Deactivating the Wedding Registry

[babywings76]

NO! Don't plug CS there! Really don't want a bunch of people who have no clue how to use social media hopping over here!

LOL Exactly!! That's why I said to go to the forum on CC instead.

 

[babywings76]

I'm not sure what square is, but if it's a method of charging the cards right away, wouldn't that open the door to 'abuse' of merchant privileges? When I had my .com biz, one of our requirements was that we could not charge the consumer's card unless we would be shipping product within 24 hours. Authorizing it is ok, but to charge it, as far as I'm aware isn't. Does square allow authorize only?

I'm open to extra work, I just am upset that the lack of notice leaves at least one of my couples with invitations being printed that show a PC registry that now does not exist. :blushing:

But if things are being shipped to the bride and the customer is aware of the time frame, wouldn't that be a slightly different scenario than say they were purchasing something for themselves?

 

[Oracle]

I'm not sure what square is, but if it's a method of charging the cards right away, wouldn't that open the door to 'abuse' of merchant privileges? When I had my .com biz, one of our requirements was that we could not charge the consumer's card unless we would be shipping product within 24 hours. Authorizing it is ok, but to charge it, as far as I'm aware isn't. Does square allow authorize only?

I'm open to extra work, I just am upset that the lack of notice leaves at least one of my couples with invitations being printed that show a PC registry that now does not exist. :blushing:

Excellent thought, I was hoping to get some feedback like this to help develop a good workable long term solution.

I believe that because we'd be fulfilling to contractual obligation based on a later ship date per the bridal couples consent AND spelling it out in the info that we post with the registry instructions, that this would be okay.

Particularly as we the bride receives a copy of the order. The biggest potential for abuse/failure to perform, imho, would be a consultant who, in the long run fails to close the registry and make the overall payment.

Although stories of consultants "taking the money and running" are pretty rare, it could happen. On the other hand I suspect that those consultants don't hang out with us here

As far as I'm concerned, any solution that I find here or devise here with the help of this community stay here and would be shared with immediate teams which sadly does not include CC

 

[marystell1]

The short notice is really horrible. But I can't wait to have a registry that works well with wedding shower shows. I always wanted customers to be able to view the wish list when ordering on shows. Hopefully they'll design it so that the two will work together.

 

[Kathy's_Kitchen]

I was researching Square as it sounded like it might be a viable option. I found this in the User Agreement:

By creating a Square Account, you also confirm that you will not accept payments in connection with the following businesses or business activities: (1) any illegal activity, (2) buyers or membership clubs, (3) credit counseling or repair agencies, (4) credit protection or identity theft protection services, (5) direct marketing or subscription offers or services, (6) infomercial sales, (7) internet/mail order/telephone order pharmacies or pharmacy referral services (where fulfillment of medication is performed with an internet or telephone consultation, absent a physical visit with a physician including re-importation of pharmaceuticals from foreign countries), (8) multi-level marketing businesses, (9) inbound or outbound telemarketers, (10) prepaid phone cards or phone services, (11) rebate based businesses, (12) up-sell merchants, (13) bill payment services, (14) betting, including lottery tickets, casino gaming chips, off-track betting, and wagers at races, (15) financial institutions offering manual or automated cash disbursements, (16) financial institutions offering merchandise and services, (17) sales of money-orders or foreign currency by non-financial institutions, (18) wire transfer money orders, (19) high-risk merchants, including telemarketing merchants, (20) service station merchants, (21) automated fuel dispensers, (22) adult entertainment oriented products or services (in any medium, e.g., internet, telephone or printed material), (23) internet/mail order/telephone order firearm or weapon sales, (24) internet/mail order/telephone order cigarette or tobacco sales, (25) drug paraphernalia, (26) occult materials, (27) hate products, (28) escort services, and (29) bankruptcy attorneys.

I'm guessing this is not a solution for us.....

I am frustrated also as I have a registry that was just set up within the last three weeks and they sent out custom printed cards with a link to the registry.....they are not very happy with Pampered Chef right now....

I do love this company but do not understand the lack of notice. I do web page development and have to believe they had to have known well in advance that this was coming....I wish they would have told us when they knew so we would have had more time to prepare. And if they did just find out, I'm like others in feeling that the "new web" may not be as tested as we would like.

I also understand this affects only "1% of consultants" but that still has to be a large enough number of brides affected that could damage our reputation.

Maybe if they would come up with a workable solution for us and our brides rather than us having to figure it out ourselves, I would feel better. I know this business is "my business" but I rely on the Pampered Chef to give me the tools to do my business in a professional manner - affording success for me and thus for them....

 

[Oracle]

I was researching Square as it sounded like it might be a viable option. I found this in the User Agreement:

By creating a Square Account, you also confirm that you will not accept payments in connection with the following businesses or business activities: (1) any illegal activity, (2) buyers or membership clubs, (3) credit counseling or repair agencies, (4) credit protection or identity theft protection services, (5) direct marketing or subscription offers or services, (6) infomercial sales, (7) internet/mail order/telephone order pharmacies or pharmacy referral services (where fulfillment of medication is performed with an internet or telephone consultation, absent a physical visit with a physician including re-importation of pharmaceuticals from foreign countries), (8) multi-level marketing businesses, (9) inbound or outbound telemarketers, (10) prepaid phone cards or phone services, (11) rebate based businesses, (12) up-sell merchants, (13) bill payment services, (14) betting, including lottery tickets, casino gaming chips, off-track betting, and wagers at races, (15) financial institutions offering manual or automated cash disbursements, (16) financial institutions offering merchandise and services, (17) sales of money-orders or foreign currency by non-financial institutions, (18) wire transfer money orders, (19) high-risk merchants, including telemarketing merchants, (20) service station merchants, (21) automated fuel dispensers, (22) adult entertainment oriented products or services (in any medium, e.g., internet, telephone or printed material), (23) internet/mail order/telephone order firearm or weapon sales, (24) internet/mail order/telephone order cigarette or tobacco sales, (25) drug paraphernalia, (26) occult materials, (27) hate products, (28) escort services, and (29) bankruptcy attorneys.

I'm guessing this is not a solution for us.....

I am frustrated also as I have a registry that was just set up within the last three weeks and they sent out custom printed cards with a link to the registry.....they are not very happy with Pampered Chef right now....

I do love this company but do not understand the lack of notice. I do web page development and have to believe they had to have known well in advance that this was coming....I wish they would have told us when they knew so we would have had more time to prepare. And if they did just find out, I'm like others in feeling that the "new web" may not be as tested as we would like.

I also understand this affects only "1% of consultants" but that still has to be a large enough number of brides affected that could damage our reputation.

Maybe if they would come up with a workable solution for us and our brides rather than us having to figure it out ourselves, I would feel better. I know this business is "my business" but I rely on the Pampered Chef to give me the tools to do my business in a professional manner - affording success for me and thus for them....

I debated this issue with myself prior to getting square originally and concluded that as PC identifies itself as a direct seller I would view it the same way. Yes, MLMs are a subset of direct sales.

There is no legal definition that either includes or doesn't includes PC. There is a lot of debate in the definitions and there is a pretty wide grey area. If your business can ONLY thrive if you recruit and the main focus of your business is recruiting you are indeed an MLM in every sense of the word.

If, on the other hand, a consultant can succeed without recruiting, as is the case with PC, and we can sell and be product focused then we can be considered Direct Sales without being classified into the MLM bucket.

There are a number of Direct Sales companies that use this concept to categorize themselves outside of MLM status.

Bottom line, based on the research I did and the fact that for the vast majority of consultants our income is primarily from product sales I was (an still am) comfortable with agreeing to these terms.

As a side note I've had Square for over a year and list myself as a PC Consultant in my Square set up. I've had no issues or concerns.

 

[byrd1956]

So has any of you cheffers come up with a great flyer & idea/plan for brides to be? I would like to contact the people from the recent Bridal show, but I want to have something to offer besides telling them the wedding registry is getting revamped and will be unavailable for a time.

 

[yankfan24]

I sent an email on the 15th to HO and other than an auto reply...I've gotten NOTHING back at all. NO RESPONSE. Still frustrated!!!

 

[ChefBevShu]

I sent an email on the 15th to HO and other than an auto reply...I've gotten NOTHING back at all. NO RESPONSE. Still frustrated!!!

I did the reply at the bottom of the email and I haven't gotten a response either. Just spent big bucks for a bridal show and had several brides wanting the registry....now I feel like I just flushed my $$$ down the toilet! I have got to come up with some way of working with these brides so we can some sort of manual registry. Suggestions???

 

[byrd1956]

I feel like I just flushed my $$$ down the toilet! I have got to come up with some way of working with these brides so we can some sort of manual registry. Suggestions???

I agree with you and was hoping someone better organized than me would have an ''aha!" idea for contacting everyone that was interested in the wedding registry with something that could work.

 

[yankfan24]

Beverly....(All)
I sent a second email and finally got one back AND a phone call. But, it was as expected. Sorry that the registry program was deactivated and we are sorry, but we can't do anything about your expenses for the bridal expos. IF you purchased registry information/brochures from PC, we MIGHT be able to give a credit for that. Email mentioned something about forwarding for future consideration...but voicemail said we are just basically SOL!!!

Oh, and NOTHING about the fact that it was sent out on the 15th!!!

 

[mom4angela]

So HOW do you have a bride "register" with you, if the registry will be down? I have the WISH list, and can put the bride down as a show, but HOW will everyone know what she wants?

 

[frozenchef]

It's been suggested to put the bride's wish list in the News section on your web site so people can still see their list. Not perfect, but it will hopefully help out a little.

 

[pchockeymom]

It's been suggested to put the bride's wish list in the News section on your web site so people can still see their list. Not perfect, but it will hopefully help out a little.[/QUOTE ]

This was suggested to me and that's what I've done. My news titles include "(bride's name) bridal wishlist" and anyone can click and get the list. It's time consuming but already been helpful when one out of town guest emailed wanting to order for the bride from her shower. There's no personal info other than the bride's name.

 

[mom4angela]

It's been suggested to put the bride's wish list in the News section on your web site so people can still see their list. Not perfect, but it will hopefully help out a little.

Thank you SO much for response, but I have NO clue what you are talking about and, YES, I do have a web site.. I'm SO lame with computers, is ther any way you can "walk me through" this as this is SO huge for me.. and thank you again for your kindness in responding....Please feel comfortable in PMing me... Carol

 

[frozenchef]

Log in to Consultant's Corner, click on Personal Web Site > Personalize Your Site. Then click the News tab and click Add to create a new story. Then follow pchockeymom's idea:"This was suggested to me and that's what I've done. My news titles include "(bride's name) bridal wishlist" and anyone can click and get the list. It's time consuming but already been helpful when one out of town guest emailed wanting to order for the bride from her shower. There's no personal info other than the bride's name."

 

[mom4angela]

OH MY GOSH! I think I actually understand! I haven't started the list yet, but is there a way to use your COOL pix, etc. that you made up on there, too? You are great for helping me thank you SO much!

 

[TJMagoo]

If we do it this way, on the site in the news as a wishlist, the bride doesn't get credit for the items ordered, right? And we would have to maintain the wishlist as people buy items from it, correct?

Is this working for anyone else? My future sister in law had a registry and wants to add something about PC in her shower invites - trying to figure out the best solution here.

 

[esavvymom]

I would think if you set up a SHOW for the Bride, and reference that in the "News" article "Wish List", folks could order under her show for products.It's awkward, and I hope they come back with something soon...because it does look tacky, but just let folks know it's in transition with the new system.

 

[TJMagoo]

So I would just keep editing her list as people bought from it?

 

[esavvymom]

So I would just keep editing her list as people bought from it?

I would, yes- I wouldn't delete it necessarily, but maybe put a "purchased 1" or however many they may have purchased for the bride. That way folks know she got it, and don't "stray" from the list.

 

[TJMagoo]

Here is one I just did:

Welcome To My Personal Web Site

I think I might add at the bottom instructions on how to order to try to make it easier.