How to Migrate Off Stocky: A Step-by-Step Guide for Shopify Merchants (2026)

Stocky stops working on August 31, 2026. If you run purchase orders or forecasting on it, you need a plan to move your data somewhere else before then — not on the last weekend of August, when read-only access is winding down and support queues everywhere are full.

This is the practical version: what to move, in what order, and the one step almost every migration guide leaves out until it's too late. There's a short note about what we're building at the end. You can skip it — the migration steps work regardless of where you land.

The dates you're working against

Shopify hasn't promised how long read-only access lasts. Don't build your timeline around it. Treat August 31 as a hard wall and give yourself a couple of weeks of buffer.

Step 1 — Export the things that leave cleanly

Start with what Shopify's own tooling can hand back to you. From Stocky's reports, export:

• Product and variant cost data (unit cost / landed cost).
• Purchase order history — open and received POs, with line items.
• Stocktakes and adjustment history, if you keep those for accounting.
• Reorder points / min-max settings, if you set them per variant.

Save these as CSVs and keep a copy off Shopify — a folder on your own drive. This is your source of truth for everything that comes next.

Step 2 — Record your suppliers by hand

This is the step people miss. Suppliers do not export from Stocky. Shopify's migration documentation is explicit about it: supplier records can't be pulled out through an export. There's no CSV, no API, nothing.

So before you lose access, open your supplier list and copy it manually into a spreadsheet: supplier name, contact email, lead time, minimum order value, payment terms, and which products map to which supplier. It's tedious. It's also the one thing you genuinely cannot recover after August 31, and every downstream tool — Shopify's native inventory or any app — will ask you to re-enter it anyway.

Do this first, while you're annoyed at us for making you, rather than in September when it's gone.

Step 3 — Decide where you're landing

You have two honest options.

Shopify's built-in inventory management. Free, already in your admin. It now covers purchase orders, suppliers, transfers, and adjustment history. Known gaps as of now: no purchase order API, no way to email a PO straight from admin, no CSV line-item import into a PO, and no barcode receiving in the admin. If your PO volume is low and you don't forecast heavily, this may be all you need — and it costs nothing.

A dedicated inventory app. Worth it if you run real purchase-order volume or want reorder forecasting that Shopify's native tools don't do. This is where most former Stocky merchants end up. Two things to check before you sign anything:

1. Does it publish its price? Some of the best-known options — Inventory Planner by Sage, for example — don't. You book a call to find out what you'll pay, and merchants report the number landing well above what Stocky users are used to. We wrote about that in detail here.
2. What happens when a sync goes wrong? Ask directly: if the app and Shopify disagree about a count, does it overwrite your stock silently, or does it show you the conflict and let you decide? A wrong inventory number is worse than no number, because you don't know it's wrong until you oversell.

Step 4 — Import into your new home

Whatever you chose, import in this order:

1. Products and cost data first — everything else references it.
2. Suppliers next (from the spreadsheet you built in Step 2).
3. Open purchase orders, so nothing in transit falls through the cracks.
4. Reorder points, last.

Then reconcile: pick ten SKUs, and confirm the on-hand quantity in the new system matches what Shopify shows. If they don't match, stop and find out why before you trust it for reordering. A clean migration is one where you've checked the numbers yourself, not one where an importer said "done."

Step 5 — Keep your export archive

Even after everything's imported, keep the CSVs from Step 1. If a number looks off in three months, that archive is how you check the original. Storage is free; recreating lost history is not.

A five-minute version, honestly

If your data is clean, Steps 1, 4 and 5 are genuinely quick — export, import, spot-check. It's Step 2 (suppliers by hand) that takes real time, and no tool can shortcut it because the data simply isn't exportable. Any guide promising a fully automatic, five-minute migration is quietly skipping the part that has a deadline.

We're building StockBridge, a Shopify inventory app — purchase orders and forecasting — for merchants coming off Stocky. It isn't live yet, and we're not going to pretend it is.

Two design rules shape it: it never writes to your stock without an audit trail you can roll back, and the price is on the page — monthly, no annual contract, cancel anytime. When we say you'll be able to import from Stocky, we mean products, cost data, and purchase orders — not suppliers, because that data can't be exported and we won't imply otherwise.

If you want a heads-up when it's ready, there's a waitlist. One email, at launch. If you'd rather migrate to Shopify native and never think about us again — do that. Just don't skip Step 2.

Related: How to Get Your Data Out of Stocky Before August 31, 2026 · Inventory Planner Alternatives for Shopify (2026)

FAQ

Can I migrate from Stocky automatically? Partly. Products, cost data, and purchase orders export cleanly and can be imported into Shopify native or a third-party app. Suppliers cannot be exported and must be re-entered by hand.

What can't I export from Stocky? Suppliers. Shopify's documentation confirms supplier records can't be exported. Record them manually before August 31, 2026.

Is Shopify's built-in inventory enough to replace Stocky? For lower-volume stores, often yes — it covers purchase orders, suppliers, transfers, and adjustment history. Gaps: no PO API, no emailing POs from admin, no CSV line-item import into a PO, no barcode receiving in admin.

When does Stocky stop working? August 31, 2026. It was delisted from the App Store on February 2, 2026, and can't be reinstalled.

How long do I have read-only access after shutdown? Shopify says "a period of time" without committing to a length. Export everything before August 31 rather than relying on it.

Sources: Shopify Help Center — Migrating from Stocky to Shopify inventory management