Everything Creative Sellers Need
The most comprehensive toolkit for creative sellers. Features you won't find anywhere else — all included on every plan.
Why Ardent Seller
What makes us different.
Flexible Credit Spending
Pay As You Go plan: customize your spending across transactions, users, locations, and audit trail retention — all from one credit balance. Scale each dimension independently without switching plans or paying for bundles you don't need.
All Features Included
Every feature unlocked from day one — no tiered access, no expensive add-ons. Choose a flat-rate plan or pay-as-you-go credits. Free plan available with no commitment.
Built for Small-Batch Creators
Purpose-built for creative small businesses: craft makers, at-home bakers, digital creators, and artisan producers. Workflows designed for small-batch production and handmade goods, not mass manufacturing or retail chains.
Cross-Platform Access
Work from anywhere on any device. Access all features through your web browser on phone, tablet, or desktop with no app downloads, no updates to manage, and no device restrictions.
Data Import & Export
Import and export your data anytime in CSV format. Bulk update inventory, backup your records, or switch platforms freely — your data is always accessible and portable.
Flexible Pricing Options
Choose how you pay: predictable flat-rate plans (Maker, Artisan, or Workshop) starting at $19/month, or flexible pay-as-you-go credits with no recurring subscription. Free plan available indefinitely.
Multiple Users on All Plans
Multiple user accounts included at no extra cost — even on the free plan. Invite team members via email to collaborate with role-based access controls, keeping everyone on the same page without upgrading.
Unlimited Inventory Items
No artificial SKU limits or inventory caps. Build a catalog as large as your business needs with raw materials, food ingredients, finished goods, digital products, services, and more.
Know Your True Costs
Stop guessing. Start profiting.
Automatic COGS Calculation
Know your true product costs and profit margins in real-time. Automatic COGS calculation factors in all production costs—materials, labor, equipment, packaging—so you never underprice your products or miss hidden expenses.
Discounts, Tax & Shipping
Apply discounts, record sales tax, add shipping charges, and apply surcharges — all seamlessly integrated into your order workflow for accurate final pricing on every transaction.
Income & Expense Tracking
Track all business income and expenses beyond inventory costs—rent, utilities, marketing, services, and more. Get a complete financial picture to understand true profitability, not just product margins.
Pricing Tiers
Offer the right price to every customer with flexible pricing tiers. Configure retail, wholesale, and custom pricing to optimize margins across different sales channels and customer types.
Transaction & Platform Fees
Track transaction costs including payment processing fees (Stripe, PayPal, Venmo), marketplace commissions, and transaction charges. Automatic fee calculation ensures accurate profit margins and real cost visibility.
Track Everything You Make & Sell
From raw ingredients to finished products.
Multiple Inventory Categories
Organize diverse inventory with 10 specialized categories—raw materials, ingredients, finished goods, packaging, equipment, labor, services, and more. Each with purpose-built fields and workflows for proper tracking.
Automated Inventory
Stock levels stay accurate automatically—no manual updates needed. Every purchase, production run, sale, and adjustment instantly updates inventory across all locations and products.
Automatic SKU Generation
Automatically generate unique SKUs for every inventory item and variant. Product SKUs incorporate user-defined attributes like size, color, and material into a structured format, so every variant gets a consistent, readable identifier without manual entry.
Barcode & QR Code Support
Generate barcodes and QR codes for quick inventory identification. Print labels for materials, products, and variants to streamline receiving, production, sales, and inventory counts.
Equipment Tracking
Track tools, machines, and equipment with maintenance schedules, usage monitoring, and depreciation tracking. Optimize asset utilization, plan replacements, and understand true equipment costs over time.
Flexible Units of Measure
Work seamlessly with any unit system—buy in pounds, produce in ounces, sell in grams. Automatic conversion eliminates manual math and errors, perfect for international operations, diverse suppliers, and recipes from any source.
Inventory Photos
Visually document your inventory for quick identification, quality control, and professional product listings. Perfect for distinguishing similar items, training new staff, creating marketing materials, and maintaining insurance records.
MRO Tracking
Keep overhead supply costs separate from product costs for accurate profitability analysis. Track cleaning supplies, safety equipment, maintenance parts, and shop consumables without inflating your COGS or running out of critical supplies.
Packaging Inventory
Never forget packaging costs in your pricing. Track boxes, labels, bags, and containers as dedicated inventory with automatic deduction when you produce or sell—ensuring packaging expenses are captured in your true product costs.
Photo & File Storage
Store product photos, receipt images, and other files with generous per-plan storage caps. Free plan includes 200 MB, paid plans scale up to 20 GB storage.
Never Run Out (or Over-Order)
Smart stock control without the spreadsheets.
Bin Location Tracking
Find items fast with bin and shelf location tracking. Eliminate warehouse wandering, speed up order picking, streamline restocking, and train new staff quickly with precise storage locations for every item.
Guided Stocktakes
Ensure inventory accuracy with guided counting sessions that identify discrepancies, calculate variances, and automatically adjust your books to match physical counts. Eliminate manual calculations and confidently track shrinkage.
Inter-Location Transfers
Maintain accurate inventory across multiple sites with tracked transfers. Move stock between warehouses, consignment locations, or sales points while maintaining clear accountability and preventing items from getting lost in transit.
Low Stock Alerts
Prevent stockouts and production delays with automatic alerts. Get notified before critical materials run out, avoid expensive rush orders, and maintain optimal stock levels with customizable low-stock thresholds.
Purchase Orders
Maintain vendor accountability and track purchasing commitments with formal purchase orders. Lock in negotiated pricing, monitor outstanding orders, and automatically convert to inventory when goods arrive.
Waste & Loss Tracking
Track and categorize inventory losses to identify patterns and reduce costs. Record waste, spoilage, damage, theft, and personal use separately from standard adjustments for accurate loss accounting and process improvement insights.
Recipes & Production
Perfect batches, every time.
Production Consumption Tracking
Know exactly what goes into every batch with automatic ingredient consumption tracking and complete lot traceability from raw materials through to finished products.
Production Steps & Directions
Ensure consistent quality and accurate scheduling with step-by-step instructions that include optional time estimates for each stage of production.
Recipe Equipment Requirements
Avoid production delays by documenting required equipment for each recipe — your team knows exactly what tools they need before they start.
Recipe Scaling
Adjust batch sizes effortlessly — scale recipes up or down and watch all ingredient quantities recalculate automatically.
Subassemblies
Create reusable intermediate components that become ingredients in multiple finished products, simplifying complex builds and maintaining consistency across your product line.
Food & Cottage Kitchen Ready
Compliance made simple for home bakers.
Allergen Tracking
Keep customers safe and labels accurate — allergens automatically flow from ingredients through recipes to finished products.
Automatic Nutrition Labels
Generate professional nutrition facts labels in seconds — calories, macros, vitamins, and minerals calculate automatically from your ingredients.
Built-in Food Database
Skip the tedious data entry — instantly add common ingredients with nutrition facts, allergens, and density values already filled in.
Country of Origin Tracking
Meet labeling requirements and provide transparency to customers by tracking where each ingredient comes from.
Automatic Unit Conversions
Buy flour in pounds, measure in cups, track in grams — ingredient-specific density data converts everything automatically so your math always adds up.
Cottage Food Producer Support
Built for home bakers and cottage food producers — get professional tools without the complexity or cost of enterprise manufacturing software.
End-to-End Traceability
Sleep better knowing you can trace every ingredient from supplier to customer — complete batch/lot tracking gives you recall-ready records in seconds.
Expiration Date Tracking
Never waste ingredients or risk using expired materials — track expiration dates to use items before they go bad.
Sell Anywhere
Markets, online, wholesale—all in one place.
Charitable Donation Tracking
Document products donated to nonprofits and charities with proper valuation for tax deduction records.
Bundles & Kits
Sell multiple products together as bundles or gift sets with automatic inventory deduction for each component item.
Consignment Tracking
Monitor products placed on consignment at shops, galleries, or retail partners with location-based inventory and sales tracking.
Digital Products & Services
Track sales of digital downloads, online courses, and services alongside physical products — all in one system.
Labor & Services Tracking
Track labor hours and service time as inventory items with customizable hourly rates for accurate job costing.
Multi-Currency Support
Operate in your local currency — choose from over 100 world currencies including USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, and more.
Product Variants
Create and manage product variants like size, color, or material — each with its own SKU, pricing, and inventory levels.
Return Management
Handle customer returns and exchanges with automatic inventory adjustments and refund documentation.
Sales Orders
Create and track sales orders with customer details, line items, pricing, and fulfillment status.
Customers & Vendors
Your business relationships, organized.
Vendor & Customer Management
Store contact information, addresses, and notes for all your vendors, customers, and charity partners in one organized directory.
Reports That Drive Decisions
Know what's working. Fix what's not.
Business Dashboard
See your business performance at a glance — revenue trends, inventory health, best sellers, and profit margins all on one screen.
Financial Reporting
Understand your profitability with income statements and P&L reports showing revenue, COGS, expenses, gross profit, net profit, and margin percentages.
Inventory Valuation Report
Know the total dollar value of your inventory at any point in time for accurate balance sheets and financial statements.
IRS Schedule C Guidance
Simplify tax time with a report that organizes your income, COGS, and expenses into the correct IRS Schedule C line items for sole proprietors.
Price List Generation
Create professional price lists to share with wholesale customers, at markets, or for internal reference.
Team & Security
Collaborate safely as you grow.
Social & Passwordless Authentication
Log in with your Google or Facebook account — or use magic links sent to your email for passwordless access.
Audit Trail
See exactly who changed what and when with a permanent record of every edit, deletion, and transaction in your account.
Multi-Location Management
Manage inventory separately across multiple warehouses, production spaces, retail stores, or consignment shops — and transfer stock between them.
Role-Based Permissions
Control what each team member can see and do by assigning roles with different permission levels — from full access to read-only.
Secure Cloud Storage
Your business data is encrypted, backed up, and securely hosted in the cloud — accessible anywhere, protected always.
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