How to Migrate from Stocky Before It Shuts Down

Stocky shuts down permanently on August 31, 2026. To migrate from Stocky, you need to export your purchase orders and reports before that date, document your current workflows, and set up a replacement app while Stocky is still running so you can verify data accuracy before the cutover. This post walks you through exactly how to do that.

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What's Actually Happening with Stocky

Shopify built Stocky as a free inventory management tool primarily for POS merchants. It handled purchase orders, demand forecasting, supplier management, and stock transfers. Useful stuff — but Shopify has decided to sunset it entirely.

Key dates:

• July 7, 2025: Inventory transfer and min/max forecasting features were deprecated
• August 31, 2026: Stocky stops working completely

If you're still using Stocky today, you're on borrowed time. Shopify's native admin tools will absorb some of what Stocky did, but not all of it. The gap between what Shopify Admin handles and what Stocky offered is real, and it's worth mapping before you pick a replacement.

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What Shopify Admin Replaces (and What It Doesn't)

Shopify's built-in inventory tools have improved meaningfully over the past few years. Here's an honest breakdown:

What Shopify Admin now covers:

• Basic stock level tracking by location
• Simple purchase orders (via Shopify POS Pro)
• Inventory adjustments and transfers between locations
• Low stock reporting (basic, not real-time alerting)

What Shopify Admin does NOT replace:

• Automated low stock alerts sent to email or Slack
• Demand forecasting based on sales velocity
• Reorder point calculations that account for lead time
• Days-of-stock estimates per SKU
• Supplier-level purchase order history with line items
• Configurable alert thresholds per product

If your Stocky usage was mainly creating purchase orders for a simple single-location store, Shopify Admin might genuinely be enough. But if you were relying on Stocky for forecasting or reorder suggestions, you need a third-party app.

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Step 1: Export Everything from Stocky Now

Don't wait until August. Shopify has been clear that they will not automatically migrate your Stocky data to any other system. Once Stocky is gone, your historical purchase order data goes with it.

What to export:

• All purchase orders (open, draft, and fulfilled)
• Supplier contact information
• Demand forecasting reports
• Any custom cost-per-unit or landed cost data you've entered

How to export: In Stocky, go to Reports → Export for your purchase order history. Download everything as CSV. Store these files somewhere permanent — Google Drive, Dropbox, your accounting system — not just your desktop.

Do this immediately. The risk of procrastinating is that you lose months or years of purchase order history that you might need for accounting, vendor negotiations, or understanding your seasonal buying patterns.

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Step 2: Document Your Current Workflow

Before touching any new tool, write down exactly how you use Stocky today. This sounds tedious but takes 20 minutes and saves hours of configuration mistakes later.

Specifically, note:

• Which SKUs you track (how many? 50? 500?)
• What thresholds you've set for reorder triggers
• Which suppliers you reorder from and their typical lead times
• Who on your team receives stock alerts
• How often you review inventory (daily, weekly, per order batch)
• Whether you use single or multiple locations

This documentation becomes your checklist for configuring your replacement app. If you skip this step, you'll end up with a new tool configured with default settings that don't reflect how your business actually operates.

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Step 3: Choose Your Replacement Based on What You Actually Need

There's no single best Stocky replacement for every store. Here's how to think about it:

For simple low stock alerting (under 200 SKUs): You don't need an enterprise tool. Apps like Alertr (free up to 50 SKUs, $19/mo beta for Pro) or iAlert ($2.99/mo) cover email and Slack alerts, configurable thresholds, and sell-rate tracking without the complexity or cost of heavier platforms. Alertr specifically handles days-of-stock estimates and reorder suggestions — the core forecasting features Stocky users will miss most.

For stores needing purchase order management + forecasting (200–2000 SKUs): Look at Prediko ($49/mo, 4.9★ with 190 reviews) or Fabrikatör (from $79/mo). Both handle purchase order creation, demand forecasting, and restock recommendations. Prediko is notably complex to set up — budget a week to configure it properly — but it's well-reviewed.

For stores with multi-channel inventory (Shopify + Amazon): Sumtracker ($49/mo) syncs across multiple sales channels and includes AI-powered demand forecasting. Worth evaluating if you're selling on more than one platform.

For stores that mainly needed Stocky's purchase order workflows: Shopify Admin's native POS Pro tools may genuinely be enough. Try it first before paying for anything else.

What to avoid: Don't default to Inventory Planner by Sage unless you're prepared for $4,000+/year and slow customer service. The reviews on data syncing issues and connection problems are a consistent pattern, not outliers.

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Step 4: Set Up Your New Tool While Stocky Still Works

This is the most important tactical advice in this post: run both systems in parallel for at least 2–4 weeks before switching.

Here's why this matters. Every inventory app calculates sell rates and forecasting slightly differently. If you flip a switch on August 31 and discover your new tool's reorder suggestions are off because it doesn't have enough sales history to calculate velocity accurately, you're flying blind right when your transition stress is highest.

Set up your replacement now, connect it to your Shopify store, and let it ingest 30–60 days of sales data before you rely on it. Compare its stock level readings and reorder suggestions against what Stocky is showing you. If they diverge significantly, find out why before Stocky is gone.

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Step 5: Recreate Your Supplier and Threshold Data

Most apps won't import supplier data from Stocky's CSV exports directly. You'll need to manually re-enter:

• Supplier names, email addresses, and lead times
• SKU-to-supplier mappings (which vendor supplies which product)
• Cost price per unit (critical for accurate purchase order totals)
• Minimum order quantities

For each SKU, also reconfigure your reorder thresholds. A reasonable starting formula if you're setting these up from scratch:

Reorder Point = (Average Daily Sales × Lead Time in Days) + Safety Stock

For example: if you sell 10 units/day of a product, your supplier takes 14 days to deliver, and you want 7 days of safety stock buffer, your reorder point is (10 × 14) + (10 × 7) = 210 units.

Stocky calculated these for you. Your replacement tool should too — but you need to verify the inputs (especially lead times) are accurate.

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Step 6: Verify and Cut Over

Two weeks before your planned cutover date, do a full audit:

• All SKUs are being tracked in the new tool
• Stock levels match what Shopify shows
• Reorder thresholds are set for every active SKU
• At least one team member has received a test alert
• Supplier data is complete
• Historical CSV exports are saved securely
• Purchase order workflow is tested end-to-end (if applicable)

Only cut over when you can check every item on that list. Don't let the August 31 deadline push you into a rushed transition — start this process now and you'll have months of buffer.

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Common Mistakes When You Migrate from Stocky

Waiting until August. Every other Shopify merchant is in the same boat. Support queues for inventory apps will be backed up. If you start in July, you're competing for onboarding help at the worst possible time.

Assuming Shopify Admin handles everything. It doesn't. Specifically, it won't push alerts to your inbox or Slack when a product hits a critical threshold. You need an alerting layer on top.

Choosing based on price alone. The cheapest option that doesn't actually notify you reliably (LSA Low Stock Alert has documented delayed alert issues) costs more in lost sales than a $20/month app that works consistently.

Not exporting purchase order history. You may not need it tomorrow, but if you ever need to dispute an invoice, file an insurance claim, or analyze your buying patterns for a seasonal restock, you'll wish you had it.

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The Short Version

You have until August 31, 2026. Export your Stocky data today, document your workflows, pick a replacement that matches your actual needs, and run both systems in parallel for a month before switching. Don't wait until summer.

If you're primarily looking for what Stocky's alerting and forecasting features gave you — reorder suggestions, days-of-stock estimates, and low stock notifications — Alertr is worth a look. The free tier covers up to 50 SKUs, and the Pro plan is $19/month during beta (locked in permanently). It's built specifically for DTC brands that need clear signals, not enterprise complexity.

Whatever you choose, the time to migrate is now — not August.