How Acme Apparel Stopped Losing Sales to Sold-Out Products
The challenge
Acme Apparel runs 38 active collections across seasonal drops and evergreen categories. Inventory shifts daily during sale periods. Their merchandiser spent Sunday evenings dragging sold-out products to the bottom of collections — and still missed real-time changes during the week.
“We would find a bestseller sitting at position three, completely sold out, on Monday morning,” said James M., founder. “Customers were clicking dead products before they found anything buyable.”
Why they chose curatify
James wanted automatic out-of-stock sorting without theme edits. curatify’s server-side approach meant no developer involvement and compatibility with their custom Shopify theme.
Setup took under 2 minutes: install from the App Store, enable out-of-stock sort on all collections, and choose best-seller rules for seasonal collections.
Results
Within the first week:
- All 38 collections sorted automatically on inventory changes
- Manual reorder sessions dropped from 2 hours/week to zero
- Restocked hero products returned to their original positions without intervention
“The restock restoration is the feature I did not know I needed,” James said. “Our hero SKU sells out every drop. curatify puts it back at position one the moment inventory returns.”
What’s next
Acme Apparel is on the Growth plan with product pinning enabled for campaign launches. They are on the waitlist for review-based sorting when it launches.