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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, 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
  • Australian GI Register validator (Barossa, McLaren Vale, Margaret River, Tasmania)
  • WET Producer Rebate ledger with the quarterly WET figures for your BAS
  • Australian Privacy Principles (APP 1-13) under the Privacy Act 1988
  • AU GAAP wine-specific chart of accounts
  • Multi-market export across 24 native locales (EU, UK, LATAM, US, NZ, ZA)
  • Cellar door commerce + DTC + wine club in one platform
  • Transparent online pricing in AUD and a 30-minute guided demo

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
  • The WET Producer Rebate must be tracked in the platform
  • 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

15 features compared

Every Cepaos claim is backed by shipping code. Native compliance across the Australian regulatory perimeter, including the Wine Australia Act 2013 and the A New Tax System (Wine Equalisation Tax) Act 1999.

FeatureCepaosEkosNotes
Wine Australia Label Integrity Programme (LIP)YesNot verified
AU GI Register validatorYesNot verified
WET Producer Rebate ledgerYesNot verified
Quarterly WET figures for the BAS (labels 1C/1D)YesNot verified
PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 (AU-NZ specialisation)NoNot verified
Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase 2NoNot verified
Australian Privacy Principles (APP 1-13)YesNot verified
AU GAAP wine-specific chart of accountsYesNot verified
Cellar door commerce + wine club + DTCYesNot verified
Cross-market export (EU, UK, US, LATAM, NZ, ZA)YesNot verified
Batch costing and cost-per-unit analyticsYesYes
Multi-vertical (beer + wine + cider + spirits)PartialYesCepaos is wine-pure by design
TOTP + WebAuthn 2FA on sensitive operationsYesNot verified
Guided demo on your own workflowsYesNot verified
Transparent online pricing in AUDYesNot verified

Not verified: we have not checked this point against a public source from Ekos. It does not mean the feature is missing.

Compare both platforms on your own workflows

We encourage you to evaluate both vendors honestly. Cepaos offers a 30-minute guided demo with no commitment, built around your own workflows, not a generic deck. See Cepaos alongside Ekos on Wine Australia LIP, the WET ledger, a quarterly WET figures 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.