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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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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

How to find every product that went out of stock in Shopify (and how long it stayed dark)

Shopify has no native out of stock report as of November 2026. Reconstruct which SKUs went dark, for how long, and what it cost — with exports and math.

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READ TIME9 MIN

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INVENTORY GUIDE

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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

How to price a product: the five-decision procedure, with the math

How to price a product in five decisions: the landed-cost floor, the fee stack, margin by SKU role, sanity checks, and a promo test — with the full math.

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READ TIME10 MIN

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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

Inventory carrying cost (formula, the four components, and a worked example)

The inventory carrying cost formula with a worked example — the four cost components, a realistic percentage range, and how to reduce carrying cost.

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READ TIME9 MIN

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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

Inventory health score — grade your catalog on 5 factors with one spreadsheet

Score your inventory health on 5 factors — cover vs lead time, dark days, aging stock, sell-through spread, and count accuracy — with a scorer.

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READ TIME7 MIN

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INVENTORY GUIDE

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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

Low-stock alerts in a spreadsheet: conditional formatting on days of cover

Build a low-stock alert in Excel or Google Sheets with days-of-cover thresholds and conditional formatting — the alert layer your reorder sheet lacks.

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READ TIME8 MIN

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GUIDES · BY Abhinav Verma

Managing Shopify inventory across client stores: the VA and agency workflow

How VAs and agencies manage Shopify inventory across client stores: per-store permissions, a weekly cadence, and a 15-minute client report for each store.

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READ TIME9 MIN