Antevon vs Inventory Planner by Sage: subscription 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

Inventory Planner is inventory forecasting and replenishment software for retail and ecommerce, not only a Shopify connector.¹⁵

Inventory Planner is subscription software with technical support and separately agreed professional services.²⁶

Inventory Planner is publicly offered through a current vendor quote route and Shopify listing.¹²

Inventory Planner and Brightpearl share Sage as their parent company.¹⁴

The vendor also uses the shorter name Inventory Planner.¹³

The current Shopify listing names the app Inventory Planner by Sage.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 targets high-volume retailers but the pages read give no numeric revenue or SKU eligibility band.¹⁵

Inventory Planner explicitly markets a beauty and skincare planning offer as well as general retail and ecommerce software.¹⁶

The software covers ecommerce, marketplaces, stores and wholesale-order planning.¹⁶

UK buyers are addressed in the vendor’s contracting guidance and the Amazon connector lists the UK marketplace.¹⁷

This is a fit for a team with an operator who can maintain planning settings and review buying decisions.¹⁸

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

Connected data can populate the system, but the team must supply missing cost information and maintain correct source data.¹⁸

For Starter CSV, the brand must keep the hosted files up to date for the automatic daily sync.²⁸

The team can update lead times and stock-cover settings by item, supplier or warehouse as conditions change.³¹

Expert implementation is advertised, but the terms require a separate agreement for professional services rather than proving free setup.²⁶

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.

Forecasts can be reviewed and overridden at item and aggregate levels, with warehouse-specific or combined views.¹⁹

The Forecast tab supports individual variants and aggregated views, with a warehouse breakdown for combined warehouses.²⁰

The Forecast table shows 18 months including the current month; its sales chart separately shows the year ahead.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.

Wholesale planning cannot mix synced orders with orders managed directly in Inventory Planner.²⁵

Not confirmed. Named UK retailer EDI, retailer POS sell-through feeds and related write-back 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

Users can override forecasts for campaigns and adjust past sales to exclude one-off promotions.²⁰

A user may manually override the forecast for a planned marketing campaign.¹⁹

New-product planning includes manually entered initial demand and advertised use of similar-product sales history.¹⁹

The vendor advertises borrowing similar-product sales history to recommend purchases for new variants.¹⁶

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

The replenishment page recommends order quantities and a last purchase date using demand, stock and supply timing.²¹

Users can create purchase orders from recommendations and send them to suppliers, with IMS sync where supported.²²

Users can send POs from Inventory Planner or download them, while an IMS owns later changes when the order is pushed there.³⁰

MOQ and case multiples round purchase-order quantities, while the basic replenishment recommendation stays unchanged.²⁴

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.

Premium Open-to-Buy supports purchasing budgets; an automatic cash-cap-constrained optimiser was not established.²³

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

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry-date and shelf-life-aware planning were not established from the public pages read.

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 native Shopify connector reads products, sales and inventory for Shopify and Plus; stock updates can also be pushed by users.³²

Shopify product and variant metafield sync is limited to Premium accounts.³²

The native Amazon connector supports FBA and FBM, reads sales and stock, and exchanges inbound-shipment planning data.³³

Orders created in Inventory Planner can initiate an Amazon shipment workflow that must be completed in Seller Central.³³

ShipBob is documented as a native integration with an authorised initial sync.³⁴

Native inventory and ERP connectors include Brightpearl, Cin7 Core, Cin7 Omni and other named systems.³⁵

The Linnworks help guide documents connecting by API to sync product and order history.³⁶

Premium Advanced CSV uses brand-uploaded SFTP files and nightly batch processing for broader data feeds.³⁷

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 software provides a user action to approve draft purchase orders individually or in bulk.²⁹

Not confirmed. A provider-owned forecast sign-off or delegated cash-approval responsibility was not established.

Automatic forecasts can be reviewed and overridden by users when plans or campaigns differ from history.¹⁹

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 vendor advertises going live in four weeks on average, without a defined shared starting event or reviewed-forecast endpoint.¹³

The initial platform sync can take up to several hours; that is data availability, not a signed-off forecast.¹⁸

Setup requires a connected data source plus lead-time and stock-cover configuration, with costs and supplier details added where missing.¹⁸

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.

Support is available through chat and email, with scheduled calls for Premium subscribers and a stated usual response within one business day.²⁷

The pricing page advertises 24/7 monitored support and dedicated account management.¹³

Not confirmed. A staffed UK Inventory Planner office was not established from the pages read.

The ROW terms identify Brightpearl Limited as the contracting entity unless the Order or invoice specifies another Sage entity.²⁶

The support team publishes Monday–Friday hours of 9am to midnight GMT/BST.²⁷

Not confirmed. Named UK customer use was not independently tied to a current customer record in this research.

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

The current price requires a tailored quote; installation being free does not establish a free subscription.¹²

The public pricing model is based on inventory volume and includes unlimited users at no extra cost.¹³

The ROW terms make the Order control currency and exclude taxes; UK billing guidance says VAT is charged at 20%.²⁶

The public pricing page says unlimited users carry no extra cost.¹³

The ROW contract says the currency is specified in the Order.²⁶

The vendor’s UK billing guidance says UK customers are charged VAT at 20%.¹⁷

Not confirmed. A minimum subscription spend, inventory threshold or committed seat count was not established.

Not confirmed. The implementation fee and whether any onboarding is included in a specific quote remain unknown.

Not confirmed. A current trial duration and trial conditions were not established from the sources read.

The initial term is set in the Order, with default annual renewals and at least 30 days’ non-renewal notice.²⁶

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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