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Leaving Stocky

Stocky is closing. Here's an honest map of where to go.

The short answer

Shopify is retiring Stocky on August 31, 2026. Shopify's own inventory tools take over the operational half of what Stocky did: stock tracking, transfers, adjustments, basic purchase orders, and low stock notifications. They do not take over the planning half.

If you used Stocky to decide what to reorder, how much, and when, that is the part you need to replace, and you will need a dedicated inventory planning app to do it. Replinish is built for exactly that gap: it forecasts demand from your own Shopify sales history, sets a reorder point per product from your supplier's lead time, and turns the result into draft purchase orders. Your Stocky products and purchase orders import by CSV, matched on SKU.

What's happening to Stocky

Stocky was Shopify's own inventory app, free to merchants on Shopify POS Pro. Shopify has been winding it down in stages rather than all at once, which is part of why the ending has crept up on people.

Mid-2025: min/max forecasting and inventory transfers were removed from the app.
Earlier in 2026: Stocky was withdrawn from the Shopify App Store, so no new store can install it.
August 31, 2026: per Shopify's help centre, the app is no longer available. It stops working, and the Stocky APIs stop responding.

Export before you uninstall. Shopify warns that data from an uninstalled Stocky app might not be retrievable if you reinstall it. If Stocky is still on your store, take your CSVs out today rather than on the last afternoon.

Shopify's recommendation is to move to the inventory management features in the admin. That advice is right as far as it goes. The question worth asking is which half of your week Stocky was actually carrying.

What you actually lose

It helps to split Stocky into two jobs, because only one of them is being replaced.

Inventory operations: covered

Counting stock, moving it between locations, adjusting for breakage, recording a purchase order, getting a nudge when something is low. All of this now lives in the Shopify admin. If that is the extent of how you used Stocky, you may genuinely not need to replace it with anything.

Inventory planning: not covered

Working out how fast something is selling, projecting when it will run out, deciding the level at which you should reorder, sizing a safety cushion, holding supplier lead times, and turning all of that into an order of the right size at the right moment. None of this is coming back natively. Shopify has left this layer to apps on purpose.

The tell is simple. If your reaction to the shutdown is "where do I record stock now", the admin has you. If it is "how will I know what to order", you need a planning app.

Native Shopify tools vs a planning app

This is the comparison worth having before you shop around. It is about capability, not brands.

What each layer covers after Stocky closes. Shopify admin refers to the inventory features included with your Shopify plan.
Job to be done	Stocky (until August 31, 2026)	Shopify admin	Replinish
Track stock levels and locations	Yes	Yes	Reads from Shopify
Stock transfers and adjustments	Removed in 2025	Yes	No, stays in Shopify
Record a purchase order	Yes	Basic	Yes, grouped by supplier
Supplier lead times	Yes	No	Yes, per supplier
Demand forecasting	Removed in 2025	No	Yes, per product
Automatic reorder points	Removed in 2025	Manual thresholds only	Yes, with safety stock
Suggested order quantities	No	No	Yes, with the maths shown
Overstock and dead stock reporting	Partial	No	Yes
Cost	Free with POS Pro	Included	$29 or $79 a month

How to judge a replacement

There are a lot of apps in this category and most of them will show you a demo that looks convincing. Five questions cut through it.

Does it show you why? If a tool tells you to order 240 and cannot show you the sales rate, lead time, cushion, and stock on hand behind it, you cannot check it, so you will either follow it blindly or ignore it. Both are bad.
How long until it is useful? Anything that needs weeks of configuration before it produces a number will not survive contact with a real week. Your catalogue, stock, costs, and sales history should arrive from Shopify automatically.
Can you get your data back out? Ask before you sign, not after. If exporting is awkward, you are being locked in.
What is the contract? Several established tools in this space ask for a twelve-month commitment with no trial. That is a large bet on a tool you have not used yet.
Does it match your size? Warehouse-network optimisation and ERP integration are real needs for large multi-channel brands, and expensive overkill for a store with a few hundred SKUs and one or two locations.

Where Replinish fits

Replinish does the planning half and nothing else. It reads your Shopify data, works out how fast each product sells, projects how long today's stock lasts, and tells you what to order and when. It never writes back to your store, so it cannot alter your catalogue or your stock counts.

Every recommendation opens into the four numbers it came from: the sales rate, the supplier's lead time, the safety cushion, and what you have on hand. You can change any of them and watch the answer move. That is the whole design philosophy, and it is aimed squarely at people who have been burned by a black box.

It is built for small and mid-sized stores, roughly 200 to 5,000 active SKUs, one location or a few. The forecasting page goes through the arithmetic properly if you want to see it before you install anything.

When Replinish is the wrong answer

Worth saying plainly, because a bad fit wastes your time as much as ours.

You only used Stocky for stock counts and transfers. Use the Shopify admin. You do not need to pay for anything.
You need warehouse or ERP-grade operations. Bin locations, wave picking, multi-channel allocation across marketplaces, landed-cost accounting. That is a different category of tool.
You manufacture from raw materials. Replinish can handle a combined lead time, but full bill-of-materials planning is not here yet. If you assemble finished goods from components, check that gap first.
Your store is brand new with almost no sales. The operational features work immediately, but forecasting needs sales history to be honest. Replinish will say so rather than invent a number, which is correct but may not be what you are paying for yet.

Moving your data across

A realistic order of operations. The whole thing is an afternoon for most stores, and the only genuinely manual part is supplier lead times.

Export everything out of Stocky first. While Stocky is still running, export your products, purchase orders, and any reports you rely on as CSV. Do this before anything else. Stocky has no supplier export, so open your supplier list and copy the names, contacts, and lead times into a spreadsheet by hand. That lead time column is the single most valuable thing you own and the one thing Shopify has never stored.
Write down the three workflows you actually use. Most teams use a fraction of what Stocky offered. Note the handful of things you genuinely do each week, such as checking what's low, raising a purchase order, and receiving stock against it. Judge every replacement against that short list rather than against Stocky's full feature grid.
Install a replacement and let it read your store. Install Replinish from the Shopify App Store. It reads your products, variants, SKUs, stock levels per location, cost per item, vendor names, and a year of order history through Shopify's Admin API, so your catalogue and sales history arrive without a CSV.
Import your Stocky CSVs. Upload the Stocky products and purchase orders exports. Rows are matched to your Shopify catalogue by SKU, which brings across supplier links, costs, lead times, and purchase order history. Anything that doesn't match a SKU is skipped and counted, so you can see exactly what didn't come over instead of guessing.
Fill in the lead times and check the costs. Go through your suppliers and confirm the lead time on each one, along with any minimum order quantity or case size. Confirm the costs that came in from Shopify. This is the only real setup work, and for most stores it takes a few minutes once.
Run both side by side until you trust the numbers. For the first couple of weeks, place your orders as you always have and compare them against the recommendations. Where they differ, open the recommendation and read the four inputs behind it. Either it teaches you something or it tells you a lead time needs correcting.

The one thing to do today: open Stocky, export your products and purchase orders, and copy your supplier lead times into a spreadsheet. Even if you have not chosen a replacement yet, that file is the thing you cannot recreate later.

Guides by store type

The planning job is the same everywhere, but what makes it hard is not. These pages answer the same question for one kind of catalogue at a time, with the reorder question framed the way that trade sees it.

Questions about leaving Stocky

When exactly does Shopify Stocky shut down?

Shopify's help centre states that the Stocky app will no longer be available after August 31, 2026. It has already been withdrawn from the Shopify App Store for new installs, and its min/max forecasting and inventory transfer features were removed ahead of the shutdown. After the final date the app stops working and its APIs stop responding.

What is the best Stocky alternative for a Shopify store?

It depends on which half of Stocky you used. If you mostly used it for stock counts, transfers, and adjustments, Shopify's own inventory tools in the admin now cover that and you may not need an app at all. If you used it to decide what to reorder, how much, and when, you need a dedicated inventory planning app, because Shopify does not replace demand forecasting, reorder points, safety stock, or supplier lead times.

Does Shopify replace Stocky with anything?

Only partly. Shopify points merchants to the inventory management features already in the admin, which handle tracking, transfers, adjustments, basic purchase orders, and low stock notifications. The planning layer, meaning forecasting, automatic reorder points, safety stock, supplier lead times, and forecast-driven purchase orders, is not being replaced natively.

Can I export my data out of Stocky?

You can export products and purchase orders as CSV, and you should do it before the shutdown date. You cannot export suppliers, so copy your supplier names, contacts, and lead times into a spreadsheet manually. Lead times in particular exist nowhere else, and rebuilding them from memory is the most painful part of any migration.

How long does moving off Stocky take?

For a small or mid-sized store, moving to Replinish is an afternoon rather than a project. Your catalogue, stock, costs, and sales history come straight from Shopify, and your Stocky CSVs fill in suppliers and purchase order history. The real work is confirming supplier lead times, which is the one input no system can read for you.

Will importing Stocky data change anything in my Shopify store?

No. Replinish reads from Shopify and writes nothing back. The Stocky import populates suppliers, costs, lead times, and purchase order history inside Replinish only. Your products, inventory levels, and orders in the Shopify admin are untouched.

Is Replinish free like Stocky was?

No. Stocky was free for Shopify POS Pro merchants, and nothing free replaces it. Replinish is Flow at $29 a month or Swell at $79 a month, both with a 14-day free trial and no annual contract. Billing runs through Shopify's Billing API, so the charge appears on your existing Shopify invoice and there is no separate checkout.

What if I only ever used Stocky for purchase orders?

Then you have two workable options. Shopify's admin includes basic purchase orders, which may be enough if you already know what to order. Replinish is worth it if you want the quantities worked out for you, grouped by supplier, with lead times, minimum order quantities, and case sizes applied automatically.

I have already uninstalled Stocky. Can I still get my data?

Possibly not. Shopify warns that data from an uninstalled Stocky app might not be retrievable on reinstall. If you have not uninstalled yet, export first. If you have, you can still rebuild in Replinish from Shopify data alone, since your catalogue, stock, costs, vendors, and sales history all come from Shopify rather than from Stocky.

Land somewhere calmer

Bring your Stocky products and purchase orders across, confirm your lead times, and get a reorder list on the first day. 14 days free, no contract.

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