# Antevon vs SoStocked: Amazon stock software or a two-week audit

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

## The short answer

Choose SoStocked to plan stock for Amazon sales, using software your team runs [12, 17]. Choose Antevon when you want your forecast built for you in a fixed-fee, two-week project [3].

## Who each one fits

SoStocked serves Amazon sellers and agencies [15]. It supports all Amazon marketplaces, including European markets [14].

Antevon is for UK and EU independent beauty and skincare brands [4]. The audit fits a founder or commercial team without a full-time forecast owner [5].

## When SoStocked is the better choice

- If your team can maintain the plan, choose SoStocked to coordinate Amazon-bound supplier orders and warehouse transfers [19].
- If suppliers set minimum orders or carton sizes, SoStocked can use them in its order recommendations [18].

## When Antevon is the better choice

- If you need a monthly sales number for each product at each retailer, Antevon's forecast gives that breakdown [5].
- If you're weighing a retailer promotion, Antevon's audit compares running it with skipping it, in pounds [6].

## How they differ

With SoStocked, your team supplies and maintains product, supplier and warehouse details [26]. SoStocked pulls Amazon account data daily [30]. It shows your stock position day by day, up to a year ahead [19].

Antevon works from your sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions [5]. We clean imperfect data as part of the audit [5].

The audit leaves you with two Excel files to keep [5]. Antevon supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact [3].

SoStocked offers email and chat support [14]. Yurii Blazhevych, who runs Antevon's forecasts, takes your call [5]. The audit includes a working session on day 14 to go through the first decisions [5].

## 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]
- SoStocked: SoStocked is Amazon-focused inventory forecasting and replenishment software. [12]
- SoStocked: SoStocked is software with onboarding and support. [12]
- SoStocked: SoStocked is publicly marketed as an active offer with current pricing and a free-trial invitation. [14]
- SoStocked: SoStocked identifies itself as part of the Carbon6 ecosystem. [12]
- SoStocked: The public terms name SoStocked as the service operator at a Minnesota address. [13]
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. SoStocked’s current ultimate legal owner is not conclusively established from the public sources read.
- SoStocked: The 2023 public terms name SoStocked LLC as the copyright agent. [13]
- SoStocked: The vendor also uses the name SoStocked.com. [13]
- SoStocked: SoStocked is an Amazon inventory forecasting and management 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]
- SoStocked: The Inventory + Profit page targets growing brands without publishing a revenue eligibility band. [14]
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. A dedicated beauty or wellness sector package was not established from the pages read.
- SoStocked: SoStocked markets its software to Amazon sellers, agencies and aggregators. [15]
- SoStocked: SoStocked advertises all Amazon marketplaces, including European markets. [14]
- SoStocked: The September 2026 guide documents an Amazon UK AWD workflow with manual stock management. [16]
- SoStocked: SoStocked’s workflow guide expects a team to set up and maintain the account. [17]

### 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]
- SoStocked: The vendor advertises migrating existing data into SoStocked as part of onboarding. [12]
- SoStocked: The user supplies and maintains product, supplier and warehouse details through bulk upload. [26]
- SoStocked: The help guide recommends reviewing forecast settings at least quarterly and even monthly. [28]
- SoStocked: The vendor advertises free data migration, one-to-one onboarding and a self-guided option. [12]

### 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.
- SoStocked: Forecasts can be configured by product and marketplace, with optional regional grouping. [18]
- SoStocked: The vendor describes a day-by-day inventory timeline up to one year ahead. [19]
- SoStocked: The Demand Plan upload accepts 52 weekly inputs for the next 12 months. [20]

### 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.
- SoStocked: SoStocked uses Amazon sales and inventory data, with user-provided demand plans for other channels. [19]
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. SoStocked-specific retailer EDI and retailer sell-through integrations were not established.

### 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]
- SoStocked: Users can model planned events such as Prime Day and BFCM using seasonal or event adjustments. [19]
- SoStocked: The separate Automatic Seasonal Spikes tool is sunsetted for new accounts, with other seasonal tools recommended. [22]
- SoStocked: New products can use a manual sales velocity, a custom Demand Plan or a Combo Forecasting launch curve. [19]

### 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]
- SoStocked: SoStocked supports reorder and transfer planning with min-max stock settings. [17]
- SoStocked: Users can create purchase orders and transfer work orders with forecast-based defaults. [21]
- SoStocked: The operator creates purchase orders or work orders and supplies or checks their quantities, supplier and lead times. [21]
- SoStocked: Amazon FBA shipments are created through Seller Central using exported files, not directly created by SoStocked. [19]
- SoStocked: Users can set MOQs, minimum transfer quantities and carton units for order recommendations. [18]
- SoStocked: Supplier lead times can be customised and overridden for individual products. [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.
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. A hard cash-budget constraint on purchase recommendations was not established.
- SoStocked: ProfitFlow forecasts future profit using inventory forecasts, product costs, margins and Amazon fees. [23]

### 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.
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. Batch, expiry-date and shelf-life-aware replenishment were not verified.

### 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.
- SoStocked: The February 2026 help article says there is no direct Shopify integration and describes a custom workflow instead. [29]
- SoStocked: Shopify sales fulfilled through Amazon FBA can be included in total Amazon-based sales velocity and inventory planning. [14]
- SoStocked: SoStocked connects directly to Amazon’s SP-API across Amazon marketplaces. [19]
- SoStocked: The vendor describes daily Amazon Seller account data pulls. [30]
- SoStocked: US AWD inventory and inbound/outbound shipments are included through Amazon’s API. [19]
- SoStocked: The September 2026 UK/EU/Australia AWD guide says those AWD workflows require manual forecasting and stock updates rather than API reports. [16]
- SoStocked: SoStocked does not directly create Amazon FBA shipments through the API; it exports shipment files for Seller Central. [19]
- SoStocked: The vendor says SoStocked does not directly integrate with external warehouse or 3PL systems. [19]
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. A current supported NetSuite or other ERP integration scope could not be resolved. [13]
- SoStocked: The ProfitFlow onboarding guide documents CSV file uploads for ad-spend data. [23]

### 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.
- SoStocked: The terms leave the user responsible for data, checking inventory statistics and consequences of using the service. [13]
- SoStocked: The vendor’s guide expects inventory and marketing teams to act on reports and coordinate promotions. [27]

### 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]
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. A time to a reviewed, decision-ready first forecast was not established.
- SoStocked: Setup requires connecting Amazon data and configuring products, suppliers, lead times, stock and forecast preferences. [17]

### 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.
- SoStocked: The Inventory + Profit feature table lists email and chat support and one-to-one onboarding. [14]
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. A SoStocked-specific staffed UK office was not verified.
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. A current UK contracting entity for SoStocked was not verified.
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. SoStocked’s UK-facing support hours and timezone coverage were not established.
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. Named UK customer deployments were not verified from the sources read.

### 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]
- SoStocked: SoStocked has public starting prices, but an unambiguous current scenario price is not established. [14]
- SoStocked: The FAQ says pricing is based on average monthly orders over the past year across all Amazon marketplaces. [19]
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. The current minimum payable subscription commitment could not be reconciled.
- SoStocked: The vendor advertises free data migration. [12]
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. A complete schedule of mandatory setup or custom integration charges was not established.
- SoStocked: Public trial landing copy advertises a 14-day free trial with no credit card needed. [25]
- SoStocked: The public terms say service is billed in advance monthly or annually and is non-refundable. [13]
- SoStocked: The public terms describe fees as exclusive of taxes and place tax responsibility on the user subject to their stated US-tax exception. [13]
- SoStocked: Not confirmed. The current cancellation procedure is inconsistent in the public terms.
- SoStocked: One terms section says a support email is the proper way to cancel the subscription. [13]
- SoStocked: A later terms section says email or phone is not cancellation and directs users to the Update Subscriptions link. [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]
- SoStocked: 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.

### SoStocked

- The SoStocked pricing page advertises Inventory + Profit starting at $175 per month. [14] Checked 21 Oct 2026.
- The SPS page also lists a separate ProfitFlow profit-planning plan at $97 per month. [24] Checked 21 Oct 2026.
- The SPS product page separately advertises ProfitFlow + Inventory starting at $250 per month. [24] Checked 21 Oct 2026.
- Carbon6’s page displays $474 USD for three months for up to 1,000 orders per month. [15] 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

For beauty brands selling through Amazon and retailers, consider SoStocked for Amazon and a separately scoped Antevon forecast [5, 7]. If you move to SoStocked, it offers free data migration and one-to-one onboarding [12].

## Questions people ask

### Can SoStocked create orders to suppliers?

Yes, SoStocked can fill in the supplier, quantity and time from ordering to delivery [21]. Your team still checks the quantities and supplier details [21].

### Does SoStocked connect to Shopify?

SoStocked has no direct Shopify integration [29]. Orders from Shopify that Amazon fulfils can count towards SoStocked's sales and stock planning [14].

### Can I use the Antevon files without a subscription?

Yes, the audit files keep working without a paid login or further work with Antevon [5]. The monthly desk is optional and refreshes the numbers each month [5].

### When does Antevon's audit start?

The clock starts when your data arrives, not when you pay [3]. Antevon asks for 12 to 24 months of sales, supplier orders, a retailer list and a promotion calendar [3].

## Sources and dates

Antevon wrote this page. Each fact about SoStocked 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. Amazon Inventory Management Software | SoStocked.com, https://www.sostocked.com/
13. Terms & Conditions - SoStocked, https://www.sostocked.com/terms-of-services/
14. Pricing - SoStocked, https://www.sostocked.com/pricing/
15. SoStocked: Amazon Inventory Management Software | Carbon6, https://www.carbon6.io/sostocked
16. AWD EU, UK & AU - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/325-awd-eu-uk
17. SoStocked Workflows Guide - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/319-sostocked-workflows-guide
18. 6. Set up Your Forecasts - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/106-7-how-to-set-up-your-forecasts
19. SoStocked FAQs - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/322-sostocked-faqs
20. How to Use the Demand Plan Upload - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/266-how-to-use-the-demand-plan-upload
21. How to Create and Track Purchase Orders (PO) and Work Order (WO) - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/183-9-how-to-create-a-purchase-order-po-or-work-order-wo
22. Automatic Seasonal Spikes (Forecasting) - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/222-automating-seasonal-forecasting
23. 1. ProfitFlow Overview and Onboarding - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/295-profitflow-overview-and-onboarding
24. SoStocked: Amazon Inventory Management Software, https://www.spscommerce.com/products/sostocked/
25. SoStocked, https://app.sostocked.com/signup
26. How to use the Bulk Upload (Vendors, Products, Inventory) - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/104-11-advanced-edit-product-details-add-inventory-in-bulk
27. SoStocked Best Practices - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/304-sostocked-best-practices
28. How to Use the Bulk Forecast Upload - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/243-bulk-forecast-upload
29. Shopify, eBay, Walmart, WooCommerce, non-Amazon (Custom Workflow) - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/204-shopify-ebay-walmart-woocommerce-non-amazon-workaround
30. How Often Does SoStocked Refresh My Data From Amazon - SoStocked Knowledge Base, https://help.sostocked.com/article/174-how-to-update-api-data-from-amazon-to-sostocked

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