Stocky won't be available after 31 August 2026. Shopify removed it from the App Store on 2 February 2026 and the app stops functioning at the end of August. If you're still running purchasing and reorder planning through it, you have a deadline — and a small amount of data-export work that has to happen before it passes.

This guide covers what Shopify's built-in tools actually replace, what they don't, what you can and can't get out of Stocky, and how to pick a replacement.

What happens on 1 September 2026

Stocky stops working. Shopify's position is that inventory workflows now belong in Shopify admin and Shopify POS, and it's directing merchants there. You keep read-only export access to your Stocky data for at least 90 days after the shutdown date, so the export window doesn't slam shut on 31 August — but it does close.

Worth being clear on one point, because it's widely misreported: Stocky was never a Shopify Plus feature. It was included with Shopify POS Pro, on any plan with POS Pro enabled at a location. If you're replacing it, your plan tier was never the constraint and doesn't need to be one now.

Export your data before the window closes

This is the part with a deadline, so do it first. Shopify documents clearly what survives and what doesn't:

You can export:

  • completed purchase order reports, as CSV;
  • stocktake history;
  • historical cost data.

You cannot export:

  • suppliers — Shopify states plainly that suppliers can't be exported from Stocky;
  • historical purchase order statuses, received quantities or supplier links;
  • Stocky-specific custom fields, which don't transfer automatically.

The supplier limitation is the one that catches people out, because supplier records are usually the most laborious thing in the account. There is a workaround: your completed purchase order reports do export, and they contain supplier names against products. That CSV is the closest thing to a supplier list Stocky will give you, and it's enough to rebuild from.

What Shopify's built-in tools replace — and what they don't

Shopify admin and POS cover the operational side well: location-based inventory tracking, transfers between locations, stock adjustments, low-stock alerts and syncing across sales channels. For a store whose use of Stocky was mostly "see what's low", that may genuinely be enough, and you don't need another app.

The gap is planning. If you used Stocky for purchasing, forecasting, supplier management, multi-location planning or kitting, none of that is replaced by the built-in tools. Specifically, nothing in Shopify admin answers:

  • how fast is this product actually selling — its sales velocity;
  • given that rate and my supplier's lead time, when do I need to order — the reorder point;
  • how much should I order — and how much buffer do I need for a late shipment or a good week;
  • which products are quietly overstocked and tying up cash.

A low-stock alert tells you a product is nearly gone. It doesn't tell you it was already too late to order two weeks ago. That distinction is the whole reason planning tools exist.

What to look for in a replacement

  • Explainable numbers. A recommendation you can't interrogate is a recommendation you can't overrule. You should be able to see the working — sells 5/day, 12 left, 14-day lead time, so reorder 90 — not a black-box figure labelled AI.
  • No POS requirement. Stocky needed POS Pro. If you were only using it for online inventory, don't replace it with something that reintroduces the same dependency.
  • Flexible import. Given that suppliers can't be exported cleanly, the importer matters more than usual. It should accept an arbitrary CSV and let you map columns, rather than demanding one exact Stocky-shaped file that no longer exists.
  • Read-only. A planning tool needs to read your products, orders and inventory. It has no reason to write to your store, and one that does is holding risk you aren't being paid for.
  • Fast to first value. You want a reorder list this week, not after a configuration project. Anything requiring a full supplier and lead-time build-out before it produces a single number will not survive contact with an actual deadline.

How migration actually works

Because suppliers don't export, migration is a rebuild rather than a transfer — but a small one, and it can start from a file rather than from nothing.

  1. Export your completed purchase order reports from Stocky as CSV, plus stocktake history and cost data. Do this before 31 August, or within the 90-day read-only window after.
  2. Build one spreadsheet with a row per product: SKU, supplier, lead time in days, minimum order quantity. The PO report gives you SKU and supplier; you fill in lead times from what you know. This is the only manual step, and it's an hour or two for most catalogues.
  3. Install Foreshelf and open Import from Stocky. It takes any CSV with a SKU column and lets you map the rest of your columns to suppliers, lead times and minimum order quantities — so the spreadsheet you just built works, whatever its shape.
  4. Let sales history sync, then open Forecasts. Your sales history comes from Shopify, not from Stocky, so nothing is lost there — velocity and reorder points are computed from your real order data.

Why Foreshelf

Foreshelf was built for exactly this handover. It reads your Shopify sales and inventory history and tells you what to reorder, how much and when — with every recommendation showing its arithmetic in plain English, so you can disagree with it when you know something it doesn't.

It's read-only, works on any Shopify plan with no POS requirement, and gives you a supplier-grouped reorder report you can export as a purchase order, plus a daily email digest when products hit their reorder point. The importer takes any spreadsheet with a SKU column, which matters more than usual given what Stocky won't hand over.

If you want the underlying method rather than the product, theinventory management guide walks through velocity, reorder points and safety stock from first principles.