Moving from Stocky: which columns come across, and which never existed
Read-only access to Stocky is expected to end around the end of November 2026. Until then you can still download your files, and the purchase order export is the one to take: it is the only file that ties a product to a supplier, to a price and to a date.
Stocky’s column names are published nowhere, and the per-order download does not use the same ones as the report. Rather than ask anyone to trust that their file will be read, here is exactly what this app matches. Hold it against your own export - it takes a minute.
The headings this app reads
| What it is | Headings recognised |
|---|---|
| Purchase order number A one-order download has no such column. The number is taken from the file name instead, and you can correct it. | Purchase Order, PO Number, PO, Order Number |
| Supplier | Supplier, Supplier Name, Vendor |
| Status | Status, State, Order Status |
| Date ordered | Ordered At, Order Date, Created At, Date |
| Date received With this and the order date, how long that supplier actually took is measured rather than typed. | Received At, Date Received, Completed At, Archived At |
| Date expected Usually absent. | Expected, Expected At, Due Date, Delivery Date |
| SKU | SKU, Variant SKU, Product SKU |
| Barcode Used when a line has no SKU. | Barcode, UPC, EAN, GTIN |
| Product / variant | Product, Product Title, Variant, Option |
| Quantity ordered Never the report's plain “Ordered” column - see below. | Qty Ordered, Quantity Ordered, Quantity, Qty |
| Quantity received | Received, Quantity Received, Qty Received |
| Cost per unit “(base)” is your own currency, and is preferred over a supplier-currency column beside it. | Cost (base), Cost, Unit Cost, Cost Price |
| Line total Only used when there is no unit cost: the total over the quantity. | Total Cost (base), Total Cost, Line Total |
Anything it does not recognise is shown on screen with the column you can point it at instead, before anything is saved. Nothing is guessed silently.
The trap in the report’s own wording
In Stocky’s purchase orders report, “Quantity” is what was originally ordered and “Ordered” is what is still outstanding. They are different numbers under almost the same word, and a file read the wrong way round shows every received order as having asked for nothing. This app never takes the plain “Ordered” column as the quantity.
What was never in any export
Merchants who pulled their own files confirmed each of these. No app can bring them across, whatever it says - they were not in the file to begin with:
- Supplier email, phone and address - the order lines carry the name and nothing else
- Payment terms
- Minimum order quantities and case sizes
- Supplier notes
- Per-supplier or per-product lead time overrides (the product CSV carries only the default)
Write them into a spreadsheet by hand while Stocky still opens, one column per field. Do that before you choose a tool rather than after, or you will type them twice.
What comes back when the file is read
- The supplier list Stocky never exported, rebuilt from the name on each order line.
- Each product’s supplier, taken from the last order it appeared on - unless you have already chosen one, which is never overwritten.
- What you paid, per delivery, so an average is a record of invoices rather than a guess.
- How long each supplier actually took, measured between the order date and the received date on your own orders.
- Open orders stay open, with what has already arrived counted, and nothing is written back into Shopify’s stock - what Stocky received is already on your shelf.
The fields you copy by hand have somewhere to go
A supplier here holds a phone number, an address, payment terms and notes as their own fields rather than as lines inside one notes box - so a term like “60 days from invoice, 2% if paid in 10” can be read back when the invoice arrives, and shows on every purchase order for that supplier.
The import is on the free plan, so your history can be parked here before the window closes whether or not you use the rest of it.
Also worth reading: what stops working and when.