Antevon vs Fabrikatör: stock-planning software, or a two-week audit

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

Fabrikatör is inventory-planning software for Shopify merchants.¹²

Fabrikatör is software rather than a verified managed forecasting service.²⁴

Fabrikatör has a current public app listing offering subscriptions and a trial.¹²

The published service operator is Fabrikator IO Information Technologies UG in Germany.¹³

Fabrikatör Inventory Planner is the public Shopify app name.¹²

Fabrikatör is listed on the Shopify App Store as Fabrikatör Inventory Planner.¹²

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

The vendor recommends the app for Shopify stores with more than 50 SKUs and at least six months of order history for most products.¹⁴

Fabrikatör explicitly targets skincare, colour cosmetics, haircare and fragrance brands.¹⁵

The FAQ supports multichannel planning where Shopify supplies the order and inventory data.¹⁶

The vendor markets Fabrikatör to growing brands worldwide.¹⁴

The product workflow suits a team able to maintain supply rules and review buying suggestions.¹⁷

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

The app syncs Shopify history, while the brand supplies and maintains the planning parameters for its products.¹⁷

Long-term Plan forecasts require periodic refreshes, while Replenish updates as sales data changes.³²

The FAQ offers a free one-to-one onboarding session and a help centre.¹⁶

The Shopify Enterprise plan advertises personal onboarding, training, free data migration and a dedicated account manager.¹²

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.

The long-term Plan feature forecasts product and variant demand and accounts for bundle components.¹⁸

The plan-creation guide says a plan can extend up to 15 months from today.¹⁹

Replenish is intended for day-to-day ordering, while the long-term Plan supports strategic and seasonal planning.²⁰

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.

The documented multichannel workflow uses Shopify order and inventory data.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Named-retailer consumer sell-through feeds and separate retailer forecasts were not established.

Not confirmed. Named-retailer or EDI connector support was not established from the public documentation read.

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

Fabrikatör advertises adding marketing events to demand and supply planning.²³

The beauty page describes planning launches, gifting sets and campaigns as demand events over the baseline.¹⁵

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

Fabrikatör generates restock suggestions from sales, stock, incoming purchase orders, lead times, MOQs and forecast demand.¹⁷

The app can create and share supplier purchase orders and track incoming stock and costs.²¹

The current help article says Fabrikatör does not sync with Shopify purchase orders.²²

The documented supplier-order workflow asks the user to choose the supplier and share the PO from the app.³⁰

Replenishment documentation includes supplier MOQs in restock suggestions.¹⁷

Users configure lead times, stock coverage and suppliers for replenishment recommendations.¹⁷

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. Hard cash-budget constraints on purchase recommendations were not established.

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

Fabrikatör describes shelf-life risk planning through stock cover and slow-mover reporting, with lot and batch traceability left to the inventory or warehouse system.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Expiry-date or remaining-shelf-life constraints in purchase recommendations were not established.

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.

The app natively connects to Shopify for inventory planning and purchasing workflows.³³

The documented multi-store integration combines matching-SKU demand and synchronises backorders across connected Shopify stores.³⁴

Fabrikatör advertises Amazon and Shopify planning, with Amazon labelled on-request in the site navigation.³⁵

The ShipHero connector can send Fabrikatör POs and sync received-item events back to their originating Fabrikatör orders.³⁶

The vendor also advertises Hive integration for inventory and fulfilment workflows.³⁷

The documented Katana integration sends Fabrikatör purchase-order details to Katana.³⁸

Fabrikatör advertises an Odoo integration, but its public marketing page does not establish the connection method or commercial terms.³⁹

Purchase orders can be imported from XLS or CSV files with column and SKU matching.⁴⁰

The vendor advertises CSV sales-data uploads for demand forecasting.⁴¹

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.

The beauty workflow leaves approval of restock recommendations with the user.¹⁵

The help guide calls for manual review and adjustment when restock suggestions have low confidence.³¹

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

The help article says initial Shopify data synchronisation typically takes 30 minutes to two hours after installation.²⁹

Not confirmed. Time to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast for the required channels was not established.

Initial setup depends on synchronising Shopify product and historical order data.²⁹

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.

The vendor offers customer service through live chat and email.¹⁴

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office was not established.

Not confirmed. A UK contracting entity was not established.

Not confirmed. UK support hours and a response-time SLA were not established.

The Shopify listing includes reviews labelled United Kingdom from Woods Fine Linens and Plümo Ltd.¹²

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

Scoped standard prices are publicly listed on Shopify, but they are not a total planning-cost quote.¹²

The website calculator labels its $50M to $100M revenue band as custom pricing available on request.²⁵

The Shopify listing says all app charges are in USD and recurring and usage charges are billed every 30 days.¹²

The pricing FAQ says charging is per store rather than per seat.²⁵

The upgrade guide bases plan eligibility on trailing 12-month store revenue and requires customer approval for a new plan.²⁶

Not confirmed. The UK VAT or tax treatment of the displayed subscription fees was not established.

Not confirmed. The reset period and counting unit for the 50 free backorders were not established.

The website FAQ gives a different monthly-gross-sales price ladder from the current annual-revenue cards.²⁵

Not confirmed. A universal contractual minimum spend or minimum number of stores was not established.

Not confirmed. A general mandatory setup or custom-integration fee was not established.

The SEED, SCALE-UP and GROWTH listings offer a 14-day free trial.¹²

Enterprise advertises an extended free trial with no stated duration.¹²

The annual-subscription help article says annual plans are billed once a year with a plan-dependent discount of 15% to 18%.²⁷

The cancellation guide says uninstalling Fabrikatör from Shopify cancels the subscription, with changes reflected at the end of the current billing cycle.²⁸

The terms say the subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing cycle unless cancelled.¹³

The pricing FAQ advertises a 30-day money-back guarantee.²⁵

The general terms state that refunds are issued within 15 days of original purchase.¹³

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

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