Wine Direct Shipping Compliance News.

October 2008:

• Direct Shipping Online Seminar Draws Huge, Diverse Crowd
  

September 2008:

• ShipCompliant Offers Retail Solution
  

July 2008:

• American Winery Integration
• New Free Temperature Tool
• ShipCompliant's Free Temperature Forecasting Tool
• Conference Clarifies Direct Shipping Issues and Processes
• 10 Blogs Every Winery Owner Should Read
• An Independence Day look at progress in direct shipping since Granholm v Heald
• 2008 User Conference Nearly Sold Out

April 2008:

• Coalition for free trade promotion
  

January 2008:

• Washington Wine Institute Selects ShipCompliant to Provide Direct Shipping Compliance

Beat the heat! Free temperature forecasting tool will enable wine shippers to comply with Mother Nature’s rules

July 15, 2008, Boulder, CO – ShipCompliant announced today that it has launched a custom temperature forecasting tool for protecting wine shipments. The latest addition to an innovative free tool suite from ShipCompliant is now available for any winery or wine retailer to use on the ShipCompliant website at http://www.shipcompliant.com/free-tools/.

Temperature forecasting has long been a problem for wineries and wine shippers. Hot temperatures during the delivery process can negatively impact the quality of the wine upon delivery and, more importantly, for cellaring. Visibly damaged bottles cost wineries in returned shipments, replacement shipments, and customer satisfaction. However, a greater threat comes from the reputation hit that occurs when wine that is not initially recognized as damaged by the recipient is cellared, and when finally consumed, is below customer expectations.

ShipCompliant’s temperature tool allows a winery to set thresholds on temperatures at which they want their shipments out for delivery, to see resulting destinations to which they should and shouldn’t ship, and ultimately to filter shipment files for zip codes with forecasted temperatures within the thresholds, prior to sending to fulfillment. This process that has previously been completely manual and extremely time consuming can now be completed in a few easy steps.

"We gave a sneak-preview to about 350 people, including over 150 ShipCompliant customers at our third annual direct shipping seminar and users conference on Friday", said ShipCompliant CEO Jason Eckenroth. "The reception of the temperature forecasting tool was remarkable. Our fulfillment partners and winery and wine retailer partners can't wait to get their hands on this technology. The free tool is a great proof of concept and will be extremely valuable to all wine shippers, but we'll really be able to leverage this technology within the ShipCompliant application, where our 1,800 users can take advantage of automated weather holds and releases and exercise unprecedented control over their shipping."

Media Contact:
Elizabeth Hause, ShipCompliant (303) 996-2344