Set It and Forget It Winter Temperature Control Settings

Wineshipping offers many different ways to ensure your wine will be delivered safely to your customer during extreme temperatures. In addition to holding orders until a warmer time of year, Wineshipping provides you with the options to add ice packs to orders or add the Wineshipping Temperature Control Service to orders during order import. Though adding ice packs is a valuable service, it will not be included in the suggestions for winter temperature control settings. Adding the Wineshipping Temperature Control Service is the best solution, for applicable states, with an expected transit time of 3+ days during winter. We think about a temperature control truck being cold but it can also help regulate the temperature for winter transportation too. During the winter we may encounter weather patterns that inhibit carriers from transporting packages causing them to sit in hubs, or even worse, the trucks! Wineshipping monitors the carrier alerts and will proactively hold back orders that may get stuck in these dangerous situations to prevent damage to your products.

In the end, you have the power to manage your settings however you see fit. Take the Wineshipping approved suggestions and tweak it to be more or less conservative based on your business practices. We care about your customers and want to see a safe and successful delivery of your product to them. These suggestions optimize the settings available to you for the best possible outcome for a safe and successful delivery. We have taken the average temperatures and weather patterns across the country to provide the best possible solution for winter shipping. Lets begin!

The following settings can be located when you click on the Temperature Control Settings button on the top left of the Temperature Control page in ACP. These settings are imperative for the best "Set It and Forget It" temperature control settings.

Temperature Ranges enabled: 40 degrees as the lowest temp and 85 degrees as the highest. Enable both exceptions

please customize based on your business comfort level, these numbers are defaults

Ice Pack Packaging: (optional) If your business has a sustainable or environmentally friendly initiative then our upgraded ice pack packaging is a great option to showcase those initiatives through the shipping process.

Ice Pack Rules: Shipping packages with ice via group with a transit time of 4+ days does not protect the package nor does requesting an ice pack for an order that contains incompatible items with our packaging. This setting helps bring attention to these orders to prevent issues.

Wineshipping recommends enabling this setting to Send Order to Action Center, allowing you the opportunity to fix these orders to your liking.

Custom Regions enabled: Manage states that contain varying temperatures (CA, NV, AZ, NY) by enabling the custom regions to be more granular about temperature shipping. Enable all Custom Regions to work in conjunction with Temperature Ranges

You have now reached the hardest part but you are almost done! Don't forget to set calendar reminders to enable and disable the settings.

Enable: November 1st

Disable: April 1st (subject to change due to early spring cold snaps)

Winter can be mostly managed through the Temperature Range settings. If a State or Region drops below your comfort zone it will hold the order until you release.

You may be reading this article wondering why you should set your settings this aggressively. Well the short answer of it is, safety. Using these aggressive settings will allow you to have the best possible outcome for your packages during the coldest months of the year. Of course weather is a fickle being, and temperatures can range drastically throughout the year so your comfort level may change as you hear of cold snaps impacting the nation. These settings are designed to put orders on a weather hold if the State or Region exceeds your comfort level set in the Temperature Ranges. The TC service is added to the states that are consistently the coldest throughout the winter, northern states. Wineshipping does encourage expedited shipping to the states further away from CA that do not allow TC service shipping, i.e. North Dakota.