A location is a physical place where you hold inventory or do business — a home kitchen, a workshop, an offsite storage unit, a booth at the farmers market. Locations are a type of entity, and they are the level at which inventory and transactions are tracked.
Tracking stock per location is what makes multi-place operations manageable. You can see that you have plenty of finished candles in storage but only a handful at the market stall, and move units between them with a transfer. Without location tracking, those quantities collapse into one number that hides where things actually are.
Locations come in several types — primary, secondary, storage, production, and sales — so the report and stock picture matches how you really work. Many sellers start with a single location and add more only when they genuinely operate in more than one place.
Related terms
Entity
A location (primary, secondary, storage, production, sales) or a contact (vendor, customer, charity) in your business. Locations are used to scope inventory and transactions.
Transfer
The movement of inventory from one location to another within your business. Creates records at both the source and destination locations.
Account
Your organization or business in Ardent Seller. All data is scoped to your account, ensuring complete isolation from other businesses on the platform.