Smart Inventory
Raw materials and finished goods across multiple locations. Record purchases, sales, adjustments, and transfers without drift.
When your business outgrows spreadsheets
Ardent Seller. Inventory software for makers ready to grow.
Ardent Seller is web-based inventory, production, and sales software from Ardent Workshop LLC for small-batch makers. It connects raw materials, recipes, finished stock, sales, and costs when your business outgrows spreadsheets.
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Keep the workbook, or move to software?
A workbook is a good place to understand your numbers. Ardent Seller becomes useful when every purchase, batch, and sale needs to update the same records. Choose based on the work you need to do.
| Your work | Workshop workbook | Ardent Seller |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing and planning | Work through costs and scenarios in a file you control. | Use recorded purchases and sales to track costs and margins. |
| Stock and batches | Keep quantities and production records up to date in your workbook. | Production consumes recipe materials and adds finished stock. |
| People and places | Share a file and coordinate how your team updates it. | Give users access to inventory across multiple locations. |
| Online orders | Enter or import sales into your workbook. | Connect Etsy to sync listings and orders and reconcile fees. |
Still deciding? Read the full spreadsheet-versus-software comparison, or explore workbooks for makers.
From materials to a product you can sell
See what is ready to sell
The product list puts stock quantities, average costs, selling prices, and channel tags together. Public demo data from Ardent Seller.
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Connect a recipe to its materials
A candle assembly combines a finished candle, jar, and label, with quantities and costs for each input. The recipe can be used to create production. Public demo data from Ardent Seller.
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Example: make 24 candles, sell six
Start with wax, fragrance, jars, and wicks in inventory. Define the quantities for one candle in a recipe, then run a batch of 24. Production deducts the inputs and adds the finished candles. Record a sale of six and 18 remain from that batch.
For a simplified example, if the batch costs $144, each candle carries $6 of cost. Selling six at $18 records $108 in revenue and $36 in cost of goods sold, leaving $72 before marketplace fees and other expenses. These are illustrative numbers, not the screenshot values or a promise of profit.
Bring Etsy sales into your stock records
Connect your Etsy shop to sync listings and orders and track marketplace fees alongside sales. Your sales records and costs give you a clearer view of what each order earned.
Explore the Etsy integrationEtsy is a trademark of Etsy, Inc. Ardent Seller uses the Etsy API but is not endorsed or certified by Etsy, Inc.
Review the work AI drafts for you
Import an invoice or receipt to draft a purchase or expense, get pricing suggestions based on your costs and margins, or draft an Etsy listing from your product details. Review and confirm the output before saving it.
AI features are included on every plan with plan-specific allowances. Pay As You Go actions use credits.
See AI features and usageBuilt for
Small-batch makers.
We built Ardent Seller because off-the-shelf tools were either too generic for batch-based recipes or too enterprise for a one- or two-person operation.
- At-home bakers
- Soap & candle makers
- Jewelry artisans
- Coffee roasters
- Woodworkers
- Small-batch food producers
- Etsy shop owners
- Digital product sellers
The platform
Inventory, production, sales, and costs.
Recipes & Procedures
Define how products are made, then run production batches that consume materials and produce finished goods automatically.
Sales & Costs
Record sales across channels, track marketplace fees, and reconcile the difference between gross revenue and what landed in your account.
Clear Insights
Recipe costing, true cost of goods sold, equipment depreciation, and Schedule C summaries — the numbers your accountant actually asks for.
Capabilities
What you can track.
The everyday work of a small maker business, in one place — without the spreadsheet sprawl.
- Multi-location inventory
- Recipe & procedure costing
- Production runs from recipes
- Purchase, sale, adjustment & transfer records
- Waste & shrinkage tracking
- Marketplace fee reconciliation
- Equipment depreciation
- Schedule C-ready summaries
- True cost of goods sold
For food businesses
Built-in for the kitchen.
Bakers, cottage food producers, and small-batch food makers get the specifics their business demands.
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Unit Conversions
Buy flour by the 50-lb bag, scale recipes in grams, sell loaves by the each — the math happens behind the scenes.
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Allergen Tracking
Tag ingredients and let allergens roll up through every recipe and finished product automatically.
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Nutrition Labels
Generate nutrition information from your actual recipes — not from a generic database that doesn't know your formulation.
Pricing
All features on every plan.
Free
$0 / month
Best for hobbyists and kicking the tires — 50 transactions a month, 2 users, 2 locations, 1 connected shop.
Monthly plans
from $19 / month
Maker ($19), Artisan ($49), Workshop ($89) — monthly billing for small shops growing into busy ones and teams scaling production.
Pay As You Go
$0 + credits
No monthly fee for seasonal sellers — 30 free credits a month with unlimited users, locations, storage, and connected shops.
| Plan / month | Transactions | Users | Locations | Connected shops |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free / $0 | 50 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Maker / $19 | 150 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Artisan / $49 | 500 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Workshop / $89 | 1500 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
Free-plan transactions and PAYG credits are different units. PAYG includes 30 credits each month, then charges for usage at the applicable credit rates. AI allowances, storage, and audit-history limits also vary by plan.
Every plan includes every feature — no paywalls. Full transaction limits, startup bonuses, and feature comparison live on the Ardent Seller pricing page (opens in new tab) .
Before you move your business
When should I move from a spreadsheet to Ardent Seller?
Keep a workbook when you mainly need to plan costs, price products, or review a small operation yourself. Consider Ardent Seller when purchases, production batches, and sales need to update the same stock records, or when you need shared access and inventory across locations.
Compare spreadsheets and inventory softwareDoes Ardent Seller connect to Etsy?
Yes. Ardent Seller connects to Etsy to sync listings and orders and track marketplace fees alongside sales. The Free and Maker plans include one connected shop; Artisan includes two, Workshop three, and Pay As You Go has no connected-shop cap.
See how the Etsy integration worksCan I import my existing spreadsheet or switch from another app?
Yes. Ardent Seller supports CSV imports. Paid plans also include concierge migration: send your export and the team imports and reviews your inventory, contacts, and recipes, then reconciles the counts. Migration slots are limited and scheduled after signup. The self-service AI Import Concierge is coming soon; it is separate from the team-assisted migration service.
Review migration and plan detailsWhat counts as a transaction?
A transaction is a recorded event affecting inventory quantities, costs, or financials, such as a purchase, sale, production entry, transfer, adjustment, expense, or initial inventory. Each entry counts once regardless of its number of line items. One production run can create two entries, and marketplace fees can create additional entries, so 50 transactions does not mean 50 orders.
Estimate your transaction usageWhat is the difference between Free and Pay As You Go?
Free is $0/month with 50 transactions per month, two users, two locations, and one connected shop. Pay As You Go has no monthly subscription fee and includes 30 free credits per month, with usage charged in credits and no cap on users, locations, storage, or connected shops. Credits and transactions are different units; your credit usage depends on the activity and applicable rates.
Compare all pricing and usage limitsAre Etsy sync and AI features included in the free plan?
Every plan includes every feature, including Etsy integration, AI document import, pricing advice, and listing copy. Usage allowances differ by plan. AI can draft records from invoices or receipts and suggest prices or Etsy listing text; you review the output before saving it. PAYG AI actions consume credits.
Read the AI feature guideIs Ardent Seller a download, and who makes it?
Ardent Seller runs in a web browser. It is a product of Ardent Workshop LLC, the same company that makes the workbooks sold on this site. Your Ardent Seller account and plan are separate from any Workshop spreadsheet purchase.
Meet Ardent WorkshopGet started
Stop reconciling at midnight.
Start with a few products and one recipe, then record a production run and a sale. Use the free plan to see how the workflow fits your business.