The stock that stopped selling is still costing you money. Dead Stock Detective scans every SKU in your Shopify store, surfaces the inventory that’s gone dormant — and the capital tied up in it — then tells you whether to mark down, bundle, or discontinue.
The problem
Your dead stock is invisible until you trip over it.
Shopify tells you what’s selling. It doesn’t tell you what’s stopped. So the slow movers pile up quietly — capital you already spent, sitting on a shelf — and it isn’t a problem on paper until you run a stocktake and feel it.
Most stores have a tenth or more of their catalogue tied up in stock that hasn’t sold in months. You can’t act on it because you can’t see it. So it just sits there, costing you.
The fix
On install it reads your catalogue, inventory, and a year of order history, then flags every SKU that hasn’t sold within your dormancy window — including the never-sold ones quietly aging on a shelf.
Each dead SKU is ranked by the cash tied up in it — units on hand × cost — and grouped by how long it’s been dormant. You start with the biggest offenders, not an alphabetical list.
Mark down, bundle, or discontinue — a clear next step for every SKU, based on its age and how it’s moving, with the reasoning shown so you can decide at a glance.
A weekly email digest of what went dormant and what changed since last week, so nothing slips back into the dark between stocktakes.
Sea trial · the weekly report
Planned pricing
Questions, answered early
It’s in final sea trials now. Join the waitlist and you’ll get exactly one email when it reaches the Shopify App Store — no drip campaign.
A SKU is dead when it has stock on hand and hasn’t sold within your dormancy threshold — 60 days by default, fully configurable. Never-sold products are aged from when they were added to your store.
Yes. Free will show the trapped-capital headline and your top 15 dead SKUs ranked by capital, with a recommended action for each. Pro ($19/mo) removes the cap and adds CSV export and the weekly digest.
No. It’s strictly read-only — it never creates, edits, or deletes products, orders, or inventory. The recommended actions are yours to take (or not) in your own admin.
Units on hand × your unit cost, summed across your dead SKUs. Where a product has no cost set, it’s estimated at 50% of the price and marked with a ~. It’s your cost basis, not retail value.
Drop anchor · join the waitlist
One email when Dead Stock Detective reaches the Shopify App Store. Free plan at launch; Pro at $19/mo.