Clothing is the hardest retail category to keep stock straight, because one product is never one thing. A single shirt is a grid: four sizes times three colours is twelve separate things to count, price and reorder. Get that grid wrong and you sell a medium black you do not have while six extra-large greens sit unsold.
The variant grid is the whole problem
Most shops track "shirt: 40 pieces". That number is useless the moment a customer asks for medium in navy. Stock has to be held per variant — size and colour together — or you cannot answer the only question a customer actually asks.
In Saauzi a product carries its size and colour options, and each combination has its own stock count, its own barcode and, where you need it, its own price. The product page shows what is genuinely available rather than an average.
The counter and the website must share one count
Clothing sells in ones. The last medium black shirt is genuinely the last one, so if the shop till and the online store keep separate numbers you will sell it twice within the hour and disappoint someone. One shared stock number per variant, updated as the sale is rung up, removes that entire category of problem.
Know your size curve
Every shop has a natural size distribution, and it is not the one the supplier ships. If you consistently sell out of M and L while S and XXL sit, your reorder should not be an even split. Tracking sales by variant for one season gives you the curve, and buying to it frees up the cash currently sitting in sizes nobody wants.
End-of-season stock is a decision, not an accident
Fashion stock loses value on a clock. Once a month, list variants with no sale in 60 days. Then choose deliberately: discount, bundle, move to the other outlet, or stop reordering. The expensive mistake is waiting for full price on something that has already stopped selling.
Count in cycles, by rack
A full stocktake in a clothing shop is a day lost and wrong by the weekend. Count one rack or one category at a time on a rolling basis. Discrepancies stay small and traceable to a shelf and a week.
Multi-outlet: see it all in one place
If you have two shops, the question "do we have this in medium anywhere" should take five seconds. When each outlet keeps its own book, you lose sales that your other branch could have served from stock it is struggling to shift.
The short version
Track stock per size-and-colour variant, not per product; share one count between counter and website; buy to your real size curve; clear ageing stock on a schedule; count in cycles; and keep every outlet visible in one view.
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