Stocky Has Shut Down: How to Migrate Your Shopify Inventory

Updated October 2026. Shopify's Stocky app reached its scheduled shutdown on August 31, 2026: Shopify's help center says Stocky is no longer available as of that date and its APIs stopped working. What still matters is the export window. Shopify says Stocky data stays available read-only for at least 90 days after August 31, which works out to about November 29, 2026 by simple arithmetic, but Shopify has not published an exact end date. Check your inventory quantities in Shopify admin; Shopify's guide does not describe any change to them.

This post was first published on August 26, 2026, as a countdown to the shutdown. It now covers what to do after it: what you can still export, how to evaluate a replacement, and where Shopify's own tools, other vendors, and Nstock fit. For Shopify's own steps, see its guide to migrating from Stocky to Shopify inventory management.

What Happened to Stocky, and What Still Matters

Shopify wound Stocky down in stages. Stocky was delisted from the Shopify App Store in February 2026, which meant no new merchants could install it. Shopify's guidance was to stop creating new Stocky purchase orders roughly two weeks before the end, and on August 31, 2026 the app became unavailable and its APIs stopped working.

As of October 9, 2026, two things still matter:

• The export window. Read-only access is the only route to your Stocky data now. The APIs are gone, so anything you pull out is a manual download.
• Open purchase orders. Shopify's pre-shutdown guidance was to receive and close anything still open or in transit. Read-only access does not allow that, so note the PO numbers, suppliers, and remaining quantities from your export and recreate those quantities in your new system.

If You Still Have Exports to Pull

Do this now rather than at the end of November. Shopify's help center gives no data deletion timeline, so there is no confirmed way back in once the window ends.

• Purchase orders. Shopify's guide says to export completed purchase order reports as CSV from Stocky's built-in reports. Check whether each report can be exported in bulk or only one at a time, and budget time accordingly. This is your record for supplier disputes, cost history, and reordering patterns.
• Open and in-transit purchase orders. Shopify's pre-shutdown advice was to receive and close them, which read-only access no longer allows. Record the PO numbers, suppliers, and remaining quantities from your export, then recreate those quantities in your new system. Historical purchase orders, stocktakes, and statuses do not migrate into Shopify.
• Stocktakes. Export your stocktake history. It's your record of what you've actually counted and when: useful for audits and for spotting shrink trends even after you've moved to a new system.
• Historical cost data. Shopify's guide lists this as exportable. Pull it before you lose the reports it comes from.
• Product and inventory data. Export your product list and current inventory quantities from Shopify admin, and check the quantities against what you expect, because Shopify's guide does not describe any change to them. This is the file you'll map into whatever replaces Stocky, so treat it as your migration source of truth.
• Supplier data, by hand. Shopify's guide states suppliers cannot be exported. Supplier names can be rebuilt from the supplier named on each purchase order line in your PO exports, but check your export for contact details, payment terms, minimum order reminders, supplier notes, per-supplier lead time overrides, and expected delivery dates on open orders, because those fields may not be included. If you can still open the supplier records, copy those details out manually. There's no shortcut here.
• Screenshot the settings you'd otherwise forget. Reorder points, forecast settings, supplier-to-product links, location setups, and custom fields: these are not part of the CSV exports above, so a screenshot may be the only record you get once admin access ends.

A rushed export you never opened is worse than a slower one you checked, so open each CSV and spot-check it before you rely on it.

If you never exported anything and the window has already closed for your account, we could not confirm any other route back to older Stocky data. Shopify's help center offers an on-demand Stocky migration webinar and a feedback form for workflows it does not support, which are the places to ask.

What a Good Stocky Alternative Actually Needs

Before picking anything, it's worth being clear about what you're actually replacing. Stocky handled purchase orders, stocktakes, and basic inventory sync with Shopify, so those are the non-negotiables for whatever comes next, regardless of which tool you land on.

• Real purchase order management. Creating and sending POs is table stakes; what separates tools is whether you can track partial receiving, see PO status against inventory in one place, and keep a usable history: not just a form that emails a PDF.
• Stocktakes and cycle counts that don't require a full shutdown. Look for barcode-scan-based counting and the ability to schedule and run counts on a rolling basis, not just one big annual count.
• Forecasting, not just static reorder points. A minimum-quantity trigger is better than nothing, but it doesn't account for seasonality or trend. If demand planning matters to your business, check whether the tool actually forecasts from your sales history or just alerts you when a number crosses a line you set manually.
• Shopify sync depth. Confirm whether inventory sync is genuinely two-way and near-real-time, or a one-directional push that leaves a gap between what Shopify shows and what's actually on the shelf. That gap is what decides whether you oversell during your first busy week on a new system.

The first option to rule in or out is Shopify itself. Shopify's recommended path is its built-in inventory management in Shopify admin and Shopify POS, which covers transfers, purchase orders, adjustments, stock counts, and reporting, per Shopify's migration guide. Whether native Shopify covers lot or batch tracking, expiry dates, min/max demand forecasting, and bill-of-materials-aware sync is worth checking against its current documentation, because those are the capabilities manufacturers tend to need most. Run the checklist above to see whether any gaps matter for your business.

None of this is Nstock-specific: it's the checklist worth running against any tool you're evaluating, Shopify's built-in tools and Nstock included.

Several Vendors Now Publish Stocky Migration Guides

Several companies, including inFlow, Stocksmith, Prediko, and Starshipit, published Stocky alternative roundups, and Katana published a dedicated migration guide on June 23, 2026. Every one of these is written by a vendor with something to sell, this post included, so read them with that in mind and check claims against each vendor's own pricing and documentation.

Katana's guide positions Katana for businesses that make or assemble products, with bills of materials, production orders, multi-channel sync including Amazon, and QuickBooks and Xero integrations. It also described a free, done-for-you data migration for Stocky users who moved before August 31, 2026, with 30 days of post-migration support and a typical setup of 4 to 6 weeks. That deadline has passed, and we could not confirm whether Katana still honors the offer, so ask them directly. If you want a vendor team to handle your data migration for you, that is a real advantage. See how Nstock compares with Katana.

Where Nstock Fits for Former Stocky Users, and Where It Honestly Doesn't

Nstock is strongest here for a specific kind of Stocky user: Shopify merchants who make or assemble what they sell: not just buy finished goods and resell them. If your products involve components, ingredients, or a bill of materials (candles, cosmetics, supplements, food products, assembled goods), Nstock adds the production side Stocky never had: BOM-based costing, production runs, and lot tracking, on top of the purchase orders, stocktakes, and Shopify sync you're used to. See Nstock for Shopify sellers and DTC brands and the Shopify integration setup for the specifics.

Migrating the data itself is the part most people dread, so here is what it involves. There is no one-click connector that reaches into Stocky and pulls your data into Nstock automatically. You export CSVs, products and stock from Shopify and purchase order and stocktake reports from Stocky while read-only access lasts, then import what Nstock's importers cover: stock, master products, BOMs, suppliers, shipping boxes, and orders. Your supplier list can come in through the suppliers importer, rebuilt from the supplier names on your purchase order exports plus whatever contact details you copied by hand.

Shopify's own guidance says historical purchase orders, stocktakes, and statuses do not migrate into Shopify either, so keep your exported history as a reference archive whichever way you go. What lowers the risk on the import path is the review step: Nstock's importer matches your file's columns by header name rather than position, so you don't have to reformat your export to match an exact template. Every row lands in an editable review table before anything saves, so a messy row from an old export gets flagged and fixed instead of silently corrupting your new catalog. See how CSV import actually works, or go straight to the CSV import feature details.

The migration path here is self-serve: you run the exports and imports yourself, with the review table as the safety net. Nstock's value is on the production side (BOM costing, production runs, lot tracking), not in copying Stocky's purchasing workflow.

Here's the honest tradeoff: if your business is pure retail, you buy finished goods and resell them, with no production, no BOMs, no components to track, Nstock's manufacturing-first design means you'd be adopting a system built around a workflow you don't actually have. Shopify's built-in inventory tools, a retail-focused inventory tool, or a distribution-oriented platform like inFlow is a more natural fit for that model than Nstock is. Craftybase (now Stocksmith) is worth a look too if you're at very small maker scale rather than a growing production operation. If your operation includes any real production step, the comparison shifts the other way.

Frequently Asked Questions

When did Stocky stop working?

Stocky's scheduled shutdown date was August 31, 2026. Shopify's help center says the app is no longer available as of that date and its APIs stopped working. Stocky had already been delisted from the Shopify App Store in February 2026, so no new merchants could install it after that point. Shopify points existing users to its built-in inventory management.

Can I still get my data out of Stocky after the shutdown?

Possibly, for a limited time. Shopify's help center says merchants keep read-only access to export their data for at least 90 days after August 31, 2026, which works out to about November 29, 2026, but Shopify has not published an end date. The APIs stopped working on August 31, so exports are manual downloads. We could not confirm any data deletion timeline or any access beyond that window.

Can I export my supplier data from Stocky?

No supplier export exists: Shopify's migration guide states that suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky. You can export purchase order reports, and because each PO line names its supplier, you can rebuild a supplier list from those files. Contact details, payment terms, and supplier notes are not in the exports and have to be copied out by hand while you still have read-only access.

What's the best Stocky alternative?

For manufacturers and assemblers, Nstock, the inventory and production management platform for small manufacturers, covers the ground Stocky did (purchase orders, stocktakes, Shopify sync) plus production and BOM tracking. Pure retailers reselling finished goods may fit better with Shopify's own built-in inventory tools or a retail- or distribution-focused platform. The deciding question is whether you have any real production step, such as components, ingredients, or a bill of materials.

Can I import my Stocky data into Nstock?

Partly, via CSV rather than an automated one-click migration. Export products and stock from Shopify and purchase order and stocktake reports from Stocky, then upload what Nstock's importers cover: stock, master products, BOMs, suppliers, shipping boxes, and orders. Column headers are matched by name, and every row goes through a review step before anything saves, so you can fix export problems before they become bad data in your new system.

What if I missed the August 31 shutdown date without exporting anything?

Act now rather than assume it is too late. Start with purchase order reports, stocktake history, and cost data, then copy supplier details by hand while read-only access lasts. If the window has already closed for your account, we could not confirm any other route back to older Stocky data, so Shopify's help center, which offers a migration webinar and a feedback form, is the place to ask.

See Nstock for Shopify sellers and DTC brands →