What alternatives to the Stocky app can improve inventory management?

Topic summary

A merchant is experiencing difficulties with Shopify’s Stocky app, particularly around inventory reporting and QuickBooks integration for accurate cost of goods sold (COGS) tracking. They’re seeking alternatives that better handle inventory intake and accounting software synchronization.

Key recommendations from the community:

  • Cohub Inventory: Offers smartphone-based stocktaking with barcode scanning, inventory value tracking by location, and an upcoming “Time Travel” feature for viewing historical inventory values

  • Shopventory: Provides lot-by-lot COGS tracking with FIFO/LIFO/Average cost methods, automatically adjusting costs as inventory batches sell through

  • SKUSavvy: A comprehensive warehouse management system (WMS) that replaces Stocky’s functionality while adding fulfillment workflows, 3D warehouse mapping, multi-location support, and detailed activity logs. Can connect multiple Shopify stores to share global inventory

  • Prediko: Mentioned positively for its “Buying table” feature

Common pain points discussed:

  • Stocky lacks customizable low inventory alerts (one user combines it with Stockbot as a workaround)
  • Need for better purchase order generation
  • Multi-store inventory consolidation

The discussion remains open with multiple vendors offering solutions ranging from simple inventory counting tools to full WMS platforms.

Summarized with AI on October 27. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hey

You are 100% on the restock levels. We had to develop the option ourselves for a couple of clients as there is no field in Shopify for it so we set the levels in our system and then generate report based on when the stock drops below that level.

Regards

Tom