Cepaos for Australian wineries · Native compliance
From Barossa to Margaret River, from Wine Australia's Label Integrity Programme to the quarterly BAS: Cepaos owns the Australian compliance perimeter end to end, Wine Australia Act 2013, WET, GI Register, PEPPOL, APP Privacy and the NPP PayID rail.
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14 pillars of native Australian compliance
Cepaos covers the full Australian regulatory perimeter under a single subscription, from the Wine Australia Label Integrity Programme through the GI Register and WET Producer Rebate, to the quarterly BAS, STP Phase 2 pay event and the NPP PayID settlement.
Wine Australia Act 2013 (Cth) s.39
lib/compliance/au/wine-australia/report-builder.ts
Cepaos enforces the 85 per cent vintage, variety and geographical-indication truth-in-labelling rule across every bottling record, batch ledger and label artwork file, and assembles the LIP audit pack that Wine Australia inspectors request without manual reconciliation.
Wine Australia Act 2013 (Cth) Part VIB
lib/compliance/au/gi-registry.ts + gi-verifier.ts
Every Australian Geographical Indication on the statutory register, Barossa, McLaren Vale, Margaret River, Hunter Valley, Yarra Valley, Coonawarra, Adelaide Hills, Eden Valley, Clare Valley, Tasmania, Mornington Peninsula, King Valley and the remaining zones, regions and sub-regions, is validated at vineyard ingest and again at labelling.
A New Tax System (Wine Equalisation Tax) Act 1999
lib/compliance/au/wet-calculator.ts
Cepaos calculates the 29 per cent Wine Equalisation Tax at the last wholesale sale, distinguishes assessable dealings from notional wholesale sales for cellar-door and direct-to-consumer channels, and posts the WET liability to the BAS worksheet with full audit trail.
WET Act 1999, Producer Rebate Scheme
lib/compliance/au/producer-levy.ts
The $350,000 annual producer-rebate cap (in force since 1 July 2018) is tracked across associated producers, eligibility criteria (own brand, packaged for retail sale, source product percentage) are evaluated per dealing, and the rebate is reconciled with the ATO each financial year.
Excise Tariff Act 1921, Schedule
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Fortified wines exceeding the WET-defined alcohol thresholds attract excise duty under the Excise Tariff Act. Cepaos segregates fortified inventory, applies the correct excise rate per litre of alcohol, and prepares the monthly excise return alongside the underbond stock movement records.
A New Tax System (GST) Act 1999
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The 10 per cent GST on taxable supplies, GST-free exports and input tax credits roll into the quarterly Business Activity Statement worksheet (G1 through G20, 1A and 1B), ready for ATO Online lodgement or BAS-agent review.
Taxation Administration Act 1953, Pt 2-5
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Cellar-door staff, vineyard hands and salaried winemakers are reported each pay run under STP Phase 2, disaggregated gross, employment basis, tax treatment code, cessation reason and country code, via the SBR2 channel to the ATO.
Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Schedule 1
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Wine-club member data, cellar-door capture forms and DTC order ledgers are governed under the thirteen Australian Privacy Principles, with OAIC-aligned notifiable-data-breach workflow, access and correction requests, and consent ledgering by lawful purpose.
ATO + Treasury mandate (from 2024)
lib/integration/de + multi-region Peppol
Cepaos issues and receives PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 invoices through the Australian Peppol Authority (ATO) framework, satisfying the Commonwealth procurement requirement and accelerating B2B settlement with on-trade distributors.
RBA New Payments Platform
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Supplier payments are exported as ISO 20022 pain.001 messages compatible with all four major Australian banks, and customer settlements can be collected over the New Payments Platform via PayID (ABN or email alias) with near-instant clearing.
AGWA voluntary certification programme
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The Sustainable Winegrowing Australia self-assessment workbook is fed continuously by Cepaos field operations, water and energy meters, and chemical-application records, so the annual SWA report and Wine Australia trust-mark renewal do not require a second data-entry pass.
State CDS, NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, ACT, NT
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State-level container-deposit liabilities, NSW Return and Earn, VIC CDS, QLD Containers for Change, WA CDS, the original 1977 South Australian scheme and the ACT/NT equivalents, are calculated per bottle dispatched into each jurisdiction and posted as a refundable deposit accrual.
Liquor Control Reform Act 1998 (VIC) + state equivalents
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Each cellar door operates under a state liquor licence (Vignerons in Victoria, Producer/Wholesaler in NSW, Producer in WA, etc.). Cepaos tracks licence number, conditions, RSA-trained staff register and trading-hours compliance per venue.
Compatible CSV + journal export
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Cepaos is not your accountant, and is not trying to be. The general-ledger journal exports cleanly into Xero, MYOB AccountRight and QuickBooks Online so the winery's accountant or bookkeeper continues to own the chart of accounts and ATO lodgement.
What Cepaos is NOT
Cepaos operates with a defined scope. Where the regulator, the laboratory, the registered tax agent or the freight carrier owns the work, we say so on the record.
Cepaos prepares BAS, IAS and WET worksheets and exports clean journals into Xero, MYOB AccountRight and QuickBooks Online. Your accountant or registered BAS / tax agent still lodges with the ATO and signs off on the final return.
Cepaos manages your analytical record, SO2, pH, TA, alcohol, malic, VA, but does not run the physical sample chemistry. Vintessential, AWRI Commercial Services and your in-house lab continue to perform the assays; Cepaos ingests their results.
Cepaos LLC is a Delaware corporation operating with AWS multi-region hosting. European customer data sits in Supabase Frankfurt (eu-central-1); LATAM in AWS São Paulo (sa-east-1); Australian customers may opt in to ap-southeast-2 Sydney for data residency by written request to hi@cepaos.com.
For LIP audit submissions and export-grading samples, Cepaos documents, schedules and tracks the dispatch, generating the Wine Australia consignment metadata. The actual freight (StarTrack, TNT, FedEx) is arranged and paid by the winery.
Cepaos vs the Australian wine-software market
The table reflects publicly documented capability as at 2026. Where Cepaos is weaker, physical sample chemistry, full Australian data centre, we show it as such. For corrections, write to hi@cepaos.com.
| Capability | Cepaos | Vintrace AU | Ekos | Vintessential | AWRI Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label Integrity Programme audit pack (Wine Australia s.39) | |||||
| Geographical Indication register validation at ingest | |||||
| WET wholesale + Producer Rebate ($350k cap) | |||||
| Quarterly BAS worksheet (G1–G20, 1A, 1B) | |||||
| Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 export | |||||
| PEPPOL BIS 3.0 e-Invoicing (ATO framework) | |||||
| ISO 20022 EFT + NPP PayID collection | |||||
| Sustainable Winegrowing Australia data feed | |||||
| Container Deposit Scheme accrual per state | |||||
| Cellar-door state licence + RSA register | |||||
| Vineyard block + phenology (deep agronomy) | |||||
| Lab chemistry, physical sample analysis | |||||
| Australian-resident data centre (ap-southeast-2) | |||||
| Multi-region + multi-locale (DE/FR/IT/ES/PT/EN-AU) |
Legend: ✓ fully supported native · ◐ partial or via third party · ✗ not supported
Hosting, residency and DPA
Cepaos LLC is a Delaware corporation operating with multi-region hosting. European customer data resides in Supabase Frankfurt (eu-central-1) under Standard Contractual Clauses 2021/914 Module 2; LATAM in AWS São Paulo (sa-east-1). Australian customers may opt in to ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) for in-jurisdiction data residency on written request. A Data Processing Agreement aligned with the Australian Privacy Principles (Privacy Act 1988) is available from hi@cepaos.com.
Questions Australian wineries actually ask
Yes. Cepaos enforces the 85 per cent truth-in-labelling rule under section 39 of the Wine Australia Act 2013 across every bottling record and batch ledger. When Wine Australia requests a Label Integrity Programme audit, the platform assembles the vintage, variety and Geographical Indication chain-of-evidence in the format inspectors expect.
Cepaos tracks Wine Equalisation Tax on each assessable dealing and applies the producer rebate (since 1 July 2018: capped at $350,000 per producer per financial year, with associated-producer grouping rules). The rebate ledger reconciles with the BAS worksheet, and approaches to the cap are flagged in-app before the rebate is over-claimed.
Cepaos prepares the BAS worksheet (G1 through G20, 1A and 1B) and the STP Phase 2 pay-event payload, and exports both for lodgement. The actual ATO submission is performed by your registered tax or BAS agent through SBR2 or via your accounting practice's lodgement portal, Cepaos does not replace the registered-agent role.
Yes. Cepaos issues and receives PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 invoices through the Australian Peppol Authority framework administered by the ATO. This satisfies Commonwealth-procurement requirements and the e-invoicing capability that on-trade distributors increasingly expect from accredited suppliers.
Cepaos LLC is a Delaware corporation with multi-region AWS hosting. European customers are processed in Supabase Frankfurt (eu-central-1); Latin American customers in AWS São Paulo (sa-east-1). Australian customers may opt in to ap-southeast-2 Sydney for in-jurisdiction data residency by written request to hi@cepaos.com, and a Data Processing Agreement aligned with the Australian Privacy Principles is available on the same channel.
Cepaos maintains the full 65-plus Geographical Indication register published under Part VIB of the Wine Australia Act 2013, including zones, regions and sub-regions. Every vineyard block carries its GI assignment at ingest; the label artwork workflow re-validates the GI against the blend composition before approval.
Yes. Cepaos exports general-ledger journals, customer and supplier masters, and invoice runs as CSV and accounting-package-native formats compatible with Xero, MYOB AccountRight and QuickBooks Online. The winery's accountant continues to own the chart of accounts and the ATO lodgement workflow.
No credit card, no sales call, no contract. Your demo winery, pre- loaded with Australian GI data, a WET ledger and a BAS worksheet will be ready in under 30 seconds.
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