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Every seller eventually faces a shelf of stock that stopped selling, and the natural instinct is to hold on at full price until it moves. The maths usually disagrees. Holding is never free: the cash is trapped, the space costs money, and the items quietly age, break or fall out of style. Discounting costs a known, one-time amount; holding costs a monthly drip that is easy to ignore. This calculator puts both on the table — your inventory value at cost, what a clearance at your chosen discount would recover, and what holding actually costs over the months you plan to wait — then gives an honest verdict. Sometimes holding genuinely wins; the point is to decide on numbers, not hope.
Dead stock costs you every month it sits — storage, tied-up cash and attention. Enter your cost, current price, holding cost and how urgently you need to clear — the calculator compares the cost of holding against the cost of discounting, honestly.
Yes, when the alternative is worse. Stock that will not sell at full price is a shrinking asset — every month of storage and tied-up cash deepens the loss. Clearing at a discount converts dead weight into working capital; the loss is a fee for ending the problem.
Add what the space costs you plus what the cash could earn elsewhere — a common working figure is 1-3% of inventory value per month. If the money would pay off a credit card or fund a better product, holding is even more expensive than it looks.
Genuinely seasonal items near their season, and anything whose market price is rising — collectibles, trending items or goods you know are about to be scarce. For everything else, trust the holding-versus-discounting maths.
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