I moved over to Lofko about two weeks ago and so far, it’s been pretty smooth. No major issues yet, and I like having orders, inventory and fulfilment managed in one place rather than jumping between different systems.
I’d used ShipMarvel before as well and had a good experience with it, especially for shipping. But for what I need now, Lofko seems to be a better fit because I’m looking for something that covers more of the day-to-day order and inventory side as well.
It’s only been about half a month though, so I don’t want to recommend it too strongly just yet. I’m going to give it a full month and see how it handles our normal workflow and order volume.
So far, so good. Has anyone else moved from Stocky to Lofko, or found another alternative that’s working well?
Congrats on a smooth migration — that’s not a given with Stocky moves.
Two things worth checking while you’re still in your trial month, because Stocky was really doing two separate jobs and it’s easy to replace one and not notice the other is missing.
Export your Stocky data if you haven’t already. You’ve moved the workflow, but the history doesn’t follow it. Worth grabbing: completed purchase order reports (CSV), stocktake history, and historical cost data.
One thing that catches people out — suppliers can’t be exported from Stocky at all. Shopify states that outright in the migration doc. The PO reports do carry supplier names against products though, which is the closest you’ll get to rebuilding that list. Read-only export access stays open for at least 90 days past 31 August, but there’s no reason to leave it.
Check whether Lofko covers the planning half. From what they publish, Lofko looks strong on orders, warehouse, multi-channel sync and shipping — the operations side, which is clearly what you were after. What I don’t see them claim is demand forecasting, reorder points or purchase suggestions, and that was Stocky’s other half.
A concrete thing to test in your remaining two weeks: pick a product you know runs tight, and see whether Lofko tells you when to reorder it and how much — not just that it’s low. Those are different questions. A low-stock alert says you’re nearly out; a reorder point says you should have ordered two weeks ago.
If that gap turns out to be real, it’s a separate narrow tool rather than a reason to undo the migration you’ve just done.
(Disclosure: I build one of the apps that does exactly that forecasting piece — Foreshelf. It’s read-only and sits alongside whatever runs your fulfilment, so it doesn’t overlap with what you’ve just set up. Not suggesting you undo anything; the export point above applies whatever you end up using.)
Glad to hear the migration has been smooth so far.
One thing I’ve noticed in a lot of the Stocky discussions is that merchants often evaluate the first layer successfully orders, inventory, fulfillment, shipping and then discover the bigger questions a few weeks later:
• How does receiving work when shipments arrive partially?
• How are inventory discrepancies handled?
• What happens when supplier costs change?
• How are transfers tracked across locations?
• How easy is it to perform cycle counts and inventory audits?
The first month is probably the best time to test those workflows while everything is still fresh.
Curious which Stocky workflows you relied on most before the migration purchasing, receiving, replenishment planning, inventory transfers, or something else?
One thing I’d add from the merchant side is to test what happens when the actual supplier invoice doesn’t exactly match the PO.
In real life we regularly see small differences - supplier cost changed, a line wasn’t delivered, quantity is different, discount applied, or occasionally something was substituted.
For me that’s one of the important tests for any Stocky replacement: not just whether it can create and receive a PO, but how easy it is to reconcile what was actually delivered and invoiced, and make sure the final inventory quantity and product cost in Shopify are correct.
I’d definitely include a few “messy” real-world deliveries during your first month of testing.
Hey, glad the Lofko move has been smooth so far. A lot of folks are in that same “give it a real month” mode right now, and that is smart.
One frame that helped me (and a bunch of merchants in these threads) is splitting what Stocky was doing into two jobs:
PO / reorder / receiving into Shopify (planning, supplier POs, getting qty into inventory)
The warehouse floor after that (bin home, put-away, pick path, scan-verify when someone new is on the floor)
Native Shopify covers more of (1) than it used to (Purchase Orders, inventory reports, stocktakes, and Bin name for a single home per variant per location). If Lofko is already handling orders + inventory + fulfilment for you, keep stress-testing the messy bits others mentioned: partial receives, cost mismatches, and whether reorder suggestions show up before you are already short.
If what you miss is more of (2), that is usually where a mobile WMS fits rather than another PO tool. I work on SKUSavvy which is a mobile WMS, 3D bin map, pick routing, directed put-away, forecasting, and two-way Shopify sync. Happy to compare notes if your floor workflow is the gap.
Hang in there with the first-month soak test. If anything weird pops up on the Stocky side of the migration, shout.
One deadline detail that hasn’t come up yet in this thread: when Stocky shuts down on Aug 31, its API shuts down with it.
The reports you can export by hand stay downloadable for a while after that. The API is different — it’s the only way to pull your receiving history automatically: which deliveries actually arrived on which date, at what cost, including the POs that came in as two or three partial shipments. Once it’s gone, rebuilding that means typing it back in from old PDFs, and nobody ever does.
That history is what real supplier lead times are calculated from.
Disclosure so you can weigh my bias: I build Binly, one of the apps that imports over that API, so yes, I have a stake in people caring about this. The advice holds whatever app you land on though. This week, either run an API import somewhere or at least export every PO report Stocky will give you as CSV and keep the files.
Lillianruan — sounds like Lofko has the day-to-day covered, which is the hard part. The history is the one thing a workflow move doesn’t carry with it. After Sunday there’s no automatic way back, so grab it while the door is open.
Hi there @Lillianruan
I would give it more time before making a final call, especially in a busy sales period. On a side-by-side comparison, I would check if inventory adjustments, purchase orders, transfers, fulfillment, reporting, and so on match your real-life workflow without forcing you to perform manual steps when comparing solutions. One good test is to write down your current Stocky process and see how many steps each platform has for the same actions. Two weeks is promising, but one month worth of regular order volume should give you a lot better idea of what you’re working with.
If you’re still comparing Stocky replacements, I built Replenly specifically for this.
It covers supplier POs, partial receiving, landed costs, reorder suggestions, stocktakes and Stocky CSV imports, while keeping Shopify as the inventory source of truth.
There’s a free plan, paid plans start at $19/month, and a 14 day free trial. Merchants using it have been really happy with it so far.
I think giving Lofko a full month before making a judgement is a sensible approach. Inventory and fulfilment workflows can behave very differently once order volume increases.
One area I’d pay attention to is how inventory is handled when the same stock needs to be shared across multiple products or variants. That can become a headache if you have to keep quantities aligned manually between different listings.
For that specific part, Easify Inventory Sync may be worth having a look at. It allows products to be placed into Inventory Groups so their stock can be synced or shared, which can help reduce manual inventory adjustments.
That said, I wouldn’t consider it a direct replacement for Lofko since they cover different parts of the workflow. If Lofko is already handling your orders and fulfilment well, you could simply keep it for those areas and use a dedicated inventory solution only if inventory syncing becomes an issue.
I’d be interested to hear how Lofko performs once you’ve gone through a full month and a normal peak in order volume.
