Cepaos vs InnoVint, Canadian Winery Comparison

Cepaos vs InnoVint: Which wine platform fits your Canadian winery?

An honest, fair comparison. InnoVint (Napa, California, USA) is a mobile cellar-floor capture, vinification-first design. Cepaos is the cross-market alternative for Canadian wineries with full federal and provincial compliance, multi-market export and DTC commerce. Both have legitimate strengths.

Common Ground

What both vendors deliver

Both platforms cover modern mobile cellar capture and the production ledger expected of any serious winery. The differences appear in Canadian compliance breadth (provincial boards, VQA, IGP Québec, CFIA SFCR, Excise Act 2001, Bill 96, Law 25), DTC commerce depth and multi-market export coverage.

Mobile cellar-floor capture (iOS-first workflow)
Fermentation, blending and bottling lot tracking
Production-first vinification ledger
Lab analysis log (Brix, pH, TA, VA, SO2)
Barrel and tank inventory
Harvest, crush and press workflows

Strengths Compared

What each vendor does particularly well

Cepaos strengths

12 provincial liquor board integrations (LCBO, SAQ, BCLDB, AGLC, MBLL, NSLC, NLC, PEI LCC, YLC, NWT LC, Nunavut LC, SLGA)
VQA Ontario, BC Wine Authority, IGP Québec / CVQ validators native
CFIA SFCR (Safe Food for Canadians Regulations) labelling validator
Excise Act 2001 monthly excise duty calculation and CRA filing prep
GST/HST input tax credit ledger with provincial PST/QST/RST overlays
Bill 96 (Québec) bilingual EN/FR product labelling and customer-facing flows
Law 25 (Québec privacy) Article 7-12 ROPA, breach 72-hour notice, DPO registry
ca-central-1 Montréal AWS data-residency opt-in
Multi-market export: 19 native locales (EU, UK, US, LATAM, AU/NZ)
Full ERP scope, production + DTC + commercial + multi-entity, not cellar-only
Transparent online pricing, fourteen-day trial, no credit card

InnoVint strengths

Beautiful, winemaker-designed iOS mobile capture (founded 2014 by Erin Brink and Greg Tippets)
Strong production lot tracking with cellar-floor-first UX
Used by Niagara and Okanagan VQA producers comfortable with US-built tooling
BSGwine integration for cellar supplies and dry-goods workflow
Free tier available for craft and garage-scale producers
AgFunder-backed venture credibility and active product cadence

Decision Guide

When each vendor is the better fit

When InnoVint is the better fit

Cellar-floor-first winery where iOS mobile capture is the top priority
Small to mid-size producer with no provincial board automation pressure
Comfortable using a US-built tool for a Canadian operation
Existing BSGwine relationship and integrated dry-goods workflow
No Bill 96, Law 25 or CFIA SFCR validation requirements

When Cepaos is the better fit

Full Canadian compliance stack across federal (CFIA, CRA Excise) and provincial layers
12 provincial liquor board purchase order and invoice automation
VQA Ontario, BC Wine Authority and IGP Québec validators required natively
Excise Act 2001 monthly duty close and GST/HST input tax credit ledger
Québec operations triggering Bill 96 bilingual EN/FR and Law 25 privacy obligations
ca-central-1 Montréal data-residency opt-in for Québec-sensitive orgs
Multi-market export beyond US/CA/AU, EU, UK, LATAM as well
DTC and Wine Club commerce integrated into the same stack as production
Transparent online pricing and no-contract trial preferred

Detailed Comparison

21 features compared

Every Cepaos claim is backed by shipping code (native libraries). Native compliance across the Canadian regulatory perimeter, federal (CFIA, CRA Excise) and provincial (12 boards + VQA / BCWA / IGP Québec).

Feature	Cepaos	InnoVint	Notes
Mobile cellar-floor capture (iOS)	Yes	Yes	InnoVint is widely recognised for iOS UX polish
Production lot tracking and lab log	Yes	Yes
12 provincial liquor board integrations	Yes	No	LCBO, SAQ, BCLDB, AGLC, MBLL, NSLC, NLC, PEI LCC, YLC, NWT LC, Nunavut LC, SLGA
VQA Ontario validator native	Yes	No
BC Wine Authority validator native	Yes	No
IGP Québec / CVQ validator native	Yes	No
CFIA SFCR labelling validator	Yes	No
Excise Act 2001 monthly excise duty (B265)	Yes	No
GST/HST input tax credit ledger	Yes	No
Provincial PST / QST / RST overlays	Yes	No
Bill 96 (Québec) bilingual EN/FR labelling	Yes	No
Law 25 (Québec privacy) ROPA + 72h breach notice	Yes	No
ca-central-1 Montréal data-residency opt-in	Yes	No
DTC and Wine Club commerce engine	Yes	Partial	InnoVint primarily production-focused; DTC via partners
Multi-entity ASC 810 / IFRS 10 consolidation	Yes	No
Cross-market export (EU, UK, US, LATAM, AU/NZ)	Yes	Partial	InnoVint US/AU/CA reach; EU and LATAM limited
Free tier for craft / garage producers	No	Yes	InnoVint maintains a published free tier
BSGwine dry-goods integration	No	Yes
Public API and webhooks	Yes	Partial
Fourteen-day free trial without credit card	Yes	Partial
Transparent online pricing	Yes	Partial

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 InnoVint on a real harvest workflow, a VQA Ontario or BC Wine Authority label submission, a provincial board purchase order and a CRA Excise Act 2001 monthly close before you make a decision.

Evaluate Cepaos for your Canadian winery

Fourteen days free. No sales call. No credit card. Full Canadian compliance from day one, provincial boards, VQA / BCWA / IGP Québec, CFIA SFCR, Excise Act 2001, GST/HST, Bill 96 and Law 25.

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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. Comparative advertising prepared in good faith under the Canadian Competition Act (section 52), the Trade-Marks Act and applicable U.S. Lanham Act standards. Company names referenced are trade-marks of their respective owners and are used here solely for descriptive comparison; no endorsement is implied. Une version française de cette comparaison sera publiée prochainement.