Stocky has shut down: what to do now

If you’ve been using Stocky to manage inventory in your Shopify store, you’ve probably already noticed things breaking. Stocky shut down for good on 31 August 2026, having already been delisted from the App Store that February. Key features like inventory transfers and min/max forecasting were removed even earlier, in July 2025.

This isn’t a “maybe it’ll come back” situation. Stocky is done. If you have not moved yet, the job is no longer a migration so much as a salvage and a replacement.

Here’s what happened, what you lost, what Shopify is offering as a replacement, and what to do about it now.

The timeline: how it happened

Three dates matter:

July 7, 2025. Shopify removed inventory transfers and min/max forecasting from Stocky. If you relied on replenishment workflows or automated reorder suggestions, those stopped working months ago.

February 2, 2026. Stocky was pulled from the Shopify App Store. You can no longer install or reinstall it. If you uninstall it now, there’s no getting it back.

31 August 2026. Full shutdown. Stocky stopped working entirely, and its API went with it. Anything not exported by that date is gone.

That last point is critical. Shopify has warned that certain data, especially supplier records and historical purchase orders, won’t automatically carry over to any replacement system. Anyone who did not export it themselves before the deadline has lost it permanently.

What Shopify is doing about it

Shopify isn’t leaving merchants with nothing. They’ve been absorbing several of Stocky’s core operational features into the Shopify admin over the past year. Purchase orders, inventory transfers, stocktakes, and basic stock tracking are all now handled natively inside the admin panel.

For many merchants, especially those who only used Stocky for purchase orders and receiving inventory, the built-in tools might be enough. You can create POs, track incoming stock, manage transfers between locations, and receive inventory against orders, all without a third-party app.

But there’s a significant gap. The native tools don’t replicate everything Stocky offered, and for some workflows, the replacement is noticeably weaker.

What you’re actually losing

Here’s where things get uncomfortable. Shopify’s built-in inventory tools cover the operational basics, but they fall short in several areas that mattered most to merchants who relied heavily on Stocky.

Demand forecasting is gone. Stocky offered sales-based forecasting to help you decide what to reorder and when. Shopify’s native tools don’t include any forecasting capability. You’re back to guessing or building spreadsheets.

ABC analysis isn’t included. Stocky could categorize your products by revenue contribution, the classic A/B/C breakdown that tells you which SKUs are driving your business and which are dead weight. The Shopify admin doesn’t do this.

Supplier management is limited. Stocky tracked supplier details, lead times, and pricing in one place. While Shopify’s purchase order system includes a basic supplier directory, the depth isn’t comparable. And crucially, supplier data from Stocky won’t migrate automatically.

Advanced reporting disappears. Sell-through rates, inventory velocity, detailed stock analytics. Stocky provided a reporting layer on top of your inventory data that Shopify’s native system simply doesn’t match. The admin gives you adjustment history and current stock levels, but deeper analysis requires additional tools.

Automatic cost updates on receiving are missing. Several merchants in the Shopify community forums have flagged this: when you received inventory against a purchase order in Stocky, it automatically updated your unit costs. The native Shopify workflow only adjusts quantities. Updating costs is now a separate manual step, which means your margin calculations and inventory valuations can drift if you’re not careful.

Step-by-step: what to do right now

Running a new system alongside Stocky was the easy version of this job, and that option has gone. What follows still works, it just takes more care now that there is nothing to check the new setup against.

1. Find whatever you exported

If you did export before the shutdown, dig those files out now: purchase order history, stocktake records, supplier information, and any reports you ran regularly. They are the only copy that still exists, and supplier records are the part worth rebuilding first. If you exported nothing, skip to step 2 and treat the supplier list as something to reconstruct from your own emails and invoices.

2. Audit how you actually use Stocky

Be honest about which features matter to your business. If you mostly used Stocky for creating and receiving purchase orders, Shopify’s native tools will likely cover you. If you depended on forecasting, reporting, or multi-location analytics, you need a third-party solution.

Write down the specific workflows you run weekly or monthly: reordering, stock counts, location transfers, performance reviews. This becomes your requirements list.

3. Clean up your Shopify inventory data

Before migrating to any new system, make sure your foundation is solid. Run a full inventory count to correct discrepancies. Fix negative stock levels, remove duplicate SKUs, and deactivate old locations you’re no longer using. Every tool you evaluate will work better with clean data.

4. Evaluate your options

The right replacement depends on your needs. Here’s how to think about it:

If you mainly need purchase orders and transfers, Shopify’s built-in admin tools are probably sufficient. They handle the basics well and there’s no extra cost.

If you need inventory analytics, reporting, and forecasting, this is where the gap is widest. Shopify’s native reporting is minimal. You get current stock levels and 180 days of adjustment history, but no trend analysis, no velocity tracking, no sell-through rates, and no scheduled reports.

Tools like Stockful focus specifically on this problem, capturing daily inventory snapshots across every location and providing reports like ABC analysis, dead stock detection, demand forecasting with OOS-aware velocity, supplier management with lead times, and reorder recommendations - everything Stocky offered and more.

If you make what you sell, you need raw materials and bills of materials, not just finished-goods counts. Stocky had neither, so bakeries, candle makers and cosmetics brands have been running their ingredients in a spreadsheet alongside it. Stockful now tracks raw materials as their own catalogue, records what each product is made of, and runs production batches that consume material and write the finished goods back to Shopify. It does not do expiry dating or lot traceability, so if you need recall-grade records you still need something purpose-built.

5. Run your new system in parallel

Whatever you choose, install it now and run it alongside Stocky for at least a few weeks. Compare the data. Make sure your workflows translate cleanly. It’s far easier to troubleshoot discrepancies when you have both systems running than to discover problems after Stocky goes dark.

6. Train your team

If other people on your team used Stocky, especially retail staff doing stocktakes or receiving inventory through POS, they need the new workflow properly. Don’t let a live delivery be the first time someone tries to receive a purchase order in the new system.

The 180-day problem that nobody talks about

There’s a quieter issue worth flagging beyond the Stocky shutdown itself. Shopify’s native inventory tracking only retains 180 days of adjustment history. That means once Stocky is gone and you’re relying solely on Shopify’s built-in tools, you have no way to look at inventory trends over longer periods.

Six months of data isn’t enough for seasonal businesses. If you sell products with annual demand cycles (holiday merchandise, summer gear, back-to-school items), you can’t see year-over-year patterns with only 180 days of history. You can’t calculate meaningful sell-through rates. You can’t spot slow-moving stock before it becomes dead stock.

This is one of the reasons merchants replacing Stocky look for a tool that keeps the history as well as the day-to-day work. The operational side (purchase orders, transfers, stock adjustments) and the visibility side (trends, velocity, forecasting, reports) are much easier to keep in step when one tool does both and writes the resulting stock movements back into Shopify for you.

Don’t wait for a perfect solution

The Stocky shutdown is frustrating, but it’s also a forcing function. Many merchants were running on Stocky because it was free and bundled with POS Pro, not because it was the best tool for their needs. The forecasting was unreliable. The reporting was limited. The app hadn’t seen meaningful feature development in years.

Treat it as a chance to assess what your business actually needs from inventory management, rather than settling for whatever comes bundled with your plan.

Gather whatever you exported. Audit your workflows. Clean your inventory. Then pick a replacement that covers the half Shopify’s admin does not.

Stocky Has Been Removed From Shopify: What to Do Now