Dead Stock Manager: find aged inventory and clear it profitably with AI

About the Extension

DESCRIPTION

Clear dead stock, free capital: the Dead Stock Manager finds the products in your stock that no longer sell and lowers their prices automatically, stage by stage, along your reduction plans, per variant. Optionally an AI decides on every stage day whether and how deep to reduce, explains the price and forecasts the sales of the next 30 days.

Every price stays above your price floor, and reductions are advertised with a strike price and the lowest price of the last 30 days, the Omnibus rule, right where Shopware shows these prices anyway. You release every proposal yourself or let the autopilot do it, and the Impact page shows you how much capital has been freed and which reduction sold.

The problem you know

• Dead stock goes unnoticed. Shopware shows the stock, but not what has not moved for months. So the list goes to Excel once a year, and the discount comes with a watering can.
• Tied-up capital. Every product that sits ties up money and shelf space, and it loses value every week: the season is over, the successor has arrived.
• Prices by hand are error-prone. The strike price is missing, the "previously" price of the last 30 days is wrong, and after a few weeks nobody remembers the old price, least of all for variants, tier and rule prices.
• Too deep happens fast. A discount lands below the purchase price, or a cart promotion takes off even more.
• Leftover sizes. A discount on the whole product gives away margin on sizes that still sell.
• No way to check success. Did the reduction sell, or did it only cost margin?

How the Dead Stock Manager solves it

• Finds dead stock on its own. Per product and per variant: days without a sale, reach of the stock, sell-through rate, turnover and tied-up capital. The dashboard names the biggest capital binders.
• Reduces stage by stage. Three reduction plans from gentle to strong with up to five stages each. Every stage comes on its day as a proposal, if you like only while enough stock is left.
• Optionally with AI. On every stage day the AI lowers less or more than planned or keeps the price, for example when a product's season is about to start. It explains every decision and forecasts the sales of the next 30 days. Claude by Anthropic or GPT by OpenAI, with your own key.
• The margin stays safe. A price floor that cannot be switched off: minimum margin on the purchase price, plus a maximum discount per plan. Below the purchase price only if you allow it for a plan. Out of the box, cart promotions do not apply to reduced products.
• Advertised correctly. The strike price is the original price, "previously" the lowest price of the last 30 days from the extension's own price observation. The extension only fills Shopware's own price fields, so every theme fits without changes.
• A clean way back. The original price is frozen before the first stage, in every currency and with tier and rule prices, and comes back in one click.

The benefits at a glance

• Find dead stock without going through stock lists.
• Tied-up capital comes free again, stage by stage instead of with a watering can.
• Never below your price floor, not even through the AI.
• Out of the box nothing changes on its own: every price waits for your release.
• Every reduction measured against the forecast.

Typical use cases

Winter goods in spring: "Sell off the season" applies to your product group of seasonal goods. After 60 days without a sale the first stage comes, then a deeper one every 14 days, as long as more than 70 % of the stock is left.

Leftover sizes: Of the sneaker only sizes 40 and 45 sit. Only they run reduced, the sizes in demand keep their price.

The discontinued model: For a product group by your conditions, for example with the tag "Discontinued", "Clear the warehouse" clears in four stages down to -70 %, if you like even a little below the purchase price.

The AI keeps the price: A roaster has sat for months, but its season starts in a few days, and last year it sold more than is in stock today. The AI keeps the price instead of giving margin away, and tells you why.

The trade fair: During a manufacturer promotion or your own discount week, a blackout window keeps the catalogue, categories, manufacturers or products out of every new reduction.

Features in detail

Detection and key figures

Per single product and variant the extension computes days without a sale, reach, velocity, sell-through rate, turnover, margin per euro in stock (GMROI), tied-up capital, ABC and XYZ class and a data quality. Shopware knows no goods-in date, so it counts the days since the last sale and the reach at today's pace. Without a purchase price it calculates with a share of the original price and marks the figures as estimated.

Reduction plans and price ladder

Three shipped plans with a fixed rank: "Test the waters" down to -30 %, "Sell off the season" down to -50 % and "Clear the warehouse" down to -70 %. Each applies to all products or to a dynamic product group, and plans with a product group go first. The first stage starts after days without a sale or after the reach of the stock, every further one a number of days after the stage before, if you like only with a lot or little stock left. You set name, stages, discounts and floor freely per plan, and the preview shows the ladder for a real product.

AI recommendation (optional)

Off out of the box. Switched on, the AI decides on the day of every stage whether and how deep to lower the price. For that it gets the sales of the last 36 months, the seasons of earlier years, stock and tied-up capital, purchase price and margin, open carts, returns, earlier reductions and the comparison with the category. Its prices stay above the floor and within the plan's maximum discount. It explains every decision in your shop's language and forecasts the sales of the next 30 days, with its certainty. You choose Claude by Anthropic or GPT by OpenAI with your own key, set the share of products by tied-up capital the AI decides for, and set a token limit per month. No customer data goes to the AI.

Proposals and release

Every proposal shows price, discount, floor, data quality and the customer view: how the product stands in the shop today and how it will after the release. You release one, a selection or all, adjust the price, reject for 1 to 12 months or block a product for good. If you like, the autopilot takes over: per plan you release every price, only the first stage of a product and the rest goes automatically, or everything goes automatically. AI prices go live automatically never, only from a certainty of 70 % or always.

Check path and dry run

The check path shows for every product in thirteen stations why it is reduced or not, down to the AI's reasoning. The dry run calculates a plan before you switch it on, without writing a price.

Price floor and cart

Minimum margin on the purchase price, without a purchase price a share of the original price, adjustable per sales channel and overridable per plan, plus a maximum discount per plan. New prices are rounded to clean endings such as .99. In the cart the extension blocks promotions on reduced products or lets them stack, per sales channel. For promotions, shipping and payment rules there is the rule condition "Dead Stock Manager: line item under active reduction".

Advertising under the Omnibus rule

The strike price is the original price before the first stage, "previously" the lowest price of the last 30 days. The extension observes every price from the installation on; until 30 days are covered, it takes the lowest price observed so far if you like. Whether reductions are advertised you set per sales channel, and Shopware shows the strike price and discount badge itself.

Impact

The balance shows freed capital, the sell-through from reductions and the hit rate of the AI forecast. Each reduction is marked "Working", "Working strongly" or "Not working", with a weekly curve and the actions "Reduce deeper", "Reset" and "Restart".

Running reductions

Every running reduction shows price, status and the next step. When a product leaves the product group of its plan, nothing goes on automatically: it waits for your decision, on in its previous plan, in today's plan or back to the original price.

Blackout windows and exceptions

Blackout windows keep the whole catalogue, categories, manufacturers or products out of new proposals for a period. Exceptions apply per product: rejected until a date, blocked for good or price set by hand. When someone changes the price of a reduced product by hand, that price wins, and the extension steps back from this product for 90 days.

Taking back

One reduction, all of a plan or all at once go back to the frozen original price in one click, also for variants with an inherited price, tier and rule prices. Sold-out products are reset automatically if you like.

Dashboard, statistics and product file

The dashboard shows tied-up capital, open proposals, the biggest capital binders, the AI cockpit and a setup check. The statistics split the stock by turnover, last sale, share of capital and demand and include the AI analysis of the dead stock. The product file bundles key figures, reductions, price history, stock history and units sold per month for each product.

Logs and automation

The action history records every price change, the AI history every AI call with model, duration and tokens. The work runs in small slices through Shopware's scheduled tasks, even for large catalogues, or through console commands. The Flow Builder trigger "Daily digest" comes with a matching mail template.

Setup

A setup assistant walks you through seven steps: price floor, detection, autopilot, advertising, cart, AI recommendation and notifications. Every page of the extension has its own help.

Who it pays off for

For merchants with their own stock and a wide range in which nobody goes through every stock list every month: fashion and shoes with leftover sizes, sports and outdoor, seasonal goods, tech, home and household. You get the full benefit if you maintain purchase prices in Shopware. The result: less tied-up capital, more room in the warehouse and reductions whose effect you can see.