How it works

Five steps to your next great bottle

Wovino connects buyers and sellers directly. We never touch the wine, and we never touch the money. Here's exactly how it works.

List your bottle

Sellers start by creating a listing. Search our catalogue of reference wines, or enter the wine details manually. Set a fixed price or start an auction — it takes under 2 minutes.

Search the catalogue

Browse our database of reference wines and auto-fill the listing form.

Add your own

Wine not in the catalogue? Enter producer, name, region and vintage manually — it joins the catalogue for everyone.

Fixed price or auction

Choose your format. Auctions include proxy bidding and sniping protection.

Browse, search, bid

Buyers explore listings by region, colour, vintage or price. For fixed-price wines, click buy. For auctions, place a bid — the proxy system handles the rest.

Smart filters

Filter by region, colour, price range, vintage, condition, and bottle size.

Proxy bidding

Set your maximum — the system bids incrementally. +5 min on late bids to prevent sniping.

Seller confirms

When a buyer commits (auction won or fixed-price purchase), the seller receives a notification and confirms availability. The moment they confirm — and only then — contact details are exchanged.

Before confirmation

Seller email and phone are completely hidden. Privacy is protected.

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After confirmation

Both parties receive each other's full contact details: email and phone.

Pay and collect directly

Buyer and seller arrange everything on their own terms. Wovino never touches the money and never handles the wine.

Payment is direct

Bank transfer, cash on pickup, Twint — whatever both parties agree on.

Delivery is flexible

Pickup in person, DHL, Swiss Post — seller and buyer choose together.

Wovino invoices the buyer

Once the seller marks the payment as received, the order is complete. Wovino generates a PDF invoice to the buyer for 8% of the sale price. Payable within 30 days. Both parties leave reviews.

Wovino INVOICE

Sale priceCHF 250.00

Service fee (8%)CHF 20.00

Total dueCHF 20.00

30-day payment term · Bank transfer to Wovino

Pricing

One fee.
Total clarity.

Wovino charges a single 8% service fee to the buyer. Nothing else. No seller commission, no listing fee, no subscription.

Free to list for everyone
Free to browse and search for everyone
8% service fee invoiced to buyer on completion
30-day payment term, bank transfer to Wovino
No premium placement, no advertising

Built for trust

Why collectors trust Wovino

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Privacy by default

Contact details are never visible until a deal is confirmed by the seller. Both sides are protected.

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Active moderation

Listings go live immediately, and our team reviews and acts on any reported content. The marketplace stays trustworthy without any seller paperwork.

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Swiss data hosting

All data hosted in Switzerland. Fully compliant with nDSG. We never sell personal data.