Stocky Is Shutting Down: A Migration Guide for Shopify Store Owners

TL;DR

Stocky was delisted in February 2026 and stops working entirely on August 31. Shopify has absorbed some features into the native admin, but not all of them. This guide walks through what is covered, what is not, and how to build a replacement workflow before the deadline. If your bottleneck is getting new products from supplier invoices into Shopify, Ohavah can help with that specific step.

Shopify delisted Stocky from the App Store on February 2, 2026. The app stops working on August 31, 2026. If you rely on Stocky for purchase orders, demand forecasting, or supplier management, you have about four months to transition.

The good news is that Shopify has been absorbing Stocky features into the native admin over the past year. The bad news is that not everything made the cut, and the features that did are more basic than what you are used to. This guide breaks down what is covered, what you will need to replace, and a timeline for making the switch.

What Shopify Has Already Absorbed

Starting mid-2025, Shopify began rolling Stocky features into the core admin. Here is what you can already use without any third-party app:

Purchase Orders

Shopify's native PO feature lets you create purchase orders, assign them to suppliers, and mark items as received. If you used Stocky primarily to create and track POs, the native version covers the core workflow. The main difference is that you will not get demand-based product suggestions when building orders. You are picking products and quantities yourself.

Inventory Transfers

Transferring stock between locations is now built into the admin. You can create transfers, track shipments, and receive inventory at the destination location. This works the same way it did in Stocky.

Stock Adjustments and History

The admin tracks inventory adjustment history, so you can trace quantity changes over time. Bulk adjustments are supported through the inventory management screen.

What You Lose

A few Stocky features have no native equivalent in Shopify.

Demand Forecasting

This is the biggest loss for stores that relied on it. Stocky offered three forecasting modes (fill shelves, target stock level, and sales-based predictions) that suggested what to reorder. Shopify's native tools do not include any forecasting. You will need to track reorder timing yourself or move to a dedicated tool.

Worth noting: Stocky's forecasting used simple moving averages. It did not account for seasonality, marketing campaigns, or demand spikes from external events. If you found yourself regularly overriding Stocky's suggestions, you may have already outgrown what it offered.

Automated Reorder Points

Stocky let you set minimum stock levels that flagged items for reorder. The native admin does not support this. You can partially replicate it with Shopify Flow (available on Grow plans at $79/month and above) by creating a workflow that triggers when inventory drops below a threshold, but it requires manual setup per product or product type.

Supplier Lead Time Tracking

Stocky stored lead times per supplier so you could factor delivery delays into your reorder planning. The native admin does not track lead times. If this was part of your workflow, you will need to track it externally (even a spreadsheet column works) or use an inventory planning app that supports it.

Building a Replacement Workflow

Rather than looking for a single app that replaces everything Stocky did, think about which parts of your workflow actually need a tool and which ones you can handle differently.

For Purchase Orders and Receiving

Use Shopify's native POs. They cover the core loop of creating orders, sending them to suppliers, and marking inventory as received. The experience is simpler than Stocky but functional. Test it with your next few orders before August to make sure it fits.

For Demand Planning

If you need forecasting, evaluate a dedicated inventory planning app. Prediko and Fabrikatör both offer more sophisticated forecasting than Stocky did, including seasonality adjustments, promotion-aware planning, and lead time integration. These typically run $50-200/month depending on SKU count.

If your catalog is small enough that you know your reorder patterns intuitively, you might not need a tool at all. Many boutique owners already override automated suggestions based on their own read of what is selling. If that describes you, Shopify Flow alerts for low stock may be sufficient.

For Getting New Products Listed

This is the part of the inventory workflow that Stocky never addressed, and Shopify's native tools still do not. When a new shipment arrives with products you have never sold before, someone has to create those listings in Shopify. That means reading the supplier invoice, building out each product with the correct variants, tags, and product types, calculating retail prices from wholesale costs, and formatting everything into Shopify's CSV structure for import.

For stores that regularly receive new styles (rather than restocking existing SKUs), this data entry is often the most time-consuming part of the entire inventory cycle. A single invoice with 30 styles across multiple sizes and colors can take 1-3 hours to process manually.

Ohavah automates this step. Upload the supplier invoice PDF, configure your markup and pricing rules, and download a Shopify-ready CSV with all products and variants expanded. It does not replace Stocky's tracking or forecasting features, but it fills a gap that Stocky never covered.

What to Export Before August

Stocky stores data that Shopify has not committed to migrating. Before the shutdown, export anything you want to keep:

• Supplier lists with contact info and lead times
• Historical purchase orders for reference and reorder planning
• Inventory count records if you use them for auditing
• Any custom reports you have built in Stocky

Do this sooner rather than later. If Stocky reduces functionality before the August deadline (as it already did with transfers and min/max forecasting in July 2025), you may lose access to export features as well.

Transition Timeline

When	What to Do
Now	Export supplier lists, PO history, and inventory count records from Stocky
May-June 2026	Test Shopify's native PO workflow with your next few supplier orders
May-June 2026	If you need forecasting, trial 1-2 dedicated planning apps with your data
July 2026	Fully switch to your replacement workflow while Stocky is still running as a fallback
August 31, 2026	Stocky stops working. Native tools and any new apps should be fully in place

The key is to run your new workflow in parallel with Stocky for at least one ordering cycle before the deadline. That gives you time to catch gaps without losing access to your existing process.