The Ivy House, a gift shop in Texas, uses Shop Local's Registry to manage more than 700 registries.
The #1 Gift Registry Service For Indie Stores
Gift registry software that can be preloaded with products from your best-selling brands.
Use Shop Local's Registry to sell more and save time. Registrants will add more items to their lists. Family and friends will be happier and spend more. Avoid pricing errors and offer more products. Start with the free plan.
The easiest solution to offer a gift registry service online and in-store.
How It Works
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We give your business a free Online Store with the gift registry service built-in:
yourstorename.myshoplocal.com
If you wish, you can use your own domain (e.g. yourstore.com).
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You and registrants use your Online Store to add and manage gift registry lists.
View Live Example:
The Ivy House’s Registry Home Page
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Friends and family use the gift lists to buy gifts online, via telephone, and in-store.
~ Sera Alioto / Owner
Alioto's Gifts
Chicago, IL
~ Sera Alioto / Owner
Shop Local's Registry Can Help Your Business
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What problem is Shop Local's Registry solving?
Setting up and running an online registry is often expensive and time-consuming. - Leading e-commerce providers do not offer registry software and, instead, make a business install and rely on third-party apps.
- Shop Local is unique in that it offers e-commerce software with built-in gift registry software.
- Shop Local has helped indie businesses manage 71,426 registries and sell more than $130m.
- Businesses can add any products that they wish to their store and gift registry.
- Shop Local's Registry is free for up to 2 registries at a time. Setup is free.
How Businesses Are Using Our Registry Software
Examples
- Stores wanting a new website
- Stores with no existing website
Stores with an existing website (such as from Shopify, Squarespace, etc.)
- Stores wanting a new website
- Stores with no existing website
Stores with an existing website (such as from Shopify, Squarespace, etc.)
17 Reasons Businesses Choose Shop Local's Gift Registry Service
Registry Features
Shop Local's registry software comes with a fully functional store - learn more.
3,157 Brands and Growing
You can quickly grow your registry business with our directory of more than 3,157 brands. By picking a brand from our directory, you can easily add products to a registry. You save yourself from having to manually enter brand names, hunt for brand logos, enter brand descriptions, and upload brand lifestyle pictures. Don't see a brand in our directory that you need? We can help. Your Store allows you to add any item from any brand.
For 112 of these brands, you can instantly output in your Store all of the products—these 112 brands are our Brand Syncing partners.
You can instantly sell all the products from the above brands to your gift registry customers. We have created partnerships with the brands allowing these brands' products to appear immediately in an authorized dealer's Store. The brands maintain the products' pictures, prices, dimensions, and other key variables.
Please note: a business must be an authorized dealer to sync products. Syncing is dependent on the respective brand's approval.
Your Shop Local Account Helps Your Business Throughout the Registry 'Life Cycle'
Bridge gives your business the tools it needs through the registry life cycle. The registry cycle starts with awareness many months before the event and continues after the event with follow-up messages.
Baby Registry Software
Shop Local helps hundreds of merchants across the United States and Canada grow their baby registry business. Registrants and merchants can start a baby registry online and add products to it. Friends and family can purchase gifts online from the baby registry list.
Stores Using Shop Local Rank on Page 1 of Google in 35 States
Shop Local retailers dominate the gift registry market in Google. In a recent study, we found that:
- In 35 states, retailers that use Shop Local Store rank on page one of Google when doing a registry related search.
- In South Carolina, six Shop Local retailers appear on page one of Google.
- In Tennessee and Texas, five retailers have a page one spot.
- In five states, retailers won four first-page placements: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Wyoming.
- Retailers using Shop Local software are ranking higher than big-box stores such as Bed Bath & Beyond, Walmart, and Target.
- Shop Local has a higher quantity of clients appearing on page one of Google than any other software provider.
To conduct this study, we Googled “gift registry” and the state name. We counted Shop Local Store clients, such as those with [storename].myshoplocal.com website addresses, that appear on page one of Google.
Which Retailers Use Shop Local's Gift Registry Service?
The best indie stores in America use our Registry service, including:
Use the Gift Registry Grader to see how your gift registry software compares to your competitors'. The registry grader will give you tips to improve your registry's features and make your brides happier.
Gift Registry Software Quick Facts
Helped
20,202,241
Friends &
Family Members
Purchase
A Gift
Processed
1,178,560
Registry
Orders
Helped
10,125,908
Products Be Added
to Gift Registries
Recorded
40,650
Reviews
for Registry
Purchases
Tracked
55,682,580
Changes for
Registry Items
Get Your Share of the $30+ Billion Gift Registry Market
Quick Facts:
- 2.5 million couples will get married this year in the United States. Due to this, thousands of couples are registering online every day.
- The average online gift registry purchase is $142. The average registry receives $903 in online gifts.
- The most popular month to start a registry is January. The most popular day is Monday.
- On average, 80% of online gifts are bought before the wedding date.
- Retailers display a registrant's registry for 22 months.
- Bridge is helping retailers manage thousands of registries and sell millions of dollars in gifts.
Up to 2 Registries
Up to 4 Registries
Up to 16 Registries
For additional retailer plans, please visit our retailer pricing page.
Brands can offer an unlimited number of registries for free. Brands pay a commission on orders placed. Visit our brand pricing page.
Reviews About Our Registry Software
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"Due to our Shop Local registry, I have more brides registering at our store this year. They see our website and its vast offering, and they want to register with us. Shop Local is boosting our bridal sales."
~ Sera Alioto / Owner / Alioto's Gifts in Chicago, IL
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"We can't imagine managing our registry program without Shop Local."
~ John Kuykendall / Owner / Glass Bazaar in Chattanooga, TN
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"We left Shopify and moved to Bridge Shop Local. Shop Local helped us double the number of registries at our store and double our registry sales. And, Shop Local is easier than Shopify and costs less."
~ Jeffrey Bannon / Owner / Jeffrey Bannon in Charleston, SC
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"I let brides know that Shop Local will show the brand's full catalog so brides can add products that we may not have on display in the store. As recently as yesterday, I set up a registry for a bride and showed her how to use the search engine on our Shop Local to search for products. She went home and was able to add a crystal Reed & Barton vase."
~ Robby Smith / Tabletop Manager / Jimmy Smith Jewelers in Decatur, AL
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"Our registry service is MUCH better with Shop Local! Guests want the shopping experience to be quick, painless, and easy, and ... that's exactly what they get with Shop Local. Happy customers buy more, so we're happy, too!"
~ Lee Sandberg / Babcock Gifts in Memphis, TN
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"Shop Local has been so helpful for our Fine Gifts Division! It has enabled us to showcase the products we carry without needing a full-time employee to run our website. Our brides and their guests love the ease of seeing and buying bridal registry gifts online!"
~ Terri Benear / B.C. Clark Jewelers in Oklahoma City, OK
Common Questions
Businesses use our software to manage many types of registries and gift lists, including but not limited to:
- Wedding registries
- Bridal registries
- Baby registries
- Anniversary gift lists
- Bridal show registries
- Commitment Ceremony registries
- House warming gift lists
- Birthday gift lists
- Celebration gift lists
- Mardi Gras gift lists
- Wishlists
More questions?
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