WineWeb.com Enables Wineries to Comply with Online Wine Sales Laws

The WineWeb has further enhanced its online wine sales services to enable wineries and wine merchants to be compliant with state wine shipping laws. The WineWeb's e-commerce service for wineries include verification of customer history to state quantity limits, sales tax retrieval and calculation, and collection of all customer information required for state compliance reporting.

Santa Fe, NM (PRWEB) August 11, 2006 -- In response to recent publicity on alcohol sales to minors, The WineWeb has further enhanced its online wine sales services to enable wineries and wine merchants to be compliant with state wine shipping laws. The WineWeb's e-commerce service for wineries includes verification of customer history to state quantity limits, sales tax retrieval and calculation, and collection of all customer information required for state compliance reporting.

"While we don't agree with the tactics used to purport claims of underage online wine sales, we do want to provide services that address the wine compliance regulations in all areas," states Ron Kreutzer, WineWeb's founder and president. "We continue to enhance the WineWeb's service offerings to remain current with changing state wine shipping regulations," continues Kreutzer.

The WineWeb's Consolidated Customer Repository allows a winery's customer order history, across all consumer-direct sales channels, to be stored in a central place. This repository is used for compliance validation, customer relationship management, and can be integrated with other winery systems. The WineWeb's online sales service and wine club processing service feed data automatically to the repository, and an import functions are provided for other winery sales systems. As customers typically interact with a winery through multiple sales channels, the winery can now better ensure compliance of each new order.

In addition to order quantity checks, the WineWeb's e-commerce service also retrieves and calculates the appropriate sales tax on each order, and captures all customer information required for the specific state's compliance reports. Integration with shipping carriers, fulfillment centers, and wine compliance reporting services enables a winery to reduce staff effort to support online wine sales.

About The WineWeb:
WineWeb Enterprises, Inc., founded in 1995, provides an electronic marketplace for wine consumers, wineries, and wine retailers. Its trademarked service, The WineWeb, maintains a directory of over 32,000 wineries from around the world, provides value-added e-commerce and website hosting services to assist wineries and wine merchants in selling wine online, and provides a consumer-friendly method of integrating thousands of wines into a searchable environment.

Contact Information
Ron Kreutzer
WineWeb Enterprises, Inc.
505-577-9597
http://www.wineweb.com

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