Antevon vs Sumtracker: inventory software or a forecast built for you

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

Sumtracker is a Shopify-centred multichannel inventory and replenishment app.¹²

Sumtracker is subscription inventory software, not an evidenced outsourced demand desk.¹⁴

Sumtracker currently advertises purchasable Manage and Replenish plans and a 14-day trial.¹⁵

Sumtracker Software Private Limited owns and operates the platform.¹⁴

The Shopify listing uses the product name Sumtracker Inventory Manager.¹³

Sumtracker is an inventory management and replenishment application.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

Sumtracker describes typical customers as processing 100 to 100,000+ orders per month, not a revenue band.¹²

Sumtracker targets D2C brands rather than a beauty-only segment.¹²

Sumtracker documents Shopify, Amazon and other marketplace channels, and brands running both D2C and wholesale.¹²

Sumtracker markets worldwide and identifies several UK users on its website.¹⁶

Sumtracker is a practical fit for a team that will run inventory and purchasing, while its own guide cautions that a small, simple store may not need it.¹²

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

Channel imports are automatic, but the brand checks SKUs and location mapping and prepares migration CSVs with support assistance.²²

For historical PO migration, the brand prepares the CSV and existing records; Sumtracker support imports it.²³

The user can maintain supplier and warehouse parameters and override per-SKU sales estimates.¹⁷

All plans include free onboarding and support; a broader custom implementation scope is not established.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.

Forecast analysis and replenishment work at SKU and product-location level, with bundle replenishment calculated for components.¹⁷

Replenish projects sales for the next 12 months.¹⁷

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 data is connected-channel sales and inventory; Faire orders can enter through Shopify, which does not establish a retailer consumer sell-through feed.¹⁹

Not confirmed. External retailer-level consumer sell-through ingestion and separate sell-in versus sell-through forecasting were not established.

Not confirmed. A native UK retailer EDI connector 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

Not confirmed. A dedicated promotion-calendar or promotion-uplift model was not established.

Users can manually override SKU sales estimates, which could incorporate their own promotion assumptions.¹⁷

Not confirmed. A dedicated new-product launch or analogue-forecast workflow was not established.

Sumtracker says new products with little history do not yet have a strong seasonal signal.¹⁷

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

Replenish suggests products, quantities and dates using forecasts and user-set replenishment parameters.¹⁷

Past-sales import is Shopify-only; forecasts for other connected channels start from their connection date.¹⁷

Replenish supports POs from forecasts or CSV, supplier emails, partial receiving and landed costs.¹⁸

The software helps the brand create and email POs; the dashboard asks the user to follow up with suppliers or update overdue dates.²⁴

Sumtracker supports supplier SKU, lead-time, pack-size and MOQ fields for each SKU.¹⁸

Replenishment settings hold supplier lead times and safety days, with days of cover per product and warehouse.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. A cash-budget-constrained purchase optimisation model was not established.

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

Sumtracker warns that it may not fit a business requiring batch or lot tracking with expiry dates.¹²

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.

Native Shopify sync imports products and orders, with inventory direction selected separately per location.²¹

Amazon FBM uses native order and inventory sync, with Sumtracker writing stock counts back to FBM.²⁵

Amazon FBA inventory is read-only in Sumtracker; the app does not write inventory quantities to FBA.²⁵

The Amazon integration documentation explicitly includes UK marketplace coverage.²⁵

A 3PL that updates inventory in Shopify can be represented by keeping that location in Shopify-master mode.²⁶

Not confirmed. Partner-specific direct 3PL connectors and their read/write objects were not established.

Not confirmed. Native ERP connectors were not established; the documented QuickBooks Online connection is accounting integration.

Both plans support bulk inventory updates through CSV files.¹⁵

CSV can update inventory and supplier details and prepare historical PO imports handled by support.²³

QuickBooks Online integration is included in Replenish, not Manage.¹²

Both plans include public REST API access for custom workflows.¹²

Faire orders can reach Sumtracker through Shopify, but there is no direct Faire connector.¹⁹

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 user reviews and adjusts replenishment recommendations before POs are created.²⁴

The dashboard flags exceptions, while the user checks drafts and follows up on overdue inbound orders.²⁴

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

Sumtracker says Shopify merchants can be live within hours and a full multichannel setup usually takes about a week.¹²

Not confirmed. Time from a defined start to a reviewed, decision-ready forecast was not established.

Setup requires correct SKUs, location mapping, inventory-master choices and bundle definitions before historical replenishment sales are synced.²¹

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.

Sumtracker includes senior-team support on all plans and states a typical response within one business day.¹²

Not confirmed. A staffed UK office was not established.

Not confirmed. A UK contracting entity was not established.

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

Sumtracker identifies I Can Make Shoes, Ecotorque and Bumbles & Boo as UK users on its product pages.²⁷

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

Standard monthly tiers and the entry Shopify yearly invoices have public exact amounts within stated order and channel limits.¹⁵

Higher-tier annual website values are rounded monthly equivalents rather than exact public annual invoices.¹⁵

Custom pricing is required for more than 100,000 annual orders, 10 warehouses or 10 channels.¹⁵

Standard pricing is by annual sales orders, not revenue or users; one account covers one business entity.¹²

Connected-store documentation says orders are aggregated across stores, but it calls the measure monthly while current pricing says annual.²⁰

Standard Manage and Replenish plans allow up to 10 warehouses, 10 channels, 1 million SKUs and 50,000 bundles.¹⁵

The terms say fees exclude applicable taxes; the actual UK tax treatment is not established.¹⁴

The published monthly entry price is USD 59 for Manage up to 2,500 annual orders, without forecasting or POs.¹⁵

The published monthly entry price for forecasting and purchasing is USD 119 for Replenish up to 2,500 annual orders.¹⁵

Standard onboarding and support are included free on every plan.¹²

Both plans advertise a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.¹⁵

The website offers monthly or annual billing and says a plan can be updated or cancelled at any time.¹⁵

The terms authorise recurring subscription charges until cancellation.¹⁴

The general terms allow cancellation at any time, bill in advance and state no refund for an unused current billing period.¹⁴

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

Sumtracker tracks bundle components and calculates their replenishment requirements.¹⁷

Inventory sync is a core feature on Manage and Replenish, with one selected master per location.¹⁵

The public terms name an Indian legal operator and Indian governing law, with user proceedings in New Delhi.¹⁴

The help guide says hosting is on Google Cloud in the United States; UK-only data residency is not established.¹²