Tailor-made API

Baqio VignoblExport API

The transport of your bottles remains your main problem? EtOH, VignoblExport and Baqio have decided to bring you the solution! Thanks to the API allowing you to connect the transport offers offered by VignoblExport and the commercial management software Baqio, you can now compare the best offers for the shipment of your wines and spirits without leaving the platform.

At EtOH, our vocation is to advise and support professionals such as winegrowers, brewers, cellars, traders and suppliers in the sector in their digital transformation. We position ourselves as one of the only players offering a specific response to organizational, economic, regulatory and marketing challenges by co-managing their projects and implementing digitalization tools.

VineyardExport

VineyardExport aims to facilitate the most complex part of selling wine, which is shipping. They offer a solution to facilitate the work of winegrowers, merchants, cooperative cellars, export agents, by taking charge of the transport of their wines and spirits, in France and around the world. Their role is to consolidate and negotiate the best transport offers and offer them to the producers with whom they work, at no additional cost. They are remunerated through the commission paid by the carriers.
For the winegrower, it is the assurance of always having the best price for his shipment according to the quantity and the destination.

Baqio

Baqio is the first web-based SaaS software for the commercial management of wine estates and merchants, you can define your products, your prices, your stocks and create customer orders. Plus, you can easily track your shipments, invoicing and receipts.

 

Integrate the VignoblExport API into the Baqio software

VignoblExport asked us to integrate their API into the Baqio software.

The end goal? To be able to use the shipping rates and the automatic calculation generated by Vignobl'Export, directly within the Baqio software.

Previously, winegrowers who wanted to ship bottles of wine via VignoblExport had to prepare their shipment on Baqio, then go to the VignoblExport platform, calculate their price and manage their shipment.

In the end, the problems of this system were:

  • double entry,
  • dual-interface,
  • risk of error when copying,
  • unnecessary waste of time.

Today, the entire VignoblExport shipping calculation and preparation system has been synthesized by the VignoblExport teams within their API. Thanks to the implementation of this API, it is now possible to connect and integrate VignoblExport technology and services into other interfaces. Thus, customers no longer need to re-enter shipping information in the VignoblExport interface.

Imagine a cable that connects 2 systems: this is the role of the API.

From now on, VignoblExport will be able to integrate into all of its customers' commercial interfaces, starting with Baqio to enable direct management of transport, delivery and logistics when ordering bottles.

API Schema

What are the functionalities provided by the VignoblExport API?

  • make shipping requests (manage multiple carriers),
  • compare the rates of several carrier offers,
  • choose an offer,
  • request a pickup,
  • track the shipment,
  • order special boxes for transport.

The role of EtOH Digital

In this project, EtOH played the role of project manager for the creation of the module to integrate it into the interfaces targeted by VignoblExport: Baqio, but also later, the development of a Woocommerce module (for WordPress sites) and later Prestashop.

EtOH is responsible for understanding the operation of the VignoblExport API, in other words, understanding how the famous “cable” works and connecting this cable with the target interface and thus ensuring that 2 separate systems communicate perfectly: Baqio, Woocommerce or Prestashop.

Thanks to the module developed by EtOH and Baqio and the VignoblExport API, the user can now choose his shipping method and automatically calculate the delivery costs, to add them to the final invoice, in the same interface.

No more going back and forth between the 2 software, everything is now in the same place. This very complex technical development ultimately simplifies the use of the software for users.

Moreover, as part of the development for Woocommerce and Prestashop, these modules will allow the site administrator (the winegrower or the wine merchant) not only to be able to manage their shipping costs directly in the back office of their site, but above all to allow the consumer to choose his shipping method and to pay the shipping costs that concern him.

The benefits are therefore double

On the winemaker side:

the management of transport, cost calculation and delivery tracking is automated: no more manual intervention is required;
less risk of error in the calculation of costs and therefore the risk of not charging the right price to the consumer;
the back-office of the module will allow the administrator of the e-commerce site to follow the deliveries made.

On the end consumer side:

no more flat shipping rates: you will only pay the fair price for transport costs;
the module is displayed in several languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese.

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