Cepaos vs Vintrace, Australian Winery Comparison

Cepaos vs Vintrace: Which wine platform fits your Australian winery?

An honest, fair comparison. Vintrace (Adelaide, South Australia) is the production-cellar specialist born in adelaide. Cepaos is the cross-market alternative for Australian wineries with WET, BAS, PEPPOL and APP obligations plus export ambitions. Both platforms have legitimate strengths.

Common Ground

What both vendors deliver

Both platforms cover the core Australian production workflow and Wine Australia LIP traceability. The differences appear in WET + BAS depth, PEPPOL eInvoicing, multi-entity consolidation, cross-market reach and self-serve onboarding.

Wine Australia Label Integrity Programme (LIP) lot tracking
Bonded-winery cellar operations (crush, fermentation, additions, fining, racking)
Australian Geographical Indications (GI) recognition in lot records
Mobile cellar capture on iOS and Android
Lot decomposition with blend ledger
Analysis records aligned with AWRI methods
Excise warehouse and inventory in bond

Strengths Compared

What each vendor does particularly well

Cepaos strengths

WET Producer Rebate ledger with quarterly BAS automation (ATO labels 1A/1B/W1/W2)
PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 (AU-NZ specialisation) outbound + inbound eInvoicing
65+ Australian GI Register validator (Barossa, McLaren Vale, Margaret River, Tasmania, etc.)
Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase 2 reporting to the ATO
Australian Privacy Principles (APP 1-13) under the Privacy Act 1988
Multi-market export: 19 native locales (EU, UK, LATAM, US, NZ, ZA)
Multi-entity holding consolidation (parent winery + distribution affiliate)
TOTP + WebAuthn two-factor authentication on the highest-risk operations
Transparent online pricing in AUD, no sales-driven gating
Fourteen-day free trial, no credit card required

Vintrace strengths

Deepest cellar-floor mobile capture in Australia (crush, fermentation, additions, fining, racking)
~25-year incumbent in the AU/NZ market with a strong installed base
TGA-aligned analysis records and AWRI partnership
Owned by Wineorm (Trellis Data parent) with mature account management
Robust handling of complex blend ledgers and lot decomposition
Established on-site cellar training across South Australia and beyond
Wine Australia LIP-friendly lot tracking embedded in production workflow
Operates beyond AU/NZ, also serves US Napa and South African producers

Decision Guide

When each vendor is the better fit

When Vintrace is the better fit

Pure-play production winery at 50,000+ cases with no DTC ambition
Already on the Wineorm / Trellis Data stack with deep workflow embedding
On-site cellar training and direct account management is mission-critical
Complex multi-vintage blend ledger with hundreds of components

When Cepaos is the better fit

WET Producer Rebate accounting and quarterly BAS need to be native, not add-ons
PEPPOL eInvoicing is now a procurement requirement from your distributors
Export ambition: EU, UK, US, LATAM, NZ, ZA, Cepaos covers 19 markets natively
DTC and cellar door commerce alongside production in one platform
Multi-entity holding with bonded winery + distribution affiliate (parent/sub)
Modern stack required (Next.js, Prisma, Supabase, public API + webhooks)
Transparent online pricing in AUD and a no-contract trial preferred

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	Vintrace	Notes
Wine Australia Label Integrity Programme (LIP)	Yes	Yes
65+ AU GI Register validator (Barossa, McLaren Vale, etc.)	Yes	Partial	Cepaos: native lib/compliance/au/gi-registry + gi-verifier
WET Producer Rebate ledger	Yes	Partial	Vintrace surfaces WET data; rebate ledger typically external
Quarterly BAS automation (ATO 1A/1B/W1/W2)	Yes	No
PEPPOL BIS Billing 3.0 (AU-NZ specialisation)	Yes	Partial
Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase 2	Yes	No
Australian Privacy Principles (APP 1-13)	Yes	Partial
AU GAAP wine-specific chart of accounts	Yes	Partial
Multi-entity consolidation (parent/sub holding)	Yes	No
Cross-market export (EU, UK, US, LATAM, NZ, ZA)	Yes	Partial	Vintrace supports AU/NZ + US; EU and LATAM not native
DTC and cellar door commerce	Yes	Partial
TOTP + WebAuthn 2FA on sensitive operations	Yes	No
Public API and webhooks	Yes	Partial
Production cellar workflow depth	Yes	Yes	Vintrace deeper on multi-vintage blend lot ledger
On-site cellar training across South Australia	No	Yes	Cepaos is remote-first; training via video
Fourteen-day free trial without credit card	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 Vintrace on Wine Australia LIP, the WET ledger, quarterly BAS and a PEPPOL invoice cycle before you decide.

Evaluate Cepaos for your Australian winery

Fourteen days free. No sales call. No credit card. Full Australian compliance from day one.

Start the free trial Review the Australian compliance overview

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