# bindro — Winery tasting events

> bindro sells tasting-room bookings for a winery: the day is cut into arrival slots, each slot holds its own seats per flight, and a taster picks a time, confirms the party is 21 or over and pays on one phone-sized page. A booker under 21 is refused before payment, a membership number typed at checkout is verified against the winery's own roster before a member price is given, bottles and boards ride along as add-ons, and the door scans a QR code with no signal at all. Money reaches the winery two days after the last slot of the event it was sold under, never before.

Canonical page: https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/
Reviewed: 2026-08-09

## Facts
- Inventory model: timed slot.
- Pricing models: flat, tiered, member nonmember, group rate.
- Fees: 2.5% + $0.99 per paid seat; free tastings cost nothing.
- Payouts: one payout per event, released 2 days after that event's LAST session has ended (low risk tier, 0% reserve). Never before delivery, and a tasting sold as a run of dates pays out once, after the final date.
- Check-in: qr, works offline.
- Joining: free, alone, in minutes. No contract, no monthly fee and no card at signup. A payout destination is verified before the first payout, never before the first sale.
- Booking fee default: the taster pays it. A winery can absorb it or split it per tasting; the fee itself does not change with the choice, only which side of the sale it comes from.
- Overselling is structurally impossible: inventory moves only under a row lock inside the transaction that confirms the order, with a database constraint behind that as a backstop rather than as the mechanism.
- The number this vertical is run on: Revenue per tasting seat. Also tracked: club conversion rate, bottle attach per taster, repeat visit rate. The console computes the north-star figure and prints the arithmetic under it, beside this winery's own funnel with the drop-off at each stage, where the traffic came from, refund, transfer, turnout, no-show, add-on and repeat rates each shown with its numerator and denominator, gross, fees and refunds per tasting, live remaining capacity during the tasting, and CSV exports of orders and tasters. A step the platform cannot observe says so rather than reporting a zero.
- Data export: orders and tasters as CSV from the console at any time, behind a fresh one-time code. No export fee, no notice period, no lock-in.
- Required before checkout, enforced on the money path: Age verification (21+) for alcohol service.

## Not supported for this vertical
- bindro does not run your wine club. There is no recurring charge anywhere in the product: no dues, no renewal, no club sign-up, no allocation and no shipping. Member pricing is a check made at checkout against a roster you type into the console by hand, one member at a time, with no CSV import — and nothing adds a buyer to it, not even buying a club pass. Whatever bills and ships your club today keeps doing it.
- A member price is not a members-only door. The roster decides what a taster PAYS, never whether they may book: once a tasting is on sale, anyone with the link can take a seat at the non-member price, and there is no invitation-only listing, no access code and no rule you can point at a membership number. A club-only release is protected by who you send the link to and by the person on the door, not by the software.
- The till writes bottle and food sales down; it does not take the money, and there is no way to record a seat paid for in cash. A counter sale rung up on the POS page is recorded at the price you set for your own end-of-day numbers, and that money never enters the platform ledger, never reaches a payout and cannot be refunded here. A walk-up seat sold at the door is a real card sale on the ordinary checkout, but crediting a winery for cash the platform never held would pay you for the same seat twice, so bindro refuses to pretend. Bottles a taster adds to a booking ARE charged by bindro, because an add-on is part of the order.
- No deposits and no payment plans. A winemaker dinner is charged in full at the moment of booking or not at all: this vertical does not resolve instalments, so there is no deposit-now-balance-later, no scheduled second charge and no card held for the rest. The nearest instrument is a gift card, and a gift card is something a guest chooses to buy rather than something you can bill them for.
- No waiting list, and a refunded seat does not come back on sale. When a slot fills the page says fully booked and stops: nobody joins a list and nobody is emailed when a seat frees up. Refunding a booking returns the money and leaves the seat counted as sold, so if you want one more couple at two o'clock, raise that slot's capacity by one rather than waiting for a cancellation to reopen it.
- No transfers and no date changes. A taster who cannot come on Saturday cannot hand the seat to a friend and cannot move it to Sunday — this vertical resolves neither ticket transfer nor deferral, and there is no credit note to issue. The only lever is a refund, after which they book again at whatever is still on sale. A gift card is the giftable instrument; a tasting seat is not.
- No group product and no invoicing on terms. A booking takes up to twelve guests on one card payment and that is the whole of it: there is no group rate to set, no roster for a coach party to fill in guest by guest, and no purchase order or invoice. A tour operator or a corporate visit is either an ordinary booking at the ordinary price or an arrangement you make with them off the platform.
- A club pass takes no seat in the slot it admits at. A pass tier is bounded only by its own stock, and its holder is admitted at every session of the event it covers while consuming none of those slots' seats. A tasting room with a licence-limited capacity therefore has to size its slots for the pass holders it expects as well as for the seats it sells; nothing warns the door that a busy slot is fuller than the screen says.

## Questions the landing page answers
- What should the tasting room run on bindro, and what should your club platform keep?
- How should a release weekend be published so that both the door and the payout behave?
- What happens when a taster cannot come, and why does the seat not go back on sale?
- What does a booking actually cost a winery, and who ends up paying it?
  https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/

## Pages
- FAQ (27 questions): https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/faq/
- bindro vs Tock: https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/compare/tock/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- bindro vs Commerce7: https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/compare/commerce7/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- bindro vs Vinoshipper: https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/compare/vinoshipper/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- bindro vs Peek: https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/compare/peek/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- How to run a Saturday of tasting slots without a queue at the cellar door: https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/blog/tasting-slots-without-a-queue-at-the-cellar-door/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Wine club member pricing: the half bindro does, and the half your club software keeps: https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/blog/wine-club-member-pricing-what-bindro-does-not-do/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Age verification for winery tastings: what the booking refuses and what your staff must still do: https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/blog/age-verification-for-winery-tastings/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)
- Winemaker dinners and library releases: charging a high-value seat with no deposit: https://bindro.io/vertical/winery-tastings/blog/winemaker-dinners-and-library-releases-without-deposits/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)