Alternatives to Bevica for the Fine Wine Trade

What Bevica Publishes About Its Fine Wine Offering

Bevica's own fine wines page lists a specific feature set for the sector. Private reserves management with a unique ID per unit and full provenance. En primeur and broking with allocation management. Cellarage and duty management with automated invoicing and VAT/duty handling on dispatch. Unique bottle-level tracking capturing origin, vintage, producer and movement history across bonded and duty-paid locations. Bevica is positioned as a module of a wider Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP rather than a wine-only platform, which the same page states directly: it "brings together finance, CRM, inventory, duty management, and sales into a single, cloud-based solution" built on that Dynamics 365 base. On partner warehouses, the fine-wines page itself names only two illustratively — "seamless links to third-party warehouses like Octavian and LCB" — though Bevica's own warehouse-integration documentation, cited below, actually names eight distinct operators across three EDI channels — Vision EDI (LCB, Vinotheque, EHD, Lanchester, Coterie Vaults), Masterlink, and Culina (Octavian, Hoddesdon Great Bear). (Bevica's own fine-wines page checked live as of 29 September 2026.)

What Bevica's Own Page Does Not Document

Bevica's fine-wines page states that duty and VAT are handled "on dispatch." It does not say whether VAT is calculated under the UK VAT Margin Scheme specifically, as distinct from the standard scheme — it names duty and VAT together without describing which VAT basis applies. It documents bottle-level tracking with movement history. It does not describe a hierarchical lot/case/bottle model where a split or a repack preserves lineage back to a parent unit; "unique identifier" and "movement history" are the terms it uses, not lineage-preserving splits and merges. Its own help centre names eight partner warehouse operators across three EDI channels — Vision EDI (LCB, Vinotheque, EHD, Lanchester, Coterie Vaults), Masterlink, and Culina (Octavian, Hoddesdon Great Bear) — without stating whether bond status is modelled identically across all eight on one unified record or configured separately per integration; the page itself never uses the word "bonded" and documents these as general 3PL/EDI warehouse links, not specifically bonded-warehouse links. None of this means Bevica doesn't do these things. It means its own published page doesn't say, so this page does not assert either way.

Where Bacchus ERP Is Explicit

On the same three points, Bacchus ERP's own features page is explicit. Every stock unit is modelled at one of three hierarchical levels — lot, case, or bottle. When a lot splits or a case is repacked, the lineage back to the parent unit is preserved rather than restarted; see why fine wine needs this for the underlying case. Bond status (en primeur, in bond, duty paid, in transit) is tracked identically across multiple warehouse locations and operators on one record, not a separate configuration per warehouse — see every bonded-warehouse operator Bacchus ERP connects to. And a business's VAT scheme is an explicit setting on the book. Bacchus ERP calculates UK excise duty from ABV and volume against effective-dated bands, then separately applies whichever VAT scheme — standard or margin — the book is actually set to. That is worked through on the duty & VAT preview section of the features page.

En Primeur and Broking: Both Platforms Document a Real Workflow

This is not a dimension where the two platforms clearly differ. Bevica's own fine-wines page lists "En Primeur & broking: Manage allocations, streamline broking, and speed up sales" as a named, current feature. Bacchus ERP's en primeur allocation software page describes campaigns bound to ordered quantities, multi-supplier purchase orders, and automatic handling when a delivery lands short. Both are genuine, documented capabilities. The underlying mechanics of Bevica's allocation handling aren't detailed on its own page in a way that supports a specific comparison, so this page does not draw one.

Platform Architecture

One documented, structural difference is architecture rather than feature coverage. Bevica's own page states it is "built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central," a general-purpose ERP platform that Bevica's fine-wines module runs on top of. Bacchus ERP is a purpose-built platform for the fine wine trade specifically, not a module added to a general-purpose ERP — see the case for a fine wine ERP built this way.

A Longer History Than the Fine-Wines Page Alone Shows

Bevica's own company history page traces the product back further than its current branding suggests: TVision (now TVT) was founded in 1999.

Its own Enotria case study dates its first Navision customer to 2002, implementing NAV — described there as "the older version of Dynamics 365 Business Central" — as Enotria's replacement ERP.

The product carried a different name for its first eighteen years. TVT's own history page states that in 2017 "The Wine System became Bevica." The cloud SaaS package, Bevica Select, launched later still — Bevica's own launch announcement is dated 10 March 2022. None of this counts against the product: two decades of drinks-industry deployment behind it is a genuine credential. It does mean these dates are worth knowing before weighing it against a platform built from scratch for the fine wine trade specifically. (All three pages checked live as of 29 September 2026.)

One correction to a figure elsewhere on this page: Bevica's own fine-wines page names its bonded-warehouse partners illustratively only, "like Octavian and LCB," but Bevica's own warehouse-integration documentation names eight operators by name, grouped by the three EDI channels it integrates with — Vision EDI (LCB, Vinotheque, EHD, Lanchester, Coterie Vaults), Masterlink, and Culina (Octavian, Hoddesdon Great Bear) — not two. (Both pages checked live as of 29 September 2026.)

Three Things Bevica's Own Documentation Doesn't Claim

Bevica's own help centre is specific about scope in three places relevant to a UK fine wine merchant. Its HMRC excise warehouse reporting guide documents the W5D/EX606 duty declaration routine as a report the user runs from the page ribbon and prints — a printed report, not an electronic filing to HMRC. Its help-centre index documents no UK VAT margin scheme anywhere; duty and VAT are handled on dispatch, as already noted above, with no separate margin-scheme page alongside it. And its Shopify integration guide states plainly that the connection runs through "the Microsoft Shopify Connector," the standard Business Central app that "can synchronise items, customers and sales orders/invoices." Bevica does layer its own "Bevica Shopify Connector" on top of that base, adding enhancements such as customer price and discount groups, shipping and payment method mapping, order risk, and item templates — but every one of those is generic e-commerce plumbing, not a wine-trade-specific field (no bond status, lot/case/bottle, duty or vintage), so the underlying point still holds: neither Microsoft's base connector nor Bevica's own added layer is a dedicated integration built for the wine trade. None of this means Bevica can't do these things some other way. It means its own documentation doesn't claim it does. (All three pages checked live as of 29 September 2026.)

Pricing

Bevica's own installation packages page prices its "Select" tiers per user per month rather than as a flat platform fee: Select Startup from £315/user/month (minimum 2 users), and Select Rapid and Select Premium both from £265/user/month (minimum 5 users), each with a separate monthly support fee of £310–£700 on top; its Enterprise tier is price-on-application, with a £920/month support fee. Bacchus ERP's own published rate card is on the pricing page: Core at £620/month, Professional at £945/month, and Enterprise at £1,285/month, each on a 12-month term with no pre-go-live fees. The two pricing models aren't directly comparable headline-to-headline. Bevica's is per-user plus a separate support fee that scales with minimum seat count, while Bacchus ERP's is a single flat monthly price per tier. So a merchant weighing the alternatives should work out total cost for their own user count on each vendor's own page, rather than compare the numbers as stated. (Bevica's installation-packages pricing checked live as of 16 September 2026.)

If You Decide to Move

Comparing the two platforms is one decision; actually moving off a system you're already running your book on is a separate, practical one. Legacy stock data, bonded positions, open en primeur allocations, and ledger opening balances all have to survive the move intact, whichever platform you're moving from. Our ERP migration guide for wine merchants walks through what actually breaks and a realistic timeline for getting through it.