Cellar Tracker - is there API access?

[John_Peacock]

By the way, the majority of wines created now are actually by our editorial team when people send us label pictures.

It sure would be nice if the wineries would take the initiative to make sure their wines are set up correctly in CT before release. I think it would limit the number of listings for a single bottling and would hopefully reduce confusion. I try and enter all our wines before release, but forgot to do that with our 2020 Rose, which means there are now three different products for that one wine (which I need to email CT about to consolidate).

U.S. wineries? Or do you expect global support?

I think CT is a global platform, so I would hope for global support, but I’d just be happy with having all my local wineries enter their wines.

[ybarselah]

Yes we do have a bulk import mechanism, but it is more focused on initial load versus chronic use on an ongoing basis: Migrating From Another System - CellarTracker Support

Thanks. The automation of the fermentation step is what I guess I am asking. If the retailers/wineries could have the iWine ID validated and populated on a format that will align to a CT import, then the optional placement & comment elements are left to the user. When at shipping stage, the placement may not even be needed, but price, retailer, and iWine ID to get the right info ready for a barcode when delivered could help those with massive cellars.

I am thinking of the benefits for the customers that want to keep track of some good bottles but have consumed them soon. Not just for the collectors of wines that will be aged for a while.

Also it could be useful for restaurants and wine list management. This could help from the distributors into the restaurant’s inventory and wine list management. Extension of the other reviews information on a restaurant wine list to highlight some user or pro reviews may help restaurants sell more unusual wines to consumers. If you don’t know the variety or AVA you might not take a chance on that bottle normally, but after seeing some more info on it the restaurant highlighted from CT, you dive right in.

i see you’ve hacked into our roadmap! lol

we have a lot of these tools in place for the very reason you assert; data entry is dumb and error prone. so our pov is that you shouldn’t have to do it. ever.

it also means you need to have the engineering capacity and willingness to integrate directly with ordering and POS systems at retail and on-premise, which we’ve also done

[KatieD]

Somewhat related, I’d love to see if someone (a winery or vendor) could produce a QR code that would pre-populate a cellar tracker entry (of the correct bottle and vintage). Then, you’d just open your shipment (or email receipt), scan the QR code(s), add price if desired, and move on.

[Glenn_C_McMillen]

@KatieD

ust open your shipment (or email receipt), scan the QR code(s), add price

You can creates QR codes from any old URL. So knowing the Cellar Tracker URL. I used the search results but looks like the Wine ID is all that is needed. I used Adobe, you can use what you want. https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/image/qr-code-generator

Cellar Tracker Patricia Green 2019 Pinot URL

2019 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir Reserve, USA, Oregon, Willamette Valley...

First URL is more dense with all the extra characters.

The wine ID makes a less dense URL.

Another strategy is to use a short URL to make as few blocks as you can in the QR code. Services like bit.ly can do this for any old URL.

[KatieD]

Great example. I think this is easy enough to do that retailers should be able to do this for larger mail orders and wineries should do it for their own wines. It also would help wineries get their CT numbers up I can’t see any downsides other than the extra front end work to create the QR code. I’ll get off my soapbox now.

[Andrew_K]

Like this? Except it goes to the wine.com page…

[Eric_Michels]

From a winemaker/retailer perspective this makes a ton of sense (linking back to store page as in the above example) - for a casual winedrinker wouldn’t you really want them to be enjoying a particular bottle and make it easy enough to scan for reorder? The CT link is excellent for us geeks but doesn’t seem to offer much value to the maker/retailer (especially the retailer). The only downside I see here is that there are few winemakers/retailers who I have seen maintain a page for a prior vintage - once on to the next vintage the URL changes. It would seemingly require some back end work to set up a non-specific vintage landing page (in contrast to CT page which exists indefinitely).

[Glenn_C_McMillen]

The downside I see for retailers is the ease of price comparison from the Cellar Tracker site. If there was a description and scores only view for stores to help sell the stuff at a subscription model, that could sell!

Also selling mediocre wine is probably an art. Leading people to pages that say you are probably paying too much for this not so good wine could ruin whole segments of the industry.

[KatieD]

Yes! But as @Eric_Michels noted, it’s probably only useful to link to CT for the minority of us who are trying to track inventories there.

And as @Glenn_C_McMillen says, linking to CT will also highlight potentially mediocre or overpriced wines that much more quickly.