Case Study: Carriage House Imports cuts monthly state-reporting from 160 hours to 1 hour with Sovos ShipCompliant

ShipCompliant helps Carriage House Imports cut time spent on state reporting from 160 hours to about an hour per month

Carriage House Imports, a family-owned wine and spirits importer distributing roughly 530,000 cases across all 50 states, was bogged down by manual compliance work: two accountants spent up to two weeks each month (about 160 hours) completing state gallonage reports, tracking registrations, COLAs and expiring licenses. To solve this, Carriage House turned to SOVOS ShipCompliant, implementing ShipCompliant 3‑Tier with AutoFile and ShipCompliant LabelVision to centralize and automate reporting and label management.

Using ShipCompliant’s centralized platform and AutoFile, Carriage House cut state reporting time from roughly 160 hours to about an hour per month—shifting from two people spending two weeks monthly to one person spending an hour—while ensuring correct tax remittance and on-time filings. ShipCompliant’s LabelVision sped product-to-market workflows, improved trademark and label tracking, and consolidated licenses and registrations, freeing staff to focus on product analysis, pricing and growth rather than manual compliance.

Carriage House Imports

Wayne Fugel

Controller / Director of Compliance