Need an upgraded website? Bridge can help.
- Compete successfully against major online stores.
- More easily sell products online.
- Save time and money on updating your website.
Bridge Store Features
12 Reasons to Choose Bridge Store
Bridge offers you an ongoing, free plan. There is no time limit; it's not a 'free trial.'
Open your store in minutes. Quickly add all your brands and offer 1,000s of products.
Customize your Store. Add your logo, select colors that match your business' brand, add pictures, and more.
Easy for consumers to shop. Customers continually rank Bridge as the easiest, most intuitive store on which to shop.
Free gift & bridal registry software. Immediately offer your registrants best-in-class, award-winning software and features.
Easily add products to your store. You can add any product from any brand.
Using Bridge's Smart Products program, show more product and sell more product. The service offers up to 64,444 products from 115 popular brands.
Your Bridge Store automatically adjusts for easy shopping on mobile phones. Easily view orders, add products, and share news from anywhere.
Free software updates. You avoid expensive maintenance costs and update charges.
Bridge offers you best in class security on all pages and during checkout. Bridge is PCI Compliant.
Connect with your business friends using Bridge's social network. Easily share files, see contact phone numbers, and more.
Boost your Google ranking. Businesses that use Bridge rank highly in Google and search engines.
More Reasons to Choose Bridge Store
- Add coupons and discount.
- Includes gift card giving.
- Includes order, inventory, and tax management tools.
- Add and edit many products at once (bulk product processing).
- Add multiple pictures per product.
- Quickly add images to products using Bridge's image finder feature.
- Understand your online sales via our professional reporting tools.
- Includes built-in monogramming and engraving features.
- Free, unique URL.
- Add custom domain (domain masking).
- Includes Review software.
- Supports Google Analytics.
- Boost your search engine ranking using Bridge's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools.
- Easily add news & events.
- Add custom pages.
- ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant software.
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Can you add your own items?
Yes. Learn more. -
Can a retailer just sign up for Bridge Store and not the Smart Products service?
Yes. Learn more. -
Can you customize your design?
Yes.
Examples
How Can Your Business Start Using Bridge Store?
The Ivy House ~ Dallas, TX |
Babcock Gifts ~ Memphis, TN |
| Bridge Store Handles It All for You | Hybrid |
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You use our Bridge Store as your primary website. You can customize the design and content. You can choose to sync with Smart Products. In addition to Smart Products, you can add and sell any products that you wish.
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You use your existing site and our Bridge Store. You add links to the pages on your Bridge Store that you want to use. For example, you add a link on your site "Gift Registry" that leads to your Bridge gift registry page.
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Services you're using: Bridge Store
Free, optional add ons: Gift Registry, Smart Products, Wholesale Ordering (for brands) |
Services you're using: Your 3rd-party website + Bridge Store
Free, optional add ons: Gift Registry, Smart Products, Wholesale Ordering (for brands) |
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Time to setup: Instant
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Time to setup: 1 hour or less. » View support page
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Cost: Free
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Cost: Free
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Setup cost: Free
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Setup cost: Free or low-cost depending on service used to administer your site
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Ideal for:
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Ideal for:
Stores with an existing website (such as from Squarespace,Weebly, Shopify, etc.) |
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Bridge software updates: Free & instant
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Bridge software updates: Free & instant
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2,395 Brands and Growing
Bridge Store offers you a directory of more than 2,395 brands to add to your website. By picking a brand from our directory, you can easily show its logo, add products for it, and more. Save yourself from having to hunt for this information.
Don't see a brand in our directory that you need? We'll add the brand. Your Bridge Store allows you to add any item from any brand.
For 115 of these brands, Bridge can instantly output on your Bridge Store all of the products--these 115 brands are our Smart Brand partners.
More Easily Stock Your Website With Products From the Brands That You Sell
Do you sell any of the above brands? If so, Bridge Store can help you instantly add products from the above brands to your Store. Bridge has partnerships with the above brands allowing these brands' items to appear on authorized retailers' Bridge Stores. The brands maintain the items' pictures, prices, dimensions and more. Learn more about the Smart Products service.
How Does Bridge Store Compare to Other E-commerce Software?
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Bridge | Shopify | Squarespace | BigCommerce |
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Offers your business a continual free plan |
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Offers your business a built-in gift & bridal registry |
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Offers your business a gift card feature with the starter plan |
» View a comparison between Bridge and other e-commerce software
See how Bridge compares to:
- Shopify
- Squarespace
- Big Cartel
» View 11 features comparing Bridge to other software platforms
Bridge Store vs Shopify
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| Bridge Store | Shopify |
| Easily pick from 2,395 brands to add to your store. Of these brands, Bridge has partnerships with 115 brands (which we call 'Smart Brands'). If approved, our store can instantly offer up to 64,444 products from these partner brands. | Start with an empty online store. You spend a lot of time and money to add brands and products. Shopify makes it hard to add new brands. You have to enter all brands manually, find their logos, and more. Tedious process. |
| Powerful gift registry software. Immediately offer your registrants best-in-class gift & bridal registry software. The registry software is built in and works seamlessly. | No built-in registry. Registry software is an add-on from a 3rd-party developer and costs an additional monthly fee. Not seamless. |
| Offer gift cards. Bridge's free plan (and all plans) allow your store to offer gift cards immediately. | Offering gift cards is expensive. Offering gift card requires an upgrade. Store can't offer gift card at free or mid-level plan. |
| Easy. Allows your business to easily manage 1,000s of products. | Difficult to manage products. Interface makes it hard to manage more than 100 products. Since most stores need 1,000+ items to compete online, Shopify doesn't scale well. |
| Dynamic home page. Bridge's 'news feed' style home page keeps shoppers engaged in content, keeps them on your Store page longer, and boosts your Google ranking. | Old-fashioned home page. Site structure consists mainly of a traditional slideshow and static content. |
| Reviews. Your Bridge Store comes with built-in review software. Bridge will help your store collect and share reviews on social media. | No built-in review software. Review software is an add-on from a 3rd-party developer and costs an additional monthly fee. Not seamless. |
| Affordable. Offers your business a free plan. There is no time limit; it's not a 'free trial.' | Expensive. No free plan, and most features are costly add-ons. |
More Reasons to Choose Bridge Store
- Add coupons and discount.
- Includes gift card giving.
- Includes order, inventory, and tax management tools.
- Add and edit many products at once (bulk product processing).
- Add multiple pictures per product.
- Quickly add images to products using Bridge's image finder feature.
- Understand your online sales via our professional reporting tools.
- Includes built-in monogramming and engraving features.
- Free, unique URL.
- Add custom domain (domain masking).
- Includes Review software.
- Supports Google Analytics.
- Boost your search engine ranking using Bridge's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools.
- Easily add news & events.
- Add custom pages.
- ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant software.
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Can you add your own items?
Yes. Learn more. -
Can a retailer just sign up for Bridge Store and not the Smart Products service?
Yes. Learn more. -
Can you customize your design?
Yes.
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