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Our Setup and Ongoing Support Process

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At the end of the setup process, we give you full control of your website. You can make changes anytime, from anywhere.

We're always here to help and assist you. We understand that we must earn your business each and every month.


 

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We have streamlined the registration and setup process to have you using our services in a timely manner.

Registration

Our registration process is online. It's a simple process where we ask your name, email address and a password. Then you choose the services you want. We'll be immediately notified and we'll begin the setup process.

Although not required, if you would like a paper agreement that we both sign, please print and sign our winery agreement pdf file, then fax it to us. We'll then sign it and fax it back.

Setup

We'll contact you and email you some checklists and forms, based on the services you have selected. These forms tell us the features you want, where you ship, how you calculate discounts and shipping costs, the email accounts you want, etc. We'll also discuss with you the pluses and minuses or your existing website and the design changes you want incorporated into your new site.

While you're working on the forms, we'll create an initial website design and copy existing content to the new site (while respecting any copyright issues of your existing website provider). We typically have the initial site designed within a few days. You'll then be able to review the new site and monitor the setup progress.

Training

As part of the setup process, we'll provide personalized training to walk you through our content management system and allow you to make some changes. We'll also create some test orders and guide you through processing the orders. The training session(s) are conducted online, where you can view our computer screen. Our goal is to make you feel comfortable with the administration of your website and e-commerce service.

Our customers have found our administration pages easy-to-use, and a short orientation session is all that is typically needed to gain that confidence. As part of our initial setup fee, we provide personalized training based on the registered services:

  • e-commerce or POS-only services - max. 1 hour
  • Small winery plan - max. 2 hours
  • Enhanced plan - max. 3 hours.

Additional training is provided during our Tuesday Talk sessions and our growing library of training videos. Additional, personalized training for staff turnover, etc. is available for an additional fee.

Going Live

When you're happy with the new site, we'll point your domain name to the new site on our servers, and you're up and running.

Ongoing Support

Once your new site is live, you're in control and we play a supporting role. Don't worry, we're never more than a phone call or email away. We stand ready to help and assist you.

Software tool support

We provide technical support during an extended weekday schedule (6AM-6PM Pacific, Monday - Friday). If you have issues or questions, phone or email anytime. Our standard response time for non-emergency issues is one business day, although most of our clients can attest that we're usually much faster than that. Emergency issues, which we define as an issue that prevents a customer from ordering your wine or prevents you from taking an order in our POS system, are addressed as soon as we are informed, 7 days a week.

We also provide an extensive online help system that is continually updated based on client feedback. We include audio help on many functions, if you'd like to listen instead of read. We also have a growing library of training videos.

We regularly email newsletters as we add new features. We also maintain a discussion forum with a private area for our customers. You can also subscribe to our blog so you are informed of all the things going on at WineWeb.

Additional assistance for other activities are requested through myWineWebmaster.

Server & network support

We provide 24x7 monitoring of our server infrastructure. We have implemented multiple layers of redundancy and fail-over to ensure than any downtime is minimized. We and/or our hosting company are notified of any issues and we work around-the-clock to resolve them. Our servers are located in a professionally managed data center. We understand the importance of infrastructure security, redundancy and controls. More details are available in the Data Center Infrastructure section of the Hosting Details page.


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Customer Quotes

"We looked at the competition and the price and performance of their system was a "no brainer" decision! Ron and the WineWeb team converted our old site in days and were always there as we upgraded to ecommerce."

- Walt Brooks
Amethyst Wines / Campion Wines
Napa, CA


"Before we launched on WineWeb, our site had no online order system and to make changes we had to rely on the sole family member who knows Web programming. Now any of us can update the site at any time from anywhere, and we are fully e-commerce capable, giving our customers a simple and efficient means to place orders. In the first 12 months we've seen a return on investment of more than 500%."

- Chris Thorpe and Edwin Richards
Adastra Wines
Carneros, Napa Valley, CA


"WineWeb customer support is excellent. When I've had questions or requested changes to my site, they get right on it."

- Stewart Johnson
Kendric Vineyards
San Anselmo, CA