Stocky is shutting down: replacing purchase orders and reorder points
Shopify is retiring Stocky, its POS inventory app, on August 31, 2026. For many retail stores, Stocky was the replenishment brain of the operation: purchase orders, reorder suggestions, stocktakes, and supplier records all lived inside it. This guide covers what breaks on the replenishment side, what you can still export while the app is running, and what to look for in whatever replaces it.
The timeline so far
The shutdown is happening in stages, and two of those stages have already passed.
- July 2025: Shopify removed key features from Stocky, including inventory transfers and min/max forecasting. If your reorder suggestions disappeared around then, this is why.
- February 2, 2026: Stocky was pulled from the Shopify App Store. Existing installs keep working for now, but if you uninstall it, or open a new store, there is no way to get it back.
- August 31, 2026: Stocky shuts down completely. Everything still inside it becomes unreachable.
The practical takeaway: the Stocky you have today is already a reduced version of the app, and the data inside it has a hard expiry date. Whatever you plan to keep, you need to get out before the end of August.
What breaks for replenishment
When Stocky goes offline, four things stop working at once.
Purchase order creation and receiving. The core loop of creating a PO, sending it to a supplier, and receiving stock against it disappears. Shopify admin has its own basic purchase order records, but they do not carry over anything from Stocky.
Reorder suggestions. Stocky's min/max forecasting was already removed in July 2025, so most stores have been running on memory and gut feel since then. The shutdown makes that permanent unless you rebuild the logic somewhere else.
Historical data. Your purchase order history and stocktake records do not migrate anywhere automatically. If you do nothing, years of "what did we order, when, and from whom" vanish on September 1.
Supplier records. This one deserves its own warning, so it gets its own section below.
The export checklist
Do this while Stocky still opens. An afternoon of exporting now saves you from rebuilding everything from old emails later.
1. Export your purchase order history
Export your POs as CSV. This history is more valuable than it looks: order dates and received dates let you calculate real lead times per supplier, and the line items show your actual order quantities over time. Both feed directly into reorder point math later.
2. Export your stocktake records
Stocktake history tells you where your counts have drifted in the past, which is useful for deciding how much safety stock a SKU needs. Export what Stocky lets you export, and file it with the POs.
3. Copy supplier data by hand
Supplier data cannot be exported from Stocky at all. There is no CSV option and no report that includes it. The contact names, email addresses, payment terms, and notes you have accumulated on each supplier record will be gone unless you copy them manually.
Open each supplier record, and copy everything into a spreadsheet: supplier name, contact person, email, phone, currency, payment terms, and any notes. It is tedious. It is also the single most commonly skipped step, and the one merchants regret skipping.
4. Write down your lead times
From your exported PO history, work out the typical days between placing an order and receiving it, per supplier. Three to five recent POs per supplier is enough for a usable average.
5. Record your reorder logic
If you had min/max values or informal reorder rules before July 2025, write down whatever you remember. Even rough numbers give a replacement system a starting point.
What to look for in a replacement
Once your data is safe, the question becomes where the replenishment workflow lives next. A few criteria worth holding any candidate to:
Forecasting you can check. If an app suggests ordering 80 units, you should be able to see the sales numbers behind that suggestion and verify the math yourself. Our guide on setting reorder points for a Shopify store walks through the actual formula, which is simple enough that any honest tool should show its work.
Reorder points that use lead time and safety stock. A bare low-stock threshold is not a reorder point. The trigger needs to account for how long your supplier takes and how much buffer you want.
Alerts that reach you. Projected stockouts should surface without you opening a dashboard, whether in Shopify admin or by email.
Purchase order output your suppliers accept. Most suppliers want a CSV or a PDF. Check that the app produces something you can send without reformatting.
A migration path for your Stocky exports. You just spent an afternoon exporting CSVs. A replacement should be able to read them rather than making you retype everything.
Pricing that stays put. Inventory apps have a pattern of pricing that grows with order volume or SKU counts. Read the pricing page carefully and look for what happens as your store grows.
Where Restockly fits
Restockly, which we build, is designed for exactly this migration. It is launching soon, and it covers the replenishment loop Stocky leaves behind: sales velocity forecasting over 30, 60, and 90 days with a seasonal adjustment you can check by hand, per-SKU reorder points built from lead time and safety stock, low-stock and projected-stockout alerts in admin and a daily email digest, and one-click purchase order export as CSV or PDF with suggested quantities.
It also includes a Stocky CSV import that reads lead times and supplier names from the files in the checklist above, so the export work you do now feeds straight into the new setup. Pricing is flat: free under 50 SKUs, then $29 or $49 per month, with a written promise not to change the metrics that pricing is based on. You can read more at useadvira.com/restockly.
Do the exports this week
Nothing about this migration is difficult, but all of it depends on Stocky still being reachable. The features already removed in July 2025 show that the wind-down is real and moving. Export your POs and stocktakes, copy your supplier records by hand, calculate your lead times, and then evaluate replacements calmly, with your data already safe.