Video Tutorials

New to Ardent Seller? In just three minutes, get the full lay of the land — from the dashboard, through your inventory, sales, and reports — so you know exactly where to go for what you need from day one. This orientation walks the entire sidebar (Source, Create, Deliver, Optimize, Measure, and Settings) so you understand how the app is organized before diving into the deeper how-to tutorials.

Learn how to add a raw material ingredient to your inventory in Ardent Seller — the building block for recipe costing and accurate stock counts. This tutorial walks you through creating a new ingredient, choosing the right tracking unit, setting a bin location, reviewing the auto-generated SKU, configuring replenish thresholds, entering your opening stock quantity and cost, and saving.

Learn how to add a vendor to your contact list in Ardent Seller — step by step. This quick tutorial walks you through creating a new vendor, filling in the contact and address details, and saving it so you’re ready to log purchases.

Learn how to log a vendor purchase in Ardent Seller — from opening the Create Purchase sheet and picking the vendor, to adding line items with cost and package quantity, capturing tax and shipping, and attaching a payment method. This tutorial walks through the full flow so every shipment you receive is costed correctly and flows into your recipes and reports.

Learn how to add a product to your inventory in Ardent Seller — step by step. This beginner tutorial walks you through creating a new product, filling in the details, setting a retail price, entering your initial stock, and saving.

Learn how to add a customer to Ardent Seller — from naming the record and assigning a default pricing tier to capturing contact info and a shipping address. This tutorial shows the full flow so you are ready to attach customers to sales and have the right prices flow in automatically every time.

Learn how to record a sale in Ardent Seller step by step. This beginner tutorial walks you through creating a sale transaction — selecting a customer, adding items, setting quantities and prices, reviewing totals, and saving.

Learn how to personalize your Ardent Seller dashboard by toggling widgets on and off, resizing them, reordering them, and more — to create the perfect at-a-glance view for your business.

Learn how to build a recipe in Ardent Seller — so the app can auto-cost every batch, track ingredient usage, and drive your production runs. This tutorial walks you through creating a recipe from scratch: naming it, pointing it at a finished product, adding ingredients with quantities and units, writing step-by-step instructions, and saving.

Learn how to run a production batch in Ardent Seller — starting from a saved recipe, scaling the batch up or down with Batch Quantity and Recipe Scale, confirming ingredient availability and live costs, and marking the run complete so Ardent Seller automatically deducts your ingredients and adds the finished goods to your shelf at the real per-unit cost.

Learn how to run an Inventory Valuation report in Ardent Seller — step by step. This tutorial walks you through picking a date range, filtering by location, reading the categorized totals, and exporting to CSV. Perfect for makers, bakers, and small business sellers who need clean numbers at tax time or for end-of-month closeouts.

Learn how to run a Profit and Loss report in Ardent Seller — step by step. This tutorial walks you through picking a date range, filtering by location, reading every section of the report (revenue, cost of goods sold, gross profit, expenses, and net profit), and exporting the result to CSV, PDF, or print. Perfect for makers, bakers, and small business sellers who want a clear answer to the only question that really matters: did I make money this month?

Learn what subassemblies are in Ardent Seller — intermediate items you produce once, then reuse as ingredients across multiple finished-good recipes.

Every piece of equipment in Ardent Seller has its own service log built in — status at a glance, last service date, next-due date, and a full history of every cleaning, repair, and calibration with cost and notes.

Type a selling price and watch your profit margin recalculate in real time, in dollars and as a percent. Set a target margin and Ardent Seller reverse-engineers the price from your recipe cost.

Change a product's retail price and watch your wholesale rate recalculate as you type.

Tap Duplicate on any recipe to clone every ingredient, step, and tool in one click.

Toggle columns, filter by state, one-click Export to CSV — buttons most people miss.