Inventory, Recipe Costing & Sales Features for Creative Sellers

Are all features included on the Free plan?

Yes. Every feature on this page — inventory tracking, recipe costing, nutrition labels, allergen detection, multi-location support, audit trail, marketplace integrations, and reports — is available on the Free plan. Plans differ in transaction limits, user counts, and storage caps, not in feature access.

What kinds of sellers is Ardent Seller built for?

Small-batch craft makers, at-home bakers and cottage food producers, soap and candle makers, jewelry and pottery artists, woodworkers, leatherworkers, food sellers operating under cottage food laws, craft-fair vendors, Etsy shop owners, and digital product sellers. The feature set is tuned for sub-50-employee creator businesses, not enterprise manufacturing.

Does Ardent Seller support nutrition labels and allergen detection for cottage food?

Yes. Ardent Seller generates FDA-style nutrition facts panels from recipe ingredients, detects the major allergens (milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soy, sesame) automatically, and produces ingredient statements in regulatory order. This is included on every plan and is one of the features that distinguishes it from generic inventory tools.

Can Ardent Seller track equipment depreciation and production batches?

Yes. Equipment items can be configured with acquisition cost, useful life, residual value, and a depreciation method (straight-line or none), and the depreciation schedule report runs against any date. Production runs deduct raw materials and add finished goods to inventory automatically, with batch records capturing lot numbers and timestamps for traceability.

What reports are included?

Profit and loss, income statement, inventory valuation (weighted average cost method), sales and expenditure summary, equipment depreciation schedule, equipment usage and replenishment planning, Schedule C tax report, donations, traceability, stocktake variance, price list, and a full audit trail. Most reports filter by date range and entity (location), and export to PDF and CSV.

How does Ardent Seller handle multi-location inventory?

Inventory is scoped to entities — typically locations like primary, storage, production, and sales. Stock counts, reorder points, and transactions are tracked per entity, and inter-location transfers move stock without breaking the audit trail.

Does Ardent Seller include an audit trail?

Yes. Every mutation — create, update, delete on inventory, transactions, recipes, and entities — is recorded to an immutable audit log with the user, timestamp, and the before/after values. Retention is at least 7 days on every plan and upgradeable on Pay As You Go to longer windows.

Is there a list of upcoming features?

Yes. Ardent Seller publishes a public roadmap that tracks 35 features in active development, planned, or under consideration — grouped by the same categories used on this page. When an item ships, it moves from the roadmap to this features page automatically. Customer feedback through the contact form is the single biggest driver of what gets prioritised, and roadmap features remain included on every plan when they ship.

See the public roadmap