Pricing Tiers, Consignment & Inventory Software for Wholesale & Consignment
B2B sellers, wholesale distributors & consignment managers
Overview
Selling wholesale and through consignment is a different game than direct-to-consumer. The pricing math is more complex, the relationships matter more, the payment cycles are slower, and inventory ends up sitting in places you do not own. Ardent Seller gives you a professional B2B operation alongside your retail sales without forcing you onto enterprise software you do not need. Set up named pricing tiers — retail, wholesale, distributor, custom — and apply them automatically per customer. Place inventory on consignment at boutiques, galleries, or stores and reconcile sales statements without spreadsheets. Track every B2B relationship with order history, payment terms, and notes. Run inter-location transfers when you ship from a warehouse to a retail partner, generate professional line sheets and invoices, and pull P&L reports broken down by channel — direct, wholesale, consignment — so you know which revenue stream is actually profitable. Built for small handmade brands stepping into wholesale for the first time and seasoned B2B sellers managing dozens of retail accounts.
Common Challenges
- Managing different price points for wholesale vs retail customers
- Tracking consigned inventory across multiple retail locations
- Reconciling payments from consignment partners
- Maintaining vendor and buyer relationships
- Generating professional price lists and invoices
How Ardent Seller Helps
Purpose-built features for wholesale & consignment.
Pricing Tiers
Configure retail, wholesale, and custom pricing with automatic tier selection per customer.
Consignment Tracking
Monitor products at retail partners with location-specific sales tracking.
Vendor & Customer Management
Maintain a complete directory of wholesale buyers and suppliers.
Inter-Location Transfers
Move stock between your warehouse, retail partners, and sales locations with full tracking.
Financial Reporting
Generate income statements and P&L reports across all channels and customer types.
Charitable Donation Tracking
Document product donations to nonprofits with proper valuation for tax deductions.
Free resources for Wholesale & Consignment
Downloadable guides, checklists, and templates — no email required.
Product Pricing Calculator
A working Excel pricing calculator — materials, labor, packaging, and platform fees in, a defensible retail price out. Plus a batch tab that shows what 50 vs. 10 actually costs.
Should I Raise My Prices? Decision Tool
A live web tool that runs the +10% / +20% / +30% price-hike math for one product — including the volume drop that comes with each — and tells you which scenario clears the most monthly profit.
Wholesale Line Sheet
A working Excel line sheet for handmade wholesale — buyer-ready front sheet, per-SKU pricing math behind it, and the formulas already wired in.
Multi-Channel Sales Reconciliation Worksheet
A working Excel worksheet for sellers reconciling Etsy + Shopify + in-person sales against bank deposits — surfaces fee shortfalls, refund mis-postings, and a per-channel monthly P&L.
Year-End Inventory Reset Checklist
A two-page printable for the December/January annual ritual — full stocktake, write-off identification, dead-stock liquidation plan, and the Schedule C Part III math that turns this year’s ending inventory into next year’s opening balance.
Quarterly Estimated Tax Worksheet
A working Excel worksheet for self-employed makers — log income, set filing status, and the four quarterly estimated-tax payments calculate themselves. SE tax (15.3%) plus federal income tax math built in, with a safe-harbor escape hatch on its own tab.
Guides for Wholesale & Consignment
In-depth articles to help you get the most out of your business.
Should You Take On Your First Wholesale Account? A Decision Tree
A six-gate decision framework for makers staring at an email from a boutique buyer. Margin cushion, production headroom, retail price firewall, terms creep tolerance, packaging fit, and fulfillment cadence — the six conditions that separate the wholesale yes that builds a business from the wholesale yes that eats a year.
Wholesale Pricing for Handmade Products: How to Set Minimums, Protect Margins, and Not Undersell Yourself
A boutique owner wants to carry your products. You have no idea what to charge. Most makers default to 50% off retail and hope the volume makes up for it. It usually does not. Here is how to set wholesale prices, minimum orders, and terms that grow your business without gutting your margins.
Free Wholesale Line Sheet Template for Handmade Sellers (with the Pricing Math Built In)
A working Excel line sheet you can rename, repopulate, and send to a buyer this afternoon — with the wholesale-and-MSRP math wired in behind it. Every cell explained, every formula in plain English, and the one sanity check that catches the "this wholesale price loses money" mistake before you mail the order.
Why Aren't My Wholesale Accounts Reordering? A Six-Symptom Diagnostic for Maker Brands
The wholesale honeymoon ends quietly: the first order ships, the boutique posts a story, then silence. Walk through the six predictable reasons accounts stop reordering — pricing-vs-shelf math, cadence drift, sell-through blindness, buyer turnover, packaging failures, the no-followup default — with a four-week rescue playbook to work through your own quiet accounts.
Case Study: How a Soap Maker Cut Wholesale Order Losses 32% in One Quarter
Maya runs a six-figure soap line shipping to 28 boutiques. A third of those accounts were quietly losing her money. Inside the per-account audit, the three patterns she uncovered, the boutique conversation that almost cost her three accounts, and the changes that turned wholesale into a profit center in one quarter.
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