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Gradax

Three businesses sharing one cellar

Websites, direct sales and visit booking for wine producers, built around trade, direct and tourism at once.

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A winery sells to distributors, to visitors and directly to consumers, and the three want entirely different things. A distributor wants technical sheets and volumes, a visitor wants opening hours and a booking, a consumer wants a case delivered. Most winery sites choose one and lose the other two.

Direct sales carry the best margin and the most operational friction: shipping wine has weight, breakage and jurisdiction problems that ordinary retail does not, and getting that wrong is expensive in a way a normal shop never experiences.

The search side is not separate from that. Region and grape searches from consumers, winery visit and tasting searches from tourists, and supplier searches from trade buyers. Ranking for those means the pages exist, the business is verified where it operates, and the reviews are real and recent.

How an order moves through a winery

Trade, club and cellar door orders all draw on the same limited stock, and that is where wineries oversell.

  1. Order or booking

    Trade, club and visitor orders arrive through different channels, so they land in one order list.

  2. Allocation

    Allocating a small vintage by spreadsheet oversells it, so stock is reserved the moment an order is placed.

  3. Packing and shipping

    Shipping rules differ by destination, so checkout refuses addresses you cannot send wine to.

  4. Club and reorder

    Club shipments are assembled by hand each release, so members are charged and packed in one run.

What people in this trade ask us

Can we sell directly?
Yes, and it is your best margin. Shipping rules by destination are the real constraint and need settling before the shop is built, not after.
Do trade buyers use the site?
To check technical sheets and availability before contacting you. Hiding those behind a login costs you enquiries.
Are tastings worth booking online?
Yes, with a deposit. Group no-shows are the single largest waste in cellar-door tourism.
Can we run a wine club with recurring payments?
Yes. Members are charged on a schedule and can skip a release, and card details are held by the payment provider rather than by you.
Can visitors buy at the cellar door and have it shipped?
Yes, from a tablet at the counter, using the same stock and shipping rules as the online shop. The case they tasted arrives at home instead of in a hire car.

The infrastructure under it

Managed by the engineers who build the software, on the same contract and the same bill.

Application Hosting

The shop and tasting bookings peak around releases and holidays, exactly when you are busiest in the cellar.

Hands typing application code on a laptop.

Backup & Recovery

Stock movements and order records for each vintage must survive a failed server or a wrong click.

A storage unit with a row of drive bays.

What one contract covers

  • One contract. The build, the infrastructure and the work that brings people to it, on one invoice.
  • A named team. The person on the first call stays on the project. No account managers, no handoffs.
  • Operated, not delivered. We keep it running after launch: patching, backups, monitoring and the phone when it breaks.
  • European hosting. Servers in Europe, run by us, with the data staying where you expect it to.
  • Monthly reporting. What changed, what it cost and what it produced, in language you can forward to a board.
  • No lock-in. The code, the domains and the accounts are yours. Leaving is a handover.

See what is costing you customers before you spend anything.

A senior engineer walks your site, your search presence and the way enquiries reach you, then writes down the three things worth fixing first.

  1. 01You tell us what is not working
  2. 02We review the site, the search presence and the enquiry path
  3. 03You get the three fixes worth doing, and what each is worth