Stocky is shutting down

Stocky is shutting down: what to use instead

By GustavFounder of UpsellShark and a working Shopify merchantUpdated July 30, 2026

Short answer

Shopify is retiring Stocky on 31 August 2026, and it can no longer be installed from the App Store. Shopify tells merchants to move to its native inventory management features, which cover tracking, adjustments, transfers, stock counts and purchase orders. The parts nothing native replaces are demand forecasting, purchase suggestions and direct low-stock notifications, so those are the gaps to plan for. Export anything you want to keep before the date, because access ends with the app.

How they compare

What Stocky did, what native Shopify inventory management covers after 31 August 2026, and where Easy Stock Buffer fits. Checked against Shopify documentation on 24 July 2026.
Feature	StockyRetires 31 Aug 2026	Native ShopifyIncluded	This appEasy Stock BufferFree, then $7/mo
Inventory tracking and adjustments	Yes	Yes	No
Inventory transfers	Yes	Yes	No
Stock counts	Yes	Yes	No
Purchase orders	Yes	Yes	No
Supplier managementShopify documents purchase orders natively, not full supplier records	Yes	Limited	No
Demand forecastingNot listed in Shopify native inventory documentation	Yes	No	No
Purchase suggestionsStocky suggested what to reorder; nothing native does this	Yes	No	No
Direct low-stock notificationsShopify docs point to an inventory alert app for this	Yes	via Shopify Flow	Yes
Safety-stock floor per variantShopify has a Safety stock state you move units into by hand; it holds no floor as stock moves	No	manual only	Yes
Stops checkout before you hit zeroThe stop happens at checkout, so it holds on Shop Pay and the other one-tap buttons	No	No	Yes
Auto-hide products that sell out	No	No	Pro
Suggests floors from sales velocity	No	No	Pro

Last updated July 30, 2026. Competitor details are checked against public pricing and App Store pages and can change.

What happens to Stocky on 31 August 2026

Shopify's own help documentation states plainly that "The Stocky app will no longer be available after August 31st, 2026", and that merchants should "transition to Shopify's Inventory management features to continue managing your inventory without interruption". Stocky has already been removed from the App Store for new installs; existing users keep access until the date.

Stocky came bundled with Shopify POS Pro, so the merchants affected are the ones who got it as part of that subscription and built a reordering routine around it. If that is you, the practical deadline is earlier than the announced one, because you want your data out and a replacement running before the month you would normally place orders.

Four-point timeline of the Stocky shutdown: today, already removed from the App Store for new installs with existing users keeping access; an earlier practical deadline to export data and get a replacement running; 31 August 2026, the last day the app is available; and 1 September 2026, when anything only inside Stocky is gone — Shopify tells merchants to move to its native inventory management features, which cover tracking, adjustments, transfers, stock counts and purchase orders.

What Stocky did that native Shopify replaces

Most of it, and this is the reassuring half. Shopify documents native inventory tracking, stock level views, adjustments with history, inventory reports, transfers and shipments, and purchase orders. Those cover the day-to-day of counting stock, moving it between locations, and raising an order with a supplier.

If you used Stocky mainly to run stock counts and record what you received, the transition is genuinely mechanical. The screens differ, the capability is there.

What nothing native replaces

Three things, and they happen to be the reasons most people liked Stocky.

Demand forecasting is the big one. Stocky projected what you would need; Shopify's native inventory documentation does not describe a forecasting feature. Alongside it, purchase suggestions are gone, so deciding what to reorder goes back to reading reports and applying judgement.

Direct low-stock notifications are the third, and the gap here is documented by Shopify itself: the native route is a Shopify Flow automation, and Shopify's own inventory help page says that if you want direct notifications of low stock levels, you should install an inventory alert app. That is the platform telling you this one needs filling from outside.

Two columns: on the left the inventory jobs native Shopify covers - tracking, stock level views, adjustments with history, reports, transfers and shipments, and purchase orders - and on the right the three things nothing native replaces: demand forecasting, purchase suggestions, and direct low-stock notifications — Forecasting and purchase suggestions were the reasons most merchants liked Stocky, and neither has a native destination.

How to get your Stocky data out before it goes

Do this first, before evaluating anything. Access ends with the app, so anything still only inside Stocky on 1 September is gone.

Export your purchase order history, your supplier list and contact details, your cost prices, and any stocktake records you might need for accounting. Cost prices matter more than people expect, because they feed margin reporting and what your stock on hand is worth, and they are tedious to reconstruct from invoices.

Put the exports somewhere durable rather than in a downloads folder, and check that the CSVs actually opened and contain rows. An export you never verified is not a backup.

What to use for low-stock alerts and overselling

This is the gap Easy Stock Buffer fills, and it is worth being precise about scope: it is not a Stocky replacement. It does not do purchase orders, forecasting, supplier records or stock counts, and it is not trying to. It is also not a cap on how much one customer can buy, which is a different tool again. Order limits and safety stock sets those two side by side if you are unsure which one your problem needs.

What it does is set a safety-stock floor per variant and stop the store selling below it. The stop happens inside Shopify's own checkout rather than in your theme, so it still holds when a shopper pays through Shop Pay or one of the other one-tap buttons that skip the cart page.

Low-stock email alerts tell you when a product is approaching its floor, which is the piece that replaces Stocky nudging you to reorder. If you would rather build that part yourself first, every native way to get a low stock warning covers the Shopify Flow route step by step. Picking the floor itself is a short job, and setting a safety stock level on Shopify walks through the number to start from.

The free plan covers 10 variants with 10 alerts a month, and the checkout stop is included on it. Pro at $7 a month adds bulk thresholds by collection, tag or product type, per-location floors, auto-hide for sold-out products, digests, and floors suggested from sales velocity.

A safety-stock floor per variant, or one shop-wide default
A stop at checkout that holds on every way of paying
Low-stock email alerts and digests so you reorder in time
Per-location floors and bulk thresholds on Pro
No theme code, and six admin languages

Do you need to do anything if you only used Stocky for stock counts?

Export your history, then learn the native screens. Shopify covers counting and adjusting natively, so there is no gap to fill and no app to buy.

The one thing worth adding regardless of how you used Stocky is a low-stock alert, because that capability leaves with Stocky and Shopify points you off-platform for it. Everything else can wait until you have lived with the native tools for a few weeks and can see what you actually miss.

Add Easy Stock Buffer if

the part of Stocky you relied on was knowing before you ran out, and you want the store to stop selling at a floor you set rather than at zero. It starts free.

Stay on native Shopify alone if

you used Stocky for counts, transfers and purchase orders. Shopify covers all three natively, and adding an app for them would be paying for something you already have.