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Sales capacity

Meaning in sales & retail, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In sales & retail, sales capacity means: The amount of selling output a team can realistically produce with its available people, time and productivity.

In Turkish: satış kapasitesi

How it is used

Use in staffing and target planning; account for ramp time and available selling time rather than headcount alone.

Example sentences

  1. Sales capacity will not double immediately because the new hires need several months to build a pipeline.

    Adding people does not instantly create fully productive selling capacity.

  2. We reduced the sales capacity estimate when two experienced reps moved into management.

    Capacity depends on who is available for direct selling work.

Common collocations

  • sales capacity planning
  • estimate sales capacity
  • sales targetThe amount of sales, in money or units, that a person, team or store is expected to reach in a given period.
  • sales repA person whose job is to sell a company's products or services to customers, by phone, online or in person; short for sales representative.

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