Compliance that
shows its work.
Every DTC shipment, decided the moment it's placed — licensure, eligibility, tax. Every rate version pinned, every rule cited, and a return you could file.California authored · 49 in the queue. One ledger. Zero guesswork.
353
decisions replayed
462
cited rate versions
CA
authored · 49 queued
$0.00
line-18 variance, lifetime
THE LEDGER · LIVE
representative decision stream · live telemetry at launch
The compliance you already pay for
You're already paying for compliance. You just can't see inside it.
For most wineries, direct-to-consumer is half the revenue — and all of the compliance exposure.
Every state you ship to has its own licenses, volume windows, dry zones, and excise classes — plus district taxes that change at the rooftop, on their own calendars. You run a winery. Keeping fifty rulebooks current is a tax department's job, and you're doing it between harvests.
Three gates, run on every order the moment it lands. The rulebooks are the engine's job, not yours.
Your service returns a rate. Ask where it came from and the answer is a knowledge-base article, or a support queue. When a state disagrees, the penalty lands on your license — not your vendor's — and you can't reconstruct the math you filed.
Every figure cited to its source. Every decision replayable, years later, ready to hand over.
Every shipment stands on three legs
License, eligibility, tax — decided in sequence, each one cited.
A shipment that fails any leg never ships. Pinrate runs all three the moment an order lands and writes the verdict — with its reasons — to the ledger.
May this winery ship into the destination state at all — and is the fulfilling party licensed?
Is the product permitted, the address shippable, the buyer of age and verified, and inside the annual volume window?
What is owed — to the dollar — once state, district, and excise are resolved at the rooftop?
One decision, and its receipt
The answer isn't a status. It's a worked return.
Every compliance tool gives you a checkmark. A checkmark is worthless eighteen months later, when a state asks why you charged $94.55 on one shipment. Pinrate's answer is a worked return — regenerated from first principles, line by line, down to line 18 — with every number pinned to the rule that produced it.
And because it works from first principles, it catches what totals-only systems miss — a district rate that changed mid-year, a wine classed under the wrong excise tier.
Decision · a California shipment
decided · pinned · cited · written to the ledger
REPRESENTATIVE · ACROSS THE 2025 REPLAY, 44 OF 45 LINES TIE TO THE DOLLAR · LINE 18 = $0
The constitution
Four rules Pinrate will not break.
These aren't features. They're the reason a compliance answer from Pinrate is one you can put your name on.
No rule goes live on one person's say-so. Every rate version is authored by one hand and countersigned by a credentialed reviewer before it can decide anything.
Each rate carries the authority it came from — the schedule, the publication, the district. Click any figure in a decision and the citation is right there.
When the data isn't there, Pinrate returns conditional and says exactly what's missing. It never quietly falls back to a default and calls it an answer.
Every decision is written to an append-only ledger with the exact rule versions it used. When a state questions a shipment from two years ago, you replay it — same answer, same citations, ready to hand over.