The best Stocky alternatives before the shutdown

Stocky stops working on August 31, 2026. It is no longer available to install from the Shopify App Store, and both the app and its APIs stop functioning on the August date. Shopify’s migration guide commits to read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days afterwards, but that window is export-only and the APIs are already gone, so treat August 31 as the deadline and the 90 days as margin.

Purchase orders first. Exports run through Stocky’s reports rather than a single export button: open Apps then Stocky, run the Purchase Orders report from the Reports menu, save it and download CSV. Use the SKU/Variant report for cost per unit and selling price by variant. Then stocktake records, which download as CSV during a count, and your historical cost data. The catch is supplier records: Shopify states plainly that suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky, so names, lead times, MOQs and payment terms have to be rebuilt by hand, and the PO export is the best source for reconstructing them. Check the files for blank cost fields and missing SKUs while you can still go back for them.

For many shops, yes. Shopify Admin and POS now handle inventory transfers, stock adjustments, purchase orders, low-stock alerts through Flow, and location-based tracking across channels. ABC analysis and supplier payment terms are there too, though terms attach to each purchase order rather than to the supplier. What thinned out is planning: Stocky’s six forecast types become Sidekick suggestions, there is no reorder-point field, and supplier lead times and MOQs survive only as metafields that Shopify says are independent of ordering and receiving calculations. So the test is simple: if you used Stocky to decide how much to buy, you need a replacement. If you used it to move and count stock, you probably do not.

It depends whether you want the same shape of tool or the same outcome. For a like-for-like Shopify-native planning app, Prediko is nearest, with Sumtracker close behind on multichannel inventory at a lower price. Both plan against Shopify as the system of record. For the same outcome — knowing what to buy and having it ordered — Endless Commerce replaces the capability rather than the app, forecasting across every channel and acting on the result.

Forecast quality is mostly a function of how much of your demand the tool can see. If you sell only through Shopify, a Shopify-native app like Prediko sees all of it and forecasts well for the money. If you also sell wholesale, through retail EDI, or on marketplaces, those tools are modeling a fraction of your demand while the rest consumes the same inventory — which produces confident forecasts that are wrong in the same direction every time. Endless Commerce forecasts on every channel at once, against inventory that already accounts for what is committed to wholesale and retail, and its agents place the resulting purchase orders rather than recommending them.

Then a planning layer on top of Shopify will only ever see part of the picture, because wholesale purchase orders and retail EDI commitments consume the same inventory on a different clock. That is where a single source of truth matters more than a forecasting feature. Endless Commerce runs inventory, orders, purchasing, planning, and native EndlessEDI on one model, so every channel reads the same number.

Shopify has not published a detailed rationale beyond folding core inventory operations into Admin. It is the second inventory product Shopify has retired in two years, after acquiring ChannelApe in 2024 and sunsetting that platform the following year. Both cases are ordinary portfolio management, and both left brands migrating on someone else’s timetable — which is an argument for keeping your system of record independent of any single sales channel.