Stocky Migration Guide: What to Do Before August 31, 2026
Stocky was delisted February 2, 2026 and stops working August 31, 2026. This guide covers the official timeline, export planning, the native Shopify PO path and its gaps, narrow purchase-order and receiving replacements, living POs, supplier replies, and closed-loop procurement.
Jainul Vaghasia/Published /Updated /13 min read
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Stocky stops working on August 31, 2026 — and it was already delisted from the Shopify App Store on February 2, 2026, so if you uninstall it, you can't get it back. If you've been using Stocky for inventory tracking, purchase orders, or stocktakes, the transition window is now measured in weeks, not quarters.
This guide covers the deprecation, the realistic options, and a step-by-step migration path. The honest version: Stocky handled important inventory and PO tasks inside Shopify, but the transition is also a chance to fix what happens after the PO leaves: supplier replies, substitutions, receiving variance, and accounting handoff. A closed-loop procurement platform keeps that buying workflow connected from placing the order to reading the supplier's reply to updating inventory to deciding what to order next.
What's happening to Stocky
Shopify's help docs say Stocky — the inventory app included with Shopify POS Pro — will no longer be available after August 31, 2026. Customers using Stocky for any of the following should plan the transition before then:
Purchase order generation and PDF emailing to suppliers
Inventory level tracking with reorder suggestions
Stocktakes and physical inventory counts
Multi-location stock transfers
Supplier and product cost tracking
ABC analysis and stock classification
The official timeline, from Shopify's migration documentation:
Read before ordering
A dense operator briefing for teams that need sharper buying, cleaner supplier follow-up, and fewer expensive surprises.
February 2, 2026 — Stocky delisted from the App Store; it can't be reinstalled
August 31, 2026 — Stocky and its APIs stop working entirely
At least 90 days after — read-only export access to your Stocky data
Historical Stocky data will not automatically move into Shopify. Shopify's own pre-sunset checklist: export your completed PO reports, stocktake history, and historical cost data as CSV; close out open and in-transit POs; stop creating new Stocky POs about two weeks before the shutoff; and remove Stocky's POS UI extension from the Smart Grid.
One item on that list deserves more attention than it gets: suppliers can't be exported from Stocky at all. Supplier names, contact emails, lead times, and MOQs live only inside Stocky, and there is no report that hands them back to you. Historical purchase orders can't be imported into Shopify either, and the native purchase order CSV upload only adds product line items to a new draft — not past statuses, received quantities, or supplier links. Whatever you migrate to, budget time to rebuild supplier records by hand or from another system that already holds them. Do this before August 31, because after that the data is simply gone.
Your options
There are roughly five categories of Stocky replacement, and they're not equivalent.
Category 0: Shopify's native purchase orders (the official migration path)
Shopify's migration doc points Stocky users to the native PO system under Products → Purchase orders: supplier records, POs that receive through inventory transfers, partial receiving, and barcode receiving in POS. It's real, it's included, and for simple operations it may be enough — we wrote the full walkthrough in How to Create Purchase Orders from Shopify. But Shopify's own docs are candid about what it doesn't replace from Stocky: it can't email a PO to a supplier (you download a PDF and send it yourself), the cost per item field stays static when you receive (no weighted-average or landed costing), demand forecasting is delegated to asking Sidekick per session, there are no supplier defaults for SKUs or case packs, and historical POs can't be imported. If those were the parts of Stocky you leaned on, native POs alone won't carry them.
Category 1: Purpose-built PO and receiving apps (the narrow replacement)
Not every Stocky user needs forecasting, ABC analysis, or stocktakes back. For plenty of merchants, Stocky was the thing that raised a purchase order, emailed it to a supplier, and received stock against it — and the replacement they want is exactly that, nothing wider. Categories 2 through 4 below are all broader than that job. Native POs (Category 0) are narrow enough, but they drop the specific pieces those merchants leaned on: emailing the PO, per-SKU supplier defaults, and a cost that moves when you receive.
That leaves room for a narrower class of app — purchasing and receiving done properly, and nothing else. Three are worth a trial, and they are not interchangeable:
EasyScan (506) is the most established option in this category: 5.0 stars across 329 reviews, a Built for Shopify badge, and 6,500+ merchants. Receiving happens inside the purchase order — scan units in, log accepted versus rejected, handle partial deliveries, and print barcode labels for only the units you accepted. It also covers transfer orders, supplier catalogs, and reorder points, and has since extended into demand forecasting, so it is the widest app in this category and starts around $9.99/month. If you want one app to run purchasing, receiving, and transfers with the deepest track record behind it, start here.
Ultimate Purchase Orders is the cheapest way to keep the Stocky habit of emailing a supplier a PO — roughly $7.99 to $34.99/month, and it sends POs and packing slips from your own email address rather than a no-reply relay. It can split a Shopify order into multiple POs and receive inventory back into Shopify, which makes it the pick if you dropship. It is also the smallest of the three at 4.0 stars across 10 reviews, and reviewers report PDF generation and receiving-sync bugs. Trial it against your real catalog before you commit.
Replenio (Veltrio Labs) is new to the App Store and the only one with a genuinely untimed free plan. It covers POs, supplier records with lead times and per-supplier currency, barcode receiving with partial deliveries and damaged-unit counts, weighted-average unit cost recalculated on every receipt with freight and duty allocated across the lines that carried them, reorder points with auto-drafted POs, branded PO PDFs, and a Xero connection. The free tier caps supplier emails at 100 per month and keeps FIFO costing on the $29.99/month tier. It carries no review history yet, which is the trade for the free plan.
Two things worth knowing before you trial any of them.
First, a supplier CSV import is worth less than it sounds. Stocky can't export suppliers, so there is no file to import — you are hand-building that CSV from Stocky's screens either way. Import support saves you the typing on the second pass, not the first. If you have suppliers in QuickBooks, Xero, or Shopify vendors already, an app that reads those directly saves real hours; a CSV importer does not.
Second, they all stop in the same place: the moment the supplier replies. That is the category boundary, not a knock on any one of them.
Step in the loop
Narrow PO apps
LineNow
Decide what to order
Reorder points and min/max
Statistical replenishment — SBA forecasting, decay-aware PAR
Rows two, six, and seven are honest ties — these apps do the receiving job properly, and for many merchants that is the whole requirement. Rows three, four, and five are where the category ends and a closed-loop platform begins. The question that decides it is simple: when a supplier writes back with a substitution, a price change, or a two-week delay, does that become work someone does by hand? If your supplier replies rarely change the order, buy the narrow tool and stop reading here. If Wednesday morning is spent reconciling three days of supplier email, no app in this category will touch that.
Check any of them against the current App Store listing and a live trial before you commit — this part of the market moves month to month.
Category 2: Other Shopify inventory apps (Sumtracker, Inflow, Sortly, Cin7)
These are closer to the Stocky-shaped problem: inventory records, reorder support, and PO creation. They can be enough when the supplier workflow is small and stable. The evaluation question is whether they also absorb supplier replies, receiving variance, and accounting handoff, or whether those still happen manually.
Better forecasting, but still verify the supplier side. These tools can generate PO recommendations, but the buyer should check whether they close the loop after the PO is sent: supplier replies, multi-channel supplier updates, receiving, and accounting handoff. See the LineNow vs Forthcast comparison for the full breakdown of where AI demand forecasting ends and closed-loop procurement begins.
The architectural standard to evaluate when Stocky was part of a broader buying workflow. These platforms connect the procurement loop, not just a slice of it: AI parses supplier replies into reviewable order updates; multi-channel supplier comms (email, WhatsApp, supplier portal); team collaboration on supplier email threads brought into the system; statistical replenishment with published methodology; recipe / BOM costing; multi-vertical support; embedded payments; capital forecasting.
This is what Stocky users should evaluate if the pain is supplier execution and upstream reconciliation, not just inventory counts.
Why LineNow is a strong Stocky replacement to evaluate
LineNow is a strong candidate when the Stocky replacement needs to include supplier replies, living POs, receiving variance, and accounting handoff.
What you get back from Stocky:
Channel-aware POS and sales-channel sync (Shopify, plus Square, Toast, Faire, Clover where supported)
Inventory tracking with statistical PAR, decay-aware safety stock, and days-of-stock projections
Reorder recommendations based on actual consumption, not sell-through heuristics
Stocktake / receiving workflow with substitution handling
Closed-loop control. Item → order → send → reply parsed → received → inventory → next recommendation. Buyer touches the key control moments: approve cart, click send, review supplier changes, confirm receipt.
Layer 1 AI — agentic supplier-reply monitoring across email, WhatsApp Business, and web portals. Creates reviewable updates for status, line items, prices, ETAs, substitutions, invoice IDs, and shipping info in a procurement workflow.
Layer 2 AI — conversational insights chatbot, custom report templates, AI order builder.
Team collaboration on supplier email threads. Every supplier email is brought into the system, attached to the relevant PO, visible to the whole team. Multiple people can reply to the same thread without sharing an inbox.
Statistical replenishment — SBA forecasting for non-smooth demand, SBC framework for demand-pattern classification, and decay-aware PAR for perishables.
Recipe / BOM costing with substitution and dynamic margin recomputation.
Multi-vertical — retail + dropship + restaurant + manufacturer in one account.
QuickBooks/Xero handoff with configured account mapping.
Embedded PO payments via Stripe Connect.
Capital forecasting — 10 months rolling cash flow.
The migration can often be run as a one-week pilot, with hands-on time depending on item quality, supplier count, accounting setup, and how much historical Stocky data you need to export.
Week 1, Day 1: Set up LineNow
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Connect your Shopify store. The product catalog can start importing and mapping.
Connect your email (Gmail or Microsoft 365 where supported). Layer 1 AI can start staging supplier replies for review.
Connect QuickBooks or Xero (optional, but high value for AP automation).
Week 1, Day 2–3: Bring suppliers and items
Import your supplier list. You can bring them in from Shopify vendors, from QuickBooks if connected, from a CSV, or add them manually.
Map your items to suppliers. Shopify-vendor mapping can help; clean up missing suppliers, pack sizes, and edge cases.
Set lead times, MOQs, and pack sizes for the items you order most often. Top 50 SKUs is enough to get useful recommendations; the long tail can come later.
Week 1, Day 4–5: Run a parallel order
Run one order through LineNow alongside your existing Stocky workflow. Generate the recommendation, review it, send the PO via email.
When the supplier replies, watch the system parse it. Status, line items, prices — all structured for review with less manual re-entry.
Receive the goods. Receiving writes the inventory adjustment through the supported workflow.
Week 2: Cutover
Stop generating new POs in Stocky. All new procurement runs through LineNow.
Keep Stocky open in a tab for historical reference until Aug 31, 2026.
Cancel Shopify POS Pro if Stocky was your only reason for it (LineNow doesn't require POS Pro).
The migration is straightforward because the entities map cleanly: Shopify products → LineNow items, Shopify vendors → LineNow suppliers, Shopify locations → LineNow business units. The places where LineNow goes deeper than Stocky (recipes, capital forecasting, AI on supplier replies, multi-vertical) are pure additions.
What Stocky users should evaluate first
For Stocky migration, three gains are worth testing in the first real supplier cycle:
Supplier replies that become reviewable updates. No more Wednesday-morning catch-up reading three days of supplier confirmations and retyping them into the system.
The team can finally see the whole order conversation. Stocky never showed supplier replies. LineNow ingests them. New hires can be useful on day one because they can see the full thread per PO.
The recommendations are more explainable. SBA forecasting plus decay-aware PAR replaces "order a bit more than last time" with a recommendation the buyer can inspect and override.
When to start
The window is already compressed: as of July 2026, the shutoff is under two months away, and Shopify recommends stopping new Stocky POs about two weeks before August 31. That leaves roughly one month of comfortable parallel-running time. LineNow's 90-day free trial covers the entire remaining window and then some — you can run in parallel, prove supplier reply, receiving, and accounting handoff, and cut over before Stocky goes dark without paying anything during the transition.
The Stocky deprecation is the moment to decide whether your replacement is only inventory management or the full buying loop. The closed loop should not be a premium tier reserved for complex operations; it should be the operating standard for any team whose supplier replies change the order.
LineNow is the closed-loop procurement platform to evaluate for the next workflow after Stocky: Shopify-aware, statistically rigorous, with two layers of AI inside the loop, native multi-channel supplier comms, team collaboration on supplier email threads, and bill push to QuickBooks/Xero.
App Store listings for EasyScan (506), Ultimate Purchase Orders, and Replenio — ratings, review counts, and pricing checked July 2026. App Store ratings and plan limits change; confirm against the live listing before you buy.
