Your Shop Local Store has a new feature.  You can easily add missing registrant pictures to a registry. 

For wedding registries with an event date this year or in a future year, Shop Local will suggest a picture to add to the registry. When available, the suggested picture is sourced from the registrant's wedding website.  Note: TheKnot.com wedding website photos will be ready soon.  

How It Works

• View eligible wedding registries with upcoming event dates.
• Review the suggested

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature. The new Private Item feature gives registrants and merchants greater flexibility when managing a gift registry.

When an item is marked as private, it is hidden from the public gift list. Only the logged-in registrant and merchant can view the item.

Both registrants and merchants can mark an item as private.

How can Private Items be used?

• Reserve an item for later purchase: If a customer would like to reserve a gift and purchase it at a later date, the

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature that makes it easier to update your reordering terms around your Shop Local site.

Previously, when viewing your reordering terms, you were directed to the Brand Settings page to make updates. Now, you can click the "Edit Terms" link to update your terms directly in a modal. This saves you time and eliminates the need to navigate to an additional page.

The Edit Terms modal is available on the following pages:

• The Wholesale Terms section of the Dashboard.
• The

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature. Customers can now purchase a gift card online and have it delivered directly to the recipient's inbox—a fast, convenient way to celebrate any occasion.

💖 Why Customers Will Love This New Feature

• 📧 Gift cards are delivered instantly by email.
• 🎉 Perfect for last-minute gifting.
• 💝 Recipients can shop whenever it's convenient for them.
• 🛍️ Supports your store while giving customers a simple, flexible gift option.

Emailed Gift Cards also create another

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature.  Registrants can now view all of their Shop Local registries from one place: the Your Registries section.  

Many registrants create gift registries at multiple independent stores to give friends and family even more great gift options. By having a dedicated section on their Overview page with links to their other registries, they can:

• 🛍️ Easily access each registry from one location.
• 💍 Switch between multiple wedding registries without searching

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature.  We've added a customization feature that lets you change your homepage background color from a selection of colors and styles. 

Whether your store's look is classic and elegant, bright and cheerful, or modern and sophisticated, you can choose a background color that complements your logo, products, and overall store aesthetic.  

You will also see this new background feature on your News & Events page and a registrant's Overview page. &

We have added a new feature to the Help Center. You can now ask our AI Assistant for help with questions related to your Shop Local account and new features.

Benefits:

• Get answers when it’s convenient for you, 24/7.  This is especially helpful when you have a question outside of normal work hours or on holidays.
• Find information faster.
• Ask questions in natural language. You can speak to the assistant just as you would to a real person.   
• Discover features and tools you may not have

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: The Stock Management & Back Orders page.  

Managing inventory across multiple brands can be challenging—especially when vendors don’t share live stock availability or have minimum reorder requirements.  The Stock Management & Back Orders page gives you greater control over which products the general public can purchase through your Shop Local Store.

What Is It? 🆕

The new Stock Management & Back Orders page allows you to configure self-

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: Your brand can offer sponsored products to drive product performance via the "Sponsored Products" service. This service promotes your brand's products on Synced retailers' Shop Local Stores and will be promoted to shoppers, registrants, and store owners.

The ads only run on retailers' sites that already sell your brand. A brand can’t run ads on retailers' sites that don’t sell its brand yet. This feature will be available in the future.

The products

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now instantly download and print monthly flyers featuring your graduation, baby, wishlist, and other celebration registries for easy in-store promotion.

What's Included on the Flyer:

• Your store's logo.
• All registries for the selected month.
• A link and premade custom QR code for each registry.
• A link and premade custom QR code for your store's registry home page.
• A link and premade custom QR code for registrants and customers to leave a review.

These

FOR BRANDS & DISTRIBUTORS

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now schedule a stock or price update to process on a specific date. This update will occur at 3 AM EST on the selected date.

This feature helps your business save time by planning in advance. This also ensures your changes are live before peak shopping hours. 
 

How to Schedule a Stock Update:

1. Log in to your Shop Local account.
2. Hover over Products. From the drop-down menu, click Mass Update via Excel.
3. For the

FOR BRANDS & DISTRIBUTORS

Your brand can now designate a collection as a premium collection. This collection will only be available to a retailer that is granted premium collection access. The steps below walk through how it works.
 

1. Brand Setting
The Premium Collections setting can be found on your Brand Settings page.

Here are the steps:

1. Log in to your Shop Local.
2. Roll over Management at the top of the page, then click Brand Settings.
3. Scroll down to the "Premium Collections" section. Set

Your Shop Local store has an updated feature: We’ve upgraded your SEO by adding embedded structured data. This is machine-readable data built into your website that helps AI tools and search engines better understand your content.

Structured data helps AI tools and search engines understand key details about your store, including:

• Active product listings
• Location and hours
• Associated brands
• Product collections and departments
• Top gift items
• Public registry data (registrants’ names, registrants’ gift

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to communicate with your registrants. 

What’s New:  
"Communicate with the Registrant" Page:  You’ll now find a quick-access link in the left-hand navigation on the Registrant’s Overview page—making it simple to reach out at the right moment.

Enhanced Email Templates
Choose from a variety of ready-to-use templates designed to save time and drive engagement:

• General communication
• Welcome messages
• Incentive offerings
• Redemption

FOR BRANDS & DISTRIBUTORS

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: You can now access tools to help grow your network sales in one place with the new Grow Your Sales Network page. This feature saves you time by streamlining key tools into one location and providing solutions designed to help your brand(s) get new retailers and increase sales.

What You'll Find on the Registry Promotion Page:

Each solution listed on the Registry Promotion page includes the cost for your brand and a button

Your Shop Local Store has a new upgrade: You can now search more productively in your top bar search bar.
 

What Does the New Search Do?

• It shares search-as-you-type results, making your searches faster and more efficient.
• It shows more relevant and accurate results for what you would be searching on Shop Local.
• It accounts for misspellings, typos, etc.
• It saves your recent searches, saving your time to access common searches.
• It expands your searches by showing you more from the Shop Local