Each tool solves one part. This comparison tells you which fits what you need, including when you don't need Cavirnículas.
| What you need | WhatsApp + spreadsheet | Booking and event websites | Cellar and wine apps | Cavirnículas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Talking to a group and noting data by hand | Managing bookings, registrations and tickets | Each enthusiast keeping their cellar and notes | People who organise wine tastings and their attendees |
| Inviting and confirming attendance | By hand, in the chat | Yes | No | Yes, by email and from the event |
| Limited places and waiting list | By hand | Usually yes | No | Yes, the list moves on its own |
| Guided tasting sheet on the phone | No | No | Personal notes | Yes, stage by stage and offline |
| Group result per wine | You work it out | No | No, they're individual notes | Report with average score, sensory profile and PDF |
| Blind tasting with bets | No | No | No | Yes |
| Bottle bookings after the tasting | Through scattered messages | No | No | Yes, with price and status |
| Online shop orders per tasting | No | No | No | Yes, by discount code (WooCommerce, Shopify, PrestaShop) |
| Follow-up of each attendee | Whatever you remember | Contact details | No | What they tasted, liked and ordered, with their permission |
| Cost for the attendee | Free | Depends on the platform | Free or paid | Free |
if five friends taste now and then and you don't sell wine. They're free, everyone has them and there's nothing to learn.
if what you need is to charge for tickets or book places and the tasting is secondary. They handle registration very well, but know nothing about wine.
if you're an enthusiast who wants to keep track of your bottles and notes. It's built for one person, not for whoever organises the tasting.
if you organise tastings often —club, winery, wine shop, distributor or sommelier— and want to know what people liked, who liked it, and who wants to buy the bottle.
It depends on what you're missing. To charge for tickets, a booking or events website. To know what people liked at the tasting and sell afterwards, a tool built for tastings like Cavirnículas, which brings together invitations, a tasting sheet on the phone, a group report and bottle bookings.
Yes. You can share a tasting's registration link on WhatsApp; whoever signs up is confirmed in Cavirnículas and the places and waiting list take care of themselves.
Wine and cellar apps are built for each enthusiast to rate, discover wines or keep track of their bottles on their own. Cavirnículas is built for the person organising tastings: invite a group, each attendee tastes the same wine on their phone and the organiser gets the group's result and the bottle bookings.
WhatsApp and a spreadsheet are free, and enough for a small group. On Cavirnículas use is free for members; the club's terms are agreed with whoever runs it.
Tell us how you run them today and we'll see together whether Cavirnículas saves you work, no strings attached.