How to Replace Stocky's Replenishment and Transfers on Shopify

If you ran replenishment through Stocky, you lost part of that workflow a while ago and may not have fully replaced it. Shopify removed inventory transfers and min/max forecasting from Stocky back in July 2025, well before the full shutdown. Plenty of merchants have been limping along on spreadsheets and manual reorder decisions ever since.

With Stocky closing entirely on 31 August 2026, now is the time to rebuild these two workflows properly: deciding what to reorder, and moving stock between locations. Here is how to put both back together on Shopify.

For the broader migration picture, see what merchants need to do now. This post focuses specifically on replenishment and transfers.

What Stocky actually did for you

It helps to be precise about what you are replacing, because replenishment covers two different jobs.

The first job is deciding when and how much to reorder. Stocky's min/max and forecasting tried to answer this: it watched your sales, applied a reorder point, and flagged what to buy. The second job is moving stock you already own between locations, so a busy store does not run dry while a quiet one sits on surplus.

Stocky bundled both. When Shopify stripped them out in 2025, it left a hole on both sides: no reorder guidance, and no transfer suggestions.

What Shopify's native tools cover, and what they do not

Shopify has absorbed a lot into the admin. You can now create purchase orders, receive against them, and create inventory transfers between locations natively. For the execution side of both workflows, the native tools are genuinely fine.

The gap is the decision. Shopify's admin will happily execute a transfer once you tell it what to move, and it will record a purchase order once you decide what to buy. What it will not do is tell you what to reorder, how much, or which stock to move where. There is no demand forecasting, no reorder point, and no transfer suggestion in the native tools. You are back to working that out yourself.

That is the part Stocky used to do, and the part you need to replace.

Rebuilding the reorder workflow

A reorder decision needs three inputs: how fast each product sells, how long your supplier takes to deliver, and how much buffer you want to hold. Done by hand across a few hundred SKUs, this is the spreadsheet grind that eats an afternoon every week.

To rebuild it properly you want a tool that calculates a reorder point per SKU from your real sales velocity and lead times, then surfaces a ranked list of what to buy. Stockful does this with reorder recommendations built on your Shopify sales history, using velocity that accounts for past stockouts so a product that sold out is not mistaken for a slow mover. The output is a list specific enough to turn into a purchase order.

The point is not the specific tool. It is that the decision layer has to come from somewhere, because Shopify's native admin does not provide it.

Rebuilding the transfer workflow

Transfers are the half people forget, because a single-location store does not need them. If you run more than one location, though, transfers are often the cheapest inventory win you have: moving existing stock to where it will sell, instead of buying more.

Here the decision layer matters just as much. You need something that compares stock and demand across your locations and tells you which units to move. Stockful's transfer suggestions do exactly that, and now create the transfer directly in Shopify as a draft for you to ship when ready. We covered how that works in detail in actionable transfers and incoming stock. The short version: the tool decides what to move, Shopify handles the shipping.

Run it in parallel before August

Whatever you choose, set it up now and run it alongside what you are doing today, while Stocky's remnants still exist and before the August deadline. Compare the reorder suggestions against your own judgement for a few weeks. Make sure the velocity and lead times look right for your catalogue. It is far easier to build trust in a new reorder workflow when you can sanity-check it against reality than to switch cold on 31 August.

Replenishment and transfers are the two workflows most likely to fall through the cracks in a Stocky migration, precisely because Shopify quietly removed them a year early. Rebuild the decision layer for both, lean on Shopify's native admin for execution, and you will come out of the shutdown with a stronger setup than Stocky gave you.

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More from Stockful:

• Your Stocky export checklist before 31 August 2026
• Move stock instead of reordering it: actionable transfers and incoming stock
• Stocky vs Shopify native vs a dedicated app: what actually gets replaced