Updated Feature: Manage Your Relationship with a Business

Your Shop Local Store has an updated feature: We've made it easier to manage your relationship with a business and the brands it manages. Clicking on a brand's logo opens a modal where your store can view and edit its relationship with the brand. 

Previously, your store could edit its relationship with a business but not easily edit its relationship with a brand. 

Now, the updated modals allow your store to view and manage the relationship with a business and the brands it ......
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New Feature: Easily Access Your Wholesale Orders

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to to see your recent wholesale orders. At the top of your account, when you hover over “Orders” you'll see the drop-down shows wholesale orders your store placed.

Previously, the Orders drop-down only displayed retail orders.  To see your wholesale orders, you had to click the Orders link, then navigate to the Wholesale Orders page. 

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New Feature: Book an Appointment with a Shop Local Coach

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: Your business can now easily book an appointment with a Shop Local Coach through your Shop Local site. 

Before this update, one had to call, text, or email a coach or message them through the online message feature to request an appointment. 

With this update, your business can use the "Book Appointment" link to request an appointment with a coach.

Clicking the link will open a modal where your business can fill out a form ......
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New Feature: Easily Navigate Between Orders

Your Online Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to navigate between orders placed on your Online Store. The Order Details page now has forward and backward arrows so you can navigate between orders with one click. 

Previously, to see another order, a merchant had to click on the back arrow in the browser, find the order it wished to view, and then click it. The merchant would repeat these steps every time it wished to view a different order.

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New Feature: Gift Givers Page for Registries

Your Online Store has a new feature: We've made it easier for you and your registrants to view information about a registry's gift givers. There is now a dedicated Gift Givers page that displays purchases grouped by the gift giver.  

Traditionally, orders are organized by date.  This page groups orders by the gift giver. The page outputs a registry’s gift givers’ emails and addresses on one page making it handy to manage thank you notes.   

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New Feature: More Easily Access Key Product Content

Your Online Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to access important product-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 Products icon. This icon’s drop down includes many of the popular product-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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Updated Feature: Easily Connect with Your Sales Reps

Your Online Store has an updated feature: you can now more easily connect with your sales reps. 

On a brand's home page, you can invite your sales rep to join you on the Shop Local platform.  Your store can also edit or remove a sales rep assigned to a brand. 

Connecting with your sales reps helps your store contact the right rep more quickly, sell more products, and work more efficiently.

Please follow these steps to access this feature:

1. Please log in to your Shop

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New Feature: More Easily Access Store Settings

Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: it's now easier to access settings for your Online Store.  We've moved all of your Online Store settings to their own tab in your Business Profile.  Previously, these settings were combined with other information on your Profile Home tab. 

With this update, your store can easily see just your Online Store settings. 

Your Online Store tab contains these sections:

• Retail Purchasing Online
• Retail Purchasing Online: Gift Cards

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Updated Feature: More Easily View Product Images on Registries

Your Bridge Shop Local Store has an updated feature: it's now easier to view products' images and browse to other related images on a registry list.

In the example shown, we see a registry list at The Ivy House, a fine china store in Dallas. In the product image thumbnail, we can see the number of pictures that correspond to the product. At the top-right of the image thumbnail, one can click the enlarge icon to open the product image modal.

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New Feature: Easily Access a Brand's Wholesale Information

Your Bridge Shop Local Store has a new feature: you can now more easily access a brand's wholesale information.  This wholesale information helps your store more quickly and accurately process an order. 
 
Your brand's Collection page now displays this information:

• Wholesale reordering terms. 
  • Minimum reorder amount
  • Whether brand dropships.
  • Dropship fee.
  • Break-pack fee.
  • Payments terms.
  • Restocking fee.
• The brand’s contact

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Updated Feature: Display Gift Givers' Names to Encourage Future Gift Givers

Your Bridge Store has an updated feature to encourage customers to complete a registry purchase.  Your Bridge Store displays gift givers' names on a registry's list.

Previously, the gift givers' names were only displayed by rolling over "Purchases" at the top of a registry list. 

Now, the gift givers are also displayed in a box at the footer of a registry's list.

In the example shown, we see a registry list at The Ivy House, a fine china store in Dallas. At the ......
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New Feature: Tour Your Site's Navigation Menu

Your Online Store has a new feature:  Using blue boxes, we have created a tour to guide you through the software's important navigation features. Taking this tour will help you save time and better utilize your software.

The tour explains these links:

• Home Page
• Dashboard
• Activity
• Your Orders
• Wholesale
• Your Inbox
• Account Management
• Syncing
• Add
• Display Mode
• Your Profile

Please follow these steps to access the navigation tour:

1. Log in to your Bridge

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New Feature: Promote Post-Wedding Discounts

Your Bridge has a new feature: You can now promote post-wedding discounts on unpurchased registry items to your registrants. Your store can turn this feature on or off. This discount keeps your business competitive with major registry players (e.g. Zola may offer a 20% discount).

If you choose to offer a post-wedding discount, you can offer the following percentages off:

• 5%
• 10%
• 15%
• 20%

Once the feature is turned on for your store, the post-wedding discount is promoted to ......
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Updated Feature: More Easily View Product Images

Your Bridge has an updated feature: it's now easier to view products images and browse to other related images. 

In the example, we see a Juliska Berry & Thread Classic Dinner Plate. In the product image modal, we can see the new features displayed.

• The product's image modal now has forward and backward arrows.  One can navigate between images with using these.
• As one scrolls through images, a border is applied to the current image thumbnail at the bottom. This

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Updated Feature: Your Alert to Customers About Paying via Telephone

Some Bridge merchants do not accept credit cards online. The merchant calls the customer (after they placed the order) to collect the customer's credit card information. For merchants that do not accept cards online, your Bridge has an updated feature that makes it  easier for customers to expect a call from the store.  A customer will now see a banner with a green telephone icon on the final checkout page. The banner displays this message:

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New Feature: Easily Access Wholesale Information

Your Bridge has a new feature: We've made it easier to access wholesale information for the products on your Bridge Store. Viewing an order's Details page displays wholesale information for products purchased by your customers.
 
Previously, when your store viewed a retail order's Details page the information displayed was limited to just details about the product’s brand.
 
With this update, the Order Details page includes:

• Wholesale price of the product. 
• Stock

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New Feature: Easily Access Key Content

Your Bridge has a new feature: We've made it easier to navigate to important pages on your Bridge account. Hovering over the user profile icon at the top of the page reveals a drop-down list with links leading to your business profile settings, retail orders you’ve received, wholesale orders you’ve placed, and products you’ve liked.

With this update, one can use the links in the user profile drop-down to get to the desired content more quickly.   

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New Feature: Easily Access Bridge Features with Search Shortcuts

Your Bridge has a new feature: We've made it easier to navigate to different pages of your Bridge site with search shortcuts. Searching for a keyword in the gray search bar at the top of your account populates a shortcut button that is linked to a page related to that keyword.

Previously, one would have browsed the site's navigation to find what they wished to view. With this update, one can use the search field to get to the desired content more quickly. 

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New Feature: Display Existing Gift Givers to Encourage Future Gift Givers

Your Bridge Store has a new feature to encourage customers to complete a registry purchase.  Your Bridge Store now displays gift givers' names on a registry's list. This strategy is designed on two principles:

1. Consumers are more likely to make a purchase if they see that others have made a purchase.
2. Consumers are more likely to make a purchase if they know the name of an existing gift giver.  

 
How this Feature Works:

1. When a customer checks out with a

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New Feature: Easily Navigate Between Registry Lists

Your Bridge has a new feature: We've made it easier to navigate between registry lists. A Registry list now has forward and backward arrows so you can navigate to nearby registries with one click. 

Previously, to see another registry list a merchant had to click on the back arrow in the browser, find the registry it wished to view, and then click it. The merchant would repeat these steps every time it wished to view a different registry list.  

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Updated Feature: More Easily Manage Email Subscriptions

Your Bridge Store has an updated feature: You can now more easily manage who subscribes to emails, including products newsletters and wedding reminders. You can now more quickly view subscribers, as well as add and remove them. 

Previously, one would see all subscribers’ emails in one field, with emails separated by a comma. To add a subscriber, one typed the team member's email into this field. With this update, all the subscribers appear in a vertical list. To add a subscriber, ......
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New Feature: Assign Your POS and Website Software

Your Bridge has a new feature: You can now easily assign your business's POS and website software. 

In the example shown, the store has selected Intuit: Quickbooks as their POS software. When assigning Intuit: Quickbooks, Bridge software shares that 59 other businesses also use this POS software. 

The store has selected Shopify as their website software. By assigning Shopify, Bridge software notifies the store that 103 other businesses also use this website software. 
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New Feature: More Easily View Registry Events

Your Bridge has a new Events page that makes it easier to view your store's recent sign ups and anniversaries.

In the example shown, we see the Registry Events page for a store.

The page shows:

1. Recent Weddings.
2. Recent Wedding Anniversaries.

The new page also has a "View email template" link under the registrants' names. This link opens a new email in your computer's native email program. The email is pre-populated with the registrant's names, email address, a link to ......
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