Cepaos vs Ekos, Australian Winery Comparison

Cepaos vs Ekos: Which production platform fits your Australian winery?

An honest, fair comparison. Ekos (Asheville, North Carolina, USA) is cloud production, crafted by craft, beer, wine and cider, serving 4,500+ producers across 70+ countries with a growing presence in Australia. Cepaos is the wine-pure alternative built for Australian compliance. Both platforms have legitimate strengths.

Common Ground

What both vendors deliver

Both platforms are cloud-native production systems with strong batch traceability and cost analytics. The differences appear in wine-specific Australian compliance (LIP, WET, BAS, PEPPOL, APP), export-market reach, and the ERP versus craft-batch focus.

Cloud-native production workflow (crush, fermentation, packaging)
Batch traceability with lot lineage
Batch costing and cost-per-unit analytics
Mobile cellar capture on iOS and Android
Inventory and finished-goods management
Sales orders and basic commerce tooling

Strengths Compared

What each vendor does particularly well

Cepaos strengths

Wine Australia Label Integrity Programme (LIP) native
65+ Australian GI Register validator (Barossa, McLaren Vale, Margaret River, Tasmania)
WET Producer Rebate ledger with quarterly BAS automation
PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 (AU-NZ specialisation) outbound + inbound
Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase 2 reporting to the ATO
Australian Privacy Principles (APP 1-13) under the Privacy Act 1988
AU GAAP wine-specific chart of accounts
Multi-market export across 19 native locales (EU, UK, LATAM, US, NZ, ZA)
Cellar door commerce + DTC + wine club in one platform
Transparent online pricing in AUD with a fourteen-day free trial

Ekos strengths

Strong production cost-per-batch analytics, refined across thousands of craft producers
Multi-vertical depth: wine + beer + cider + spirits in a single platform
Mature batch costing model tuned for craft economics
Cellar / brewhouse capture with established mobile workflow
Wide international footprint (4,500+ producers across 70+ countries)
Familiar to operators who came from the craft-beer side of the industry
Active customer community and shared craft-batch templates

Decision Guide

When each vendor is the better fit

When Ekos is the better fit

Multi-vertical producer making wine + beer + cider + spirits in one site
Craft-batch costing is the primary operational metric
Already on Ekos for the beer/cider side and want a single platform across products
Wine compliance can live in spreadsheets or be handled by an accountant

When Cepaos is the better fit

Wine-pure operation that needs Wine Australia LIP and GI Register native, not bolted on
WET Producer Rebate, quarterly BAS and STP Phase 2 must be in the platform
PEPPOL eInvoicing is now a procurement requirement from distributors
Australian Privacy Principles (APP) compliance matters to your customers
AU GAAP chart of accounts tuned for wine inventory accounting
Export ambition: EU, UK, US, LATAM, NZ, ZA, all native in Cepaos
Cellar door + wine club + DTC commerce all integrated, not as separate stack

Detailed Comparison

16 features compared

Every Cepaos claim is backed by shipping code (native libraries under lib/compliance/au and lib/invoicing). Native compliance across the Australian regulatory perimeter.

Feature	Cepaos	Ekos	Notes
Wine Australia Label Integrity Programme (LIP)	Yes	No	Ekos is craft-vertical generic; AU wine-specific compliance external
65+ AU GI Register validator	Yes	No
WET Producer Rebate ledger	Yes	No
Quarterly BAS automation (ATO labels 1A/1B/W1/W2)	Yes	No
PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 (AU-NZ specialisation)	Yes	No
Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase 2	Yes	No
Australian Privacy Principles (APP 1-13)	Yes	Partial
AU GAAP wine-specific chart of accounts	Yes	No
Cellar door commerce + wine club + DTC	Yes	Partial
Cross-market export (EU, UK, US, LATAM, NZ, ZA)	Yes	Partial	Ekos has international footprint but no AU-specific compliance
Batch costing and cost-per-unit analytics	Yes	Yes	Ekos is particularly strong on craft-batch cost analytics
Multi-vertical (beer + wine + cider + spirits)	Partial	Yes	Cepaos is wine-pure by design
TOTP + WebAuthn 2FA on sensitive operations	Yes	Partial
Public API and webhooks	Yes	Yes
Fourteen-day free trial without credit card	Yes	No
Transparent online pricing in AUD	Yes	No

Run both platforms in parallel for fourteen days

We encourage you to evaluate both vendors honestly. Cepaos offers a fourteen-day free trial without a credit card , no sales call, no contact-form gating. Test Cepaos alongside Ekos on Wine Australia LIP, the WET ledger, a quarterly BAS cycle and a PEPPOL invoice round-trip before you decide.

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Comparison reflects publicly available information as of June 2026. Submit corrections via legal@cepaos.com , Cepaos updates the comparison within 5 business days.