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 facts panels, 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, made-to-order and print-on-demand sellers, 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 facts panels and allergen detection for cottage food?

Yes. Ardent Seller shows a per-serving nutrition facts panel for each recipe, 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.

Does Ardent Seller work for made-to-order and print-on-demand products?

For items you make yourself, yes. Mark a product or service Made to order and pick the recipe that makes it — a blank tee, a transfer, ten minutes of pressing. Every sale saved as Completed then makes the item from that recipe in the same save, whether you enter it by hand, import it, or sync it from Etsy, Shopify or Square: its ingredients are used up (even below zero, so you can buy them after the order arrives) and the sale records what they cost. Change a made-to-order line, move the sale back from Completed, or delete it, and the production follows; a return keeps the made item in stock. If a print provider such as Printify, Printful or Gelato prints and ships for you, Ardent Seller doesn't import their orders yet; the guide shows a workaround that still gives each sale your average provider cost.

Read the made-to-order guide

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 23 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 prioritized, and roadmap features remain included on every plan when they ship.

See the public roadmap