Minimum Presentation Weeks limits how long your presentation floor is enforced when Toolio generates receipts in Assortment Plan. By default the floor is held for every remaining week of the plan, so a choice keeps buying to its visual standard right through to the end of its life. Set a number of weeks and the floor expires on schedule — from that week on, receipts are driven purely by forecasted demand.
Leaving the value blank changes nothing. Your plans generate exactly as they do today until you set a value on a choice.
Use Cases
Use Minimum Presentation Weeks when:
You want to buy to a visual standard for a launch period, then buy only to demand for the rest of the season.
Your Calculated ST% sits below target because a presentation floor is held to the end of the choice's life, and you don't want to invent an artificial
Phase Out Datejust to release it.Different clusters launch on different dates and each should hold its standard for the same number of weeks after its own launch, not until a shared calendar date.
How the Window Works
The window starts at the offering's launch week and runs for the number of weeks you set. From the expiry week onward the presentation floor resolves to 0, and Toolio sizes receipts from forecasted demand alone.
Value | What Toolio does |
Blank | Enforces the floor for the whole plan — the default behavior |
| Never enforces the floor, including the weeks before launch |
| Enforces the floor for N retail weeks from launch |
Because the floor is gone once the window closes, all three Minimum Presentation Policies — Additive, Balanced, and Inclusive — produce the same demand-driven result from that week on. See Minimum Presentation Policies in Receipt Generation for how the policies differ while the window is open.
Two details are worth knowing:
The weeks before launch stay inside the window. Only the end of the floor moved — a pre-launch buy still covers the presentation standard.
0is the exception: it removes the floor everywhere.An offering with no launch date has no expiry. Toolio leaves the floor in place for the whole plan rather than expiring it on a guessed anchor.
Where You Set It
You can set the window at three levels, from most to least specific:
Per cluster — the
Minimum Presentation Weekscolumn on the offering rows in Assortment Plan. Use this when one cluster should hold its standard longer than another.Per choice — the
Minimum Presentation Weekscolumn on the choice row in Assortment Plan. This is the planner's default for the choice.Per size and store — the
Minimum Presentation Weekscolumn in the presentation profile import file. A system-wide profile sets one value per size; a store-level profile sets a value per size and store, so you can hold a standard longer in your flagships than in the rest of the fleet. See Importing Presentation Profiles for the file format.
You can also seed the choice-level value on new choices through the Min Presentation Weeks field in Assortment Plan Defaults. Defaults seed the choice level only — the per-cluster value stays an override you set yourself.
[Screenshot: The Minimum Presentation Weeks column in Assortment Plan, shown on a choice row and its expanded offering rows]
How the Value Is Resolved
Toolio reads the window from the most specific level that has a value:
The presentation profile's size mapping — per size on a system-wide profile, or per size and store on a store-level profile.
Otherwise, the choice offering (cluster).
Otherwise, the choice.
Otherwise, the floor is enforced for the whole plan.
A 0 is a real value, not a blank. If you set 0 on a size mapping, the floor is never enforced for that size — Toolio does not fall through to a longer window on the offering or the choice below it. To go back to inheriting, clear the cell rather than typing 0.
Store-Level Presentation Profiles
When a store-level presentation profile is assigned, each store gets its own window, bounded at both ends:
A store holds no floor until the week it opens. A store that opens after the choice launches runs its window from its own opening date, since a closed store can't hold a presentation standard.
A store already trading at launch anchors on the launch week, so the weeks before launch stay inside its window.
If several stores are grouped into one selling location, the floor for that selling location is the largest floor among the stores whose windows are still open. As individual windows close, the floor steps down accordingly.
Interaction With Phase Out Date and Other Receipt Inputs
Minimum Presentation Weeks and Phase Out Date both remove the presentation floor, and they work independently. The floor ends at whichever comes first:
min(launch week + Minimum Presentation Weeks, Phase Out Date)
On a store-level profile the window is measured from the later of the launch week and that store's own open date. You don't need to coordinate the two settings — set either, both, or neither.
The window only removes the floor. Everything else in the Receipt Generation pipeline is unaffected:
Selling locations are unchanged. The window does not drop locations from the plan — only
Phase Out Datedoes that.Weeks after expiry are normal selling weeks. Target Sell Through, sales weighting, and the clearance sell-down all behave exactly as they would with no window set.
Receipt Order Multiple and MOQ still apply to the receipts the plan generates.
The Min. Pres. Units metric follows the window too: it reports 0 from the expiry week on both the size and the offering views, so the offering grid stops flagging below-minimum-presentation exceptions for weeks the plan deliberately no longer funds.
FAQs
Does this apply in Allocation?
No. Minimum Presentation Weeks affects Receipt Generation in Assortment Plan only. Allocation strategies continue to enforce their presentation floor for the full strategy, regardless of any window set on a presentation profile.
I set a window but my receipts plan didn't change. Why?
Three common reasons. The offering may have no launch date, in which case the floor is never bounded. The window may be longer than the plan horizon, so it never expires. Or the choice may use the Additive policy, which stacks the floor onto the first order — those units were already bought while the window was open, and Toolio cannot un-buy them.
Does the window reduce the number of stores I'm buying for?
No. The window changes the presentation floor, not the selling footprint. Your location count stays the same until the Phase Out Date.
What happens if the window and the Phase Out Date disagree?
Whichever comes first wins. If the window expires in week 8 and phase out is in week 12, the floor is gone from week 8. If phase out is in week 4, the floor is gone from week 4 and the window never matters.
Can I set a different window for each cluster?
Yes. Set the value on the offering rows in Assortment Plan. Each cluster's window is measured from its own launch date, so clusters that launch on different dates expire in different weeks.
How do I go back to enforcing the floor for the whole plan?
Clear the cell. An empty value means the floor is enforced for the full plan — it is not the same as 0, which means the floor is never enforced.