Cepaos vs Ekos, New Zealand Winery Comparison

Cepaos vs Ekos: Which platform fits your New Zealand winery?

An honest, fair comparison. Ekos (Asheville, North Carolina, USA) is a multi-vertical craft producer cloud, beer, cider and wine. Cepaos is the wine-pure alternative for New Zealand wineries that need native Wine Act 2003, MPI Export, SWNZ and multi-market export. Both have legitimate strengths.

Common Ground

What both vendors deliver

Both platforms cover the core batch traceability and production cost fundamentals expected of a modern craft producer. The differences appear in New Zealand wine-specific compliance, commerce and multi-market reach.

Batch traceability across raw material, in-process and finished goods
Production cost-per-batch analytics
Mobile cellar app for iOS and Android
Inventory and lot management
Cloud-hosted SaaS with regular release cadence
Integration with common accounting platforms

Strengths Compared

What each vendor does particularly well

Cepaos strengths

Wine-pure platform purpose-built for vineyards and wineries, not retrofitted from brewing
Wine Act 2003 record-keeping and labelling rules native to the platform
MPI Export Eligibility Certificate workflow with batch eligibility flags
Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand (SWNZ) scorecard ingestion and reporting
New Zealand Business Number (NZBN) registry sync on supplier and customer records
Trans-Tasman PEPPOL e-invoicing native, outbound and inbound AS4
Privacy Act 2020 controls with IPP-aligned data handling and breach register
Cellar door commerce, DTC and Wine Club out of the box
Multi-market export: 19 native locales (EU, UK, LATAM, US, AU/NZ)
Transparent online pricing in NZD with a fourteen-day free trial

Ekos strengths

Genuine multi-vertical depth, beer, cider and wine in one tenant
Strong batch costing and cost-per-unit analytics across producer types
Active user community across more than seventy countries
Mature batch traceability primitives refined over many brewery customers
Established API and integrations for the craft beverage ecosystem
Recognised brand within the global craft beverage software market

Decision Guide

When each vendor is the better fit

When Ekos is the better fit

Multi-vertical producer running wine, beer and cider under one roof and one tenant
Batch costing analytics for fermented beverages is the primary requirement
An existing Ekos deployment is already serving a brewery or cidery affiliate
Wine is a secondary product line within a broader craft beverage operation

When Cepaos is the better fit

Wine-pure operation that wants depth over breadth
Native Wine Act 2003, MPI Export Eligibility and SWNZ scorecard rather than generic batch fields
NZBN sync, Trans-Tasman PEPPOL and Privacy Act 2020 controls required out of the box
Cellar door, DTC and Wine Club commerce alongside production
Multi-market export beyond AU/NZ, EU (UK, DE, FR, IT, ES, PT), US and LATAM in one platform
Transparent NZD pricing and self-serve trial without a sales call

Detailed Comparison

16 features compared

Every Cepaos claim is backed by shipping code (native libraries). Native New Zealand compliance across the regulatory perimeter.

Feature	Cepaos	Ekos	Notes
Wine Act 2003 record-keeping and labelling	Yes	No	Ekos is a generic craft beverage platform; no NZ wine module
MPI Export Eligibility Certificate workflow	Yes	No
SWNZ scorecard ingestion and reporting	Yes	No
NZBN registry sync on parties	Yes	No
Trans-Tasman PEPPOL e-invoicing (AS4)	Yes	No
Privacy Act 2020 controls and breach register	Yes	No
Multi-vertical (beer, cider and wine)	No	Yes	Ekos is genuinely multi-vertical; Cepaos is wine-pure
Batch cost-per-unit analytics	Yes	Yes
Batch traceability primitives	Yes	Yes
Vineyard block, varietal and vintage modelling	Yes	Partial
Cellar door commerce and DTC	Yes	No
Wine Club subscriptions and allocations	Yes	No
Multi-market export (EU, UK, US, LATAM)	Yes	Partial
Multi-entity holding consolidation	Yes	Partial
TOTP + WebAuthn 2FA on sensitive operations	Yes	No
Transparent online pricing in NZD	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 the MPI Export workflow, SWNZ reporting and cellar door commerce before you make a decision.

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