Adriana, co-owner of Cande Bridal Boutique, standing under the chandelier on her shop floor in Kelowna, British Columbia
One location, one owner, everything at once

Software for the owner who is also the closer, the buyer and the bookkeeper

RingUps is retail software for a single-location independent bridal boutique: one store, three to eight staff, an owner who is on the floor on Saturday and doing the books on Sunday night. It runs appointments, special orders, deposits, the alterations workroom and reporting in one system, from $99 a month, and RingUps does the migration off your current software for you.

2,902
brides moved off Bridal Web Solutions for one independent store, reconciled against that store's own exports before anything was loaded.
Who this page is written for

Who is RingUps built for, exactly?

You have one store. Three to eight people work for you, some of them on Saturdays only. You are on the floor yourself most days, because the appointment that matters is the one you are in. You do the books at night. And there is a spreadsheet open beside your software, because the software cannot do one thing you need, and rather than fight it you rebuilt that one thing in a grid.

Everyone in bridal has that spreadsheet. It is usually the open special orders, sorted by wedding date. Sometimes it is the alterations. Occasionally it is the deposits, kept properly in a grid because the system reports them as revenue on the day they land. It is the most honest audit of a bridal system that exists: whatever is in the spreadsheet is what the software failed at.

RingUps was built inside a store of exactly this shape. Cande Bridal Boutique in Kelowna, British Columbia has traded on it every day since its migration, and the parts of this system that are good are good because they were built to close that spreadsheet. If you run two or more locations, the answer is the same product with different plumbing, and that is on the multi-location page.

A bride standing full length in front of the mirror at Cande Bridal Boutique at the moment she chooses her gown
Five things that happen every week

What does a week in a one-location bridal store actually look like?

Not a list of modules. Five specific things that happen between one Saturday and the next in a store with one location, and what RingUps does about each of them. Each one links to the page that covers it in full.

01  Saturday, 10:40

Six appointments back to back, and the diary is the only thing holding them

You are in a fitting room with a bride and her mother. The phone rings. Someone at the counter is looking for a slot next Saturday and the paper diary is on the other side of the store. A booking request that came in by email on Wednesday is still unanswered on Friday, and by then she has been to two other shops.

What RingUps does. One calendar with the appointment, the room and the stylist on it, and a public booking page a bride can use herself without anyone leaving the floor. That booking page has run end to end for Cande Bridal Boutique: 12 slots returned, the booking confirmed, the row verified in the database.

02  Monday, 09:15

A designer emails to say a shipment is delayed, and you have to work out who it hits

The email says four weeks. You open the spreadsheet, filter it by that designer, then cross-check each bride's wedding date in the other system, then work out which of them still have room for alterations afterwards. That is forty minutes on a Monday, and it is forty minutes you spend again the next time an email like it arrives.

What RingUps does. Every special order carries a must-arrive-by date computed backward from the wedding date rather than typed in by hand, so the orders in danger are a filter rather than a memory exercise. The dye-lot guard is enforced at the write path: a purchase order that mixes lots is refused unless someone deliberately ticks the override.

03  Tuesday, 14:05

A bride phones to say the wedding has moved forward five weeks

You change the date in one place and remember to change it in three others. The order still has the deadline somebody typed against the old date, so nothing about the system knows the gown is now late. The person who takes her call in six weeks has no way of knowing any of this happened.

What RingUps does. The must-arrive-by date is derived from the wedding date rather than stored as a number a person typed once, so the deadline follows the wedding instead of following someone's memory. Her record carries the orders, the payments, the appointments and the history together, so whoever is on shift can answer her without phoning you.

04  Wednesday, 21:30

The deposit reconciliation nobody has time for, which is how much of that money is actually yours

Deposits landed all month and the report counted them as revenue on the day they arrived. So the good month was not a good month, it was a month in which a lot of gowns were ordered, and the tax on it arrives regardless. You know this, which is why the reconciliation is on your list, and why it is still on your list.

What RingUps does. A deposit posts to a liability account on an append-only, double-entry ledger and is recognized as revenue when the gown is delivered, which is when you have actually earned it. Payment plans and deposit schedules sit on the order. There are 28 report pages and 30 export keys, so the number you want is a report rather than an evening.

05  Thursday, 16:20

The alterations are written on a card in the workroom, and only one person can read it

The card is pinned behind the machine. The price is in your seamstress's head. The fitting date is in the diary at the front. A bride phones to ask about all three and the person answering has to go and look at two of them and guess the third. When the seamstress is away, the workroom is a room nobody can report on.

What RingUps does. One workroom screen with the queue, the assigned seamstress, the fitting and the price on every gown, visible to whoever is on the floor. Bridal Web Solutions has no alterations workroom at all: the same work is spread across appointments, per-supplier charge records and four separate reports. That is a structural difference rather than a feature count.

What replaces the spreadsheet on a Monday morning

Two things: a list of what is at risk this week, and one record per bride that holds everything anyone is going to be asked about her.

This week, before you open
Monday 08:40
Past its must-arrive-by date1 order
Arriving inside four weeks of the wedding3 orders
Appointments today, two of them first fittings6
Gowns due out of the workroom this week3
Balances falling due this month9 brides
One bride, one record
Anyone on shift can open this
Bride
R. Alvarez
Wedding
22 May 2027
Gown
Style 8412, ivory, size 10
Must arrive by
27 March 2027
Dye lot
Recorded at placement
Deposit
Held as a liability until delivery
Alterations
In the queue, first fitting 10 April
Last email
Order confirmation, delivered
Every message she was sent is logged, including the ones deliberately held back, each with a plain-English reason.
An illustration of the two screens described above. The bride, the style number and the dates are invented for this page; the fields are the ones RingUps carries.
Two wedding rings resting on a linen table at the reception of a Cande Bridal Boutique bride

Ask an owner to reconcile her current system against itself. That is the whole sales pitch, and it costs us nothing if her system is fine.

On one store's export, three different reports gave three different answers for a single order. Their own screens disagreed about stock: one said 655 units, their inventory export said 506.

Cost

What does RingUps cost a single-location store?

$99 a month, Canadian dollars for Canadian stores and US dollars for US stores. One flat rate, no tiers. Every module is included, staff logins are unlimited, and the price is on the pricing page rather than behind a sales call. A single store pays $99 whether it has three staff or eight.

For a store your size the monthly number is not a line item, it is a decision about whether you can afford software at all. So here is the comparison, with only the figures we have actually recorded.

Monthly software cost for a single location, Canadian dollars. RingUps prices are published. The BridalLive figures are the ones our own review of that product recorded, and the working is on the comparison page.
  RingUps BridalLive, as our review recorded it
What the store pays each month $99, and every module is included. No tiers. $500 to $600 or more per month once add-ons are counted.
Charge for keeping the card processor you already use None. Keep your processor and the rate you negotiated. $295 per month, per location, where the store does not move to that vendor's payment processing.
Staff logins Unlimited. There is only one plan. Not recorded in our review.
Where the price is published On the pricing page, in full. Not recorded in our review.

We are not going to itemise add-on prices for a competitor that we have not verified ourselves. Two figures are recorded and both are above. Compare them against your own last invoice rather than against anybody's published entry price, including ours. Full pricing and what's included  The BridalLive comparison in full

The real objection

Will I lose everything if I move off my current system?

This is the objection, not price. You have twenty years of brides in there and a store that cannot close for a week. So here is the whole of the evidence: RingUps has run one migration end to end, and these are its numbers.

One migration is one migration. It is not a track record and we are not going to describe it as one.

Brides migrated
2,902
Appointments migrated
3,820
Orders migrated
1,391
Value of those orders
$2,275,597.72

228 orders were skipped rather than have a bride invented for them

228 orders in that export had no bride attached to them. A migration chasing a better success rate would have attached them to a placeholder customer and nobody would ever have known. They were skipped, and the owner was told which ones and why. 2,759 payments with no order number were skipped on the same principle.

The import was not pristine either, and pretending otherwise would be the same mistake. All 1,391 orders arrived carrying no tax at all, because the source export did not include it, so tax was rebuilt for every one of them and then 32 were corrected a second time against the old vendor's own report. Every row is idempotent on its source reference and every import is reversible by batch.

You do not close. At Cande Bridal Boutique the export was taken after close on the Thursday, the store traded on the old system through the weekend while the load and the reconciliation ran alongside it, and the floor opened on RingUps on the Monday.

Worth knowing before you sign anything

Some things have no export behind them in the system you are on now: contract bodies, email and message template text, scheduled message rules, supplier lead times, size charts, booking configuration and per-bride notes. They were captured by hand from a live session, and they die with the subscription if nobody does that. Ask your current vendor for them in writing before you decide anything, including deciding to stay.

How a migration actually runs →

What does RingUps replace in a store this size?

Not usually another bridal system on its own. Mostly the things that grew up around it because it could not do them.

The open-orders spreadsheet

Sorted by wedding date, updated when someone remembers. It becomes a filter on the special orders screen, computed from the wedding date rather than maintained by hand.

The paper diary at the front counter

One calendar with rooms and stylists on it, plus a booking page a bride can use at eleven at night without anyone answering the phone.

The whiteboard in the workroom

The queue, the seamstress, the fitting and the price on one screen the whole store can read, rather than a card only one person can.

The person who keeps it in her head

Usually you. One record per bride means the Saturday stylist can answer where a gown is and what happens next without phoning you on your day off.

Where to go next

The one store that runs on it

Cande Bridal Boutique is the same shape as you: one location, a small team, no IT department. Read what moving actually involved and what broke.

The case study →

Every module, and how they connect

If you would rather see the system laid out as a system than as a week, this is the map from booking through to pickup.

The platform →

If you are on Bridal Web Solutions

A deep product dating to 2006, with 47 export files and no API. The comparison covers what comes across cleanly and what has to be captured by hand.

The comparison →

Questions a single-store owner asks

I have one store and four staff. Is RingUps too big for me?

No. RingUps was built inside a single-location store with a team that size, and Cande Bridal Boutique in Kelowna, British Columbia is still the store it runs on every day. RingUps is $99 a month, one flat rate for every feature: point of sale, appointments, public online booking, inventory, client records, special orders with the deadline engine, deferred-revenue accounting, and the AI drafting and marketplace access that used to require a higher plan. Staff logins are unlimited, so putting a Saturday stylist on the floor does not change the invoice.

What will RingUps actually cost me a month?

$99 a month, Canadian dollars for Canadian stores and US dollars for US stores. One flat rate, no tiers, and the price is published rather than quoted. Every module is included and staff logins are unlimited, so the number does not move as the team grows. Our review of BridalLive recorded a real cost of $500 to $600 or more per month once add-ons are counted, and a further $295 per month per location where a store does not move to that vendor's payment processing.

If I switch, do I lose twenty years of orders?

No, and RingUps does the move for you. The one migration RingUps has run end to end carried 2,902 brides, 3,820 appointments and 1,391 orders totalling $2,275,597.72 off Bridal Web Solutions for Cande Bridal Boutique. 228 orders that had no bride attached to them were skipped rather than invented, every row is idempotent on its source reference, and the whole import is reversible by batch.

Bring your worst open order and the spreadsheet you keep beside your software

Fifteen minutes on your own data, no scripted demo store. If RingUps cannot close that spreadsheet we will tell you on the call rather than in month three.

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