New Feature: Customers can Book an Appointment with Your Business

Your Bridge has a new feature: Your customers can easily book an appointment with your store through your Bridge site. 

Before this update, customers would have to call your store or message it through the online message feature to request an appointment. 

When a customer visits your Bridge Store, they will see a "Book an Appointment" link in four areas: 

1. On the home page in your store's contact card.
2. On the Customer S...
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Updated Feature: More Easily Promote Free Shipping

Your Bridge now helps more customers learn about your free shipping offer. If your store offers free shipping, a blue banner will display at the bottom of a product's Results and Details pages. 

Before this update, customers would have to view their shopping bag in order to view your store's free shipping offer. 

In the example, we see a Juliska Berry & Thread Whitewash Dinner Plate.
At the bottom of the page, we see the blue free shipping banne...
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Tip: Reply to Reviews To Help Your Business

We have a tip to help your business. You can easily boost the number of reviews your business receives on your Bridge.

Steps:

1. When a customer leaves a review on your Bridge Store’s Review page, leverage this to get even more reviews. Reply to the review.
2. Write a reply that acknowledges the customer's specific response. 

As an example, Goldsmith Cardel replies to every review left on its Bridge site.  Please see the exampl...
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New Feature: A Registrant Can Request Redemption of a Gift

We've added a new feature to your Bridge account: a registrant can now request redemption of a gift purchased on their registry. 

When a registrant is logged in to their registry, they will see a "Request redemption of this gift" button next to items that have been gifted to them and that have a qualifying order status. The registrant can click the "Request redemption of this gift" button and fill out the form with the details of how they would like t...
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Your Bridge Shop Has a New Website Domain

Bridge has updated your Bridge Shop's domain address. Your site's URL now includes "myshoplocal.com."  If you look at the top of your account, you will see this domain in the web browser's URL field.   Specifically, we changed the URL from [YourBusinessName].bridgecatalog.com to [YourBusinessName].myshoplocal.com.

For example, the previous Bridge Shop URL address was: 
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New Feature: Create Invoices on Bridge

We've added a new feature to your Bridge account: you can now easily create invoices to send to other members via Bridge. 

Creating invoices on Bridge allows you to send invoices to retailers, brands, and other members that you are connected with through your Bridge site. You can populate an invoice with due date, recipient, item description, details, rate, quantity, and your invoice payment terms. 

Once an invoice has been created, you can send it by emai...
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New Feature: More Easily Find Sales Reps on Bridge

We've added a new feature to your Bridge account: you can now more easily find sales reps that are part of an agency. Sales rep agencies can now more easily present their team via Bridge. 

Previously, each sales rep had their own Bridge account. For example, if an agency had 10 sales reps, there would be 10 separate Bridge accounts. We have updated the software so that the 10 reps now share one agency Bridge account.

This approach makes it easier for retai...
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New Feature: See a Product’s Price Changes

We've added a new feature to your Bridge account: You can now easily see the retail pricing history of a product. 

Before this update, a member would receive an email alert letting it know that a synced product’s retail price had changed. But, this price change history was not shown on the product's Details page.

Now, the Details page shows any recent change as well as past changes.  This feature helps retailers and sales reps charge the accurat...
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New Feature: More Easily Manage Registry Bonuses

Your Bridge has a new feature. You can now more easily manage your gift registry bonuses.

Background:
Your Bridge Store's Gift Registry software has a marketing program built in. This program gives registrants (e.g. brides) a monetary bonus if they complete five steps. Previously, when registrants reported that they added a link on their social media page, a store would have to ask the registrant on which platform they added the link. The same process occurred when the regi...
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New Feature: Share a Private Note About an Order With a Registrant

Your Bridge now makes it easier to share a message regarding a registry order. Each order details page now allows you to add a private note that only the registrant can see. 

New Feature: Use Checklists to Grow Your Registry Sales

Bridge has added a new feature to your store's wedding registry service. We have added checklists to each registry.
These checklists will help your store:

• Save time.
• Sell more gifts.
• Make customers happier.

Details
Bridge has given each of your wedding registries two checklists:

• Your store receives an internal, private checklist for each registry. The registrant can’t access this.&nb...
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New Feature: Share a Product via Messaging

Your Bridge has a new feature: you can more easily message friends about products. On each item's page, there is now a "Message via Bridge" link. When you click this link, a modal will appear, letting you select your friend and share the item. If you wish, you can include a customized message.  When you share the message, a message alert will appear when the member views their Bridge account. They will also receive an email alert that you sent them a message. 

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