Packed with unique features

Everything Creative Sellers Need

The most comprehensive toolkit for creative sellers. Features you won't find anywhere else — all included on every plan.

60+
Powerful Features
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Exclusive to Ardent Seller
$0
Free Forever Plan

Why Ardent Seller

What makes us different.

Flexible Credit Spending

Only in Ardent Seller

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

Only in Ardent Seller

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

All Plans

Ensure consistent quality and accurate scheduling with step-by-step instructions that include optional time estimates for each stage of production.

Recipe Equipment Requirements

All Plans

Avoid production delays by documenting required equipment for each recipe — your team knows exactly what tools they need before they start.

Recipe Scaling

All Plans

Adjust batch sizes effortlessly — scale recipes up or down and watch all ingredient quantities recalculate automatically.

Subassemblies

All Plans

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

Only in Ardent Seller

Keep customers safe and labels accurate — allergens automatically flow from ingredients through recipes to finished products.

Automatic Nutrition Labels

Only in Ardent Seller

Generate professional nutrition facts labels in seconds — calories, macros, vitamins, and minerals calculate automatically from your ingredients.

Built-in Food Database

Only in Ardent Seller

Skip the tedious data entry — instantly add common ingredients with nutrition facts, allergens, and density values already filled in.

Country of Origin Tracking

Only in Ardent Seller

Meet labeling requirements and provide transparency to customers by tracking where each ingredient comes from.

Automatic Unit Conversions

All Plans

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

All Plans

Built for home bakers and cottage food producers — get professional tools without the complexity or cost of enterprise manufacturing software.

End-to-End Traceability

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

Only in Ardent Seller

Document products donated to nonprofits and charities with proper valuation for tax deduction records.

Bundles & Kits

All Plans

Sell multiple products together as bundles or gift sets with automatic inventory deduction for each component item.

Consignment Tracking

All Plans

Monitor products placed on consignment at shops, galleries, or retail partners with location-based inventory and sales tracking.

Digital Products & Services

All Plans

Track sales of digital downloads, online courses, and services alongside physical products — all in one system.

Labor & Services Tracking

All Plans

Track labor hours and service time as inventory items with customizable hourly rates for accurate job costing.

Multi-Currency Support

All Plans

Operate in your local currency — choose from over 100 world currencies including USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, and more.

Product Variants

All Plans

Create and manage product variants like size, color, or material — each with its own SKU, pricing, and inventory levels.

Return Management

All Plans

Handle customer returns and exchanges with automatic inventory adjustments and refund documentation.

Sales Orders

All Plans

Create and track sales orders with customer details, line items, pricing, and fulfillment status.

Customers & Vendors

Your business relationships, organized.

Vendor & Customer Management

All Plans

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

All Plans

See your business performance at a glance — revenue trends, inventory health, best sellers, and profit margins all on one screen.

Financial Reporting

All Plans

Understand your profitability with income statements and P&L reports showing revenue, COGS, expenses, gross profit, net profit, and margin percentages.

Inventory Valuation Report

All Plans

Know the total dollar value of your inventory at any point in time for accurate balance sheets and financial statements.

IRS Schedule C Guidance

All Plans

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

All Plans

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

Only in Ardent Seller

Log in with your Google or Facebook account — or use magic links sent to your email for passwordless access.

Audit Trail

All Plans

See exactly who changed what and when with a permanent record of every edit, deletion, and transaction in your account.

Multi-Location Management

All Plans

Manage inventory separately across multiple warehouses, production spaces, retail stores, or consignment shops — and transfer stock between them.

Role-Based Permissions

All Plans

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

All Plans

Your business data is encrypted, backed up, and securely hosted in the cloud — accessible anywhere, protected always.

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