Antevon vs Fishbowl: inventory software or a two-week forecast 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

Fishbowl is an inventory and manufacturing system rather than a full standalone ERP.¹⁵

Fishbowl is subscription software with implementation and support services.¹³

Fishbowl has a current public offer with product plans and demo and quotation routes.¹⁴

Fishbowl’s current company timeline says Diversis Capital acquired it in 2021.¹²

The published subscription terms identify Fishbowl Solutions, LLC, a Utah limited liability company, as the supplier.¹³

Not confirmed. A definitive current alias and renaming map was not established.

Fishbowl supplies inventory, warehousing and manufacturing software.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

Fishbowl targets small to midsize businesses.¹²

The pricing page separates finished-goods sellers from manufacturing and distribution-heavy operations.¹⁴

Fishbowl advertises purchasing workflows for retail, ecommerce and manufacturing teams.¹⁶

Fishbowl has an official UK offer and publishes GBP prices.¹⁴

Fishbowl suits a team able to run inventory operations and appoint an implementation lead.¹³

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

Fishbowl offers migration, but the customer remains responsible for the accuracy and completeness of data supplied.¹³

The documented workflow requires min/max levels and default vendors, with software able to generate or suggest replenishment settings.¹⁷

Fishbowl requires an implementation package, so the displayed subscription is not a verified complete cost.¹⁴

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.

Not confirmed. A forecast output grain by SKU, retailer, location and time bucket was not established.

Not confirmed. The supported demand-forecast horizon was not established.

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 SPS Commerce integration exchanges retailer transaction and inventory documents.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Retailer sell-through feeds and a separate sell-in versus sell-through forecast were not established.

Fishbowl offers an SPS Commerce integration using SFTP and scheduled file exchange for retailer transaction and inventory data.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Specific UK beauty retailer EDI document coverage and sell-through feeds were not established.

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

Not confirmed. Promotion-specific forecast modelling and retailer promotion profit evaluation were not established.

Not confirmed. A specific new-product or new-retailer launch forecasting workflow was not established.

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

Fishbowl supports product-level min/max replenishment at company or location level.¹⁷

Inventory Growth lists automated reordering with forecasting as an add-on, while Scale lists forecasting and planning as included.¹⁴

Fishbowl can generate a purchase order at a stock threshold and send it to the vendor after approval.¹⁶

The purchasing workflow generates the PO in software, while the customer signs it off before it is sent.¹⁶

Fishbowl says it tracks vendor minimum quantities and order values to inform staff creating purchase orders.¹⁸

Fishbowl advertises automatic reorder points based on sales trends, lead times and minimum stock levels.¹⁶

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. Budget-constrained purchasing optimisation was not established.

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

Fishbowl lists expiration-date, lot, batch and serial tracking fields.¹⁹

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.

Fishbowl Advanced offers a first-party Shopify plugin that imports orders, payments and products and exports fulfilments, products and inventory updates.²¹

The integration page also offers Shopify through Fishbowl Commerce in Advanced and the product named Drive.²¹

Fishbowl Advanced offers an Amazon plugin for scheduled order imports and fulfilment and inventory exchange, including FBA order records.²²

The integration page says Drive connects to Amazon through Fishbowl Commerce rather than the direct Advanced plugin.²²

Not confirmed. A named UK external 3PL connector and its data direction and fees were not established.

Advanced Warehouse lists multi-warehouse, 3PL and distribution workflows.¹⁴

Fishbowl advertises inventory, sales and purchasing data flowing into QuickBooks accounting.¹⁶

The SPS integration supports scheduled CSV uploads of inventory and purchase-order data.¹⁵

A vendor tutorial documents CSV imports of part reorder levels in the desktop workflow.²³

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 customer retains responsibility for validating generated recommendations against real-world constraints.¹³

The customer remains responsible for operational decisions and checking exceptions.¹³

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

Fishbowl markets software go-live in two to six weeks, not a signed-off retailer forecast within that time.²⁰

The terms set a non-guaranteed implementation goal of operational use within sixty days of Contract Start Date.¹³

Not confirmed. Time to the first reviewed, decision-ready demand forecast was not established.

Implementation requires customer participation and timely access to people, systems, data and decision-makers.¹³

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 terms include basic Cloud Version support during the subscription and allow paid upgraded support.¹³

Desktop terms include standard support for the first twelve months, with later cover depending on the support package or subscription.¹³

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office belonging to the vendor was not established.

Not confirmed. A UK-incorporated vendor contracting entity was not established.

Not confirmed. UK-local support hours, time zone and response commitments were not established.

Fishbowl publishes a UK customer case for Frequencia using Advanced.²⁴

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

Fishbowl publishes GBP prices but labels them illustrative and subject to change.¹⁴

A configured Advanced subscription requires a quote despite the published starting prices.¹⁴

Inventory prices are tiered with included users, while Advanced is quoted by users and deployment.¹⁴

Advanced is advertised for teams from two users to more than two hundred.¹⁴

Not confirmed. A complete minimum spend including mandatory implementation and required add-ons was not established.

Not confirmed. The amount charged for the required implementation package was not established.

Not confirmed. A current general-product free trial duration and terms were not established.

The initial subscription term is set in the order form and normally renews for the same duration unless sixty days’ non-renewal notice is given.¹³

The standard terms make payment obligations non-cancelable and fees non-refundable, subject to stated exceptions and the order form.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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