What's new in Ardent Seller

AI document import now works in both directions. Upload a platform payout statement, consignment settlement, commission or royalty statement, or grant letter, and AI drafts the income for you — the payer matched, the earnings filled in, and the Schedule C income category pre-selected. Because a payout is a net settlement, it separates your gross earnings from the platform fees and tax withheld, then checks the arithmetic against the amount actually paid out so a misread fee is caught before you save. It can also record the platform fee as a matching Commissions and Fees expense, so the fee actually reaches your profit and loss instead of quietly inflating it. Find it under "Scan income" on the Income page; it shares the AI document-import allowance included on every plan.

Generate an Etsy-ready title, sectioned description, 13 tags, and a materials list for any product — grounded in the data you already keep, including its real recipe, so the materials list is never guessed. Review and edit the draft in place, copy it into Etsy, or save it back to the product; monthly generations are included on every plan, and it can be turned off in Account Preferences.

Photograph a handwritten craft-fair tally sheet, paper order form, or consignment statement and AI drafts the sale — products matched to your catalog, quantities and prices filled in, payment methods mapped, and stock updated when you confirm. One photo can become one aggregated sale, or split by date or by named order — and it shares the monthly AI document-import allowance with invoice import.

Track what's specific to your business with your own typed fields — text, number, date, yes/no, or dropdown — on inventory items, customers, and vendors. Scope an inventory field to just the categories it fits (a Wax Type dropdown on finished goods and raw materials, a Voltage number on equipment), mark fields required, and reorder how they appear on the record. Fields show up as toggleable list columns you can filter and sort by real values — "Wax Type is soy", "Voltage between 110 and 240" — and values round-trip through CSV export and import. Unlimited fields on every plan.

Organize your catalog your way with color-coded tags. Create tags like Seasonal, Bestseller, or Discontinued in Settings, then apply as many as you like to inventory items, transactions, and recipes — cross-cutting labels that categories alone can't give you. Filter any list by one tag or several (match any or all, or find untagged records), tag or untag records in bulk from the list, and rename or recolor a tag once to update it everywhere. Tags are separate from your Etsy listing tags, so your internal organization never touches your marketplace SEO. Unlimited tags on every plan.

Know what to order, how much, and by when. The new Restock Planning page analyzes your own sales and usage history — seasonal patterns, growth trends, and supplier lead times — to give every item a recommended order quantity and an order-by date, netting out purchases already on the way and warning when you're holding too much. A Smart Restock dashboard widget shows the most urgent items, and an optional weekly email digest delivers your restock plan grouped by vendor. Free on every plan.

Skip the data entry: upload a supplier invoice or receipt and AI drafts the purchase for you — vendor, line items, quantities, and costs pre-filled for your review. Included on every plan — monthly included imports on Free and flat-rate plans, 1 credit per import on Pay As You Go — and you can turn it off any time in Account Preferences.

Turn on email-to-import in Account Preferences and your account gets a private forwarding address — plus a second address for expense receipts. Forward a supplier email and each attached invoice arrives as an AI-drafted import waiting for your review. Only email sent from your own team members' addresses is accepted.

Non-inventory receipts — utilities, software subscriptions, booth fees — now import from the Expenses page: AI reads the receipt into an expense draft with the payee, amounts, and a suggested tax category filled in, with no effect on your stock.

An optional dashboard widget shows the imports waiting for review at your selected location — from every team member and from email-to-import — with who sent each one, so drafts never sit unnoticed. Add it from the dashboard's widget settings.

A new free report on every plan analyzes your whole catalog — flagging items priced below cost or under your target margin, items missing cost or price data, and your margin leaders — with the source of every unit cost shown, instant what-if price comparisons per item, and an optional dashboard widget.

Ask the advisor for recommendations and AI reviews your catalog — costs, margins, sales velocity, channel fees, and your live Etsy listing prices — then suggests specific prices with plain-language reasoning; you accept or dismiss each one, and nothing is applied without your approval. Monthly included analyses on every plan, 2 credits per run on Pay As You Go.

Record the competitor prices you find — who, how much, and when you saw it — right on the Pricing Health report; they become positioning context in your pricing recommendations ("you're 30% under the competitors you track"), and entries older than six months are flagged as stale so old research never drives a new price.

After you apply pricing recommendations, the advisor can update the live Etsy listings to match — you see the exact per-listing before-and-after first, and nothing reaches Etsy until you confirm it.

Opt in from the Pricing Health settings and every Monday you'll get an email listing any items currently selling below what they cost you — worst margins first — so pricing problems surface even in weeks you don't open the report.

Turn on the monthly auto-run and the advisor analyzes your catalog on the 1st of each month, then emails you when recommendations are ready — it uses your normal monthly allowance, skips months where you already ran one, and every suggestion still waits for your review.

A new Help button in the header opens searchable documentation and quick answers without making you leave the page you're on.

A quick setup interview tunes Ardent Seller to how you work, and you can switch whole sections — like production, recipes, or marketplace — on or off at any time, so the sidebar shows only what you actually use.

Reports now live together under a single, organized Reports hub instead of being scattered across the app, so the one you need is easier to find.

A usage indicator shows how much of your monthly plan allowances you've used and gives you a heads-up before you run out.

Your profile now has a Sign-in Methods card: connect or disconnect Google and Facebook, change your email address, and set or update your password, all in one place. Your last remaining sign-in method is protected, so you can't lock yourself out.

The reports hub gains chart-first views of your business: a Sales Seasonality calendar heatmap of daily sales, a Profit Waterfall from revenue to net profit, a Where the Money Goes flow from vendors through production to sales channels, a Product Portfolio treemap sized by revenue and colored by margin, a Margin vs. Volume quadrant that sorts your catalog into stars and sleepers, and an ABC analysis that ranks items by revenue with automatic A/B/C bands. Every chart has a table view and CSV/PDF export.

Flag a wholesale buyer, reseller, or nonprofit as tax-exempt and their sales skip sales tax automatically — no remembering to zero it out on every order — with the exemption recorded on the sale for your records. On every plan.

Set fixed per-product prices for a specific customer — or a whole customer group — and they fill in automatically when you record that customer's sale, so wholesale and preferred pricing no longer means looking up a number every time. Prices can be inherited from a group or overridden per customer, imported in bulk from CSV, and are free on every plan.

Upload your business logo once and it appears in the header of every invoice and purchase order PDF you generate, so the documents you hand to customers and suppliers look like your brand.

The reports hub gains a wave of new reports: Market & Event Performance, Channel Profitability, Season Readiness, and Batch Yield for how you sell and make; Vendor Spend, Inventory Turnover, Waste & Shrinkage, Customer Retention, and Break-Even for the health of the business; plus True Hourly Wage, Buildable Stock, Discount Effectiveness, Equipment ROI, a Cottage Food Cap tracker, Year in the Making, and Stockout & Lost Sales. Every one has a table view and CSV or PDF export, on every plan.

Write-offs and giveaways are no longer just quantities — waste, loss, and donation lines now record what the items cost you, so shrinkage and charitable-donation reporting can finally show real dollars. Manual adjustments gained a cost field too, pre-filled from each item's average cost.

Your dashboard gains a wave of new widgets: Make Right Now (what you can build from stock on hand), Season Readiness Countdown, Today's Pulse, Goals & Pace with monthly revenue and profit goals you can edit inline, Break-even Day, Stockout Risk, True Hourly Wage, Tax Set-Aside, Giving Impact, Milestones & Wins, and a Cottage Food Cap Meter that tracks year-to-date sales against your state's cap. Settings like your state cap, target hourly wage, and fixed costs now live with your account rather than on one device, so the widget and the matching report always agree.

Milestones & Wins spots records worth celebrating — best day ever, revenue and sale-count thresholds, monthly records, first-sale anniversaries — and every win now has a share button that downloads a square social card with your shop name on it. Nothing leaves your dashboard unless you click it. Goals & Pace also counts consecutive months you hit your goal, so a good run is visible.

A recipe you're still working out can now be saved as a draft with no ingredients at all, and draft inventory items can be picked as ingredients — so you can write down a formula across several sittings, before the materials have been bought. Production runs still require real, active stock.

Long paper invoice? Snap a photo per page — up to eight — and AI reads them together as a single document, so one import captures the whole purchase.

Every AI import now pre-selects the purchase's Schedule C tax category for one-click confirmation — and when you correct a vendor's tax category, currency, or item category once, the next import from that vendor starts with your choices already applied.

The pricing page now spells out each plan's monthly included AI invoice imports on the plan cards, the per-import credit price for Pay As You Go, and a FAQ covering exactly how import billing works.

Plan cards now show each plan's monthly included AI listing copy generations, the Pay As You Go per-generation credit price, and a FAQ covering exactly how generation billing works.

Pushing product details to a linked Etsy listing now checks Etsy's field rules — title length, tag and materials limits — before anything is sent, so an over-long value gets a clear message naming the field instead of a cryptic marketplace error.

Your color-coded tags now ride along in CSV: inventory, transaction, and recipe exports include each record's tags, and imports can apply them — so bulk edits and migrations keep your organization intact.

Item pickers across sales, purchases, and recipes now match on SKU as well as name — so scanning or typing a code finds the right item even when names are similar.

The inventory CSV import now accepts per-variant opening stock and unit-cost columns plus replenish point and quantity, and recipe imports can target a specific variant by SKU — so bulk setup from a spreadsheet captures the details you previously had to add by hand.

Invoice and receipt imports now have their own Document Imports history in the sidebar — open any import directly, re-create one you deleted, copy your invoice and expense email addresses in a click, and see the forwarded emails that were skipped, so you always know why an expected import didn't appear.

If you sell through more than one marketplace shop, channel-specific pricing recommendations now name the exact shop they apply to — each shop's own fee history is used in the math, and applying the change updates that shop's pricing tier and no other.

The documentation now has full-text search, a section sidebar with on-this-page navigation, and 19 new guides covering more of the app.

The transactions list gains a vendor and related-entity column filter, and its sorting and filtering now run on the server for fast, consistent results even on large accounts.

Inventory, ingredients, sales, recipes, and production pages now show what to do first instead of a blank table when you haven't added anything yet.

The detail panels for inventory items, transactions, recipes, and contacts were reorganized into a task-ordered layout that mirrors their edit forms, so information is easier to scan.

A refreshed onboarding checklist and in-context nudges guide new accounts to their first real milestones — first product, first recipe, first sale — matched to how you set up your workspace.

Ardent Seller no longer shows a cookie consent banner — analytics run without cookies and without session recording, so there's nothing to consent to and nothing to dismiss on your way into the app.

"Import invoice" and "Import receipt" are now "Scan a purchase" and "Scan an expense". Both buttons always accepted either document — a till receipt for supplies, a supplier invoice for a booth fee — so naming them after the paper implied a difference that was never there, and sent people holding receipts to the wrong place. The names now say where the draft lands: a purchase adds stock to your inventory, an expense doesn't. Import history also gained a scan button for every type, not just purchases.

Every dashboard widget now explains what it's showing and links straight to the page where you can act on it, so a number that looks off is one click from the detail behind it.

Searching the inventory and procedures lists no longer stutters while you type on large accounts, and list pages render more efficiently throughout the app.

The column filter dropdowns are easier to read and now let you select every value or clear them all in one click, instead of ticking boxes one at a time.

Default columns on the main lists were trimmed to fit a standard desktop window, so you start with the columns that matter and switch the rest on when you need them.

Tutorial and video pages now show a thumbnail until you click, so the page loads faster and YouTube isn't contacted until you actually choose to watch.

The reports hub is now organized around the questions you're asking — with pinned favorites, a recently-viewed row, and a gentle nudge when a report needs more data first — and every report opens with a short panel explaining what it shows, why it matters, and how to act on it.

The column filters and sort order you set on a list now persist as you navigate away and back, and a bug that silently dropped saved transaction filters on load is fixed — so you no longer have to re-apply your view every time.

Short on an ingredient no longer blocks a new production run outright — Initiated and In Progress runs save as plans you can finish after restocking, and only marking a run Completed, the point stock actually moves, requires the quantity to be there.

The Create Production Run dialog now has a searchable recipe picker that shows recipe names, and duplicating a recipe asks what to call the copy — and which variant it targets — since both are fixed once saved.

Links in article text are underlined rather than color-only, long posts get an "On this page" table of contents, and worked-example tables carry a visible caption naming what they show.

Accounts set to a non-USD currency now see their own currency symbol across workflows, charts, and confirmation dialogs instead of an assumed "$".

The expandable FAQ sections on the pricing, documentation, and blog pages open on click again after a recent design-system update briefly left them stuck.

When a supplier invoice showed the same discount at both the line and order level, AI import could subtract it twice — imported totals now match the paper.

Choosing a custom date range on a report no longer breaks, and single-date pickers now close as soon as you pick a date.

When a save fails — a recipe with a duplicate name, for example — you now see the specific reason instead of a generic "Failed to save," and edits no longer risk a delete-and-recreate loop.

Switching an item between Active, Draft, and Archived now updates immediately instead of ignoring the first click.

The Cancel button when customizing your dashboard or reordering custom fields now discards your changes as expected.

Entering a cost on a purchase line item no longer errors on save in certain cases.

Contact names in the related-entity dropdown keep the capitalization you gave them, a single charity no longer reads as "charities", and the header controls have room to breathe.

The dashboard Cash Flow Summary no longer counts materials used in production as an outflow — that money already counted when you bought the materials, and production itself moves no cash. Outflows now match what actually left your accounts; production costs live in the Income Statement and the Where the Money Goes report.

The guided Production Run workflow was rejecting every run as invalid — it now saves correctly, so you can turn a recipe into finished stock from the workflow again.

Several costing edge cases are fixed: an ingredient's cost per unit can no longer come out negative, cross-unit conversions between weight and count now go in the right direction instead of ballooning stock, and the Income Statement values beginning and ending inventory item by item rather than by a blended average.

Duplicating a transaction works again, customer-group filters now show exactly the customers in the group instead of quietly falling back to everyone, and switching between accounts no longer overwrites one account's dashboard layout with another's.

Help text and validation messages on inputs — including the sign-in and password fields — are announced to screen readers again after a design-system update briefly stopped them from being linked to their field.

If you had a page open while we deployed a new version, a stale file could occasionally cause an error on your next click — the app now detects that mismatch and refreshes itself instead, so you're not left on a broken screen.

A recipe that legitimately used one item on more than one row — sugar in the batter and again in the frosting — was rejected as having missing ingredients, with an error naming nothing you could act on. Recipes and production runs now save correctly, for ingredients and equipment alike.

Re-pointing a run at an item measured differently — ounces to units — used to keep the old quantity in a locked field, so a run meant to make 70 produced 26.46. The quantity is now converted where a conversion exists, cleared and unlocked with an explanation where none does, and a live preview shows the resulting output before you save.

Dialogs taller or wider than the window used to hide their own content with no way to scroll to it — most visible at 140% zoom or on a narrow window. They now cap to the viewport and scroll inside.

On iOS Safari with "Block All Cookies" on, and in Android apps with storage disabled, the site could render a blank page instead of loading. Ardent Seller now degrades gracefully when browser storage is unavailable.

South Carolina was listed with a revenue cap, registration, and training requirement that the law does not impose; Tennessee referenced a repealed program; and Alabama's permitted venues and training requirement were wrong. All three are corrected against the statutes across the state pages, the 50-state PDF, and the revenue cap tracker.

Live web and database health probes refresh every 60 seconds, with a static list of every third-party dependency and an incident history.

Plain-language documentation of encryption at rest, multi-tenant isolation, backup policy, GDPR posture, and one-click data export.

A live view of "Coming soon", "Planned", and "Under consideration" features — driven by the same catalog as the features and comparison pages.

Apply to become an Ardent Seller affiliate or refer friends through the new Refer-and-Earn flow. 20% recurring commission, NET-30 payouts.

When you log a maintenance event with a cost, an expense transaction now posts to your books automatically — no more double-entry.

A dedicated home for our promotional videos, with per-video slug pages and clean video schema for search engines.

Side-by-side breakdown vs Zoho Inventory joins the existing Craftybase, Inventora, Sortly, Katana, MRPeasy, and Thrive pages.

A month-by-month record of everything new, improved, and fixed — the page you are reading right now.

One page showing every marketplace connection — live today and on the roadmap — starting with Etsy.

More than twenty free calculators and tools — pricing, fees, taxes, compliance — with audience and topic filters to find the right one fast.

Bloggers and partner sites can now drop our calculators into their own pages with a simple copy-paste embed.

Plain-language cottage food rules for all 50 states plus DC — sales caps, allowed foods, and registration requirements in one reference.

Step-by-step guides to starting a candle, soap, jewelry, bakery, skincare, sticker, and more craft businesses — costs, regulations, pricing, and first-sale checklists.

If something goes wrong in the app, leave your email and we will let you know the moment the bug is resolved.

Researching a switch? New roundup pages gather the best alternatives to Craftybase, Sortly, Katana, MRPeasy, and more in one view.

Previously cramped sheets — now a full-page view with proper filters, sorting, and column controls.

Smaller logo, deferred analytics scripts, fewer backdrop-blur layers, and a leaner critical-path. Real-world load times are noticeably quicker.

Better keyboard focus, labels, contrast, and screen-reader announcements — across the public site and in-app detail sheets, reports, workflows, forms, and tables.

Refreshed hero, rotating lead-magnet spotlight, sharper feature cards, expanded FAQ, and tightened SEO metadata.

Every free resource now downloads directly — no more email wall — making them easier to share and link from third-party blogs.

Text, date, numeric-range, and status filters now live directly in the column headers across inventory, transactions, procedures, and entities — with an active-filter count and one-click reset.

New search boxes on the inventory, procedures, and entities lists — and transaction search now matches line items, payment methods, and attached files too.

Five new messages, including first-production-run and first-customer congratulations, a quarterly tax reminder, and a gentle check-in — plus repaired links across every template.

Critical styles load instantly and analytics waits its turn — public pages render sooner, and signed-in visitors see their Dashboard link immediately.

Clearer messages for expired or rate-limited magic links, a simpler password rule with specific feedback, and a shorter profile step after signup.

Denser plan cards, feature chips that wrap on mobile, and a corrected Pay As You Go figure.

Fixed an edge case where the costing step could miss certain ingredient categories when building or editing a recipe.

Adding an item with an opening balance no longer occasionally double-counts the initial quantity in subsequent reports.

Resolved a race condition in selection controls that briefly showed an incorrect choice before hydrating.

Re-signing in with Google or Facebook on a returning browser no longer occasionally creates a duplicate account.

A maintenance expense used to subtract from "Total Spent" and decrement an inventory quantity — both are now correct.

Typing a thousands-separated amount like 1,234 into a transaction no longer errors on save.

Orders that synced before payment cleared now flip to paid automatically on a later sync.

Switching locations in quick succession could leave a list spinning — lists now always settle on the right location's data.

Connect, pause, delete, and inspect marketplace connections from a dedicated Integrations area with per-platform filters and helpers.

Pull a single listing on demand or batch-sync the whole shop, with listing-status updates and configurable sync fields.

Listing import now captures full descriptions, active/draft/sold status, and live inventory quantity — including platform-side variant matching.

Marketplace-linked records show in the Data Management list with counts and a clean cleanup flow when you disconnect.

When a listing's SKU matches an existing item, the link is created automatically — no manual mapping required.

Export the full audit-trail history (cursor-based, so the export is consistent even on large accounts).

Encrypted weekly database snapshots and daily storage backups go to our own AWS S3 bucket with Object Lock and KMS, independent of the primary database host.

Sorting, filtering, and search now run on the server, supporting page sizes up to 200 items with live result counts.

Across inventory, replenishment fields, and reports — clearer language for restocking your own raw materials.

Added finished, products, and subassembly inventory categories to better support multi-stage manufacturing workflows.

Empty-state guidance, configurable step direction, default sort by initiation date, and clearer "removed" badges.

Stocktake screens use shared location-entity helpers and read better on narrower viewports.

Backgrounded token refresh now retries cleanly and keeps long-running syncs from stalling on expired credentials.

Resolved a routing edge case where the OAuth callback could land on a stale connection detail page after disconnect/reconnect.

Auto-creating products during the very first sync no longer occasionally leaves orphan rows when two events land at once.

Home, pricing, features, use-cases, blog, comparison pages, contact, and legal notices — all server-rendered and indexable.

Free, Maker, Artisan, Workshop, and Pay-As-You-Go plans, with monthly and annual frequencies, signup bonuses, and team member invitations.

Multi-category inventory with variants, attributes, pricing tiers, batches, lots, barcodes, photo galleries, and file attachments.

Purchases, sales, adjustments, transfers, donations, waste, stocktakes, expenses, and income — with line-item costing and printable receipts.

Build multi-stage recipes with ingredient costs, then run them as production runs that consume raw materials and create finished goods.

A unified Entities system covers vendors, customers, charity recipients, and your own location entities (storage, production, sales, primary).

Track equipment as inventory with straight-line depreciation, useful life, residual value, and a depreciation schedule report.

Cost of goods, profit & loss, inventory valuation, depreciation schedule, sales by channel, transaction summaries, and more.

A configurable dashboard with cash-flow, recent transactions, low-stock, and at-a-glance KPIs — each widget can be hidden, resized, and reordered.

Import inventory, transactions, vendors, customers, and procedures from CSV — and export any list back out for spreadsheets and accountants.

Optional OAuth sign-in alongside email/password, with password-strength feedback and account-lockout protection.

Long-form articles on pricing, costing, marketplace selling, and small-batch manufacturing — searchable, taggable, and SEO-optimized.