From grape to glass,
we’ll help you keep it compliant.
Tools for state and federal compliance — production reports, excise returns, DTC tax, and licenses — on top of the store you already run.
From the TTB operations report to each state’s excise return to the order that ships tomorrow. Keep your own storefront and licenses; we add the compliance brain. Flat pricing, no per-transaction fees.
Log in to a to-do list, not a spreadsheet
Wineport’s Action Center opens with exactly what needs your attention — filings due, licenses expiring, and orders on hold, each with a one-click action. When everything’s handled, you get a clean all-clear.
See Wineport in action
Compliance shouldn’t be a full-time job
Every winery faces the same maze: federal TTB reports, your own state’s returns, 50 sets of DTC rules, excise rates that change, and licenses that expire when you’re bottling.
Missed Filings
One late excise return or TTB report can trigger penalties and audit risk.
Spreadsheet Chaos
Tracking licenses, taxes, cellar records, and orders across five different files.
Risky Shipments
Shipping to dry counties or past a state volume limit without knowing it.
One dashboard. Zero surprises.
Deep compliance, on your stack
Enterprise suites are powerful but dated and costly. All-in-one storefronts lock you into their ecosystem and charge per transaction. Wineport is the modern middle — focused compliance that plugs into what you already run.
Works With Your Stack
Keep your own Shopify or Commerce7 store and your own state licenses. Wineport adds the compliance layer — it doesn’t replace your business or take a cut of every sale.
Verified State Tax Data
Excise rates verified against state agency sources, with a visible last-verified date. Bottles to gallons to dollars on current rates — with tiered rates by wine type (still, sparkling, fortified) and true bottle volumes, from 187ml cans to magnums.
Deadline Tracking & Filing Reminders
Never miss a filing. Your dashboard shows every upcoming deadline across all your permit states, and Wineport emails you before each excise tax deadline — 14 days, 3 days, and the day of, on a schedule you control.
Filing Instructions
Each state report comes with how-to-file guidance: online portal links, mailing addresses, and state-specific notes.
License Tracking & Renewal Reminders
Track every permit and license with numbers and dates, attach the permit itself from your Document Vault, and get email reminders before each one expires — the default nudges you at 90, 30, and 7 days out, on a schedule you control.
Shopify Sync & Universal Import
Shopify orders flow in automatically. Everything else — Commerce7, WineDirect, Square, QuickBooks, Excel — imports through smart column mapping.
Compliance that does the heavy lifting — you stay in control
We’re building toward Wineport preparing your filings, flagging rule changes, and interpreting state notices automatically — with you reviewing and approving every step. Intelligence that drafts; a human who decides. Early-access users help shape what ships first.
Why wineries choose Wineport
The modern middle — focused compliance without the enterprise bloat.
Winemaker Reports:
federal and state production filings, prepared.
The reports every bonded winery owes — not just the DTC ones. Wineport tracks each deadline, prefills the figures from your own records, and walks you through the form line by line. You review, file with the agency, and Wineport keeps the confirmation. It never files or pays on its own.
TTB Operations Report (5120.17)
A guided wizard reconciles wine in and out of bond — production, removals, losses, inventory — with running balance checks, so Section A and B tie out before you transcribe into Pay.gov.
TTB Excise Return (5000.24)
The tax on wine removed from bond, at federal rates with the small-producer credit applied — computed from the removals you already track.
State returns, scoped to you
California wineries get the CDTFA Winegrower Return (501-WG) and the annual ABC Winegrowers/Blenders fee report — prefilled from orders and production records. More states are on the way; each shows only to the wineries it applies to.
Wineport prepares figures and worksheets from your records; you review and submit with the TTB and your state agency. Not legal or tax advice.
The cellar records
your reports are built on.
Compliance starts in the cellar, not at the deadline. Wineport Labs is a growing set of production tools that capture the work as it happens — so when a report comes due, the numbers are already there.
Log an action once — a fermentation, a bottling run, a taxpaid removal, a loss — and it flows to the right line of the right form: TTB line A2, the excise return, the California winegrower return. Opening balances give you live bulk and bottled inventory on hand.
Production & Removals
A two-sided cellar ledger: fermentation, sweetening, blending, bottling runs, losses, breakage, and removals — each entry mapped to its TTB form line, with running on-hand inventory. Monthly email reminder so the log never falls behind.
Dry Goods
Track bottles, corks, capsules, labels, and cases alongside the wine they package — so a bottling run reconciles both the wine and the materials.
Weigh Tags & Bills of Lading
Capture harvest weigh tags and shipment BOLs where they happen, attached to your Document Vault for the records an audit asks for.
Every cellar action, mapped to the report line it feeds.
Compliant in three steps
A guided setup checklist walks you through every step — import your licenses, connect your store, switch on the gates. Most wineries are up and running the same afternoon.
Connect your store
Link Shopify in a click — or import from Commerce7, Square, QuickBooks, or a CSV. Wineport maps your orders, products, and customers automatically.
Every order screened
The moment an order arrives it runs six compliance checks — state legality, licensing, age, carrier, volume, and dry counties — and holds anything risky before it ships.
File with confidence
Wineport tracks each state’s excise deadline, does the math, and hands you a print-ready filing — so you never miss a return or overpay.
Sync directly or import a file — Wineport reconciles orders, tax, and compliance from any source.
Built for every stage of growth
The small winery
Shipping to a handful of states and doing compliance by hand each quarter. Wineport replaces the spreadsheet, calculates your tax, and reminds you when to file.
The expanding brand
Adding new permit states every year. Each state has different rates, frequencies, and portals — Wineport keeps the rules straight so expansion does not mean chaos.
The multi-brand operator
Managing compliance for several labels or client wineries. Switch between wineries in one click with separate orders, filings, and licenses for each.
Your sales data,
from anywhere.
Shopify syncs natively. Everything else arrives through the universal importer: export a CSV or Excel file from Commerce7, WineDirect, Square, QuickBooks — or the spreadsheet you have kept since day one — and your orders land with state, volume, and excise tax calculated.
No rigid templates. You match your file's columns once, and Wineport handles the mess: full state names, mixed date formats, quoted fields, Excel quirks. Rows that can't be read are flagged with a reason — never silently dropped.
Upload any .csv or .xlsx
Drop in an export from your commerce platform, POS, or accounting system.
Match your columns
Common headers are detected automatically — confirm which column is the date, state, and quantity.
Review and import
See exactly what will be imported and what was skipped, with a reason for every skipped row.
Built for your Shopify store
Running your wine store on Shopify? Install Wineport in one click. It connects to the store you already have — no replatforming, no new storefront — and starts checking every order against state DTC rules in real time.
- One-click install from the Shopify App Store
- Orders sync automatically — no manual imports
- Risky orders get flagged right in your Shopify admin
- Keep your storefront and your license — Wineport just adds the compliance layer
Built for your Commerce7 winery
Running on Commerce7 (home of WineDirect)? Install Wineport from the Commerce7 App Store and your orders sync automatically. Every Ship order gets an advisory compliance assessment and its excise tax, right on the order in your Commerce7 admin — your team reviews and decides what ships. Wineport doesn’t change orders or affect fulfillment.
- Install from the Commerce7 App Store — orders sync automatically
- Advisory compliance assessment + excise tax on every Ship order, in a Wineport tab
- Your Action Center mirrored in the Commerce7 Store menu — filings due, licenses expiring, orders worth a second look
- Renewed a license? Re-check compliance in one click from the order’s Actions menu
The assessment is advisory — guidance for your team’s review, not enforcement. Final shipping decisions remain yours.
Two compliance gates:
before checkout, and at fulfillment.
Shoppers in states you can’t ship to are blocked right inside Shopify’s checkout, before an order is ever created. Anything that comes through is screened against six checks the moment it arrives and paused in Shopify for your review — every decision on a tamper-evident audit trail.
State legality
Is the destination open to DTC wine shipments — and is it on your permit list?
License validity
Is your shipping license for that state on file in your vault and unexpired?
Age verification
Does the order carry an age-verification signal from your checkout flow?
Volume limits
Would this shipment push you past a state volume cap for the period?
Carrier coverage
Can an authorized carrier actually deliver alcohol to that address?
Dry-area risk
Is the destination in a state with dry counties or local restrictions?
Block
Shoppers in states you can’t ship to are stopped at checkout — the order is never created. Prohibited and unlicensed states are blocked by default, and you can switch any state by hand.
Screen & hold
Every order that does come through runs all six checks automatically. Failures get a fulfillment hold in Shopify with the reason attached — start in shadow mode to watch results before enforcing.
Decide
Approve and release, or reject — one click from your dashboard. Every decision lands on a signed, timestamped audit record.
Requires a connected Shopify store. Screening results are guidance, not legal advice — final shipping decisions remain yours.
Card every visitor at the door
Turn on a 21-and-over age gate for your Shopify storefront — a clean, full-screen prompt that greets visitors before they can browse or buy. It remembers who has confirmed, so returning customers aren’t asked twice.
No code, no theme edits. Flip it on in your Shopify theme editor and make it yours — headline, logo, colors, button text, and how long a visitor is remembered are all yours to set.
And when a visitor confirms, Wineport records their attestation on the order — so it flows straight into your compliance check and lands, signed, in your audit log.
Wineport Concierge:
licensing, handled for you.
The software tracks your compliance. Concierge does the work. Our team prepares and files your state and federal license applications, manages every renewal before it lapses, and monitors regulation changes in your states — so growing into new markets never means drowning in paperwork.
Talk to the Concierge TeamNew license procurement
Federal TTB basic permits and state DTC shipping licenses — applications prepared, filed, and tracked to approval.
Renewal management
We watch every expiration date and file renewals ahead of deadline. Your licenses never lapse.
Compliance monitoring
Rate changes, new requirements, and rule updates in your permit states — flagged and explained before they affect you.
A dedicated specialist
One point of contact who knows your winery, your states, and your timeline.
Concierge keeps your License Vault current — every permit and renewal tracked in one place.
Prefer to do it yourself? The DTC Rules Databook has you covered.
Permit requirements, excise rates, filing logistics, and agency links for all 51 jurisdictions — the same verified database that powers Wineport’s calculations, kept current and organized by state. Everything you need to secure and renew every license on your own.
Preview the free state-by-state guide →
Wineport Concierge is a filing and license-management service, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice. Pricing is quoted per engagement based on states and license types.
Every compliance document, in one place
Permits, renewal letters, tax confirmations, label approvals, and correspondence — uploaded to Wineport or linked from Google Drive or Dropbox, and always a click away when an auditor, a state, or a renewal asks. No more digging through email and folders for the one PDF you need.
- Upload or linkStore the file with Wineport, or point to one you already keep in Drive or Dropbox.
- Tied to your workAttach a document straight from a license or a filing, so the paperwork lives next to the record it belongs to.
- Renewals never sneak upSet expiration dates and get the same 90-day warnings as your licenses.
- Private & secureUploaded files stay private to your account and open only through short-lived, signed links.
Built to be trusted with your data
Wineport sits on top of your store and your compliance records, so we hold your data to the standard a compliance product should.
We never touch payment data
Checkout and payments stay with Shopify and your processor. Wineport never sees or stores card numbers.
Least-privilege access
We request only the Shopify permissions we actually need — orders, customers, products, and fulfillment holds — using short-lived tokens that rotate automatically.
Your data stays yours
Every winery’s records are isolated at the database level, so your orders, customers, and licenses are only ever visible to you.
A defensible audit trail
Every compliance decision is written as a signed, time-stamped record — a tamper-evident paper trail if a state ever asks how an order was handled.
Set up in an afternoon
A guided checklist walks you through everything — import your licenses, connect your store, switch on the gates — and checks steps off automatically as the real work gets done. No implementation project, no onboarding call required.
Flat pricing, no per-transaction fees
Start with a 15-day free trial — no card required. Predictable monthly pricing that doesn’t punish growth, with no percentage cut of your sales. The real-time Compliance Gate is included on every plan.
One winery shipping to a handful of states.
- ✓1 winery
- ✓Up to 5 permit states
- ✓Real-time Compliance Gate
- ✓Verified tax reports & filing instructions
- ✓License vault & renewal reminders
- ✓Email support
Growing wineries shipping broadly, or managing multiple brands.
- ✓Multiple wineries
- ✓Unlimited permit states
- ✓Real-time Compliance Gate
- ✓Shopify auto-sync & customer/volume tracking
- ✓Priority support
- ✓Everything in Single Winery
Portfolios and high-volume multi-entity operations.
- ✓Unlimited wineries
- ✓API access
- ✓Dedicated onboarding
- ✓SLA
Early access is currently free. Pricing shown is planned for general availability and subject to change. Wineport Concierge (managed licensing) is quoted separately per engagement.
Why Wineport exists
A winery’s compliance doesn’t stop at DTC shipping. There’s the federal operations report, the excise return, your own state’s production filings — and then a patchwork of 40+ state DTC regimes, each with its own permits, excise rates, filing frequencies, and portals. Most wineries handle it all with spreadsheets, calendar reminders, and crossed fingers.
Wineport was built to replace that patchwork with one clear system, from grape to glass: your cellar work and orders come in, your obligations are calculated, your deadlines are tracked, and when it is time to file, you know exactly what to submit and where.
We are independent, founder-built, and in active development — new capabilities ship every month.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or want a walkthrough? Drop a note.
Or email us directly at info@wineport.app