Ardent Seller
Inventory, production & sales — now syncing with Etsy
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Inventory, production & sales — now syncing with Etsy
4 followers
Ardent Seller is an all-in-one business platform for small-batch makers — multi-location inventory, recipes and production runs, purchases and sales, COGS and pricing, audit trail, and Schedule C–ready reports. Free plan forever; flat-rate plans from $19/mo or pay only for what you use.
👋 Hi Product Hunt — the Ardent Workshop team here.
Ardent Seller is the inventory, manufacturing, and sales backbone we wished existed when we started selling our own products on Etsy in January 2025 and on ardentworkshop.com in May 2025. Spreadsheets stop working the moment you need multi-location stock, true COGS on every sale, recipe scaling with rounded ingredient buys, or a Schedule C–ready expense summary — but enterprise ERP is overkill for a small batch.
What we built it to do:
Multi-location inventory with barcode/QR and unlimited items
Recipes, subassemblies, and production runs with a built-in BOM
Weighted-average COGS captured on every sale, automatically
Equipment depreciation, Schedule C–ready exports, audit trail
Food-business features built in — unit conversions (lbs → cups → g), allergen detection, FDA-style nutrition labels
New today: built-in Etsy integration — listings, orders, fees, taxes, reconciliation, and inventory push back to Etsy when stock changes. It's included on every plan, not a paid add-on.
Pricing: Free plan forever (50 transactions/mo, 2 users, 2 locations, 1 connected shop, every feature). Flat-rate plans from $19/month with annual savings of two-plus months. Or Pay As You Go — $0 base + $1/credit, with 20 free credits every month and graduated volume tiers. No setup fees, no premium-gated features.
We're a small team — 30+ years of software experience, 20+ years of hands-on crafting and home-baking — and we still run our own Etsy and DTC stores through Ardent Seller, so the roadmap reflects what actually
hurts when you're the one pulling orders.
We'd love your feedback — especially on:
What inventory/COGS pain points still aren't covered?
Which marketplace would you most want connected next?
Is the pricing structure clear (flat-rate vs PAYG)?
Reply here and we'll respond all day. 🔥
How does the Etsy reconciliation handle the messier fee lines - promoted-listings, offsite ads, the transaction fee on shipping? That's where my own bookkeeping always goes sideways.
@sparklepixelshop Thanks for the question! Every fee line Etsy returns on an order lands as a separate ledger entry. All fees, including the transaction fee, payment processing, regulatory operating fee, offsite ads fee, etc. is tracked individually. You see the full fee stack and a clean net-deposit number, and the totals reconcile against your monthly Etsy statement.
This is definitely tricky to implement, but we used the actual transaction history of our own Etsy shop (Ardent Workshop) to verify the functionality using real-world data. We used Ardent Seller to backfill thousands of Etsy transactions and verified it worked down to the last penny.