Stocky Shut Down and I Didn’t Export My Data: What You Can Still Get Back

If you are reading this after the deadline with nothing exported, start here: you are probably not too late, and the reason is buried in Shopify’s own migration guide rather than in any of the warnings that circulated beforehand.

Shopify commits to read-only access to export your Stocky data for at least 90 days after August 31, 2026. Most of the advice published in the run-up said the opposite — that everything unexported was gone at the cutoff. That was wrong, and if it is what stopped you from trying, open Stocky now before you read the rest of this.

Two honest caveats, because the window is narrower than it sounds. It is read-only, so nothing can be closed out or corrected, only pulled. And “at least 90 days” is a floor Shopify set, not a date you can plan around. Treat it as this week’s job.

What to pull, today, in this order

Work in priority order rather than trying to be thorough, because a partial export of the right things beats a complete export you never finished.

Purchase order history. Apps → Stocky → Reports → Purchase Orders. Save the report, then download CSV. This carries arrival destination, delivery and payment status per order, the quantity originally ordered on each line, and what was outstanding across open orders. It is the single most valuable file, because it is the only place your ordering history and your real supplier lead times exist together.

Cost and variant detail. The SKU/Variant report is the one to shape: set your filters, choose your columns, save it, then download CSV or PDF. Cost per unit and selling price per variant come out here.

Stocktake history. Download as CSV. Worth knowing that Stocky did not save historical inventory data, so anything you never downloaded during a count was never retained in the first place — that gap is not something the read-only window can fix.

Pull all three before you inspect any of them. Inspection can happen after the window closes; extraction cannot.

What is gone for good

Some of this is not recoverable, and it is worth being straight about which, because planning around a false hope wastes the window you still have.

Supplier records were never exportable. Not now, not before the deadline. Shopify’s guide says it in four words: suppliers can’t be exported from Stocky. Names, lead times, minimum order quantities, payment terms and contacts have to be rebuilt by hand wherever you land. The read-only window changes nothing here.

Custom fields stayed inside Stocky. Shopify’s FAQ is explicit that Stocky’s custom fields only ever worked within Stocky. They were never visible in your admin and they do not arrive anywhere by default.

The APIs are already dead. Any third-party tool that integrated with Stocky stopped working at the cutoff, regardless of the export window. If something in your stack has been quietly failing since September, that is why.

Your settings are not a file. Reorder points, forecast configuration and low-stock thresholds encode decisions someone made for a reason, and they come out only as screenshots. If you still have admin access, take them now.

Rebuilding suppliers from what you did get

The purchase order export is the salvage operation, and it is better than it looks.

Real lead times are sitting inside it. Order date to receipt date, averaged across a history of orders, is a more truthful lead time than whatever anyone typed into a supplier record years ago. Vendor names, order cadence and typical quantities are all in there too.

What is not in there is minimum order quantities, pack sizes and payment terms. Those come from your own email, your invoices, or a short conversation with each supplier. For a brand with thirty suppliers this is an afternoon. For three hundred it is a project, so rebuild the top twenty by spend first and let the tail fill in as you reorder.

One thing worth doing while you rebuild: capture lead time and MOQ as data you can calculate with, not as notes. Shopify Admin will store them as variant metafields, but Shopify states plainly that those metafields are independent of purchase order ordering and receiving calculations. They sit there for a human to read. If reordering matters to you, that distinction is the whole problem.

What Shopify Admin gives you now, and where it stops

Transfers, stock adjustments, purchase orders and location-based tracking are all in Admin, and they work. ABC analysis is there as a report, though stores on Basic or Lite need an app for it. Payment terms exist, including Net 30, but they attach to each purchase order rather than to the supplier, so terms you agreed once get re-entered every time you order.

What thinned out is the planning layer. There is no reorder-point field; minimum and maximum are custom metafield definitions you build per variant, with low-stock alerts through Flow. Forecasting is now a conversation with Sidekick, which recommends items from sales data and drafts purchase orders, rather than a model you configure and regenerate. There is no purchase order API, only a Transfers API. And you cannot email a purchase order from Admin at all — you download the PDF and send it yourself.

We have the fuller version of that line, with every claim sourced to Shopify’s documentation, in what Shopify Admin actually replaces.

The order to work in from here

1. Export, this week. Purchase orders, SKU and cost detail, stocktakes. Do not stop to tidy them.
2. Screenshot anything configured while you still have read access.
3. Rebuild your top suppliers by spend, using the PO export for lead times and your own records for MOQs and terms.
4. Decide what runs reordering. Admin covers recording; it does not cover deciding. The manual method, and where it stops working, is in how to reorder without Stocky.
5. Reconcile cost history against what Shopify holds, and note where they disagree before you rely on either.

If cost history is the gap

Of everything on this list, cost history is the loss that compounds quietly. Landed cost, contribution margin by channel and every decision about which SKUs deserve reorder budget all run off what you paid and when. Shopify knows what you sold; it does not know what you paid a supplier eighteen months ago.

Rebuilt from invoices and bank records it takes weeks and comes out approximate. That is still worth doing, and it is a separate job from this one — the method, tiered by how precise the result needs to be, is in rebuilding cost history after Stocky.

Where this leaves you

If you are rebuilding suppliers and reordering logic from scratch anyway, that work is portable — it is the same data wherever it lands. It is worth spending a moment on where it should live before you key it in twice.

Stocky is the second inventory product Shopify has retired in two years, after acquiring ChannelApe in 2024 and sunsetting it the following year. Most of the replacements being marketed to you right now are apps inside the same ecosystem, several of them very small. That is not an argument against any of them, but it is an argument for asking who owns your system of record before you rebuild it — one we make at greater length in don’t run your back office on a sales channel.

If wholesale or retail EDI also draws down your inventory, this is the cheapest moment you will get to put all of it on one system rather than rebuilding a Shopify-shaped view of demand. We have laid out the options, including the case for staying on Shopify native, in the best Stocky alternatives, and the direct comparison sits on Endless Commerce vs Stocky.

Everything above about the export window, what can and cannot be exported, and what Shopify Admin does is drawn from Shopify’s own documentation at help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/inventory/transitioning-from-stocky and its related Stocky pages. Check your own admin, because your account is the authority on what your account can still do.