Here's an example of how changes are made to the WineWeb services, and why I love what I do. Sunday morning I get an email from Steve L., one of our winery clients, asking some questions about how members can customize their Wine shipments. One of the questions was why the system would let a Club member customize their shipment with less expensive wines that totaled to less than the minimum price of the wine club. When I responded that the club price range was used only for display purposes on the website, his reply was "Bummer...". Then after understanding his business need for this, I decided that it was a good idea that needed to be part of our wine club software, as other winery clients could also benefit from this.

After spending time on the analysis and design of this Enhancement request yesterday, I discovered that the enhancement was more complex than originally thought ("shucks" says the part of my brain concerned with time management), but doing this would also enable another benefit ("cool" says the techy part of my brain). So scheduled for development and testing today is this enhancement to allow a winery to specify whether customized wine club shipments must meet the min. and/or max. pricing for the wine club, and then the logic to do the edit checks against the customized club shipment/order. The more complex part is that we need to re-price the club order at the time the Club Member customizes it to determine if they are over or under the price range (we had been doing that later when the batch shipment was run). The extra benefit is that by re-pricing the order earlier, the club member can see the new price of their customized order.

Maybe that's more than you wanted to know about this enhancement, but hopefully it provides some insight on how new features make it into the WineWeb system.