Plan restocks with Demand Score

Select Analytics in the Waitly menu and scroll to Demand Score. It lists the 10 products shoppers want most right now, highest first.

Each row shows the Product, its Demand Score, What to do and a Suggested restock.

The score runs from 0 to 100, and the badge names its band: Low (0–29), Medium (30–49), High (50–69), Very high (70–84) and Critical (85–100).

It weighs, from most to least: how many shoppers are waiting, units preordered in the last 90 days, sales per day while in stock, restocks in the last 90 days, whether signups are growing (the last 14 days against the 14 before), how many shoppers bought after an alert, and shoppers who came back to wait again.

Every product is measured on the same fixed scale, so a score doesn’t drop just because another product got busier. Anything Waitly can’t know yet, like sales for a product that has never had a full stretch in stock, is left out rather than guessed.

What to do is one short line based on the band and whether the product is in stock. Out of stock, it runs from Restock now. (Critical) through Restock soon., Plan a restock. and Restock when convenient. to No action needed. (Low).

In stock, it reads Order more before it sells out., Order more soon., Keep an eye on stock. or No action needed.

Suggested restock estimates how many units to order. Waitly adds up the waiting shoppers likely to buy, preordered units not shipped yet, and 30 days of sales at the pace the product sells while in stock. Then it takes off the stock you have now and rounds up.

How many waiting shoppers are likely to buy comes from this product’s own alerts once it has sent 20, or from your whole store’s once it has sent 100. Covered by stock means you already have enough. Not enough data yet means Waitly hasn’t seen enough to estimate.

Select View all under the section to open the Restock planner. It lists every product shoppers are waiting on or have unshipped preorders for, 25 to a page.

Search with Search by product, and use Sort to order by Demand Score, Suggested restock or Waiting. Point at the Demand Score or Suggested restock header for a short explanation.

Open the item’s waitlist from Waitlists. Under the totals, the Demand Score card lists What drives it, with the figures behind the score. If there are more than three reasons, a button such as Show 2 more lists the rest. Not known yet lists anything left out.

The Restock suggestion box shows the working line by line: Waiting, likely to buy, Preordered, not shipped, Sales in 30 days, In stock, and the Suggested total.

On Pro, Waitly’s Home shows Restock next: up to three of your highest-scoring products that have a number of units to order. Select View restock planner to see the full list.