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E-commerce vocabulary · Inventory and Stock

Out of stock

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

phraseCore term

In e-commerce, out of stock means: Not available to buy at the moment because the seller has no units left; the opposite is in stock.

In Turkish: stokta yok, tükendi

How it is used

Seen on product pages and heard in daily stand-ups. An item is or goes out of stock; stores show 'Out of stock' labels and offer 'Notify me' buttons. Before a noun it is hyphenated: out-of-stock items.

Example sentences

  1. The black version went out of stock two hours after the campaign started.

  2. Out-of-stock products should stay visible so the page keeps its ranking.

Common collocations

  • go out of stock
  • temporarily out of stock
  • out-of-stock items
  • back in stock
  • in stock
  • inventoryAll the products a business has available to sell, and the records that show how many of each item are in stock and where.
  • backorderAn order for a product that is temporarily out of stock, accepted by the store and shipped when new stock arrives.
  • stock levelThe number of units of a product that a seller currently has available, usually tracked per SKU and per warehouse.
  • safety stockExtra units kept on top of expected demand to avoid running out if sales are higher than forecast or a delivery from a supplier is late.
  • reorder pointThe stock level at which a new purchase order should be placed, so that new stock arrives before the current stock runs out.

This word in other fields

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