# Antevon vs ERPNext: a business system, or a forecast audit Canonical: https://www.antevon.com/compare/erpnext Checked against ERPNext’s public pages. Prices, features and company facts checked 21 Oct 2026. Content updated 21 Oct 2026. ## The short answer ERPNext offers a forecast report based on past sales documents [17]. Antevon delivers a fixed-fee forecast audit in two weeks [3]. Choose ERPNext to run planning software, or Antevon for a reviewed forecast of what each retailer will sell [3, 7, 12]. ## Who each one fits ERPNext is designed for small and medium businesses, including manufacturing, retail and distribution [12]. Antevon serves UK and EU beauty brands selling through retailers, including founders without a full-time forecast owner [3, 4, 5]. ## When ERPNext is the better choice - If you need batch records and expiry checks on stock transactions, ERPNext supports both [24]. - If you need minimum orders enforced when buying, ERPNext can block transactions below a product's set minimum [23]. - If you need purchase commitments checked against approved budgets, ERPNext can warn or stop orders under configured controls [22]. ## When Antevon is the better choice - If you need stock decisions, the audit recommends what to buy, move, hold or cut, with their cash impact [3]. - If you need to decide on a retailer promotion, the audit compares running it with not running it [6]. ## How they differ ERPNext offers setup by your team or a partner, and recommends partner help [12]. Frappe Cloud support does not include setup, changing settings or training [13]. Yurii Blazhevych, who runs Antevon's forecasts, takes your call [5]. You supply a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions [5]. The audit leaves you with two Excel files [5]. Antevon cleans imperfect data as part of the audit [5]. The separate Ecommerce Integrations app imports Shopify orders into ERPNext and can optionally send stock updates to Shopify [32]. ERPNext's global partner network includes a listed UK partner [15]. ## 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. ### What it is - Antevon: Antevon describes itself as a managed demand desk for indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands. [4] - Antevon: The audit is a fixed-fee two-week forecasting project. [3] - Antevon: The optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and maintains the decision ledger. [5] - Antevon: Antevon publicly offers a bookable two-week demand audit. [3] - Antevon: Antevon Ltd operates the public offer and website. [2] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. No additional trading aliases were established from the public pages read. - Antevon: The public trading name is Antevon. [1] - ERPNext: ERPNext is an ERP and inventory-management suite, not itself a managed demand desk. [12] - ERPNext: ERPNext is software that can be self-hosted or hosted on Frappe Cloud. [14] - ERPNext: ERPNext has a current public product offer, hosting prices and a free trial. [14] - ERPNext: Frappe identifies itself as ERPNext’s owner and maintainer. [12] - ERPNext: Frappe Cloud’s service agreement names Frappe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. as its operator. [13] - ERPNext: Not confirmed. No separate current product alias was verified. - ERPNext: ERPNext is an open-source enterprise resource planning product. [12] ### Who it is for - Antevon: The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue. [4] - Antevon: Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands. [4] - Antevon: The audit is for beauty brands selling through retailers or about to do so. [3] - Antevon: The stated service audience is in the UK and EU. [4] - Antevon: The audit is positioned for a founder or commercial team without a full-time owner of the forecast. [5] - ERPNext: ERPNext says it is designed with small and medium businesses in mind. [12] - ERPNext: ERPNext targets manufacturing, distribution, retail and service businesses. [12] - ERPNext: ERPNext presents retail, ecommerce and trading/distribution use cases. [12] - ERPNext: ERPNext has a global partner network including a listed United Kingdom partner. [15] - ERPNext: ERPNext offers self-implementation or partner-led setup, and recommends partner help for functional and technical implementation. [12] ### Who builds the forecast - Antevon: The brand brings its sales export and retailer reports and makes an hour available for questions. [5] - Antevon: Antevon cleans the imperfect data as part of the work. [5] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Responsibility for supplier lead-time, MOQ, safety-stock and connected-system parameter maintenance is not specified publicly. - Antevon: On the optional desk, Antevon refreshes each forecast number monthly and maintains the ledger. [5] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Native system installation, production integration builds and full-stack migration scope are not established for the general audit. - Antevon: The client can keep using the delivered files without adopting software or maintaining a paid login. [5] - Antevon: Cleaning imperfect data is included in the audit rather than charged as a surcharge. [5] - Antevon: The audit leaves the client with two Excel files to keep. [5] - ERPNext: The brand or its separately contracted implementation partner must prepare and clean the migration data. [29] - ERPNext: ERPNext users set reorder thresholds and choose forecast parameters; parameter upkeep needs an assigned operator. [23] - ERPNext: Frappe Cloud support excludes implementation, configuration and training; implementation can be self-led or separately arranged with a partner. [13] ### What the forecast covers - Antevon: The forecast is by product, retailer and month. [5] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. A standard service forecast horizon is not established from the public offer. - ERPNext: The version-16 forecast report source groups history by item and warehouse. [16] - ERPNext: ERPNext documents exponential-smoothing forecasts from past sales documents, with quantity or amount views and monthly through yearly periods. [17] - ERPNext: The forecasting report defaults to a one-year-ahead end date and lets the user set its date range. [17] ### Retailers and sell-through - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Retailer-by-retailer sell-in versus sell-through input coverage and data-feed availability are not specified. - Antevon: The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it. [7] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. retailer EDI support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read. - ERPNext: The documented standard forecast uses the business’s sales documents; this does not establish a retailer’s consumer sell-through feed. [17] - ERPNext: Not confirmed. A named UK retailer EDI or consumer sell-through connector was not verified. ### Promotions and launches - Antevon: The audit models each promotion separately and gives each forecast number a likely range. [3] - Antevon: The audit prices a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds. [6] - Antevon: 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. - Antevon: Launch events are marked when the audit cleans sales history. [3] - ERPNext: ERPNext supports conditional pricing rules for discounts, margins and free products. [21] - ERPNext: Not confirmed. Retailer-promotion uplift forecasting and promotion-profit recommendations were not established. - ERPNext: Not confirmed. A dedicated new-product launch demand forecast was not verified. ### Orders to suppliers - Antevon: The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact. [3] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Creating, sending and executing purchase orders are not established parts of the public offer. - Antevon: Purchase orders are inputs to the audit. [3] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. The public service description does not assign every PO creation, sending or supplier-follow-up step. [4] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. An audit feature for minimum-order quantities or case-pack optimisation is not established publicly. - Antevon: The audit puts a date and a price in pounds on each buy that follows the retailer forecast. [7] - ERPNext: ERPNext can generate material requests automatically from item and warehouse reorder thresholds. [18] - ERPNext: ERPNext documents MRP using sales orders, material requests, manually supplied sales forecasts and delivery schedules. [19] - ERPNext: ERPNext can create purchase orders from submitted material requests or supplier quotations. [20] - ERPNext: ERPNext supplies the PO workflow; an operator selects supplier, items and due dates and submits the purchase order. [20] - ERPNext: ERPNext can enforce an item’s minimum order quantity on purchase transactions. [23] - ERPNext: ERPNext documents item lead times for calculating purchase-order and work-order release dates in MRP. [19] ### Cash - Antevon: Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast. [5] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. An automatic hard-budget constraint or cash-constrained optimiser is not established publicly. - ERPNext: ERPNext can apply budget checks to purchase requests, purchase orders and expenses. [22] - ERPNext: Not confirmed. An automatic replenishment optimiser that allocates a cash budget across SKUs was not verified. ### Batches and shelf life - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Batch tracking, expiry handling and shelf-life constraints are not established in the public offer. - ERPNext: ERPNext tracks batches and expiry dates and can filter batches by expiry date on stock transactions. [24] ### What it connects to - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Shopify support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read. - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Amazon support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read. - Antevon: Not in the published offer. 3PL support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read. - Antevon: Not in the published offer. ERP support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read. - Antevon: Not in the published offer. CSV file intake support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read. - ERPNext: Shopify is supported through the separate Ecommerce Integrations Frappe app, with order import and optional inventory sync. [32] - ERPNext: ERPNext documents an Amazon SP-API connector in the separate Ecommerce Integrations app for importing products and sales orders. [33] - ERPNext: Not confirmed. No named UK 3PL connector and its stock, order and fulfilment direction were verified. - ERPNext: ERPNext exposes business records through a REST API that external systems can use to read, create, update or delete records subject to permissions. [34] - ERPNext: ERPNext can import records from CSV or Excel and export a template for updates. [35] ### What your team still does - Antevon: Not in the published offer. A formal approval matrix for forecast sign-off and cash commitments is not published. - Antevon: The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read. [5] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Responsibility for ongoing operational exceptions and their response times is not fully specified publicly. - ERPNext: The brand configures ERPNext’s approval roles and workflow conditions rather than acquiring an external forecast or cash decision-maker from the software licence. [30] - ERPNext: The Shopify connector documentation assigns some cancellation handling to the user when ERPNext documents already exist. [31] ### Getting started - Antevon: The audit takes two weeks from when the data lands, not from payment. [3] - Antevon: The audit draft arrives on day 13 and the walkthrough call is on day 14. [3] - Antevon: The audit asks for 12 to 24 months of sales, purchase orders, a stockist list and a promotion calendar. [3] - Antevon: The client supplies a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions. [5] - ERPNext: ERPNext claims most small-business implementations can take two to eight weeks, depending on business size and modules. [12] - ERPNext: Not confirmed. Time to a first reviewed, decision-ready product-by-retailer forecast was not established. - ERPNext: Production Plan setup depends on item, request/order, bill-of-materials and routing data. [28] ### Support and UK presence - Antevon: Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast. [5] - Antevon: The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14. [5] - Antevon: The monthly desk refreshes the numbers, maintains the ledger and reads retailer promotions before the client signs. [5] - Antevon: Antevon lists a registered office at Manorfield, Church Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6EA. [2] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. A staffed UK operating office is not established from the public registered-address statement. - Antevon: Antevon Ltd states that it is registered in England and Wales under company number 17404379. [2] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. UK support hours, time-zone coverage and response-time commitments are not specified publicly. - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Named or independently verified UK clients are not established from the allowed public pages. - ERPNext: ERPNext describes Product Warranty as bug-fix support rather than functional support, with plan eligibility to check. [14] - ERPNext: Not confirmed. A Frappe-owned UK office was not verified. - ERPNext: Not confirmed. A UK-incorporated Frappe contracting entity was not verified. - ERPNext: Frappe’s SLA states standard business hours of Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 18:00 IST, with weekend support limited to critical issues. [29] - ERPNext: Not confirmed. A named UK ERPNext customer was not verified in this source set. ### How it is charged - Antevon: Antevon publishes from-prices for both the audit and the monthly desk; the final fee is scoped on a call. [8] - Antevon: Neither the audit nor the monthly desk is billed by the hour. [10] - Antevon: The audit fee depends on product and retailer count, is quoted on the first call, and is fixed once agreed. [8] - Antevon: Half the audit fee books the slot and half is paid on delivery. [8] - Antevon: Data cleaning is part of the audit work, not a surcharge. [10] - Antevon: The optional monthly desk is scoped to the catalogue and retailer count. [10] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. A separate minimum purchase or initial commitment beyond the published from-prices is unknown. - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Whether a separate setup or onboarding fee applies is unknown. - Antevon: There is no surcharge for cleaning imperfect audit data. [5] - Antevon: Not in the published offer. Trial availability and trial terms are unknown from the public pages checked. - Antevon: The full terms for working together are in each signed engagement letter, not the website terms. [2] - Antevon: The monthly desk is optional after the audit. [10] - Antevon: The audit files keep working without an ongoing software login or subscription. [10] - Antevon: The monthly desk has rolling 30-day notice. [8] - ERPNext: ERPNext’s no-fee software and resource-limited Site hosting prices are publicly stated. [25] - ERPNext: Not confirmed. The complete UK implementation and ongoing operation price remains unknown. - ERPNext: Complex ERPNext implementation and custom-integration work is directed to partners for a personalised quotation. [27] - ERPNext: ERPNext separates free software from hosting and implementation costs, and Frappe Cloud does not charge per user. [14] - ERPNext: Frappe Cloud advertises Site hosting from $5 per month, not a complete implementation or a universal ERP operating cost. [25] - ERPNext: Not confirmed. A public UK-specific partner implementation or migration fee was not established. - ERPNext: Frappe Cloud offers a 14-day ERPNext trial, after which a hosting subscription is required to continue using that site. [14] - ERPNext: Frappe Cloud bills monthly and accrues each site’s charge daily using the number of days in the calendar month. [26] - ERPNext: Cloud Terms allow customer termination without cause at the current billing period’s end and generally make unused credits non-refundable. [13] ### Anything else - Antevon: Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request. [11] - ERPNext: 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. ### ERPNext - The public AWS Site table lists $10 per month for 1 CPU hours, 500 MB database and 5.0 GB storage. [25] Checked 21 Oct 2026. - The public AWS Site table lists $25 per month for 2 CPU hours, 1.0 GB database and 25.0 GB storage. [25] Checked 21 Oct 2026. - The public AWS Site table lists $38 per month for 3 CPU hours, 1.5 GB database and 37.5 GB storage. [25] Checked 21 Oct 2026. - The public AWS Site table lists $5 per month for 0.5 CPU hours, 250 MB database and 2.5 GB storage. [25] Checked 21 Oct 2026. - The public AWS Site table lists $50 per month for 4 CPU hours, 2.0 GB database and 50.0 GB storage. [25] Checked 21 Oct 2026. ### Antevon - The audit is from £2,500 as a one-off fee; tax is not stated. [8] Checked 21 Oct 2026. - The desk after the audit is from £2,500 per month; tax is not stated. [9] Checked 21 Oct 2026. ## Switching or using both If you keep ERPNext for stock, buying and production, consider Antevon for forecasts by product, retailer and month [5, 19]. Agree a manual handoff into the planning workflow [19]. ## Questions people ask ### Can ERPNext create orders to suppliers? Yes, ERPNext can create orders to suppliers from submitted requests for materials or supplier quotes [20]. If you use ERPNext's purchasing process, an operator selects the supplier, products and required date before submitting [20]. ### When does the audit start? Work starts when your data arrives, not when you pay [3]. Send 12 to 24 months of sales, orders to suppliers, a retailer list and a promotion calendar [3]. ### Do I need to keep paying to use the files? No paid login or continued engagement is needed to use the audit files [5]. The optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and keeps the decision record up to date [5]. ## Sources and dates Antevon wrote this page. Each fact about ERPNext 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. 1. Brand kit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/brand 2. Terms · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/terms 3. The 2-week audit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/audit 4. llms.txt (antevon.com), https://www.antevon.com/llms.txt 5. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it., https://www.antevon.com/ 6. What a November promotion has to sell to pay back · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/notes/november-promotion-payback 7. Only 2 left, and the factory needs four weeks · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/notes/low-stock-alert-supplier-order-date 8. The 2-week audit · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/audit 9. llms.txt (antevon.com), https://www.antevon.com/llms.txt 10. Antevon · Know how much you'll sell, before you make it., https://www.antevon.com/ 11. Privacy · Antevon, https://www.antevon.com/privacy 12. Open Source Cloud ERP Software | ERPNext, https://frappe.io/erpnext 13. Frappe Cloud Service and Support Agreement, https://docs.frappe.io/legal/terms/frappe-cloud-terms 14. Pricing - ERPNext, https://frappe.io/erpnext/pricing 15. Find a Frappe Partner, https://frappe.io/partners/list?country=United+Kingdom 16. exponential_smoothing_forecasting.py (raw.githubusercontent.com), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frappe/erpnext/version-16/erpnext/manufacturing/report/exponential_smoothing_forecasting/exponential_smoothing_forecasting.py 17. Forecasting Using Exponential Smoothing, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/demand-driven-forecasting 18. Open Source ERP Software for Inventory Management, https://frappe.io/erpnext/open-source-inventory-management-system 19. Material Requirements Planning (MRP), https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/material-requirements-planning-mrp 20. Purchase Order, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/purchase-order 21. Pricing Rule | ERPNext Documentation, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/pricing-rule 22. Budget, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/budget 23. Item, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/item 24. Batch, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/batch 25. Sites, https://frappe.io/cloud/sites 26. Billing Cycle, https://docs.frappe.io/cloud/billing/billing-cycle 27. ERPNext Starter Pack, https://frappe.io/starter-pack 28. Production Plan, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/production-plan 29. Service Level Agreement, https://docs.frappe.io/legal/policies/service-level-agreement 30. Workflows, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/workflows 31. Shopify Integration, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/shopify_integration 32. Ecommerce Integrations | Frappe Cloud Marketplace, https://cloud.frappe.io/marketplace/apps/ecommerce_integrations 33. Amazon SP-API Integration, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/amazon_integration 34. Integrating ERPNext with other Applications, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/integrating-erpnext-with-other-applications 35. Data Import, https://docs.frappe.io/erpnext/data-import 36. Khara Kapas, https://frappe.io/stories/Khara%20Kapas Got something wrong? Contact us at corrections@antevon.com. We reply within 5 working days. ERPNext is a trade mark of its owner. Antevon is not affiliated with ERPNext. Antevon Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 17404379. Registered office: Manorfield, Church Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6EA. hello@antevon.com More comparisons: https://www.antevon.com/compare (markdown: https://www.antevon.com/compare.md)