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Antevon vs Cin7: stock software or a fixed-fee forecast audit

Checked against Cin7’s public pages. Prices, features and company facts checked 21 Oct 2026. Content updated 21 Oct 2026.

Cin7 offers stock-management software and a forecasting add-on12. Pick Core for connected stock, purchasing and warehouse work with someone to run it17. Choose Antevon's audit when you need a forecast built for you and no one owns it full-time.

Who each one fits

Cin7 Core targets small and medium-sized product businesses, including retail, wholesale and manufacturing17.

Antevon serves UK and EU indie beauty and skincare brands selling through retailers or preparing to do so.

When Cin7 is the better choice

  • If you need batch and expiry records, Cin7 tracks both for beauty stock18.
  • If suppliers require minimum orders or full cases, Cin7 Core's forecasting add-on rounds suggested orders to match25.
  • If you need built-in retailer data links, consider Cin7 Omni after checking retailer and document coverage27. Core needs partner connections for these links27.

When Antevon is the better choice

  • If you're deciding what to buy, move, hold or cut, Antevon's audit gives recommendations with their cash impact.
  • If you're weighing a retailer promotion, Antevon prices running it against not running it.

How they differ

In Cin7 Core's forecasting add-on, you review product information before changing suggested order quantities26. Yurii Blazhevych, who runs Antevon's forecasts, takes your call.

Cin7 Core's forecasting add-on normally forecasts by product and warehouse or store20. Antevon's forecast gives a number for each product, retailer and month. You receive two Excel files to keep.

Cin7 Core imports Shopify orders and sends stock quantities back to Shopify34. Antevon cleans imperfect data as part of the audit.

Cin7 includes 24/7 chat on all plans15.

Side by side

Rows are the questions UK beauty brands ask us. Each line is a fact from the company’s own public pages. Check this comparison: sources and dates below.

Question
Antevon
Cin7
What it is

Antevon describes itself as a managed demand desk for indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.4

The audit is a fixed-fee two-week forecasting project.3

Cin7 is an inventory-management system with purchasing, warehouse and planning functions, rather than a full general-ledger ERP.16

Cin7 supplies cloud inventory-management software with optional onboarding and support services.12

Who it is for

The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue.4

Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.4

Core targets small and medium-sized product businesses; no numeric revenue eligibility band was established.17

Cin7 explicitly targets health and beauty businesses, including cosmetics, skincare and wellness products.18

Who builds the forecast

The brand brings its sales export and retailer reports and makes an hour available for questions.5

Antevon cleans the imperfect data as part of the work.5

Core setup calls for business-data imports with mandatory fields and configuration before daily operation.29

ForesightAI derives defaults from history while users maintain supplier, location, product and event refinements.33

What the forecast covers

The forecast is by product, retailer and month.5

ForesightAI normally forecasts by product and warehouse or store, with customer-specific forecasts possible under some circumstances.20

Core’s ForesightAI forecasting documentation describes monthly, weekly and daily calculations.21

Retailers and sell-through

The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it.7

Cin7 EDI supports retail order flows; ecommerce connections supply direct-channel order and sales data.27

Omni advertises built-in EDI retailer connections, while Core requires EDI partner integrations.27

Promotions and launches

The audit models each promotion separately and gives each forecast number a likely range.3

The audit prices a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds.6

ForesightAI documents promotion forecasting for short promotions of up to 60 days.21

Users can add promotion knowledge through manual forecast adjustments.24

Orders to suppliers

The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact.3

Purchase orders are inputs to the audit.3

ForesightAI rounds replenishment suggestions to supplier MOQ and packing multiples.25

Cash

Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast.5

Not confirmed. Automatic optimization of a purchase mix to a fixed cash cap was not established.

Batches and shelf life

Not part of the published offer.

Cin7 advertises batch and expiry-date tracking for health and beauty inventory.18

Core Smart reorder exposes an expiration-days parameter as a replenishment factor.26

What it connects to

Not part of the published offer.

Core connects to Shopify for orders and product data; stock quantities are pushed from Core to Shopify, not imported back as stock counts.34

Core downloads Amazon sales orders, products, customers and payments and can upload stock quantities; it cannot create Amazon listings from the Core catalog.19

What your team still does

The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read.5

Cin7 supplies exception insights and manual quantity controls, with the user reviewing the context before changing a recommendation.26

Getting started

The audit takes two weeks from when the data lands, not from payment.3

The audit draft arrives on day 13 and the walkthrough call is on day 14.3

Cin7 markets four-week group onboarding, not a guaranteed time to a reviewed forecast.32

Core setup involves importing business data, financial and tax settings, products, suppliers and channel configuration.29

Support and UK presence

Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast.5

The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14.5

All plans include support-team access, 24/7 chat, Help Centers and Cin7 Academy resources; premium support is an add-on.15

Cin7 advertises 24/7 global chat support, but UK-local phone or office hours were not established.15

How it is charged

Antevon publishes from-prices for both the audit and the monthly desk; the final fee is scoped on a call.8

Neither the audit nor the monthly desk is billed by the hour.10

Core publishes exact monthly licence amounts for its three named new-customer plans.15

Cin7 Omni requires a personalized quote.15

Anything else

Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request.11

Nothing recorded yet.

Every fact we hold for this page (131), with what we could not confirm
Question
Antevon
Cin7
What it is

Antevon describes itself as a managed demand desk for indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.4

The audit is a fixed-fee two-week forecasting project.3

The optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and maintains the decision ledger.5

Antevon publicly offers a bookable two-week demand audit.3

Antevon Ltd operates the public offer and website.2

Not in the published offer. No additional trading aliases were established from the public pages read.

The public trading name is Antevon.1

Cin7 is an inventory-management system with purchasing, warehouse and planning functions, rather than a full general-ledger ERP.16

Cin7 supplies cloud inventory-management software with optional onboarding and support services.12

Cin7 is actively offering Core subscriptions and custom-quoted Omni plans.15

Cin7 Core and Omni are owned and operated by Cin7 Americas, Inc., according to their current terms.14

DEAR became Cin7 Core and the original Cin7 product became Cin7 Omni.13

Cin7 offers the Core and Omni inventory-management products and the ForesightAI forecasting add-on.12

Who it is for

The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue.4

Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.4

The audit is for beauty brands selling through retailers or about to do so.3

The stated service audience is in the UK and EU.4

The audit is positioned for a founder or commercial team without a full-time owner of the forecast.5

Core targets small and medium-sized product businesses; no numeric revenue eligibility band was established.17

Cin7 explicitly targets health and beauty businesses, including cosmetics, skincare and wellness products.18

Core also targets ecommerce, retail, wholesale and manufacturing businesses.17

Cin7 targets multichannel selling across Shopify, Amazon, wholesale and POS.16

Cin7 supports the Amazon UK marketplace and publishes a UK customer case study.19

Cin7 fits a business prepared to own system configuration and review, with onboarding or partner help where needed.16

Who builds the forecast

The brand brings its sales export and retailer reports and makes an hour available for questions.5

Antevon cleans the imperfect data as part of the work.5

Not in the published offer. Responsibility for supplier lead-time, MOQ, safety-stock and connected-system parameter maintenance is not specified publicly.

On the optional desk, Antevon refreshes each forecast number monthly and maintains the ledger.5

Not in the published offer. Native system installation, production integration builds and full-stack migration scope are not established for the general audit.

The client can keep using the delivered files without adopting software or maintaining a paid login.5

Cleaning imperfect data is included in the audit rather than charged as a surcharge.5

The audit leaves the client with two Excel files to keep.5

Core setup calls for business-data imports with mandatory fields and configuration before daily operation.29

ForesightAI derives defaults from history while users maintain supplier, location, product and event refinements.33

Cin7 offers group, one-to-one and partner-led onboarding; selected implementation is paid as quoted.14

What the forecast covers

The forecast is by product, retailer and month.5

Not in the published offer. A standard service forecast horizon is not established from the public offer.

ForesightAI normally forecasts by product and warehouse or store, with customer-specific forecasts possible under some circumstances.20

Core’s ForesightAI forecasting documentation describes monthly, weekly and daily calculations.21

The Core ForesightAI sales forecast graph displays demand predictions up to 24 months ahead.22

The ForesightAI Sales Forecast Report documents a horizon of up to 12 months.23

Retailers and sell-through

Not in the published offer. Retailer-by-retailer sell-in versus sell-through input coverage and data-feed availability are not specified.

The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it.7

Not in the published offer. retailer EDI support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Cin7 EDI supports retail order flows; ecommerce connections supply direct-channel order and sales data.27

Not confirmed. A retailer consumer sell-through feed and a reviewed forecast by named UK retailer were not established.

Omni advertises built-in EDI retailer connections, while Core requires EDI partner integrations.27

Core EDI connections use third-party partners to sync retail orders with stock.27

Promotions and launches

The audit models each promotion separately and gives each forecast number a likely range.3

The audit prices a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds.6

Not in the published offer. The standard method and data requirements for a product with no sales history are not specified in the public offer.

Launch events are marked when the audit cleans sales history.3

ForesightAI documents promotion forecasting for short promotions of up to 60 days.21

Users can add promotion knowledge through manual forecast adjustments.24

ForesightAI can link a new product to a predecessor and use its sales history to forecast the new product.25

Orders to suppliers

The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact.3

Not in the published offer. Creating, sending and executing purchase orders are not established parts of the public offer.

Purchase orders are inputs to the audit.3

Not in the published offer. The public service description does not assign every PO creation, sending or supplier-follow-up step.4

Not in the published offer. An audit feature for minimum-order quantities or case-pack optimisation is not established publicly.

The audit puts a date and a price in pounds on each buy that follows the retailer forecast.7

ForesightAI rounds replenishment suggestions to supplier MOQ and packing multiples.25

Cash

Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast.5

Not in the published offer. An automatic hard-budget constraint or cash-constrained optimiser is not established publicly.

Not confirmed. Automatic optimization of a purchase mix to a fixed cash cap was not established.

Batches and shelf life

Not in the published offer. Batch tracking, expiry handling and shelf-life constraints are not established in the public offer.

Cin7 advertises batch and expiry-date tracking for health and beauty inventory.18

Core Smart reorder exposes an expiration-days parameter as a replenishment factor.26

What it connects to

Not in the published offer. Shopify support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. Amazon support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. 3PL support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. ERP support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. CSV file intake support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Core connects to Shopify for orders and product data; stock quantities are pushed from Core to Shopify, not imported back as stock counts.34

Core downloads Amazon sales orders, products, customers and payments and can upload stock quantities; it cannot create Amazon listings from the Core catalog.19

Omni advertises native 3PL connections and purchase-order synchronization with linked fulfillment partners.35

The Core price table describes EDI and 3PL connections via API and partner solutions.15

Cin7 3PL Connect exchanges sales and purchase orders, shipping confirmations, inventory receipts and updates with connected 3PLs.36

Core integrates with Xero or QuickBooks Online for accounting; this does not prove a connector to an arbitrary existing ERP.15

Core supports CSV business-data imports, bulk parameter imports and exports, and exports of Smart reorder suggestions.29

What your team still does

Not in the published offer. A formal approval matrix for forecast sign-off and cash commitments is not published.

The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read.5

Not in the published offer. Responsibility for ongoing operational exceptions and their response times is not fully specified publicly.

Not confirmed. Formal forecast sign-off ownership and delegated cash approval were not established for a selected Cin7 package.

Cin7 supplies exception insights and manual quantity controls, with the user reviewing the context before changing a recommendation.26

Getting started

The audit takes two weeks from when the data lands, not from payment.3

The audit draft arrives on day 13 and the walkthrough call is on day 14.3

The audit asks for 12 to 24 months of sales, purchase orders, a stockist list and a promotion calendar.3

The client supplies a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions.5

Not confirmed. A guaranteed interval from receiving data to a decision-ready, reviewed Cin7 forecast was not established.

Cin7 markets four-week group onboarding, not a guaranteed time to a reviewed forecast.32

Core setup involves importing business data, financial and tax settings, products, suppliers and channel configuration.29

Support and UK presence

Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast.5

The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14.5

The monthly desk refreshes the numbers, maintains the ledger and reads retailer promotions before the client signs.5

Antevon lists a registered office at Manorfield, Church Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6EA.2

Not in the published offer. A staffed UK operating office is not established from the public registered-address statement.

Antevon Ltd states that it is registered in England and Wales under company number 17404379.2

Not in the published offer. UK support hours, time-zone coverage and response-time commitments are not specified publicly.

Not in the published offer. Named or independently verified UK clients are not established from the allowed public pages.

All plans include support-team access, 24/7 chat, Help Centers and Cin7 Academy resources; premium support is an add-on.15

Not confirmed. A staffed UK Cin7 office was not established from the public pages read.

Not confirmed. A UK Cin7 contracting entity was not established.

Cin7 advertises 24/7 global chat support, but UK-local phone or office hours were not established.15

Cin7 publishes a Workplace Depot case study identifying it as a UK industrial and commerce company.37

How it is charged

Antevon publishes from-prices for both the audit and the monthly desk; the final fee is scoped on a call.8

Neither the audit nor the monthly desk is billed by the hour.10

The audit fee depends on product and retailer count, is quoted on the first call, and is fixed once agreed.8

Half the audit fee books the slot and half is paid on delivery.8

Data cleaning is part of the audit work, not a surcharge.10

The optional monthly desk is scoped to the catalogue and retailer count.10

Not in the published offer. A separate minimum purchase or initial commitment beyond the published from-prices is unknown.

Not in the published offer. Whether a separate setup or onboarding fee applies is unknown.

There is no surcharge for cleaning imperfect audit data.5

Not in the published offer. Trial availability and trial terms are unknown from the public pages checked.

The full terms for working together are in each signed engagement letter, not the website terms.2

The monthly desk is optional after the audit.10

The audit files keep working without an ongoing software login or subscription.10

The monthly desk has rolling 30-day notice.8

Core publishes exact monthly licence amounts for its three named new-customer plans.15

Cin7 Omni requires a personalized quote.15

Not confirmed. The public cost of a selected ForesightAI-enabled configuration remains unknown.28

Core charges by subscription configuration, including users, integrations, order volume and selected modules.14

ForesightAI pricing is based on GMV, with existing-customer rates shown inside the subscription page.28

Core advertises a starting licence rate of USD 349 per month; this is not a minimum all-in planning price.15

Not confirmed. The amount of a selected implementation or onboarding fee was not established publicly.14

Cin7 Core offers a no-obligation 14-day free trial.29

ForesightAI also advertises a two-week free trial.30

Core terms offer prepaid and monthly subscriptions, but also state an initial annual period for Monthly Subscriptions, so confirm commitment in the quote.14

Omni minimum commitment follows the quote; without a minimum term, the terms specify 20 days notice before a calendar month end.31

Anything else

Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request.11

Nothing recorded yet.

Words used in the table
SKU
one product in one size or shade
MOQ
the smallest order a supplier accepts
PO
a purchase order, your order to a supplier
Lead time
how long a supplier takes to deliver
Sell-through
what shoppers bought at the retailer
EDI
the data link large retailers use for orders and sales
GMV
total sales through your online store
BOM
the list of parts that go into a product
3PL
a warehouse company that stores and ships for you
ERP
a business system for stock, orders and accounts

Published prices

Each price is the company’s own list price, as its page shows it, with the date we checked it. We do not estimate a price a company does not publish. Price your own case.

Cin7

Cin7 Core Advanced lists USD 1,199 per month for new customers, excluding taxes, with 15 users, 6 app connections and 120,000 sales orders per year.15

Not published. A public numeric ForesightAI add-on rate was not established.28

Not published. Cin7 Omni pricing is tailored to the customer and requires a quote.15

Cin7 Core Pro lists USD 599 per month for new customers, excluding taxes, with 10 users, 4 app connections and 24,000 sales orders per year.15

Cin7 Core Standard lists USD 349 per month for new customers, excluding taxes, with 5 users, 2 app connections and 6,000 sales orders per year.15

Antevon

The audit is from £2,500 as a one-off fee; tax is not stated.8

The desk after the audit is from £2,500 per month; tax is not stated.9

Switching or using both

If you retain Cin7 for stock, purchasing and fulfilment, consider a separate Antevon retailer forecast using agreed exports3. The audit also needs retailer reports and an hour for questions.

Questions people ask

Is forecasting included with Cin7 Core?

Cin7 Core's forecasting tool is a paid add-on, with a two-week free trial30. The add-on price is not published28.

What happens after the Antevon audit?

The monthly desk is optional and refreshes forecast numbers while maintaining the record of decisions. You need no paid login to use the audit files.

When does the Antevon audit start?

The two weeks start when your data arrives, not when you pay. Send Antevon 12 to 24 months of sales, orders to suppliers, your retailer list and promotion calendar.

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Sources and dates

Antevon wrote this page. Each fact about Cin7 comes from a public page, read on the date shown. Antevon's own column follows the same rule.

We read these pages on 21 Oct 2026.

Cin7's pages

  1. 12. Inventory Management Software & Small Business ERP | Cin7
  2. 13. Cin7 cements inventory management market leadership position with major product rebrand
  3. 14. Core Terms of Use | Cin7
  4. 15. Cin7 Pricing | Inventory Software Price for Core & Omni Plans
  5. 16. Best ERP for Shopify? Try a Smarter IMS Instead | Cin7
  6. 17. Inventory Management Software & ERP for Small Business | Cin7 Core
  7. 18. Beauty Supply Inventory Management | Cin7
  8. 19. 9034459874703.json (help.core.cin7.com)
  9. 20. 16979357018895.json (help.core.cin7.com)
  10. 21. 16979357018895.json
  11. 22. 17412606475023.json (help.core.cin7.com)
  12. 23. 10955755046031.json (help.core.cin7.com)
  13. 24. 17412578732431.json
  14. 25. 17412574518415.json
  15. 26. 10955759303055.json
  16. 27. EDI Integration Software | Cin7
  17. 28. Inventory Demand Forecasting Software | Cin7 ForesightAI
  18. 29. 9034481552783.json (help.core.cin7.com)
  19. 30. 16979300934415.json (help.core.cin7.com)
  20. 31. Omni Terms of Use | Cin7
  21. 32. Cin7 Onboarding & Support | Streamline Inventory Management
  22. 33. 13198823235727.json (help.core.cin7.com)
  23. 34. 9034589848335.json
  24. 35. Omni-Channel Inventory & Order Management Software | Cin7 Omni
  25. 36. 3PL Connect | Cin7 AI Inventory Management
  26. 37. Workplace Depot

Antevon's own pages

  1. 1. Brand kit · Antevon
  2. 2. Terms · Antevon
  3. 3. The 2-week audit · Antevon
  4. 4. llms.txt (antevon.com)
  5. 5. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it.
  6. 6. What a November promotion has to sell to pay back · Antevon
  7. 7. Only 2 left, and the factory needs four weeks · Antevon
  8. 8. The 2-week audit · Antevon
  9. 9. llms.txt (antevon.com)
  10. 10. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it.
  11. 11. Privacy · Antevon

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