Retail & E-commerce

Find the margin leaks hiding in your channel mix.

Dead stock accumulating in your warehouse. SKUs selling below cost on marketplaces. DTC margin masking wholesale drag. YieldSentinel ranks every margin problem by annual dollar impact — from your POS and inventory exports, no integration required to start.

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Works with any POS or inventory export  ·  No integration required to start

Sample findings — Clearwater Goods Co.
Dead stock (120+ days)$94,200
SKUs below 15% gross margin18 SKUs · $38,400/yr
Marketplace sell-through gap$27,600/yr
Wholesale vs DTC margin gap12.4 pts
Identified recovery potential$160,200/yr
Illustrative figures based on typical retail operations · Not actual client data

Four categories — from POS and inventory exports

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Dead stock and markdown exposure

Inventory sitting 90–180+ days with low sell-through — quantified as a dollar value at risk of markdown or write-off. Identifies which categories and SKUs are accumulating fastest and the estimated markdown cost to clear them.

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Margin erosion by channel

DTC vs wholesale vs marketplace vs retail — gross margin by channel and SKU. Surfaces which channel combination is dragging your blended margin and by how much. Often 8–15 margin points separate the best and worst channels.

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Sell-through rate by SKU

Which SKUs are selling below plan — and what the inventory cost implication is. Slow sell-through compounds into dead stock, markdowns, and missed open-to-buy budget for next season.

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Pricing and margin floor violations

SKUs selling below margin thresholds — on marketplaces, through wholesale accounts, or in clearance. Identifies where promotional pricing has permanently eroded margin and which accounts are below minimum contribution.

What YieldSentinel analyses for retailers

Upload sales data from your POS, e-commerce platform, or ERP alongside your inventory file. Column names from Shopify, Lightspeed, Square, Cin7, and most others are mapped automatically.

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Retail Sales Analysis

Sell-through rate, channel performance, and revenue by SKU and product family. Identifies which channels and categories are contributing to plan and which are lagging — by dollar amount, not just percentage.

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Inventory Intelligence

Dead stock, slow-movers, and expiry risk ranked by dollar value at risk. Combines with sell-through data to show which inventory positions are deteriorating fastest.

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Margin Analysis

Gross margin by SKU, channel, and customer. Surfaces the 20% of SKUs driving 80% of margin drag — so you can price, rationalise, or discontinue them before the next buying cycle.

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Procurement Variance

For retailers that buy finished goods: actual landed cost vs. standard cost by supplier and SKU. Catches freight cost drift and supplier price increases before they compound over a season.

From POS export to margin findings in minutes

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Export from your POS or ERP

Pull a sales report and inventory export from Shopify, Lightspeed, Square, QuickBooks, or your ERP. Most systems export CSV in under two minutes.

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Upload — columns mapped automatically

Drop the files in the relevant modules. Non-standard column names from different POS systems are matched to the analysis automatically.

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Ranked findings in minutes

Dead stock, margin drags, and channel problems ranked by annualised dollar impact. Export to PDF for the buying team, CFO, or board. Analysis stays in your browser.

Retail-specific questions

Any platform that can export a CSV works — Shopify, Lightspeed, Square, Clover, Cin7, DEAR, QuickBooks, and most others. Column names are mapped automatically, so non-standard exports from different systems don't require manual cleanup.
Yes. If your sales or inventory export includes a location or store column, the analysis will break down findings by location — dead stock, sell-through, and margin all shown per-location as well as in aggregate.
If your sales export includes a channel column, the Margin and Retail modules will break down profitability by channel. You'll see which channels are contributing to blended margin and which are dragging it below target.
In CSV mode (the default), no. All analysis runs locally in your browser. Your sales figures, inventory counts, cost data, and customer information never leave your device. This is a core architectural decision, not a marketing claim.

Find your margin leaks before next season.

Upload a sales or inventory export and see ranked findings in under five minutes. No account required to start.

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CSV-first · No integration required to start · Free tier available