# Antevon vs Toolio: planning software or a two-week forecast audit

Canonical: https://www.antevon.com/compare/toolio

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

## The short answer

Pick Toolio if your planners need software linking budgets, product ranges and store stock plans [12, 13]. Antevon builds your sales forecast in a fixed-fee, two-week audit [3]. Pick Antevon if no one owns your retailer forecast full-time [5].

## Who each one fits

Toolio targets mid-market and enterprise retailers, including health and beauty businesses [12]. It supports planning for retail, direct sales to shoppers and wholesale [15].

Antevon targets UK and EU independent beauty and skincare brands selling through retailers or preparing to do so [3, 4].

## When Toolio is the better choice

- Pick Toolio when you need automated store restocking based on forecasts, current stock and stock targets [17].
- Pick Toolio when launch stock needs to reflect store groups and expected sales patterns after launch [21].
- Pick Toolio when you need to combine planned deliveries into supplier orders that meet minimum quantities [19].

## When Antevon is the better choice

- Pick Antevon when you need buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their financial impact attached [3].
- Pick Antevon if you need a retailer promotion's financial impact compared with not running it [6].

## How they differ

Your planning team runs Toolio after setup [16]. Toolio says the initial data connection usually needs a few hours of technical help [16]. Its implementation specialist maps the data sources with your team [27].

Yurii Blazhevych, who runs Antevon's forecasts, takes your call [5]. Antevon includes data cleaning in the audit [5]. Its forecast gives a monthly number for each product at each retailer [5]. You receive two Excel files to keep [5].

Toolio reads Shopify product, sales and stock data and records stock daily by product and location [30]. It also reads products, stock, supplier orders, sales and receipts from the NetSuite business system [28].

Toolio says it has US and UK customers [12]. It offers chat, email and a help centre [25].

## 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]
- Toolio: Toolio is a retail merchandise-planning platform connecting financial planning, open-to-buy, assortment and allocation. [12]
- Toolio: Toolio is a licensed, web-based planning application. [13]
- Toolio: Toolio currently markets an active retail-planning platform. [14]
- Toolio: The linked public subscription agreement names Bozburun, Inc. d/b/a Toolio, a Delaware corporation, as the provider. [13]
- Toolio: Not confirmed. No distinct current product aliases or renamed product family were established.
- Toolio: Toolio is the public product name. [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]
- Toolio: Toolio targets mid-market to enterprise retailers. [12]
- Toolio: Toolio names health and beauty alongside apparel, sporting goods, home, furniture, luxury and jewelry among its users. [12]
- Toolio: Toolio describes planning across retail, direct-to-consumer and wholesale channels. [15]
- Toolio: Toolio says it has customers across the US and UK. [12]
- Toolio: Toolio says the customer planning team manages the platform after the initial connection is set up. [16]

### 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]
- Toolio: For NetSuite, the customer customises and reviews saved-search feeds with Toolio before automation. [28]
- Toolio: The customer sets replenishment logic by item role and weeks-of-supply or min/max policy and can override orders. [29]
- Toolio: Toolio says each implementation includes onboarding designed for the customer team to operate the platform. [24]

### 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.
- Toolio: Toolio advertises demand forecasts at SKU-by-location level. [17]
- Toolio: Toolio says merchandise plans can use the product and location hierarchy, down to daily periods, with weekly as the default. [18]
- Toolio: Not confirmed. A standard or maximum forward forecast horizon was not established.

### 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.
- Toolio: Toolio advertises account-level wholesale bookings and integration of retail-partner sell-out data. [23]
- Toolio: Not confirmed. Named UK retailer connectors or EDI document exchanges 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]
- Toolio: Toolio can keep a promotion calendar and factor discounts and sales lifts into forecasts. [19]
- Toolio: Toolio documents detected and custom demand events, with the Events page enabled by its team for each organisation. [20]
- Toolio: Toolio describes new-product launch allocation using forecasts, store clusters and launch curves. [21]

### 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]
- Toolio: Toolio supports initial allocation and ongoing location/SKU replenishment driven by forecasts, stock and stock-policy targets. [17]
- Toolio: Toolio advertises managing and approving purchase orders, transfers and replenishments, with export to an ERP. [16]
- Toolio: Toolio provides PO review and approval workflows before sending orders to vendors, while the customer retains the buying decision. [19]
- Toolio: Toolio describes consolidating receipts into POs while considering MOQs and bringing receipts forward to meet vendor minimums. [19]
- Toolio: Toolio says allocation uses lead times between source warehouses and destinations and supports direct vendor-to-store replenishment. [17]

### 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.
- Toolio: Toolio reconciles top-down financial targets with bottom-up open-to-buy plans. [22]
- Toolio: Not confirmed. An explicit hard-cash-budget constraint in the replenishment optimiser was not established.

### 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.
- Toolio: Not confirmed. Batch, lot, expiry-date and shelf-life-aware replenishment were not established.

### 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.
- Toolio: Toolio documents a Shopify API connection for product, sales and inventory data, including daily SKU/location inventory snapshots. [30]
- Toolio: Not confirmed. A native Amazon marketplace or Seller Central connector was not established.
- Toolio: Not confirmed. A named 3PL connector with documented data objects and read/write direction was not established.
- Toolio: Toolio documents out-of-the-box NetSuite integration using its SuiteApp and scheduled product, inventory, PO, sales and receipt feeds. [28]
- Toolio: Toolio documents creating NetSuite inventory items and POs from its older Assortment/Item Plan modules, subject to SOAP configuration and required-field setup. [31]
- Toolio: Toolio documents reading GoodDay ERP feeds via Google BigQuery Analytics Hub, with feed scope agreed during implementation. [32]
- Toolio: Toolio supports automated CSV ingestion through Azure Storage, including product, sales, inventory, PO, receipt and sell-out feed types. [33]

### 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.
- Toolio: Toolio says the customer team makes the final call on buys, transfers and replenishment. [26]
- Toolio: Toolio automates replenishment orders and flags exceptions while planners retain manual control. [29]

### 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]
- Toolio: Toolio says most customers complete implementation and their first planning cycle within a few months, with timing dependent on data environment and team size. [16]
- Toolio: Toolio says the initial data connection typically needs a few hours of IT support to configure access and validate the feed. [16]
- Toolio: Toolio’s integration guide allows different source systems for each feed and says its implementation specialist maps them with the customer. [27]

### 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.
- Toolio: Toolio documents in-app chat and email support plus a self-service help centre. [25]
- Toolio: Not confirmed. A staffed UK office was not established.
- Toolio: Not confirmed. A UK contracting company or registered UK entity for Toolio was not established.
- Toolio: Toolio publishes direct chat and email support Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 8 PM EST, with self-service help available 24/7. [25]
- Toolio: Toolio says it serves customers across the UK as well as the US. [12]

### 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]
- Toolio: Toolio pricing requires an agreed quote; no current public licence amount was established from the pages read. [13]
- Toolio: Toolio says its embedded forecasting and related core capabilities are part of the modules licensed rather than separate line items. [26]
- Toolio: The public agreement limits access to the prepaid number of individual users specified in the order form. [13]
- Toolio: The public agreement states USD fees, product invoicing in advance for the subscription term, and 30-day payment terms unless the supplemental document says otherwise. [13]
- Toolio: The public agreement excludes taxes, including VAT, unless the supplemental document states otherwise. [13]
- Toolio: Not confirmed. No current minimum spend, minimum seat count or minimum billable scope was established.
- Toolio: Not confirmed. Implementation, integration and setup fee amounts and their inclusion in the licence were not established.
- Toolio: Not confirmed. A public free-trial duration, eligibility and trial terms were not established.
- Toolio: The published agreement leaves the initial term to the supplemental document and defaults to automatic renewal for at least one year with 60 days’ non-renewal notice. [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]
- Toolio: 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.

### Toolio

- Price not published. Quote on request (checked 21 Oct 2026).
- Not confirmed. A current named plan with a public licence amount and billing period was not established.

### 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

Consider keeping Toolio for planning and scoping Antevon's promotion reviews separately [5]. Do this only with agreed exports, no duplicated work and one owner of the final plan [5].

## Questions people ask

### What do I need to send Antevon?

You need 12 to 24 months of sales, orders to suppliers, a retailer list and a promotion calendar [3]. The two weeks start when your data arrives, not when you pay [3].

### Can Toolio handle orders to suppliers?

Toolio supports reviewing and approving orders to suppliers before sending them [19]. You can export supplier orders to your business system [16].

### Can I keep using the forecast without a subscription?

Yes, the audit files keep working without adopting software or keeping a paid login [5]. The optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and keeps its decision record current [5].

## Sources and dates

Antevon wrote this page. Each fact about Toolio 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. About Toolio | Retail Planning Software for Mid-Market & Enterprise Retailers, https://www.toolio.com/about-us
13. Toolio, https://www.toolio.com/agreements/master-subscription
14. AI Platform for Merchandise Planning, Assortment & Allocation | Toolio, https://www.toolio.com/
15. Managing Wholesale Channel in Toolio | Toolio, https://www.toolio.com/post/webinar-recap-managing-wholesale-channel-in-toolio
16. AI Retail Planning Platform | Merchandising, Assortment & Allocation | Toolio, https://www.toolio.com/platform-overview
17. AI Retail Allocation Software | Merchandise Allocation Software, https://www.toolio.com/allocation
18. Merchandise Planning Software | AI-Powered Retail Planning | Toolio, https://www.toolio.com/merchandise-planning
19. AI Assortment Planning Software | Retail Assortment Planning Tools, https://www.toolio.com/assortment-planning
20. Events Page | Toolio - Help CenterIntercom, https://help.toolio.com/en/articles/15443696-events-page
21. Initial Allocation & Product Launch Software | Toolio, https://www.toolio.com/initial-allocation-product-launch
22. Open-to-Buy (OTB) Software | Inventory Management Software, https://www.toolio.com/open-to-buy-inventory-management
23. How Wholesale Sell-Out Forecasting Transforms Account Strategy | Toolio, https://www.toolio.com/post/how-wholesale-sell-out-forecasting-transforms-account-strategy
24. Retail Planning Software for Planning Teams | Toolio, https://www.toolio.com/planning-teams
25. Accessing Customer Support | Toolio - Help CenterIntercom, https://help.toolio.com/en/articles/3036932-accessing-customer-support
26. AI Retail Planning Platform | AI-Powered Forecasting and Agents, https://www.toolio.com/ai
27. Integration FAQs | Toolio - Help CenterIntercom, https://help.toolio.com/en/articles/4715528-integration-faqs
28. NetSuite Integration | Toolio - Help CenterIntercom, https://help.toolio.com/en/articles/4702455-netsuite-integration
29. Inventory Replenishment Software | Auto-Replenish Retail Stock | Toolio, https://www.toolio.com/replenishment-management
30. Shopify Integration | Toolio - Help CenterIntercom, https://help.toolio.com/en/articles/4697543-shopify-integration
31. Creating NetSuite Inventory Items & Purchase Orders From Assortment Plan | Toolio - Help CenterIntercom, https://help.toolio.com/en/articles/6150492-creating-netsuite-inventory-items-purchase-orders-from-assortment-plan
32. How Do I Connect GoodDay to Toolio? | Toolio - Help CenterIntercom, https://help.toolio.com/en/articles/17614584-how-do-i-connect-goodday-to-toolio
33. Automated CSV Feeds | Toolio - Help CenterIntercom, https://help.toolio.com/en/articles/4697491-automated-csv-feeds
34. How Needed Increased Gross Margin Through Optimized Inventory Planning, https://www.toolio.com/customer-stories/how-needed-increased-gross-margin-through-optimized-inventory-planning

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