Fix: Point of Sale Receipt

If your winery prints receipts after a transaction on the Point of Sale, you may have noticed extra blank spaces on customer receipts.

Our team investigated the cause of the blank spaces some of you were experiencing and have implemented a fix. No action is needed on your part and you can continue to print receipts from the POS as usual.

 

 

Fix: Improved Validation for Product Bundles

Last week, we improved validation for Product Bundles within the new Products section. Previously, the new section allowed users to set product quantities within a bundle to zero. With this improved validation, the minimum quantity is now 1 by default going forward.

If you have already set up a Product Bundle in the new Products section with a quantity of zero, you will need to go back in and change the quantity from zero to 1 to ensure optimal performance.

This is just one of a few updates to improve product bundles we have made in the past few weeks to ensure a smooth checkout experience for your customers.

Fix: eWay Club Processing Bug

If your winery is in Australia, your club processing functionality has been fully restored. We have now implemented a fix for the freezing that was occurring with the eWay payment gateway while processing club members with an expired credit card. You can now process your club as usual, without having to perform any extra steps.

Bug Fix: Updates to Lifetime Value, Membership Status and Last Order Date

We have now completed work on how our platform processes orders and calculates Lifetime Value, Last Order Amount, Last Order Date, Is Active Member and Number of Transactions. These updates not only ensure your orders complete faster; they also add an additional layer of stability to the WineDirect Platform.

Previously, orders placed through your website, POS, Club Processing and Admin Panel were calculated in real-time, while imported orders would run at a regular time every night and sync this information. This process was causing congestion and began to slow down our platform - so we disabled it temporarily.

With the new updates, we have moved to a background refresh so that all orders are processed within two minutes of the transaction. With this update, we are timestamping the latest order as it passes through the queue, and we have implemented validation to ensure system performance stays top-notch.

As you close out the year, know that your Reports, List Builder exports and Contact Statuses have been turned back on and are currently up to date. 

Bug Fix: Blank Contact Orders on the POS

You can now put a Guest Customer order on hold, resume it and then process it without the order creating a blank contact. All you have to do is click Clear Contact after resuming an on-hold order in the POS. You can access the Clear Contact button under the contact's name in the upper right of your screen:

The order will then be processed under Guest Customer which will ensure your contact database, list builder exports and reports don't have blank contacts.

Previously, Guest Customer orders placed on hold converted to No Name orders, creating a blank contact record in your database.

Bug Fix: Exporting Reports in Australia

If your winery is in Australia, your reporting functionality has been fully restored to allow exports to Excel. Simply click the Export button in the upper right corner of the Reports screen after setting your report parameters to generate a .csv file. 

We apologize for the recent disruption to reporting tools (which affected Australia, only), and hope that our reports are providing your winery with added value as you run your DTC business.

> Learn how to get the most out of WineDirect Reports here.

Bug Fix: Shipping Rate Improvement

Enabling your winery to achieve DTC success is our top priority at WineDirect. That's why we're dedicated to continually improving our workflows, offering you the best experience possible as you leverage our tools.

Starting today, shipping will only be allowed if your customer's state is marked as compliant and if a shipping rate is set up for their state. Validation was added across the system in the Admin Panel, POS, and online, so that when a customer is checking out, if their state is not included in the shipping strategy in use (it was not added to a zone or a rate is not set up) then the user will receive an error and will be prevented from continuing with shipping the order.

> Learn more about setting up your shipping rates by creating your shipping strategy, types, zones and rates.

Bug Fix: Gateway Timeout for Email Blasts

We know how important email marketing is for your Ecommerce business - and your DTC efforts as a whole. Over the past few days, some of you have reported intermittent timeouts while large email blasts were being executed. 

 

This issue has now been fixed by extending the timeout period to ensure that all of your planned emails can be sent to your clients, without interruptions. 

 

 

Bug Fix: Google + Social Button Removed

As of April 2, 2019, Google depreciated Google+ for consumers. Since Google is no longer supporting the API for the social sharing widget, we have removed it from both your product pages and blog pages.

No action is needed, but you may notice that the Google+ widget no longer displays with your other social sharing widgets. 

Bug Fix: Social Dashboard

As we continue to strive to increase your customer insights across the platform, we understand that the current social dashboard is not providing the majority of you with enough quality information.

You may have noticed that there were intermittent issues recently and upon deeper investigation we determined that we need to disable this tool. This allows us to focus our efforts on providing you with other more powerful customer solutions, which are coming in the near future.

Stay tuned!