Antevon vs Zoho Inventory: stock software, or a fixed-fee forecasting 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

Zoho Inventory is cloud inventory and order-management software, not by itself a verified managed demand desk.¹⁵

Zoho Inventory is cloud-based software that the business configures and uses.¹²

Zoho Inventory is actively offered on its UK product and pricing pages.¹⁴

Zoho’s terms name Zoho Corporation Private Limited as the owner of Zoho and individual-service trade marks.¹³

Not confirmed. No separate current product alias was established.

The product is Zoho Inventory.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

Not confirmed. A revenue-band or SKU-count limit for ideal customer fit was not established.

Zoho markets Inventory to retail, ecommerce, manufacturing and dropshipping businesses.¹⁶

Zoho markets a combined offline and online sales workflow including Amazon, eBay and Shopify.¹⁷

Zoho publishes a UK Inventory edition and GBP pricing.¹⁴

A brand with someone to configure and operate its stock workflow is a practical fit; optional onboarding can assist.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

The brand prepares/maps imports; optional onboarding experts can help with setup and historical records.²⁶

Users configure reorder thresholds, stock ceilings, order quantities, unit multiples and check frequency.¹⁹

Jumpstart is available for all paid Inventory plans, with Lite and Plus onboarding packages.²²

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 decision-ready per-SKU, per-retailer forecast was not established.

Zoho documents report trend forecasts from historical data but does not specify product-by-retailer granularity in the page read.¹⁸

Not confirmed. The report forecast horizon and period settings were 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.

Zoho’s documented connections handle sales-channel orders and EDI orders/invoices; these should not be equated with all retailer sell-through feeds.¹⁵

Not confirmed. Named UK beauty-retailer consumer sell-through feeds and forecasts by those retailers were not established.

Zoho documents third-party Crossfire EDI for retailer/trading-partner orders and invoices.¹⁵

SPS Commerce is another documented third-party EDI connection requiring both Zoho Inventory and SPS accounts.³⁰

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 uplift and retailer-promotion profitability modelling were not established.

Not confirmed. New-product launch demand planning 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

Replenishments identifies low-stock items from configured strategies and lets users create purchase or transfer orders.¹⁹

Users can create purchase orders and send them to vendors.²⁰

The documented PO workflow has a user create/save orders and send or resend them to the vendor.²⁰

Replenishment settings record minimum and maximum order quantities for reference and support unit multiples.¹⁹

Purchase orders let the user set an expected delivery date.²⁰

Not confirmed. Supplier lead-time modelling inside demand-based replenishment was not established.

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. Cash-constrained buy optimisation was not established.

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

Zoho supports batch traceability and expiration-date monitoring.²¹

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.

Zoho’s built-in Shopify connection imports channel orders and items and can send stock changes back to Shopify.²⁸

The UK help documents Amazon order/item imports, optional stock updates and FBA location mapping.²⁹

Crossfire can deliver orders to 3PLs and return shipping/tracking information to Zoho Inventory.¹⁵

Zoho Books accounting integration synchronises shared settings, contacts, items, orders, bills and common reports.³¹

Not confirmed. Connections to an existing non-Zoho ERP were not established.

Zoho accepts CSV/TSV imports with mapping and preview and can export module data as CSV, XLS or XLSX.²⁶

Users can export selected module data and fields to CSV or Excel files.³²

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.

Where approvals are enabled, designated users review and approve transactions; software access is not outsourced decision authority.²⁷

Users can investigate failed syncs, correct item mapping and re-initiate syncing.²⁸

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

Not confirmed. A time to a reviewed, decision-ready demand forecast was not established.

Jumpstart Plus displays five working days for its 20-hour onboarding package.²²

Setup requires business settings and item data; optional Jumpstart can assist with records, sales channels and training.¹²

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.

Free users can use Basic support, paid users can call support, and Premium is an optional round-the-clock weekday support plan.²³

Zoho’s corporate contact page lists a Milton Keynes office.³³

Zoho lists Zoho Corporation Limited as the contracting entity for the United Kingdom and listed associated territories.³⁴

The UK Inventory pages publish contact hours of Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm GMT.¹⁶

The support comparison table distinguishes channel hours and support plans, but other copy gives different phone/contact hours.²³

Not confirmed. A named current UK beauty-brand deployment was not established.

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

Public exact scoped software list prices are available in GBP.¹⁴

Subscription prices are per organisation and exclude local taxes; add-ons can extend selected allowances.¹⁴

The lowest published software price is the limited Free plan at £0, not a complete planning service.¹⁶

The lowest paid annual-billing display is Standard at £25 per organisation per month.¹⁴

Jumpstart Lite lists £0 for two hours of onboarding assistance.²²

Jumpstart Plus lists £799 for 20 hours of onboarding assistance.²²

Zoho advertises a 14-day free trial without a credit card.¹⁶

Monthly and annual subscriptions are offered, and both renew automatically until cancelled.²⁵

The refund policy offers a first-month dissatisfaction process for monthly subscriptions, with a full refund if the issue is unresolved.²⁵

The refund policy offers a first-45-days dissatisfaction process for annual subscriptions, with a full refund if the issue is unresolved.²⁵

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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