Cepaos vs Vintrace, New Zealand Winery Comparison

Cepaos vs Vintrace: Which wine platform fits your New Zealand winery?

An honest, fair comparison. Vintrace (Adelaide, South Australia (NZ ops Marlborough)) is a cellar-floor production specialist with strong au/nz heritage. Cepaos is the cross-market alternative for New Zealand wineries that need native Wine Act 2003, MPI Export, SWNZ and multi-market reach. Both have legitimate strengths.

Common Ground

What both vendors deliver

Both platforms cover the core cellar production and lot traceability requirements expected of a modern New Zealand winery. The differences appear in NZ-specific compliance depth, multi-market reach, commerce and self-serve onboarding.

Cellar-floor production capture (crush, fermentation, blending, bottling)
Lot tracking and end-to-end traceability
Mobile cellar app for iOS and Android
Vintage compare and analytical sample history
Bond and bulk inventory ledger
Trans-Tasman familiarity (AU/NZ time zones, ANZ support)

Strengths Compared

What each vendor does particularly well

Cepaos strengths

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
Imports the invoices your accounting package issues (Xero, MYOB), no re-keying
Multi-market export: 23 native locales (EU, UK, LATAM, US, AU/NZ)
Cellar door commerce, DTC and Wine Club out of the box
Privacy Act 2020 controls with IPP-aligned data handling and breach register
Transparent online pricing in NZD
30-minute guided demo, no commitment

Vintrace strengths

Around twenty-five years of incumbency across Australia and New Zealand
Strong Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc references (Cloudy Bay, Greywacke, Astrolabe, Saint Clair)
Deep blend ledger and multi-lot decomposition for complex cellars
Trellis Data parent group with mature account management
Established integration with Wineorm and other AU/NZ cellar tools
On-the-ground field training across Marlborough, Hawke's Bay and Central Otago
Mature mobile cellar capture refined over many vintages

Decision Guide

When each vendor is the better fit

When Vintrace is the better fit

Large Marlborough producer (50,000+ cases) already standardised on the Wineorm stack
Pure-play production focus with no cellar door or multi-market export ambition
Existing Vintrace deployment with an established CSM relationship and trained cellar team
Highly complex multi-vintage blend ledger with hundreds of component lots

When Cepaos is the better fit

MPI Export Eligibility Certificate workflow must be native, not a spreadsheet bolt-on
SWNZ scorecard, NZBN lookup and Wine Act 2003 record-keeping out of the box
Multi-market export beyond AU/NZ, EU (UK, DE, FR, IT, ES, PT), US and LATAM in one platform
Cellar door, DTC and Wine Club commerce required alongside production
Invoices issued from your own accounting package, imported into the cellar records
Transparent pricing and a guided demo on your own workflows

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	Vintrace	Notes
Wine Act 2003 record-keeping and labelling	Yes	Partial	Cepaos: native NZ Wine Act module with audit trail
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	Partial
Privacy Act 2020 controls and breach register	Yes	No
Cellar-floor mobile capture (iOS / Android)	Yes	Yes	Vintrace has long heritage in mobile cellar workflows
Multi-vintage blend ledger depth	Yes	Yes	Vintrace deeper on component decomposition
Cellar door commerce and DTC	Yes	No
Wine Club subscriptions and allocations	Yes	No
Multi-market export (EU, UK, US, LATAM)	Yes	Partial	Vintrace covers AU/NZ/US; EU and LATAM are not native
Multi-entity holding consolidation	Yes	No
TOTP + WebAuthn 2FA on sensitive operations	Yes	No
Public API and webhooks	Yes	Partial
Transparent online pricing in NZD	Yes	No
Guided demo on your own workflows	Yes	No

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 Vintrace on a vintage cycle, the MPI Export workflow and the SWNZ scorecard before you make a decision.

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30-minute guided demo, no commitment. Full New Zealand compliance from day one.

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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. Cepaos respects all third-party trademarks; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.