Stockout Management

Shopify’s Stocky inventory app shuts down on August 31, 2026, and demand forecasting is the feature that won’t survive the transition. Shopify Admin absorbs some of Stocky’s capabilities, like inventory transfers and basic tracking, but the forecasting tools that told you what to reorder and how much? Those are gone with no native replacement announced. […]

Most Shopify merchants forecast inventory by looking backward: last month’s sales, last quarter’s velocity, last season’s trends. The problem is that by the time historical data confirms high demand for a product, you are often already out of stock or dangerously close to it. Here is the irony. Predictive restocking does not require a new

A shopper asks ChatGPT for the best trail running shoes under $150. Your product gets recommended. They click through. They land on your Shopify product page, and it says “Sold Out.” What happens in the next three seconds determines whether you lose that shopper forever or capture a future sale. Your out of stock page

A shopper asks ChatGPT for the best running shoes under $150. Your product is a perfect match, but it is out of stock. Does the AI agent mention your product, or skip it entirely? The answer depends on how you optimize out of stock product pages on Shopify. If your schema markup, product description, and

ChatGPT processes roughly 50 million shopping queries every day (Dataslayer, 2026). Google wants a piece of that action, and it built the infrastructure to get it. Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is an open standard co-developed by Google and Shopify that lets AI agents discover, compare, and purchase products from any merchant. Launched in January

ChatGPT processes roughly 50 million shopping queries every day (Dataslayer, 2026). And as of January 2026, your Shopify products can appear directly inside those conversations. Shopify agentic commerce puts your catalog in front of customers on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Microsoft Copilot through a feature called agentic storefronts. Customers can browse, compare, and

Scarcity tactics increase e-commerce conversion rates by 25-30% when they’re based on real data (OptiMonk scarcity marketing examples, 2025). But fake scarcity, countdown timers that reset, “Only 1 left” on every product, damages brand trust significantly (Winsome Marketing scarcity research, 2025). The gap between genuine urgency and manufactured pressure is the difference between a conversion