How the Right Tools Can Help Push Your Winery’s Profits

Partnering with the right winery software is not only necessary for the efficient running of your winery, but also for boosting your winery’s profitability. A well-designed software can help reduce your expenses, while helping you push your wine sales up.

Check out these seven ways in which a winery management software can help your winery cut costs and increase its profits:

1. Increase wine club memberships:

The math is pretty straightforward: more wine club members = more profitability! After all, a wine club is crucial to your Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) marketing strategy, with an average margin of 50% per bottle made on each club shipment. Not just that, a wine club is also the best way to ensure a regular and guaranteed income for your winery.

A good winery software manages multiple wine packages, records customer data, tracks orders and shipments, and automatically processes payments. In doing so, it can help you offer better service to your members, increase club sign ups and save time and money otherwise spent on keying in data, paperwork, processing credit cards etc.

2. Support multiple sales avenues:

Today, wineries have an unprecedented opportunity to sell their products across a proliferation of sales channels – right from their tasting room and local markets to wholesalers and international markets! A reliable winery software will support multiple sales avenues, including wholesale, export and license. This will not only make the management of your wine sales efficient, but also increase your B2C sales.

In fact, the 360Winery^™ software lets agents and customers buy at their convenience via its mobile app and wine club module. Further, this software enables a smooth follow up on pending payments, commission calculations and shipments.

3. Reduce capital expenses:

Everybody’s moving to the cloud! Seventy percent of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have been able to reinvest money saved by moving to the cloud, into key business areas.

Yes, that’s right! Cloud-based winery software can help your winery save substantial money. How? By eliminating the need for any hardware upgrades, maintenance costs or accounting fees! Moreover, most cloud-backed software like 360Winery^™ offer regular updates, at no extra cost.

Did you know that SMBs that leverage the cloud see a 50% reduction in internal IT resources? Less staff = more money saved!

4. Enhance staff productivity:

The right winery software can save your staff a significant amount of time otherwise spent on physical stock-taking and data-entry verification. A cloud-based winery software gives employees remote access to winery data and programs – on any device connected to the Internet! In doing so, it greatly reduces the scope for errors.

In addition, a fully integrated winery software will streamline the overall management of your winery. This will enhance your team’s productivity by drastically cutting down the time taken to get different jobs done.

5. Allow you to work on the go:

A winery owner like you needs 24/7 access to your winery’s inventory levels, account status, analysis reports and other important data. With a software that leverages the power of the cloud, your winery operations can continue seamlessly at all times.

360Winery^™ goes a step further with its mobile app and unique offline mode, which allow winery owners to work without an Internet connection. Now, you can make smart business decisions and close deals on the go!

6. Real-time tracking of costs:

Tools that offer complete traceability give you an insight into your true cost of production – all in real time! This can help you take timely action to reduce expenses.

For example, 360Winery^™ is designed on an Activity Based Costing (ABC) system that tracks operational activities on the parameters of man, material and money, in real time. This can save you from last-minute surprises!

7. Equip you with reports for in-depth analysis:

Winery owners like you need access to in-depth reports about the different aspects of your winery. Therefore, a software that frequently whips up reports on every detail of your business and inventory is critical for making smarter decisions.

Moreover, manually pulling out sales and other reports not only costs wineries time and resources, but also leads to incorrect reporting of data. However, a tool that automatically reports to you will increase data integrity and free up your winery’s resources. Further, an analysis tool that tracks the budgeted vs actual costs for each winery operation, will give you better cost control.

These are just some of the ways in which a well-designed software can help your winery save money. What are some of the other cost-saving features of a reliable winery software?

360Winery^™ has helped many wineries save thousands of dollars on operational costs. Our software can certainly help your winery enjoy reduced expenses and higher profits. In fact, you can find out the potential savings of your winery right now! Take the 2-minute 360Degree Test to calculate how much your winery can save.