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Pinrates
Compliance that shows its work.
Every direct-to-consumer wine shipment decided the moment it’s placed — licensure, eligibility, and tax — with every rate version pinned, every rule cited, and a return you could file. Fifty states, every district, one ledger.
Pinrates is a SpotBureau product, offered through SpotBureau For Business.
Form 401-A2 · regenerated · version pinned
Three gates, run on every order
Every shipment stands on three legs.
License, eligibility, and tax — decided in sequence, each one cited. A shipment that fails any leg never ships; Pinrates runs all three the moment an order lands and writes the verdict, with its reasons, to the ledger.
Cleared to ship?
May this winery ship into the destination state at all — and is the fulfilling party licensed?
ALLOW · partner license in forcePermitted & in-window?
Is the product permitted, the address shippable, the buyer of age and verified, and inside the annual volume window?
CONDITIONAL · 11 / 12 btl-yrOwed, to the dollar.
What is owed once state, district, and excise are resolved at the rooftop — not an estimate, a figure you can file?
ALLOW · rooftop · 3 versions pinnedOne decision, and its receipt
The answer isn’t a status. It’s a worked return.
Eighteen months later, a state asks why you charged $94.55 on one shipment. Pinrates’ answer is a worked return — regenerated from first principles, line by line, with every number pinned to the rule that produced it. Working from first principles is what catches a district rate that changed mid-year, or a wine classed under the wrong excise tier.
Append-only ledger · rule versions preserved
The constitution
Four rules Pinrates will not break.
These aren’t features. They’re the reason a compliance answer from Pinrates is one you can put your name on.
Two keys
Author ≠ reviewer
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.
Cited
Every number sourced
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.
Refuse to guess
Conditional, never silent
When the data isn’t there, Pinrates returns conditional and says exactly what’s missing. It never quietly falls back to a default and calls it an answer.
Replayable
An append-only ledger
Every decision is written with the exact rule versions it used. When a state questions a shipment from two years ago, you replay it — same answer, same citations.
See the full ledger, live on Pinrates.
How it works, who signs the rules, and the API — all on the Pinrates site.