We are excited to announce the arrival of your #1 requested feature: adding multiple email addresses to a single contact. This means you can now seamlessly send communications about orders and club shipments to a customer's spouse or friend, ensuring important transactional information won't be missed.
It's the latest tool we've built to help save you time and deliver top-notch customer service.
How It Works:
Please Note: When you add a secondary email address, an email alert will go out both to the primary account holder as well as the secondary email address. These System Email templates have been auto-created with default copy in your account and you can edit them as desired. They are called: "A New Email Has Been Added to Your Account" (sent to the primary email address) and "Your Email Has Been Added" (sent to the secondary email address).
> Click here to read the full documentation!
We’re so thrilled to release this functionality as it is your most requested feature ever with almost 450 votes from our Ideas forum. Keep the suggestions coming!
We've made an update to our integration with ShipCompliant. Starting today, the Submitted Date on an order will never change - regardless of whether that order is quarantined by ShipCompliant - making your month-end reconciliation process easier.
We made this change based on your feedback that the Submitted Date should always reflect the date the order was originally placed (the same day that the order was originally paid for). Previously when an order was quarantined in ShipCompliant, we would update the Submitted Date when it was released. As a result, the Submitted Date and Payment Date were not the same, which was problematic for your month-end reporting.
This is the latest example of our ongoing commitment to improving our tools, making it easy for you to get the information that you need. Keep the suggestions coming in the Ideas Forum!
Summer is in full swing - but fall club season is right around the corner. So we're excited to introduce this new - and highly requested - feature that will save you time and make your club runs easier!
After you process your club, you can easily filter your default club orders from customized ones. This will speed up your order picking by giving you the ability to print packing slips and shipping labels. We hope this update will save your team time when boxing up your club shipments next time around.
On this day last year, we proudly announced our partnership with Tock, a premier reservation and guest management platform tailored to the wine and restaurant industries.
Since then, more than 100 wineries have signed on with WineDirect to leverage Tock's reservation, table management and CRM system offering guests convenient ways to book tours, tastings, and special events.
Together, WineDirect and Tock provide deep customer insights, reduce no-shows, improve your team's efficiency and increase sales. Here are a few ways you can take advantage of our integration to offer the world-class hospitality your customers expect:
“Tock is like having a receptionist 24 hours a day. We’re now able to book guests around the clock, and in the process, collect important guest details (first-time visitors, celebrations, member referrals, etc). This wasn’t possible when we were manually taking reservations over the phone.”
- Nicole Roberts, Epoch Estate Wines
We'll continue to collaborate on new and innovative features with Tock to enhance our integrated offering as we strive to create the ultimate reservations management and CRM tool for wineries.
Stay tuned for future updates!
> Learn more about our integration with Tock and request a demo.
We've been working hard on upgrading our New Checkout options to entice you to switch over from our legacy checkout. Starting today, you can further customize your checkout experience because:
When we first launched our new checkout, we offered a limited amount of Google fonts, however we are now offering the ability to choose from over 900 Google fonts. This allows you to seamlessly match your branding thorughout your entire website.
A designer can now add custom HTML and CSS to style your online store's header when using our new checkout tools, offering you more control of your website's look and feel.
Today, under the contacts tab you will see that there is no longer a “Send Mass Email” section and now everything you need to manage and send your email documents lives under “Email Documents”. Besides the button placement (now on the top right of the screen), and an updated design, there are a lot of time-saving benefits that come along with this change that will make your email marketing more streamlined, including:
1. Crafting your email and then sending right from that document, without navigating away from the email.
2. When you send from the current email document, you only need to select your contact list. This reduces sifting through multiple categories and email documents to find your email, a significant reduction in the steps required to send an email.
3. Send an email to multiple people in the contacts section without having to leave the contact list.
Read more about these changes on our documentation site.
If you're a ShipCompliant user, you now have access to shipping address error notifications on the point of sale.
This feature gives you the opportunity to identify and correct shipping address related errors before a customer leaves the tasting room, helping ensure more orders pass compliance and are not quarantined. This workflow change will significantly improve the customer purchasing experience.
With this feature, the compliance check is executed before the payment is completed, displaying any error codes for your tasting room staff to handle. This allows them to double-check the customer's shipping address, in order to resolve the error before the customer leaves.
> Learn more by reading the documentation. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch!
Through our partnership with VinDashboard, WineDirect clients now have a new way to access and analyze your data.
VinDashboard is a reporting service gives you a snapshot view of key business metrics and allows you to drill deeper into your WineDirect data to uncover actionable insights.
Providing access to 50+ industry standard reports and KPIs, VinDashboard enables wineries to easily track and interpret your DTC data through a highly visual and flexible interface. It pulls your WineDirect data automatically and refreshes every day.
Dashboards and Reports include:
An ideal reporting tool for DTC Managers, Wine Club Managers and Finance Executives, VinDashboard saves you time by compiling the most important data into one easy-to-use, customizable tool. Reports can be set up to be emailed automatically and are easily exported to Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
Services start at $179/month with a one-time setup fee. Pricing is based on annual DTC sales and a 10% discount is offered for annual subscriptions.
> Visit our FAQ page to learn more about VinDashboard and request a demo.
Now WineDirect clients can transfer transactions directly to your QuickBooks desktop application -- automatically!
Our partner, WineGlass Integration Technology Solutions (WGits), has developed an automated solution that eliminates the need to manually download reports or use Transaction Pro Importer (TPI) each time you want to upload transactions.
Benefits of WGits for QuickBooks include:
WGits for QuickBooks offers WineDirect clients an easier way to reconcile your transactional data with your accounting needs, eliminating tedious administrative work and headaches for your team.
> To learn more about WGits for QuickBooks, please contact WGits for a demo.
You can now view exactly which details have changed within a customer's record when they make edits to their account. Our improved admin email notifications are designed to instantly alert you of updates to a customers' shipping address, credit card, club information and more. This takes extra guesswork off your plate, saving you valuable time and helping you stay organized.
Another helpful aspect of these enhancements is that the notification will now specify important details of members' club information when they make edits to their accounts:
Here are some examples of what the email notifications look like. Any new information will be clearly highlighted in green, while old information appears behind a strikethrough line.
Example 1 | Edits to Club Information:
Example 2 | Edits to Saved Credit Card:
Please Note: If you'd like to update the list of team members who receive these notifications at your winery, you can reach out to our support team at support@winedirect.com or ask a user who has developer access to your winery's website settings.