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Who it’s for

Bookings for wineries and breweries, done properly.

Fixed tasting times with a real seat count, private groups booked as one, and deposits taken before the bottles are opened.

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Wine glasses arranged on a tasting room counter.

A winery or brewery sells a tasting that starts at a fixed time and holds what the counter holds. The 2pm cellar door tasting takes twelve, the reserve flight takes ten, a vineyard tour takes sixteen and needs a deposit before the bottles are opened. A party of six is one booking and six seats. Club members pour for free on Sunday and still need to be counted. Visitors arrive from everywhere, so the booking page has to read in their language while the price stays in yours. account42 holds the seat count, takes the deposit on your own account, and counts every glass.

A week at Stonefield Vineyard.

This is the booking widget, not a picture of it. Take a seat and watch the count move and the confirmation text arrive.

Every session carries its own price, seat count and rules, so a course, a drop-in and a free session sit in the same timetable.

Book a tasting

This week

  • Tue 2:00 pm

    Cellar door tasting

    45 min · $30 · drop-in

    4 seats left

  • Thu 5:00 pm

    Reserve flight

    75 min · $65 · drop-in or credits

    1 seat left

  • Sat 11:00 am

    Vineyard tour & tasting

    2 hours · $85 · deposit $25

    Full

  • Sun 3:00 pm

    Members' pour

    60 min · free for club members

    9 seats left

How a winery uses account42.

Set up the schedule
Add the cellar door tasting as a daily session at 2 pm with twelve seats and the reserve flight on Thursday and Saturday with ten. The vineyard tour runs on Saturday morning with sixteen places and a deposit as its price. The members' pour is a free weekly session with twenty places. The pattern generates every session ahead of time.
Take bookings and payments
Visitors book from your website in their own language and pay in your currency on your own Stripe or PayPal account. A party of six takes six seats in one checkout. A tour deposit is taken at booking and the balance at the cellar door. Club members book the pour at no charge and it still fills the room.
Handle changes and waitlists
A visitor who cancels late loses the deposit or keeps it, exactly as your window says, and the seats go to the waitlist with a time-limited offer. When harvest closes the cellar door for a day, cancel the sessions and every booking is refunded by your rule with a message to each guest.

The parts that are hard to get right.

A tasting time is a fixed departure

The 2pm runs at 2pm, and the counter holds what it holds.

Under the hood

Every hold and booking is a single database transaction, so the last seat at a fixed time cannot be sold twice.

Groups are one booking and several seats

A party of six takes six places, not one.

Under the hood

Each place is its own booking against the session's seat count, so the pour numbers stay right.

Club members pour for free and still book

Members book the members' pour at no charge and it still fills the room.

Under the hood

Membership status is read at booking time, so a lapsed payment stops new bookings without deleting the member.

Works where you are : your currency, timezone and language, on your own Stripe or PayPal account.

Questions people ask about booking for wineries and breweries

Can I take a deposit for a tour?
Yes. Price the session as the deposit and take the balance at the cellar door, or charge in full at booking.
Can I sell out a private tasting?
Yes. Create the session with the seat count you want and price it for the group.
Can I run a wine club?
Yes. Run the club as a membership, and price members' sessions at zero.
Can I sell bottles at the end of a tasting?
No. Bottle sales stay on your till. account42 handles the seat, the deposit and the tasting fee, and every payment it takes settles on your own Stripe or PayPal account without a cut.
How do I handle a coach party?
Create a private session with the seat count the party needs and price it for the group. The organizer books it as one purchase, and the seats are still counted so the counter is never over.
Can I run tastings at a market or festival?
Yes. A tasting is a time, a price and a seat count, and the venue goes in the description. A festival slot sits beside the cellar door sessions in one timetable.

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