28, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to access important registry-related services and content. This feature reduces the number of clicks needed to perform actions and access pages.
In the Master Bar of your Store, there is now a Registry icon. This icon’s drop-down includes many of the popular registry-related services your business likely uses. Previously, you would need to visit the Management Home page to view many of these links.
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August 24, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: A brand can now add an opening order amount to its Wholesale Terms.
In the example shown, we see the Wholesale Terms section for Juliska. In this section, Juliska can update the opening order amounts for both of the brands it distributes. These amounts will be shown to retailers that wish to add Juliska or Capucine de Wulf to their accounts.
If you are a brand, please follow these steps to add your opening order amount:- Log in to your Shop
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August 15, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now more easily know what credit card a customer used to make a purchase.
Your Shop Local software now outputs the last four digits of a customer's credit card when used on an order.
This update saves your business time. Customers often inquire about with which credit card they made a purchase.
Previously, when customers placed an order through your Shop Local Store, we didn't show you the last four digits of the ......
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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.
The ......
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July 2023
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July 27, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: you can now more easily access a brand's fulfillment details. The information helps your store more quickly and accurately process and fulfill an order.
Your Order Details page and a brand's Collections page now display fulfillment details for a Syncing brand. The information listed in the 'Fulfillment Details' modal may include:- Minimum order amount.
- Ordering terms and conditions.
- Dropship terms and conditions.
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July 19, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now add your company role or title to your Team profile.
Please follow these steps to update your company role and title (desktop instructions):- Log in to your Shop Local account.
- Roll over Management in the main navigation, then click My Team under the "My Business Profile and Settings" section.
- On the Team page, find your Team member entry. In the "Actions" column, click the pencil &
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July 12, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to view and manage your marketing tools. Your account includes several built-in tools and programs, which can now be quickly accessed through the new Marketing Manager page.
The Marketing Manager page displays the following promotions in a table:- Offer Free Shipping.
- Display a "Thank you for shopping local" banner on the checkout pages.
- Offer Price Matching.
- Promote that your business offers financing for
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July 7, 2023
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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July 5, 2023
Your Shop Local now makes it easier for you to connect with the retailers that sell your products. We have added a new page to invite your retailers to sync with your brand. This page reduces the number of steps that your brand takes to view unsynced retailers and send sync requests.
The Invite Your Retailers page shows a table with retailers that report selling your brand but that you are not yet synced with it. You can request to sync with more retailers to grow your sales ......
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