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Full disclosure up front: I’m a developer and I built one of the apps in this space, so weigh accordingly.
Having read this whole thread, one thing worth separating: Stocky did several jobs, and no single replacement seems to do all of them. Roughly — (1) barcode stocktakes and receiving for POS retail, (2) purchase orders, and (3) demand forecasting / knowing what to reorder before you stock out. Shopify’s native admin now covers basic POs and transfers, but not stocktakes (their own migration page says “not available yet”) and not forecasting.
My app, Smart Inventory Predictor, covers the forecasting/reorder-timing slice: it reads your order history (read-only — it can’t touch your inventory), forecasts demand per SKU, flags what to reorder and when, generates PO drafts with CSV export, and imports your Stocky stocktake + PO history CSVs so you keep continuity. $19.99/mo, 30-day free trial. What it does NOT do: barcode stocktakes or receiving — if that’s your main Stocky need, look at the POS-focused options people have mentioned above instead.
Whatever you pick, do the Stocky CSV exports before Aug 31 — supplier records especially, since those don’t export after shutdown.
For anyone still sorting this out before Aug 31, two things that’ll save you pain regardless of which app you land on:
Export your Stocky data now, supplier records especially. A lot of it (suppliers, PO history, stocktakes) won’t export after the shutdown, and you can’t get it back. And when you open those CSVs, don’t let Excel touch the barcode column first. It turns long numbers into scientific notation (7.51E+11), and they’ll match nothing on re-import. Set the column to Text before you open it.
The other thing that helped me: Stocky was really three separate jobs. Barcode stocktakes/receiving, purchase orders with cost updates, and demand forecasting/reorder. No single app I’ve seen nails all three, so figure out which one is actually your dealbreaker and match to that instead of looking for a perfect clone.
Disclosure: I build EZStock, one of the PO/inventory apps here, so weigh that. Where it’s strongest for Stocky refugees specifically: you can drop your exported Stocky PO CSV straight into a draft PO, and it’ll match your SKUs and fill the lines in, so you’re not re-keying hundreds by hand. It also prints real barcode labels straight from a PO (Code-128 on Avery sheets), and if you print Dymo labels through a separate app, it exports a CSV in Stocky’s own Dymo format so that pipeline keeps working. That plus receive-with-cost and barcode stocktakes were the parts my one paying merchant lost when Stocky was announced. He’d been on Stocky, which is honestly why those got built. There’s a free plan to test it on a real PO.
One honest limit: it matches CSV lines by SKU, so products without a SKU won’t come across, and it’s built around EZStock’s own supplier/PO model rather than being a 1:1 Stocky clone. Worth a quick test with your own export before you commit.
Happy to help anyone kick the tires on a real PO if it’s useful.
Hi there, 100% we have the same issue, we did see there is a new app called supplywatch? looks good
Hi @carriec228 it’s been many months since you posted but I figured I would share about Alfred Purchase Orders in case you or others that come across this thread are still hunting for a solution.
Disclosure: I’m a DTC founder (yourcapy: DTC brand) and a Shopify partner/creator of Alfred Commerce).
If you haven’t found the right Stocky offramp solution for your store yet, based on your description, Alfred may be an ideal fit for you and here’s why:
Based on what you mentioned: “We currently use Stocky to ..”
Hope that helps and happy migration!
We moved over to SupplyWatch a while back. Covers the POs, stock counts, and forecasting we were using in Stocky. Transition was smoother than expected — has anyone else already made the switch? SupplyWatch - AI inventory forecasting. Prevent stockouts. One-click reorder | Shopify App Store
The “free one-click migration” framing is useful but worth unpacking for anyone still deciding — most of these flows import from the Stocky CSV export, which means what lands in your new tool depends on what was actually in that CSV.
Two things the CSV misses that matter after migration:
supplier_cost_price per purchase_item — the price you actually paid on each PO line, over time. The CSV gives you current cost per product, not the historical trail. If you want to reconstruct how a supplier’s pricing drifted over two years, you need to pull this from the API before Aug 31.received_at — actual delivery date per line item, not PO creation date. This is what real lead time is built from. Also API-only, not in the export.Neither of those needs you to choose a particular replacement app — they just need to be pulled before the API goes dark.
Supplier notes and par levels are the other category: not in the API at all, manual capture only. Shopify’s own migration doc calls this out directly (“Suppliers can’t be exported from Stocky”).
Whatever app anyone picks — SupplyWatch, Stockroom, or anything else — the window to capture this layer closes Aug 31. Worth doing as a separate step before the app migration.
(I built InvoRescue for exactly this — API extraction + guided manual capture for notes and par levels. One-time fee, runs in-browser. Link’s on my profile if the above is useful context.)
We chose Logistfied to replace Stocky on a recommendation in the community It is a paid app and although the free apps look really good I liked the guys here and am going forward with this one at least short term
Reorder suggestions + POs is exactly the gap I’m trying to close — I built PODesk specifically for that (supplier tracking, reorder alerts, PO creation/receiving). Free during beta right now if you want to try it out.
Shopify’s migration guide says suppliers can’t be exported and old POs can’t be imported. But Stocky has a read-only API that still works until the 31st, and it gets everything out.
Get your key: Stocky → Preferences → API Access. If that section isn’t there, email Shopify Support and ask them to “activate Stocky API access” — takes a day or two, so do it now.
Test it works:
bash
curl -H "Store-Name: yourstore.myshopify.com" \
-H "Authorization: API KEY=your_key" \
"https://stocky.shopifyapps.com/api/v2/suppliers.json"
The API KEY= prefix isn’t a typo. Five endpoints available: suppliers, purchase_orders, stock_adjustments, stock_adjustment_items, tax_types. Add ?page=1&limit=250 and walk the pages.
Stocktakes and forecast settings aren’t in the API — export those by hand.
One thing worth grabbing: the received date on each PO. That’s your real supplier lead time, and it’s the field people don’t miss until they try to plan a reorder without it.
If you’d rather not do it by hand, I wrote a script that pulls all five endpoints into CSVs, plus one combined file with every PO line item joined to supplier, cost, and dates. Python, nothing to install, read-only, runs on your machine, no signup:
Full disclosure: I’m a developer looking at building a replacement for the reorder/receiving side of Stocky, and wrote this while researching. Script’s free either way. If you used Stocky daily and would give me 15 minutes on how, I’d really appreciate it. Reach me at stocky@tappacific.com
Happy to help if anyone gets stuck.
If you’re replacing Stocky and want reorder points, purchase orders, and receiving in one place, take a look at EZStock. I build it, and I built it for exactly this migration.
Two things people are about to lose when Stocky closes on the 31st, and how EZStock handles both:
Your history. tappacific is right that the read-only API is the way to get suppliers and old POs out before the 31st. But the plain PO CSV Shopify hands you only creates a new draft on import, so it drops status, received quantities, supplier, and landed cost. EZStock keeps all of it. I made a free browser tool that takes either the Stocky CSVs or the API JSON and converts them into an EZStock-ready file (and a Shopify-ready one), including the supplier_cost_price and received dates the native import throws away. Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded, no signup:
Your reorder workflow. EZStock does supplier tracking, reorder points, low stock alerts, PO creation, and receiving, which is the Stocky feature set most people actually used day to day. It reads live Shopify inventory, so days-of-stock and reorder suggestions stay current.
One honest gap for everyone in here: stocktakes and reorder points aren’t in the Stocky API, so you re-enter those wherever you land, EZStock included.
Free plan to start with all features fully unlocked for 14 days. Happy to help anyone through the export whether or not you go with it.
Hey @carriec228 
,
I am founder behind the Stockie by Section Kit a Shopify app which helps with inventory.
It’s also offers the exporting data from Stocky and import it in the Stocky by Section Kit.
This app is currently publicly available on the Shopify app store for use.