How Can Your Retail Store Start Using Bridge?
3 Choices for Integration
Which one works best for your store?
| Choice A | Choice B | Choice C | |
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| Bridge handles it all for you You use our Bridge Store and Smart Product data |
Hybrid You use your site and our Bridge Store and Bridge product data |
Use your own site You use your store and Bridge Smart Product data |
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Bridge Store
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Bridge Smart Products
You use Bridge Store as your primary website. You can customize the design and content in your Bridge Store and gift registry. You can choose to sync with Smart Products. In addition to Smart Products, you can add any products that you wish to your Bridge Store. |
Your 3rd-Party Website
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Bridge Store
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Bridge Smart Products
You keep your existing website and add links to the pages and services on your Bridge Store that you want to use. For example, you add links on your site such as Gift Registry that lead to your Bridge gift registry. |
Your 3rd-Party Store
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Bridge Smart Products
Use our data stream to fill your store with Smart Products. With this option, you'll be copying our data so your website will look exactly like your current e-commerce site. You control how your registry looks as well. |
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| Examples: |
P.S. The Letter Persnickety Vieuxtemps |
Bailey's B.C. Clark Breed & Co. |
Goldsmith Cardel Radcliffe Jewelers Sasha Nicholas |
| Time to Setup: | Instant |
1 hour or less
» View support page |
Few weeks
» View support page |
| Setup Cost: | Free | Free or low-cost depending on service used to administer your site | Fee that your web person will charge |
| Bridge Software Updates: | Free & instant | Free & instant | Depends on your web team |
| Ideal for: |
Stores wanting a new website
Stores with no existing website |
Stores with an existing website
(such as Squarespace, Weebly, Shopify, etc.) |
Store with an advanced e-commerce website (e.g. major store) |
| Choice A | |
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Bridge handles it all for you You use our Bridge Store and Smart Product data |
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Bridge Store
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Bridge Smart Products
You use Bridge Store as your primary website. You can customize the design and content in your Bridge Store and gift registry. You can choose to sync with Smart Products. In addition to Smart Products, you can add any products that you wish to your Bridge Store. |
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Example Websites: P.S. The Letter Persnickety Vieuxtemps |
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| Instant Setup | |
| No Setup Cost | |
| Free & Instant Software Updates | |
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Ideal for: Stores wanting a new website Stores with no existing website |
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| Choice B | |
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Hybrid You use your site and our Bridge Store and Bridge product data |
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Your 3rd-Party Website
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Bridge Store
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Bridge Smart Products
You keep your existing website and add links to the pages and services on your Bridge Store that you want to use. For example, you add links on your site such as Gift Registry that lead to your Bridge gift registry. |
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Example Websites: Bailey's B.C. Clark Breed & Co. |
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1 hour or less time to setup
» View support page |
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| Free or low-cost setup depending on service used to administer your site | |
| Free & Instant Software Updates | |
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Ideal for: Stores with an existing website (such as Squarespace, Weebly, Shopify, etc.) |
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| Choice C | |
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Use your own site
You use your store and Bridge Smart Product data |
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Your 3rd-Party Store
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Bridge Smart Products
Use our data stream to fill your store with Smart Products. With this option, you'll be copying our data so your website will look exactly like your current e-commerce site. You control how your registry looks as well. |
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Example Websites: Goldsmith Cardel Radcliffe Jewelers Sasha Nicholas |
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Few weeks to setup
» View support page |
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| Setup fee that your web person will charge | |
| Software updates depends on your web team | |
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Ideal for: Store with an advanced e-commerce website (e.g. major store) |
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All three choices above will save you from receiving thumb drives, Dropbox links, and/or Excel files from brands. If you choose Choice C above, your Bridge account will act as an image and product library giving you the most recent images, prices, and product information for all of your Smart Brands in one easy spot. You will copy this data into your site. You can export one item at a time or up to all of the items at once.
Add Bridge to Your Existing Web Platform
Bridge works with all 3rd-party providers. If you are planning on choice B or C above, you may be using one of the third-party providers shown here.
Gift Registry Integration
You have two choices to offer Smart Products via your gift registry service.
- You can use Bridge's gift registry software and instantly populate it with Smart Products. For examples of retailers using this method, please see choices A and B in the chart above.
- You can copy our Smart Products to your third-party website. For examples of this, please see choice C in the chart above.
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