What's new in Ardent Seller

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.