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Practical inventory guides for Shopify merchants — dead stock, replenishment, reorder math, purchasing, and what running out actually costs.

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REORDER MATH · BY Abhinav Verma

Year two: reordering a seasonal product with one season of history

Turn one season of sales into a year-two reorder plan: correct for dark days, read sell-through, apply growth, size the POs — arithmetic shown throughout.

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READ TIME11 MIN

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INVENTORY GUIDE

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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

Year-end inventory count: the annual stocktake as an accounting event

How to run a year-end inventory count — prep checklist, order cutoff discipline, reconciling variances, and tying counts to inventory value for the books.

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READ TIME8 MIN

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INVENTORY GUIDE

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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

Year-over-year comparisons: fixing calendar drift before you trust the growth

Why year-over-year comparisons drift when Black Friday moves, promo dates shift, and a 53rd week appears — plus an anchor-aligned method with worked arithmetic.

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READ TIME10 MIN

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INVENTORY GUIDE

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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

Your inventory app raised prices: the response playbook

A five-step playbook for an inventory app price increase: verify the real new math, negotiate with specifics, evaluate alternatives fairly, exit cleanly.

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READ TIME10 MIN

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INVENTORY GUIDE

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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

Your supplier sent short-dated stock: the claim and the sell-down

Short-dated stock arrived: the claim email template, a credit-versus-discount decision table, and a sell-down schedule that beats the dates.

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READ TIME8 MIN

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INVENTORY GUIDE

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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

Your supplier's SKU is not your SKU: building the crosswalk

Build a supplier SKU crosswalk for your Shopify store: a mapping table template, a worked receiving example, and the errors identifier mismatches cause.

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READ TIME9 MIN