How to Get Your Data Out of Stocky Before August 31, 2026
Stocky stops working on August 31, 2026. Not "degrades." Stops. The APIs go with it, so any third-party tool wired into Stocky breaks the same day.
You'll get read-only access for a period after that to pull your records out. Shopify hasn't committed to a specific length in its own documentation, so don't build a plan around it.
This post is the boring version of what to do. No product pitch until the very end, and you can skip that part.
The dates that matter
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| February 2, 2026 | Stocky delisted from the Shopify App Store. You can't reinstall it. |
| August 31, 2026 | Stocky stops working. All Stocky APIs stop. |
| After | Read-only access for a limited period, to export only. |
Two features already went away in July 2025: inventory transfers and min/max forecasting. If you're still running those in Stocky, you've been running them on borrowed time.
What exports cleanly
Purchase orders. Stocky → Purchase Orders → Export All → save as CSV. You get PO numbers, line items, quantities, unit costs, and dates.
Stocktakes. Export through Stocky's built-in reports.
Product and cost data. Comes across fine.
Do these now, not in August. There's no upside to waiting and there's a real downside if the read-only window is shorter than you assumed.
What does not export — read this part twice
Suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky. This is confirmed in Shopify's own migration documentation, stated plainly: "Suppliers can't be exported from Stocky."
If you have supplier records in Stocky — names, contacts, lead times, minimum order quantities, payment terms — none of it comes out through an export. You have to open each supplier and copy it down by hand, into a spreadsheet, before you lose access.
For a store with eight suppliers this is an annoying afternoon. For a store with sixty, this is the single largest task in your migration, and nobody warns you about it until you're already inside the app looking for an export button that doesn't exist.
Do this first. Everything else can be exported in the last week. This can't.
A supplier sheet you can copy
Make one row per supplier, and capture at minimum:
- Supplier name and company
- Contact name, email, phone
- Lead time (days)
- Minimum order quantity / minimum order value
- Payment terms (Net 30, cash on delivery, payment on receipt)
- Currency
- Which SKUs you buy from them
- Anything living in a notes field
That last one catches people. Notes fields are where the real knowledge sits — "always call Marta, email goes nowhere", "closes for August", "invoices arrive two weeks late". None of that is structured data anywhere. It just disappears.
What about purchase order history?
Historical purchase orders and stocktakes do not move into Shopify automatically. If you want them, export them.
And be clear-eyed about what a CSV of old POs actually is: an archive, not a working record. Shopify's native CSV import for purchase orders only adds product line items to a new draft PO. It won't restore past PO statuses, received quantities, or supplier links. So you're keeping a file for reference and audit, not restoring a working history.
That's true of any destination you pick, ours included. Anyone telling you they'll fully reconstruct your Stocky history from a CSV is selling you something. Ask them exactly which fields survive.
Where to go next
Three honest options.
Shopify's native inventory management. It's free, it's built in, and it now covers purchase orders, suppliers, transfers, and adjustment history with an audit trail. If Stocky was mostly a PO tool for you, look here first before you pay anyone. Some gaps remain — no purchase order API yet, no emailing a PO from admin (you download a PDF), no CSV line-item import into a PO, no barcode receiving in admin. Shopify says several of these are coming.
A dedicated inventory app. Worth it if you need real demand forecasting, multi-location replenishment logic, or supplier analytics that native doesn't do. Check the pricing model carefully — several are annual contracts, and several price on order volume, which means the bill grows as you grow.
Do nothing until August. Not a strategy, but it's what most stores will do. If that's you, at least export the suppliers now.
Two questions to ask any replacement app
Regardless of who you end up with — us, a competitor, or Shopify native — ask these before you install:
1. Under what circumstances does this app write to my inventory quantities?
An inventory app that syncs stock levels can silently overwrite your counts. When it's wrong, you don't find out from the app. You find out from a customer who ordered something you don't have. Ask whether writes are logged, whether you can see what changed and why, and whether you can roll it back.
2. What does the price do at renewal, and can I leave monthly?
Annual contracts and volume-based pricing both look cheap on the day you sign.
If an app can't answer both clearly, that tells you something.
A short disclosure
We're building StockBridge, a Shopify inventory app — purchase orders and forecasting — for merchants coming off Stocky. It isn't live yet. We're not going to pretend it is.
The reason we wrote this post is that the supplier export gap caught us by surprise while we were researching the migration, and it's the kind of thing you want to know in July rather than in late August.
Our design rule is the first question above: the app never writes to your stock without an audit trail you can roll back. Monthly pricing, no annual contract. And when we say you can import from Stocky, we mean purchase orders, products, and cost data — not suppliers, because that data can't be exported and we're not going to imply otherwise.
If you want to hear from us when it's ready, there's a waitlist. One email, when we launch.
If you'd rather just export your suppliers and never think about us again — do that. That's the part with a deadline.
Related: Inventory Planner Alternatives for Shopify (2026): What It Actually Costs and What to Ask Before You Sign · How to Migrate Off Stocky: A Step-by-Step Guide
FAQ
When exactly does Stocky shut down? August 31, 2026. It was removed from the Shopify App Store on February 2, 2026, and can't be reinstalled.
Can I export my suppliers from Stocky? No. Shopify's documentation states suppliers can't be exported. You need to record supplier details manually before you lose access.
Will my purchase order history move to Shopify automatically? No. Historical purchase orders and stocktakes don't migrate automatically. Export them from Stocky's reports if you want to keep them.
What happens to apps connected to Stocky? All Stocky APIs stop working on August 31, 2026. Any third-party integration built on them breaks and needs to be repointed at Shopify's inventory system.
Is Shopify's built-in inventory management enough to replace Stocky? For many stores, yes — it covers purchase orders, suppliers, transfers, and adjustment history. Known gaps as of now: no purchase order API, no emailing POs from admin, no CSV line-item import into a PO, no barcode receiving in admin.
How long do I have read-only access after the shutdown? Shopify's documentation says read-only access continues "for a period of time" without committing to a length. Export before August 31 rather than relying on it.
Sources: Shopify Help Center — Migrating from Stocky to Shopify inventory management