Wine and Spirits stores - Square and Vivino

Does anyone currently using Square also sell on Vivino?  If so, do you have any shortcuts for uploading you inventory?   We're looking into it but Square does not integrate with them so it completely complicates things.

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Hi there @besus.  So I’m not a wine and spirit seller.  But I did spend some time of both Vivino’s and Actenzo’s (their technical partner) website.  One thing I learned — Actenzo has chosen not to integrate with Square sites for some reason.  They could, if they wanted, using Squa’re APIs which are freely available to all developers.  Square is not in the business of actively integrating with other software.  They provider all of the APIs required for that other software to integrate with our Square accounts, but it is up to companies like Actenzo to do all of the work beyond that.  I’d check with their technical staff/help desk to see if there are any plans to do so.  Heck, they might already be doing it and need beta testers!

 

One other thing.  I assume you are using Actenzo’s products import feature for platforms with which they don’t currently integrate.  What are the problems/issues that came up?  I’m a pretty technically-oriented person, having been a software engineer in a former life.  It’s possible I could help you get over those hurdles.

Chip A.
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Thanks @TheRealChipA .  I am not technically oriented so any insight is appreciated.  

 

Basically, Actenzo gave me a template for uploading inventory.  I used the Square inventory export and went through by hand to match up for the Actenzo upload.  If you have any ideas on how I could streamline the process I'm all ears!

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@besus I think I can give you some help you automate that.  But, we’ll need to do that through another channel.  I’m going to send you a private message here in the Community.  It will have my email address (which I can’t post on this public forum).  Please send me an email with two attachments:

 

  1. Your Square export CSV
  2. Actenzo’s template
  3. The spreadsheet app you use — Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets?

I’ll work on an automation spreadsheet and send it back to you with instructions on how to use it.

Chip A.
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