As I’m sure you’re aware, Shopify is discontinuing Stocky integration in August. This is extremely concerning for those of us relying on Shopify’s purchase order system, and it represents a major step backward in workflow efficiency.
Here’s what we will lose:
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No Order to Purchase Order Conversion
Currently, we can convert an order directly into a PO. Without this, we must manually:
• Create a new PO
• Add each item manually
• Re-enter the customer shipping address
This increases time, errors, and duplicate data entry.
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No Direct PO Emailing from Shopify
We will no longer be able to send POs directly through Shopify. Instead, we must:
• Download the PO
• Manually email it
• Keep our own record of whether it was sent
There will be no timestamp, no confirmation, and no internal tracking. In 2026 when AI is automating entire workflows this feels like going backward 10–20 years.
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No Sales History Visibility Within the PO System
We will no longer see how many of an item were sold within our selected timeframe (e.g., last 90 days). This is critical for inventory forecasting. Now we must run a separate report every time we place an order.
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No Vendor Contact Tracking
There is no built-in reference for:
• Which vendor receives which PO
• What email address to use
• Whether it was sent
This forces retailers to maintain external spreadsheets to track basic vendor information, something the system previously helped streamline.
At a time when retailers are already operating leaner than ever, removing these foundational efficiencies creates unnecessary administrative burden and increases the likelihood of human error.
This feels like a step backward in automation and functionality. I strongly encourage Shopify to reconsider or implement these basic features before August. These are not luxury tools, they are essential operational infrastructure for independent retailers.
I have already sent feedback and encourage others to do the same. We rely on Shopify to streamline our businesses, not complicate them.
I’m collecting real workflows from merchants impacted by the Stocky sunset to build a practical replacement path.
If you use Stocky today, can you answer 3 quick questions?
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How often do you place POs (weekly/biweekly/monthly)?
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What 2 features would break your business if you lose them (PO creation, receiving, labels, min/max, stocktakes)?
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Are you B&M, DTC, or both?
If you are open to it, I can also do a 15-minute call and share a migration checklist tailored to your workflow.
This is a really clear breakdown and what stands out is that it’s not just individual features going away, it’s the workflow between them that’s breaking.
Order → PO → vendor → receiving → inventory → reporting used to stay connected in one place, even if it wasn’t perfect.
Once those steps get separated again, the overhead isn’t just time it’s duplicate data entry, missed context, and a lot more room for errors across the process.
That’s probably why it feels like such a big step backward, even though each missing piece on its own seems small.
Curious which part of that chain is the most painful to lose in your day-to-day?
Is it the order → PO conversion, or the visibility when placing orders?
Hello @PoshBaby
If you’re reliant on Stocky PO workflows, the closest analogue would be recreating the workflow with Draft Orders via Shopify Flow, in conjunction with an inventory/PO management app. Draft orders can be automatically converted to PO-like documents which you can send or track vendor communication using a PO app or email templates. It can be replicated by scheduled reports, inventory apps, or apps for sales history and forecasting as a 90 day demand view. It does require a bit of setting up but once you set it up it pretty much brings back the whole workflow and keeps vendor tracking and ordering centralized.
I think there’s a better solution. One that combines all of these features into a single app that handles it all. I think being “creative” with trying to replicate functionality is a time sink that can simply be replaced with an app that does all of these things - like FyreTrail.
This is helpful but it also shows why this has been tricky to replace.
You can definitely recreate pieces of the workflow with Flow + apps, or move to a single tool that covers more ground.
The challenge seems to be that once you start stitching things together again, the connection between steps (ordering, receiving, reporting, vendor tracking) isn’t as tight as it used to be.
That’s where the overhead starts to creep in not just setup time, but ongoing coordination and reconciliation.
Curious for folks who’ve gone this route does it actually feel comparable in day-to-day use, or does it still require more manual effort behind the scenes?
This looks solid on the feature side especially having sales history and vendor tracking directly in the PO flow.
The interesting part with a lot of these tools is how it feels once everything is running day to day not just creating POs, but how it holds up across receiving, inventory updates, and reporting without having to jump between systems.
Curious if you’ve had a chance to run it through a full cycle yet (order → PO → receiving → inventory → reporting), and whether it still feels cohesive across all those steps?
I’ve noticed Shopify’s native purchase order feature has been improved quite a bit recently. Does it still not address the issues you raised (order-to-PO conversion, direct emailing, sales history, vendor tracking)?
Same frustration here. The native version feels stripped down compared to what people actually used. Which of the missing basics is hitting you hardest? For me it’s not having reorder suggestions and a proper PO export, but I’d like to know if that matches what others are missing or if it’s something else for you.
What’s interesting is that the two examples you mentioned actually sit on opposite sides of the workflow.
Reorder suggestions help answer:
• what needs attention
• what should be purchased
• how much to buy
While things like PO exports, emailing, receiving workflows, and label printing are about executing that decision once it’s been made.
A lot of the Stocky discussions seem to come back to one of those two areas:
Planning:
forecasting, reorder suggestions, lead times, supplier constraints
Execution:
POs, receiving, inventory updates, reporting, labels
Stocky wasn’t necessarily best-in-class at either one individually, but it connected them closely enough that people could move from identifying a need to acting on it without switching contexts.
Curious whether others are finding the planning side harder to replace, or the execution side after the PO has already been created?
Shopify was never built to be the workhorse operations platform like you have described. They purchased Stocky because it was a afterthought to the platform as a whole. Shopify excels in letting you build and market a great website.
For smaller companies that can get by with the native Shopify PO/transfer features this is easy to do with the features now, but for companies that are doing 1000+ orders a month you should strongly consider an option that is better suited and focused on the inventory, purchasing, warehouse management, and store operations.
I’ll recommend SKUSavvy as its fully aligned with the Shopify ecosystem, one connection to handle orders, products, customers, inventory, locations, vendors, etc. plus the 3D mapping of your warehouse bins, automated transfers and purchase order creation, stock take, barcodes, etc.
Use the tool dedicated to the job, it will save you time and headache trying to fit a square peg in a round hole with the basic Shopify capabilities.
Completely valid frustration the Stocky removal hits hardest on exactly what you described: the PO-to-order conversion and vendor tracking. Those aren’t nice-to-haves, they’re daily workflow.
One workaround some stores are using for the sales history gap: pull your order data automatically into Google Sheets with a script, so your 90-day velocity is always visible without running a separate report each time. Not a full Stocky replacement but it cuts the manual reporting step.
For vendor contact tracking in the meantime Notion with a simple vendor database is the least painful bridge while you find a permanent solution. Not ideal but better than spreadsheets.
What’s your current order volume roughly? Some of this is solvable with lightweight custom tooling depending on scale.