If you have been running your inventory through Stocky, you have a deadline now. Shopify is retiring the app at the end of August, and once that date passes you lose the tool a lot of stores have quietly leaned on for years: purchase orders, demand forecasting, supplier records, stocktakes, the lot.
I have already had a few merchants message me in mild panic about it, so let me lay out what actually matters and what you should do this month rather than in the last week of August when everyone else is scrambling.
What is actually going away
Stocky was Shopify's own inventory management app, bundled with POS Pro. It handled the operational side that core Shopify has never done well: forecasting demand, creating and sending purchase orders, tracking supplier costs and lead times, receiving stock, and running counts.
When it sunsets, that whole layer disappears. Your products and current stock levels stay in Shopify, because those live in the platform itself. But the Stocky-specific data, your purchase order history, supplier details, cost tracking, and forecasts, goes with the app.
That is the part people underestimate. Losing the tool is annoying. Losing the accumulated data is the expensive bit.
Why you should not wait for the deadline
There is a very human temptation to file this under "deal with it later." Do not.
Two reasons. First, exporting cleanly takes longer than you think, especially if you want your purchase order history and supplier list in a usable shape rather than a messy dump. Second, whatever you move to, you will want a week or two of overlap to check the numbers line up before you are relying on the new system for real reorders. If you start on August 30th, you have no runway.
Treat the end of August as the date everything must already be done by, not the date you start.
Export your data before it is gone
Go into Stocky now and pull everything you can while the app still works:
- Purchase orders, including historical ones. This is your paper trail with suppliers and your record of what you paid.
- Suppliers and their details: contacts, lead times, minimums, and the cost prices you have negotiated.
- Cost of goods per product, if you have been tracking it there. Losing your cost data means losing your margin visibility.
- Barcodes and SKUs, if any of that was managed through Stocky rather than core Shopify.
- Any stocktake or adjustment history you might need for accounting.
Save it all somewhere safe as CSV files, even the data you think you will not need. Storage is free. Regret is not.
What to look for in a replacement
Once your data is safely out, you are really just choosing the tool that takes over the job. The features worth checking, in rough priority:
Purchase orders and receiving. This was the heart of Stocky for most stores. Make sure the replacement generates real POs you can send to suppliers, and lets you receive stock against them.
Demand forecasting. Current stock is easy. The value is in a tool telling you what to reorder and when, based on how fast things actually sell.
Multi-location support, if you sell across a shop, warehouse, or several channels.
Clean import. You just exported a pile of CSVs. How easily does the new tool take them in? A migration that keeps your supplier and cost data intact saves you weeks.
Cost and margin tracking, so you do not lose the profit visibility Stocky gave you.
Where to go from here
There are several inventory apps that cover this ground now that Shopify has stepped back from it. Stockra is one built specifically for Shopify merchants making this move, with forecasting, purchase orders, and multi-location stock, and it is worth a look if you want something that maps closely to what Stocky did. Look at a couple of options, run your exported data through a trial, and see which one feels least like a downgrade.
A migration checklist
Work through this in the next couple of weeks and the deadline becomes a non-event:
- Export everything from Stocky today: POs, suppliers, costs, barcodes.
- Shortlist two or three replacement apps and start a trial.
- Import your suppliers and cost data, and confirm the numbers match.
- Rebuild your reorder points and forecasts in the new tool.
- Run both in parallel for a week so you trust the new one before Stocky goes dark.
- Cancel and remove Stocky once you are confident, before the end of August does it for you.
The stores that will feel this the most are the ones that treat it as a surprise. It does not have to be one. You have a clear task and a few weeks to do it in, so give yourself the calm version of this migration instead of the frantic one.
