Wasting precious margins is never the best approach to managing a retail business. Markdown is a strategic price reduction used to clear inventory while protecting your profit margins. For products with extended shelf life, pricing managers can apply Long Life Markdown. For perishables with short life-cycles, Expiration Markdown helps manage pricing effectively. With Long Life Markdown, you decide the pricing strategy upfront, while the software follows your rules by adjusting prices on schedule. As a pricing pro, you can flexibly group products, manage events, and apply custom rules to meet clearance goals, with AI supporting you in keeping markdowns smart, timely, and aligned with business objectives.
Overstocking and understocking can only lead to waste or missed opportunities, both of which translate to margin loss. Yieldigo’s markdown process starts with your clean and quality data, including stock levels and expiration dates. You can assess product popularity, markdown elasticity, and other factors using the system to model demand sensitivity accurately. Inventory is tracked in real time, allowing pricing adjustments to be automated or reviewed by the person responsible, following the preferred workflow. Prices are updated frequently — even hourly — to quickly respond to market changes and optimize sell-through while protecting your margins. This data-driven approach has a proven track record of clearing all stock before expiration, making it especially valuable for retail grocers and e-commerce retailers managing perishable or seasonal inventory.
With Yieldigo, our team offers demand-driven markdowns that boost profit and cut food waste.
Clearing long-life seasonal products before the next cycle is key to protecting margin and shelf space. With Yieldigo’s Long-Life Markdown, you can plan and optimize markdowns instead of relying on reactive discounting. Practical insights from forecasting and sales history guide the timing and depth of each markdown, while inventory is tracked in real time. You decide whether to automate or review adjustments yourself. For slower-moving items, you can act early and keep sell-through on track. Long-Life Markdown helps Pricing and Category Managers turn clearance into a controlled, margin-aware process that reduces overstock and makes seasonal transitions more seamless.
Recover value without compromising margin. Short Life Markdown is a pricing strategy focused on selling perishable or short life-cycle products before they expire. You can choose fully automated pricing or review adjustments yourself, giving flexibility to match your workflow. Even for slower-moving items or products with very limited shelf time, you can adjust prices dynamically to support sell-through while protecting profitability. For e-commerce and fast-paced retail, price updates can happen as often as every hour, letting you respond quickly to changing inventory levels and shopper demand. This reliable feature helps you manage short-life products with accuracy and speed.
Throwing away precious margins can damage retail business and stunt P&L. You too can take control of your markdown prices with your very own Yieldigo Markdown Optimization module to save EBIT intelligently, all while offering appealing prices and discounts to your shoppers.
