Greetings! Everyone seems to be busy with Club Pickup Parties, Bottle Runs, and Grape Contracts. So take a break, pour a glass of wine, and let's get started.
Disaster Recovery Assistance for Growers

The Napa Valley Vintners announced a new USDA fund for specialty crops, including wine grapes, due to natural disasters in 2020 & 2021. Check out the USDA website for more details 
Commerce7 Acquires VineSpring

Many folks currently on VineSpring are revisiting the POS options and are looking for alternatives. Yes, you should research but please take your neighbor's comment's with a grain of salt. Read this blog post to learn why and how to avoid shiny feature syndrome. The salespeople with the POS programs are really good at their jobs. Just warning .... Click here for the blog post.
More DTC Sting Operations & Compliance Checks

Steve Gross and the team at Free The Grapes published this warning. Remember the problems with Illinois a few years ago? They’re baaack …. Click here for their May newsletter: 

Many states are conducting sting operations and compliance checks to ensure wineries are following their DTC shipping rules. Missouri has sent cease and desist letters to several wineries for violating the 2 cases/month/person limit
Survey: What Time Tracking and Payroll System Are You Using?

I have had several conversations with folks about their payroll process. Turns out the most time consuming part is tracking and entering the number of hours the crew worked. Many employees work in more than one department (cellar crew pitches in to help with the club runs and everyone pitches in during crush), so these details need to be tracked due to the costing process. This is yet another detail that is more complicated at the small wineries.

Please hit reply and answer these questions:

  1. What time tracking system do you use or do you so this manually?
  2. Does it sync with your payroll system?
  3. What do you like/dislike about your time tracking system?
  4. What is your payroll program?
  5. What do you like/dislike about your payroll system?
  6. Do you use QB Desktop or QB Online?
Silver Club News
Recap April Office Hours

Last month we had a very lively conversation. Check out the recording in the Learning Library. These are the time stamps for the topics we covered:

  • 1:52 Payroll and allocating costs
  • 16:17 Bottle Runs, create new items & the Bottle Run check
  • 18:31 WGit by Wine Glass Marketing (sync POS with QB)
  • 30:36 QBO additional details for items and Bottle Run check
  • 35:25 Some wine costing issues
  • 40:00 VinoShipper discussion (service for micro wineries who ship out of state)
  • 48:00 Recording sales and excise tax collected
  • 1:01:00 Recording payments for sales tax and excise tax
Join us for Office Hours, Tuesday, May 31st at 10 am Pacific. We answer your questions about QuickBooks and managing a profitable winery in a live group setting.

If you cannot attend, please hit reply and email us your questions.

The recording will be in the Learning Library the day after the session.
The last 15 minutes of Office Hours are saved for our Captain of the Ship topic or sip-sized issues winery owners and managers need to know.

No QuickBooks experience is needed.

This month: Speak like a pirate - Accounting jargon in plain English
Something Fun
Anisya Fritz Commencement Speech

Anisya Fritz is the co-owner of Lynmar Estate, teaches the Wine Entrepreneurship Program at Sonoma State Wine Business Institute, and holds a PHd in Business Strategies. Hear the lessons she learned along her path from red suitcase to red wine during the 2022 Loyola University Commencement Exercises. Her speech is from 32:00 to 51:00. Click here to go to YouTube to see more.
TikTok Meets the Wine Industry

David Choi, owner of 2 Napa Valley wineries, is on a mission to make wine approachable for the White Claw generation.
Share the Goodness

Thank You for allowing QB Winery Solutions to support your winery to achieve additional profitability. Wine is your passion, and ours.

Also, feel free to share this email and the QB Winery Solutions resources with your wine industry friends. Our goal is to save the planet one boutique winery at a time. If you agree, then pass it on.

Cheers!
Jeanette & the QB Winery Solutions Team
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