Best Stocky Alternative for Shopify (2026) | ReplenishRadar

I will not bury the lede. Stocky shuts down on August 31, 2026. If you are a Stocky user, you need a migration plan, and you need one before the summer.

This used to be a comparison page about picking between two live tools. That window closed. Shopify delisted Stocky from the App Store on February 2, 2026, and the core planning features (transfers, min/max forecasting, barcode printing, replenishment workflows) were removed on July 7, 2025. What you have right now is a shell of what Stocky used to be, and that shell has six months left.

So the real question is not "Stocky vs ReplenishRadar." It is "what should a Stocky user do right now?" If you want to see all the options before zooming in on one tool, I wrote a full roundup of the best Stocky alternatives covering every category. But if you already know you need forecasting and Amazon support, keep reading. The answer is actually pretty clean once you work through the decision tree.

The Stocky shutdown timeline, in order

Shopify has been winding Stocky down in public stages for about eighteen months. If you have not been paying attention, here is where we are:

• July 7, 2025: Key planning features removed. Inventory transfers, min/max forecasting, barcode printing, and replenishment workflows are no longer available. This was the real sunset moment. (Shopify Help Center)
• February 2, 2026: App delisted from the Shopify App Store. No new installs.
• August 31, 2026: Complete shutdown. The app stops functioning. No data recovery afterward. (Shopify Community announcement)

Shopify's official position is that basic inventory management is moving into the core Admin. That covers stock tracking, POs, transfers between locations, and POS sync. It does not cover forecasting, reorder points, lead time tracking, safety stock, or anything that looks like actual demand planning. For a single-location retail store with 30 SKUs, the built-in tools may be enough. For anyone running Shopify as a serious growth channel, they are not. Shopify processed $277.2 billion in gross merchandise volume across 2024, up 24% year over year. The platform's fastest-growing segment is mid-market sellers with complex operations, and those sellers are exactly the ones who relied on Stocky.

What Stocky actually did (while it still did it)

I am not here to trash a tool that is already on its way out. Stocky was genuinely useful for small Shopify sellers. It was free with Shopify POS Pro or Shopify Plus, it required almost no setup, and it handled the basics: velocity-based reorder suggestions, PO creation, stocktakes, and some supplier data.

The real value was that it shipped for free. A new seller with 40 SKUs on one Shopify store could get basic replenishment guidance without paying for a separate tool. That is a meaningful thing to lose, and I understand why sellers are frustrated.

The limits were always there. No Amazon support. No statistical forecasting (just recent sales velocity). No safety stock based on lead time variance. No multi-channel view. No cash-flow awareness. Plenty of Stocky users were already pushing against those walls before the shutdown announcement. Shopify reported over 875 million unique buyers on its platform in 2024, and the company has more than 44,000 Plus merchants, the cohort most likely to need real inventory planning. When Stocky disappears, those sellers do not get a comparable built-in replacement.

What you need to replace, honestly

Here is the actual feature-gap matrix for a Stocky migration. I split it into two columns because many Stocky users are not just looking for a Stocky replacement, they are looking to fill the holes Stocky always had.

What you lose from Stocky	What you probably also need
Basic velocity-based reorder suggestions	Forecast-driven reorder points that account for seasonality
Simple PO creation with supplier fields	PO workflow with MOQ, casepack, and order multiple enforcement
Recent sales velocity view	Days-to-stockout per SKU with safety stock buffers
Stocktake and adjustment tracking	Lead time variability awareness (not just a stated lead time)
Shopify-only inventory tracking	Multi-channel coordination if you sell on Amazon or elsewhere
Nothing (Stocky never had it)	FBA inbound planning, restock limit awareness, transfer quantity math

The bottom row matters. If you sell on Amazon at all, the replacement tool should handle FBA planning, not just Shopify orders. According to Amazon's 2024 SMB Impact Report, independent sellers shipped over 4.5 billion items through FBA in the US. Stocky being Shopify-only was always a limit, and a lot of sellers were running Stocky plus a spreadsheet plus guesswork for their FBA side. Good time to consolidate.

How to export your Stocky data (do this soon)

Do not wait on this. Export now, even if you are not ready to pick a replacement yet.

What you can export:

• Purchase orders: Stocky > Purchase Orders > Export All, save as CSV. This captures historical POs.
• Stocktakes: Same pattern, via the stocktake report.
• Products with suppliers: Some supplier linking carries in the product export.
• Supplier details (names, emails, phones, payment terms, lead times, MOQs): Available but not through a clean single export. You will need to copy manually.

What you cannot clean-export:

• Suppliers: There is no one-click supplier export. Screenshot or manually copy everything. Names, contact details, payment terms, lead times, which SKUs belong to which supplier.

Do this in April or May. Not August. If you wait and the tool starts erroring out in its final weeks (which we have seen with other deprecated Shopify apps), you will lose data permanently.

Feature comparison: ReplenishRadar vs what is left of Stocky

Capability	Stocky (shutting down Aug 2026)	ReplenishRadar
Status	Delisted Feb 2026, dying Aug 31 2026	Active, public pricing, monthly releases
Price	Was free with POS Pro / Shopify Plus	$99-$499 per month based on SKUs
Shopify integration	Native (while it lasts)	Native via OAuth
Amazon integration	None	Native SP-API integration, inbound plan creation
Demand forecasting	Recent velocity only (transfers and min/max already removed)	Statistical model with trends, seasonality, channel splits
Safety stock	No	Calculated with lead time variability per supplier
Days-to-stockout	No	Per SKU, per channel, updated daily
Purchase order creation	Yes (simple)	Yes, with MOQ, casepack, and order multiple enforcement
Bulk PO CSV import	Export only	Yes - preview first, idempotent by PO number, no stock movement
FBA inbound plan creation	No	Yes, directly through Amazon
FBA transfer suggestions	No	Yes, based on velocity and restock limits
Multi-location inventory	Basic Shopify locations	Unified across Shopify, Amazon FBA, and warehouses
Multi-channel coordination	No	Yes
Supplier response portal	No	Secure supplier links with quantity/date responses tied to original PO lines
Separate POs and transfers	Basic records, no FBA planning	Vendor orders, warehouse transfers, and FBA inbound plans stay separate
Partial receiving	Basic	Per-line receiving with shortage/backorder handling
Bulk supplier CSV import (with Stocky-style column aliases)	N/A (Stocky has no one-click supplier export)	Yes - two-step drawer, preview before confirm
Supplier scorecard	No	Tracks actual vs stated lead time performance
Profit Intelligence	No	Lost sales per SKU, overstock holding costs, cash flow projection
Support	Winding down	Active

The PO/transfer separation is not cosmetic. Stocky users are already losing the clean replenishment workflow they relied on, and Shopify's replacement inventory features focus on basic records. ReplenishRadar keeps the vendor PO, warehouse movement, and FBA inbound plan as separate objects that stay linked. A supplier can accept 450 units on a 500-unit PO, your team can receive the 450 by line, and the remaining 50 can become a backorder without turning the transfer record into a second version of the PO.

What a Stocky-to-ReplenishRadar migration actually looks like

I am deliberately keeping this honest because I have seen sellers burn weeks on migrations that should take an afternoon.

Step 1: Export your Stocky data. Purchase orders, stocktakes, product-supplier links. Do this first, regardless of which tool you pick. Ten minutes.

Step 2: Document your suppliers manually. Screenshot or copy into a spreadsheet. Names, contacts, payment terms, lead times (both stated and what you actually experience), MOQs, casepack sizes, which SKUs each supplier handles. Thirty to ninety minutes depending on your supplier count.

Step 3: Connect Shopify to ReplenishRadar via OAuth. Under ten minutes. Your catalog and order history sync automatically. You will see your historical demand populate over the next hour or two.

Step 4: Upload supplier data. Settings > Suppliers > Bulk import. Two-step CSV drawer: suppliers.csv (one row per vendor) then supplier_costs.csv (one row per vendor+SKU pair). The importer accepts Stocky-style column names directly (mov, casepack, supplier_name, moq, lead_time) so you do not have to rename anything from the spreadsheet you built in step 2. Preview shows exactly what will be created vs. updated before you confirm. If you have under twenty suppliers, hand entry through Add Supplier works too.

Step 5: Import open and historical POs. Purchase Orders > Import CSV. Preview the Stocky export first, resolve any missing vendors or locations, then confirm. ReplenishRadar preserves PO numbers and received quantities for history, but it does not move stock during import.

Step 6: Run both tools in parallel for 14-30 days. Place a few POs through ReplenishRadar. Compare its reorder suggestions against what you would have done manually or through Stocky. Check the forecast accuracy on a handful of SKUs you know well.

Step 7: Cut over fully. Stop using Stocky for new planning decisions. Keep it open for historical reference through August.

The whole process takes 2-4 weeks including parallel-run validation. Not 8-12 weeks like some migration guides will tell you. Those timelines are padded for worst-case scenarios with enterprise deployments.

Who should use the built-in Shopify Admin instead

I want to be direct about this because not every Stocky user needs to pay for a replacement. You are a good fit for the built-in Shopify Admin if:

• You have one Shopify store with under 100 SKUs
• You are single-location (or simple multi-location)
• You do not sell on Amazon or any other channel
• Your reorder decisions are basically "when I get low, I buy more"
• Your suppliers have stable lead times and you are not bumping against MOQ or casepack constraints

If that is you, use the free built-in tools. Do not pay for planning software you do not need.

Who should move to ReplenishRadar

You should evaluate ReplenishRadar if any of these are true:

• You sell on both Shopify and Amazon (or plan to)
• You have 100+ SKUs across suppliers with varying lead times
• You manage FBA inventory and are tired of doing transfer math in spreadsheets
• Your reorder decisions involve MOQs, casepacks, or supplier ordering cadences
• You want forecasts that account for seasonality, not just last 30 days of sales
• You have been manually working around what Stocky did not do

The deeper your operation, the more obvious the fit. A seller with 500 SKUs across 12 suppliers selling on Shopify and Amazon is not going to make the built-in Admin work. That seller needs a planning tool.

The cost of waiting

Every month you stay on Stocky is a month your reorder decisions are based on a diminishing tool. The transfers feature is gone. Min/max forecasting is gone. What is left is velocity-based suggestions and basic PO creation, and all of it vanishes on August 31. At typical inventory carrying costs of 20-30% of inventory value per year (Investopedia), every month of bad reorder decisions compounds. A seller carrying $200K in inventory is spending $40-60K a year just to hold it. Getting the quantities wrong because your planning tool is half-dead makes that number worse. And the damage compounds beyond holding costs. Research by Corsten and Gruen, published in Harvard Business Review, found that 21% to 43% of shoppers who hit a stockout buy from a competitor instead. Most do not come back. Bad reorder timing does not just waste cash on excess inventory. It permanently redirects revenue to whoever had the item in stock.

I have talked to Shopify sellers hoping Shopify will reverse course. They will not. The deprecation has been staged and announced publicly. The App Store listing is already dead. Staff attention inside Shopify has shifted to the built-in Admin features.

If you have not started your migration by June 2026, you are going to be doing it under time pressure in July or August. Plan the move now while you have calendar room.

Try ReplenishRadar free for 14 days - connect Shopify in minutes, see what forecast-driven reorder planning actually looks like. No credit card required for the free inventory health report.

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Related Reading:

• Best Shopify Inventory Management Software
• Multi-Channel Inventory Challenges
• Reorder Point Calculator
• Safety Stock Calculation Guide

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Sources

Competitor information is based on publicly available data as of July 2026.

• Shopify Help Center: Migrating from Stocky to Shopify inventory management
• Shopify Community: Stocky App Going Away after August 31 2026
• Harvard Business Review: Stock-Outs Cause Walkouts (Corsten & Gruen)
• Shopify Stocky deprecation announcement and help center documentation
• ReplenishRadar pricing and features pages