Step by step
Open Promotions → Slow stock
It lists products with units in stock that haven't sold in the last days you set, with the money held in them, most money first.
Set the rules
Under Rules: Slow after (days without a sale, up to 60), Discount offered, Clearance length (days) and Back to full price after (units sold; 0 keeps the clearance price to the end). Click Save.
A drawing of the app's screen, with its real labels. Start a clearance
Start a sale on these products, then Start clearance, starts an ordinary sale at once with the Discount offered for the Clearance length.
Or step the discount down
Step it down starts the same clearance as a ladder: set Start at, Add at each step, Every (days) and Up to. It runs until the highest step has had its days.
Or let the autopilot run it
Turn on Autopilot: once a day, when no clearance is running, the app starts one on the slow products it can discount.
Watch the money freed
Each clearance shows Money freed: the units it sold at their cost per item. Results shows it too.
Tips
- In the sale form, Increase the discount does the same for any percentage sale: for example 10% → 20% → 30% every 7 days, never past Up to.
- A product goes back to full price when it sells out, or once it sells the units in Back to full price after.
- With team approval on, a clearance the autopilot starts waits for an approver too.
What to check
- Variants marked Keeps its price: margin protection stay at full price because of your floor.
- The Clearances list shows each clearance's status and money freed.
Common mistakes
- Looking for new products, products without stock or products already in a sale in the list: they're left out.
- Treating Discount offered as exact: it's an upper limit, and each price still follows your lowest allowed price.
The plan you need
From the Business planEvery plan sees the Slow stock list. Starting a clearance, stepping down and the autopilot are on Business.
Your questions
How is the money in slow stock worked out?
Units in stock times the cost per item, or times the price for variants without a cost, which are marked “at price”.
Why up to 60 days?
Shopify lets apps read the last 60 days of orders.
Related tutorials
- The AdvisorPick a goal, and the Advisor finds what to promote from your orders, stock and costs, says why, and prepares a sale plan you confirm.
- Set up price protectionSet a maximum discount, a margin over cost and floor rules, add costs per item, and block discount codes on sale items, so every sale keeps your floor.
- Read sale resultsRead a sale's units, revenue and orders against the days before it, see its extra profit, compare sales in Results and share a sale report.
Learn more
- Use caseClearance Sale on Shopify: Clear Slow Stock Above CostClear Shopify products that aren't selling with a sale that stays above cost and puts prices back at the end. On Business, Slow stock finds them for you.
- Use caseShopify Sales on Autopilot: Schedule, Run, RestorePut Shopify sales on autopilot: they start, end and restore every price on their own, with Shopify Flow triggers and AI that plans the month. Free plan.
- FeatureResults and slow stockResults for every sale, and the products that haven't sold, with the money held in them.
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