For over 20 years, Elypsis has been providing exceptional wine business management solutions to many of the leading and emerging wineries across the United States. Now Zuna Inc. and Elypsis Inc. are very excited to introduce these market leading solutions to the Canadian Wine Industry. Unlike most software developers, the Elypsis team has taken the approach of crafting a set of solutions for the winery industry based on in-depth knowledge of the challenges faced. Located in the Napa Valley, Elypsis, Inc. works shoulder-to-shoulder with many wineries and understand the unique needs of their business.
The integrated Elypsis software suite enables wineries of all sizes to easily manage operations, from accounting and inventory management to the retail tasting room, providing a complete view of the business. Unlike older technologies or single application products, Elypsis unites all the systems a winery needs to remain focused on the business, improve management insight, increase operational effectiveness, and sell more wine. With over 200 winery customers, the depth of our expertise continues to grow, much like the vineyards that surround us, enabling us to improve our products with every new release.
Role Questions
General Questions
1. Are you using one integrated software system that provides you with a single view of your business performance?
2. Do you spend too much time re-entering data because your systems don’t integrate?
3. Does it take your team too long to fulfill customers’ requests?
4. Is your system based on the latest software technology and supported by millions of dollars of ongoing R&D to ensure you stay current and competitive?
5. Does your system provider have actual winery operations experience and provide expertise on better ways to run your business?
6. Are you spending too much money and decreasing your profits by making double entries?
7. Does your current solution integrate to Microsoft Office for mail merge and custom reports?
8. Do you have one company to call when one of your software systems does not perform as expected?
Inventory Operations Manager
1. Can you manage inventory allocations to various sales channels and quickly understand sales channel performance?
2. Do you want to manage inventory from multiple locations?
3. Do you view product configurations in bottles, liters, gallons, and cases at the touch of a button?
Tasting Room/Wine Shop Clerk
1. Is your point of sale system designed specifically for wine retail management?
2. Do you capitalize on opportunities to sign up customers for wine clubs and newsletters?
3. Is your wine club information available in your point of sale solution so that you offer a higher level of customer service?
4. Can you process, track and ship to an unlimited number of wine clubs?
5. Does it take a long time to process orders and track customer information when a bus load of tourists come into your wine shop?
6. Does your current system allow you to enter customer information once and have it available on the web, point of sale system and back-end accounting system?
7. Can your retail system automatically post transactions to your GL?
WEB Sales Manager
1. Do you have a full-featured winery specific ecommerce solution including an online shopping cart?
2. Do orders and new members on your website become immediately visible in the tasting room without manual intervention?
3. Do you use a third party agency to commercially promote and sell your wine?
4. Do you have current capabilities using a web portal to view in real-time how a sales agency is doing promoting your wine?
Accountant/Controller
1. Does your system provide you with winery specific reports such as web sales vs. Tasting room sales?
2. Does it take alot of time to gather and provide accurate data for provincial reporting?
Dynamic. Flexible. Familiar. Integrated.
Elypsis has developed two core software suites designed to address specific areas of your business — Elypsis Winery™ and Elypsis Retail™. Both Elypsis solution sets are built on Microsoft® Dynamics™, a line of integrated, adaptable business management tools that enable your people to make important business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft® Dynamics works like familiar Microsoft® software - easing adoption and reducing the risks inherent with implementing a new solution. Through our strategic partnership with Microsoft®, Elypsis has the global support necessary to guarantee your investment is secure and that your implementations will grow with your ever-expanding requirements. What’s more, the modular approach with each Elypsis software solution enables you to start with a single solution and grow, or to adopt a complete suite that will enable you to transform your approach to winery management.
Features Include:
• Complete Accounting/Financial back-office features
• Winery specific Inventory Management
• Website Integration
• Wine Club Management
• Winery CRM - Winery specific Customer Relationship Management - e-mail, marketing, customer tracking and reporting.
• Tasting Room Point of Sale (POS) integration with Microsoft® Dynamics Retail Management System®
• Remote sales order entry
• Winery Analytics - Business Intelligence for the Winery
