Sell wine, beer and spirits online

Age verification before the shop, not after the cart

Age confirmation can cover the whole shop or only certain collections, with a note for visitors arriving from a country where the rules differ. It is built in and free to turn on — not a monthly app you discover you need after the first complaint.

Heavy, fragile, and not free to ship

Six bottles are not six shirts. Shipping rules add a surcharge per product, tag or product type, force a method that can carry the weight, or rule out one that cannot.

Heavy goods can also be excluded from the free-shipping threshold, so a case does not travel free because the cart happened to pass €100 — and sub-zones by region or postcode let you price an island or a mountain valley for what it actually costs.

• Surcharge per shipment, per item or per line
• A method forced, or forbidden, per product or tag
• Sub-zones by region or postcode prefix
• Heavy items kept out of the free-shipping threshold

Local delivery and collection

Many drinks shops deliver their own city and let people collect. Local delivery zones with their own prices and pickup from the shop are both separate from courier rates, and neither pays a surcharge written for parcels.

The wine club

A monthly case is a subscription: the interval you choose, renewals that become real orders, and customers who pause or skip from their own account when they are away. Gift cards and gift subscriptions cover the part of the year when wine is bought for someone else.

Restaurants and bars

Trade customers want their own price list, a purchase-order number and payment terms rather than a card. They log in and see their prices; the public sees the retail shop. One catalogue, two kinds of buyer.

• Price lists per customer or group
• PO number at checkout
• Pay-later terms with a due date
• Invoices in your own numbering series

Read more: Subscriptions, without a subscription app, B2B and wholesale in the same store, One store for every market.