Enter what you received and what has sold for each product. See the sell-through rate, how long the leftover stock will take to clear at the current pace, and how much cash is tied up in slow stock.
Sell-through rate = units sold / units received x 100, over a stated period. Always say the period: 50% in 30 days is a very different result from 50% in 180 days.
The calculator also works out the daily rate of sale (units sold / days), the days needed to sell what is left at that pace, and the sell-through you can expect by the end of your target period if the pace holds. Each product is marked:
Stock value uses the cost price you enter, so the totals show the cash tied up, not the selling value.
A store received 200 kurtas 60 days ago and has sold 130. Sell-through is 65% in 60 days, about 2.2 a day. The remaining 70 will take about 33 days at that pace, so the batch should reach roughly 98% by day 90 and is on track for a 70% target. The same store received 120 printed kurtas and sold 18: 15% in 60 days, with the remaining 102 needing about 340 days. That line is slow, and at ₹450 cost each it holds ₹45,900 of cash.
The same product can sell through at 80% in one store and 20% in another. Looked at as a chain total it seems fine, while one store sits on stock another store would have sold. Checking sell-through per store, then moving stock between stores while it still sells at full price, recovers more cash than marking it down later. Our blog has more on dead stock recovery for fashion chains and how grocery chains fix dead stock, and the retail glossary defines the terms.
Sell-through rate is the share of the stock you received that has sold in a period: units sold divided by units received, as a percentage. If a store received 200 shirts and sold 120 in 60 days, sell-through is 60% for those 60 days.
It depends on the category and the period. Fashion and seasonal goods need high sell-through before the season ends, while staples like rice or batteries sell steadily all year. Set a target per category for a fixed period (for example 30, 60 or 90 days) and compare products against it, which is what this calculator does.
Sell-through looks at one batch or delivery: what share of it has sold so far. Inventory turnover looks at the whole stock over a year: how many times the average stock was sold and replaced. Sell-through is better for judging a new range or a single delivery; turnover is better for the whole store.
There is no legal definition. Most retailers call stock dead when it has had no sales, or almost none, for a set period such as 90 or 180 days, or when it will not sell before it expires or goes out of season. Pick a rule for your business and apply it to every store the same way.
Move it to the stores where it sells, bundle it with fast sellers, mark it down early while it still has value, return it to the supplier if your terms allow, or sell it to a liquidator. The earlier you act, the more of its cost you recover.
Commmerce gives you one inventory view across every branch and warehouse, with stock transfers between them and a full movement history, so slow stock can move to the store where it sells.
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