Stocky Has Shut Down: A Shopify Migration Guide for the Read-Only Window

The Stocky Shutdown Timeline

Any purchase order that was still open on August 31 can't be received in Stocky any more. Recreate it in Shopify as a purchase order or transfer for the remaining quantities only — historical POs can't be imported, and a CSV upload carries across no status or received quantities.

Export What You Need While Stocky Is Read-Only

Historical purchase orders, stocktakes, and inventory records don't transfer out of Stocky into Shopify on their own. If your team wants that history for accounting or planning purposes, export it now — Stocky is in read-only mode for at least 90 days after August 31 so you can still pull reports, but once that window closes it's gone for good. Cost history is the one to prioritise: Shopify knows what you sold, not what you paid a supplier last year.

Supplier data is the bigger problem: Stocky has no export path for vendor records at all. Supplier names, contact details, and reorder terms need to be manually rebuilt in whatever tool you move to. Do it while you can still open Stocky to check your work — your exported purchase order history is the best source for vendor names and real lead times.

Why Shopify's Native Tools Aren't a Full Replacement

Shopify is directing displaced Stocky merchants to the inventory tools already built into Shopify Admin and POS — location-based tracking, transfers, stock adjustments, low-stock alerts, and channel sync. That covers viewing and manually adjusting stock. It doesn't cover what many merchants actually used Stocky for day to day.

Three gaps show up quickly: native Purchase Orders still require typing every line item by hand — the exact manual-entry problem Stocky was supposed to solve. There's no demand forecasting or reorder-quantity intelligence built into Shopify Admin. And Shopify enforces a 180-day inventory history window, which makes it hard to look at year-over-year sell-through or long-term valuation the way Stocky's reports did.

For stores that mainly used Stocky's forecasting on POS-driven retail, a dedicated forecasting or ERP tool (Katana, Cin7, and similar) may be the better direct replacement. For stores whose real daily pain was manually entering supplier invoices and POs , that's a different problem — and one native Shopify tools don't solve either.

If Your Pain Point Was Manual Invoice Entry, Not Forecasting

Most stores that leaned on Stocky for purchase orders were really solving one problem: getting a supplier's invoice or PO into Shopify without retyping every line. Stocky required manual entry into its own PO screen. Native Shopify Purchase Orders have come a long way since — as of June 2026 a PO creates a linked transfer, partial deliveries are tracked per shipment, line items can be imported from a CSV, and costs autofill from previous purchase prices. If you were waiting for Shopify's own PO workflow to be usable, it now is. What's still missing is the step before it: neither Stocky nor native Shopify reads the PDF, scan, or email your supplier actually sent, so somebody still has to produce that CSV by hand.

Smart Restock reads the PDF, Excel, CSV, or forwarded email your supplier actually sends, matches every line to your existing Shopify SKUs, and posts inventory and weighted-average cost updates across every location — no POS Pro required, no manual retyping. Line items that aren't in your catalog yet can become full Shopify products, generated with AI directly from the invoice line.

A Practical Migration Checklist

FAQs

August 31, 2026. It was removed from the Shopify App Store on February 2, 2026, and lost location-transfer and forecasting features back in July 2025. Since the shutdown it has been read-only, for export only, for at least 90 days.

Yes, for now. Existing installs are read-only: you can run and download reports (purchase orders, stocktakes, cost data) as CSV for at least 90 days after August 31. Supplier records can't be exported at all, and nothing can be created or received.

Partially. It handles basic PO creation and receiving, but still requires manual line-item entry, has no demand forecasting, and limits inventory history to 180 days.

You don't need it to. Smart Restock reads your current Shopify catalog and starts posting from your next supplier invoice — historical Stocky data should be exported separately if you need it for reference.

Stocky is gone. Your supplier invoices aren't.

Move your invoice-driven receiving to Smart Restock and post your next delivery straight into Shopify.