Stocky has shut down — what you can still recover
Stocky stopped working on August 31, 2026.
Stocky was Shopify's own inventory tool, free with Shopify POS Pro. It was removed from the Shopify App Store in February 2026 and stopped managing inventory after August 31, 2026.
You are probably not locked out yet. Shopify said read-only access to export your data lasts at least 90 days past the shutdown — so through November 29, 2026 at the very least. If you have not pulled your history out, that is the thing to do today, before choosing anything else.
What does not come with you
Shopify's built-in inventory management is the official destination, but the move was not automatic, and some things did not survive it:
- Historical records — old purchase orders and stocktakes — do not move into Shopify. Export anything you want to keep.
- Suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky at all. Every purchase order export names the supplier on each line, though, so keep those.
- Stocky's demand forecasting and reorder suggestions have no direct equivalent in the built-in tools.
What to do now
- Export the reports you would miss, while read-only access lasts. Stocky's own reports are the only way out, and the window is not promised past November 29, 2026.
- Write your supplier list down somewhere else if you have not already. There was never an export for it.
- Reconcile anything that was in flight on the day — a purchase order raised in Stocky and received afterwards exists in neither system.
If it was the forecasting you relied on
Restock Forecast is a Shopify app that covers that one part: it reads your recent orders and current stock, works out how fast each product sells, and shows the date each one runs out and how many units to order now, adjusted for your supplier lead time. There is a free plan.
Free for up to 50 products, with no time limit. The paid plan is $19 a month and starts with a 30-day trial — long enough to order once on its advice at a three-week lead time and see whether the date it gave you was right. A fortnight would have asked you to decide before anything arrived.
Four things it does that the cheap alternatives do not:
- It stays quiet when it cannot tell. A product with no sales is marked unknown, never healthy. A confident all-clear built on no data is how an inventory tool loses you a week of sales.
- It holds more of what sells unevenly. The reorder point carries a buffer sized from that product’s own daily history, so a line that sells nothing for nine days and forty on the tenth is not planned as though it sold four a day. Steady sellers get no buffer and no change.
- It does not merge your locations. Shopify reports one stock figure summed across every location. If yours sits in more than one place, this shows where.
- It divides by the days a product could be bought. Days spent out of stock are recorded and left out of the sales rate, so your best sellers stop being read as slow because they kept running out.
It also does the operational half, which the free plan does not cover: purchase orders and suppliers, receiving a delivery at a time, stocktakes, barcode scanning and price labels. Those sit on the paid plan.
Your Stocky purchase orders can come with you, on every plan. Download them from Stocky as CSV and bring them in: the app rebuilds the supplier list Stocky never exported, gives each product the supplier it was last bought from, keeps what you paid, and measures how many days each supplier really took from the dates on those orders.
Questions go to the person who built it, by email, and get a reply within 24 hours.
What it does not do, so nobody finds out after installing. It does not create transfers between your locations — it can read them and tell you where stock left one place and never arrived at another, which is not the same thing. It does not track batches or lot numbers: Shopify counts stock per location rather than labelling it, so nothing here can tell you which box on the shelf came from which delivery. And it is not an ERP or an accounting system.
Where these dates come from
All of the above is from Shopify's own documentation: Migrating from Stocky to Shopify inventory management. If Shopify changes the timeline, that page is right and this one is stale.