I'm up to date. It wasn't too bad, considering I have only 200 wines or so in the cellar.....

wine-o
rick didnot give the three bottles o well money to spend on some thig else!
great sight!

okay,
just put in an nother 200 bottles ! allmost done ,thats if i stop buying!

nice up grades , an getting the hang of it!!!

A couple of months ago, I downloaded a bunch of different winetracking programs. I settled on CellarTracker. CT ROCKS! I haven't completed entering my stash yet, but I really like the following features:

1. Location. Now I can find where every bottle of wine I own is stored in my cellar. No more hunting around!

2. Remote access. I can check my supplies while I'm out of town. There's even a cool feature to look up your inventory on your cell phone!

3. Pending Deliveries. Since I live in Maryland, their antiquated shipping laws force me to ship my wine to friends in IA, WV, VA, and DC. CellarTracker allows me to keep tabs on what I've ordered and where it's located.

4. Support. Eric has been super responsive to any question I've asked. More importantly, his responses are in easy to understand English, not way above my head computergeekese!

5. Easy to use. Looking up wines and adding bottles to your collection is simple, intuitive, and easy to use. I've only had to input a handful of wines that weren't already entered by the community. The group of users' has really built an impressive inventory of wine to work with! It's fast, too. I've entered 300 bottles and their corresponding WS & Parker reviews in a couple of evenings.

6. Reviews. CellarTracker links easily with WS, eRobertParker, and Tanzer reviews, and allows you to import them into your own private tasting notes section. Additionally, the community of users has quite a large database of reviews as well. Very handy when trying to select the right wine for the occasion and determining drinking windows.

7. New Interface. Very intuitive and easy to use. Hats off for making it even simpler!

I realize I'm being rather long winded - BUT THANK YOU FOR THIS PROGRAM!

Festiva,

I am so happy to hear that you are enjoying the site (and that the new user interface is well received). Thank you for your very eloquent feedback!

-Eric

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I thought this was relevant. Probably the most heavily requested feature over the past year for CellarTracker has been the ability to import an existing spreadsheet or other database. It's a hard problem though given the way that CellarTracker works with a shared, central database.

At long last I've come up with a tool that helps people to get going a LOT more quickly (the average beta user saw about a 10x speed improvement loading via the bulk import tool as compared to doing it through the normal site user interface).

You can read more about it here.

quote:

Originally posted by TomNYC:
I'm pretty dumb. How do you enter bottle prices? I entered my entire cellar and they all have $0.00 in the price section.

Sorry to AGAIN revive a crusty old thread, but I wanted to point out that this scenario (retroactively adding purchase history) just got a lot easier. You can read about it here.

Eric,
No need to apologize when you’re the best around.

Question for you - how can I change the “Value” column to show purchase price in lieu of the price you quantify from the winbid connection?

Actually, I would like to be able to switch between both.

GD,

I just want to be sensitive to the commercial/spam nature of me posting on CellarTracker. I figure if someone asks me a question it is fair game, although on the eRP bulletin board they now pretty much forbid me from even answering questions there. Too many fans leads to too many questions I guess? The last thing I want to do though is get the sort of reception that fellow did the other day here with that wine tasting note league something or other site.

Anyway, to your question. If you want your value to match your purchase price, sorry but you need to hardcode it. This is because the purchase price is below the WineBid and community values in the 'cascade' as described here.

Or, I am not sure if you are running this way, but the site will show you separate totals for both your cost/price as well as the value. You can edit what you see by default by clicking on the "Hide prices" or "Show prices" link at the lower left (which more accurately should be "Price display options") or by messing with the same settings in your profile (click MY ACCOUNT at the upper right).

Make sense?

By the way, I just packed up and sent off 17 cases of wine to a wine storage facility near me. It would have been an endless organizational task if not for the "Reports" option and "Bin" category available on Cellartracker. Only took me a couple of hours to organize. Fantastic site.

Eric,
Well there you go ...... perfect.
I didn’t know about the Value/Price option. I can see both now and with totals (kinda scary, actually). The “Display/Hide Prices” name looked a little ominous to me and I had never clicked on it.

You are not going to have the problem of posting here or on most of the other boards like vinocellar and winedepot. The quality of your site is so far beyond everything else out there that you are almost a required resource now. You are also an avid wine lover who contributes greatly to the community regardless of your site, and that speaks volumes to the members on the wine forums. I really don’t care for the stance that Squires has taken towards you with regards to cellartracker. It’s really a bit paranoid or too controlling for me - but that’s just who he is.

GD, you are really too kind. Many thanks!

Eric,

I'd like to take this opportunity to second GreenDazi's glowing review of Cellartracker. I have been using Cellartracker for about 1 year( under "the rimster" pseudonym) and I do not have anything but praise for the program and website given your generous effort in time in creating this great tool!

I do have one question, though. Occassionally, and not very often, I have wines that are not in the cellar tracker database(and not just different vintages). I know how difficult it must be for you to manage all the requests to add new wineries or different bottlings for the same winery. I believe you need to approve of such changes, correct?

Can you foresee an quicker and simpler way for both us and yourself to add wineries, say adding a winery or diffent bottling of the same winery manually into our personal wine database? This would save you a lot of time, no?

Anyway, thanks once again for your excellent program.

Thanks for the note.

Amazingly enough, the entire CellarTracker database is actuall user-contributed, all 185,000 wines, entered by individuals such as yourself.

We try to review all of these, but in fact anyone can add wines at their leisure with no approval required.

However, what does take approval is if someone tries to edit a wine which is shared by a number of users. In this case, the system can't really tell if you are adding a new wine or just tweaking/fixing an existing one. At times (when I am on vacation), the queue of pending edits has dragged along for a week or two at a time. We are pretty psyched that lately we have beaten this down to 0 and have been very on top of it.

Anyway, what happens sometimes is that people, when meaning to add a new wine, inadvertently click into an existing one and propose an edit. So, my main advice is, when you search for a wine on this screen, just make sure to press the link labeled as (ADD NEW VINTAGE OR WINE BASED ON THIS...) instead of clicking into an existing wine.

Make sense?

Yes. Thank you. I appreciate your quick reply. I'll give it a try.

Today, when I logged on to do some maintenance, the "gentle" reminder let me know it had been a year since my last voluntary contribution to the site. Normally when a bill comes due, I'll grumble, mumble and grudgingly send off my payment. Never been more glad to send a few of my hard earned bucks than this morning. For the price of a good bottle of wine, this site gives me so much bang for the buck, it's a "no brainer."

PH