Stocky replacement: Shopify Stocky alternative for demand forecasting and purchase orders
Shopify retired Stocky on August 31, 2026. Purchase orders, transfers and suppliers moved into Shopify admin. The demand forecast and the suggested order quantities did not. Storekeeper brings that part back for every SKU in your store, recalculated every day.
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The right Stocky replacement depends on which Stocky job you relied on. If you only used it for purchase orders, transfers and stock counts, Shopify admin now covers those at no extra cost. If you relied on Stocky's demand forecasting and suggested order quantities, you need a separate app, because Shopify has no native per-SKU forecast, reorder point or ABC analysis. Storekeeper does that job from $49 a month, with auto-drafted purchase orders on the $149 Growth plan.
Is Stocky being discontinued? The dates that matter
Stocky did not disappear in one step. The forecasting went first, more than a year before the app itself.
| Date | What changed | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| July 7, 2025 | Stocky stops supporting inventory transfers and min/max forecasting | Reorder suggestions based on min/max levels stopped working here |
| February 2, 2026 | Stocky is removed from the Shopify App Store | No new installs, and an uninstalled copy cannot be reinstalled |
| August 31, 2026 | Stocky shuts down and its APIs stop working | Day-to-day inventory work moves to Shopify admin and POS |
| At least 90 days after shutdown | Read-only access for exporting reports | Export purchase order reports, stocktake history and cost data now |
Stocky came bundled with Shopify POS Pro, and stores that installed it before May 4, 2020 kept it at no charge. That is why so many retailers never priced a replacement: the forecasting was simply there. Shopify's official path is its built-in inventory management, which handles the paperwork well and leaves the buying decision to you.
What replaced Stocky in Shopify admin, and what is still missing
Shopify published its own feature mapping. Here it is next to the gap each job leaves, and where Storekeeper fits.
| Stocky job | Where it lives in Shopify now | What is missing | Storekeeper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demand forecasting and suggested order quantities | Sidekick, Shopify's AI assistant, answers questions about sales history | No per-SKU forecast, reorder point or safety stock you can buy against | 30, 60 and 90-day forecast per SKU with trend and seasonality, on every plan |
| Purchase orders | Purchase orders in Shopify admin, received through linked transfers | Every quantity is typed in by hand | Draft purchase orders grouped by supplier, quantities filled in (Growth) |
| Low-stock alerts | Shopify Flow automations | A fixed threshold per variant that does not move with demand | A warning when stock will run out inside the supplier lead time |
| Reports (ABC, slow sellers) | Custom reports in Shopify Analytics | No ABC analysis or dead-stock value | Dead and slow SKUs flagged with the dollars they tie up |
| Suppliers | Suppliers created in Shopify admin and attached to POs | Stocky supplier records cannot be exported | Lead time set once per supplier, overridable per SKU |
| Transfers between locations | Native transfers in admin and POS | Nothing tells you which location should send stock | Transfer suggestions when one location is overstocked and another is short |
| Stocktakes | Quick count in Shopify POS (up to 1,000 items), CSV for full counts | Large counts are offline spreadsheet work | Not a counting app. Keep counting in Shopify; the forecast reads the result |
The Stocky forecasting you lost, rebuilt for every SKU
Stocky's suggestions leaned on past sales and min/max levels. These six jobs go further, and they update as orders come in.
A forecast per variant
The black medium and the black large get their own rate and trend. A variant that took off last month forecasts hotter instead of being averaged away with the rest of the product. More on the method on our demand forecasting software page.
Reorder points that move
Reorder point and safety stock are sized from forecast demand, supplier lead time and how volatile the SKU is. You stop maintaining min/max numbers that were right last season.
Suggested orders by supplier
Reorder quantities roll up into draft purchase orders per supplier. Review, send to the vendor, and receive the stock against a Shopify purchase order the way you do today.
Stockout warnings with a deadline
A SKU that will run dry before a normal order could land is flagged separately with an expedite quantity, so the supplier call happens this week and not after the listing shows sold out.
Dead stock in dollars
Stocky's reports showed slow sellers. Storekeeper puts a cash figure on them and ranks them, so the markdown list is ready before the next buying cycle.
Stores, warehouses and channels
POS locations and your online store in one view, with multichannel sync on Growth for sellers who also list on marketplaces. Starter covers a single location.
How to move off Stocky in four steps
Most of the work is saving what Stocky knew before read-only access ends.
Export from Stocky now
Download completed purchase order reports, stocktake history and historical cost data as CSV. Supplier records do not export, so copy supplier names, contacts and lead times by hand.
Connect your store
Storekeeper reads products, variants, locations and order history. Six months of sales starts the forecast; twelve lets it see holiday and seasonal peaks.
Re-enter supplier lead times
Add each supplier once with its usual lead time. Every SKU from that supplier inherits it. The cost data you exported is what prices your dead stock.
Buy from the verdicts
Each SKU comes back healthy, reorder with a quantity, stockout risk or dead stock. Approve the drafts and keep receiving in Shopify admin.
Merchants who need a Stocky alternative, not just Shopify admin
If a person used to open Stocky every Monday to decide what to buy, Shopify admin alone will not replace that hour.
POS Pro retailers with a few stores
Two to five shops, one buyer, dozens of suppliers. Stocky's suggested orders were the buying process. Without them, reorders fall back to walking the floor and guessing.
Online brands with variant-heavy catalogs
Apparel, footwear and accessories where demand is uneven across sizes and colors. A per-variant forecast stops you reordering a whole size run when only two sizes sold.
Seasonal sellers heading into Q4
Stocky shut down weeks before the holiday buying window. A store that orders gifts or outerwear now needs a forecast that reads last year's peak, not a flat low-stock threshold.
Shopify plus marketplace sellers
When the same SKU sells on Shopify and Amazon, demand has to be read across both. Our Shopify inventory management page covers syncing stock across channels.
Best Stocky alternatives compared on price
Prices from each vendor's own pricing page. Where a vendor only quotes, we say so.
| Option | Price | Forecasting and purchase orders | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shopify admin (built in) | Included with Shopify | Purchase orders, transfers and suppliers; no demand forecast | Stores that used Stocky only for POs and counts |
| Storekeeper | $49/mo Starter, $149/mo Growth ($39 and $119 billed yearly) | Per-SKU forecasting on every plan; auto-drafted POs on Growth | Merchants whose Stocky job was deciding what and how much to reorder |
| Sumtracker | Replenish $119/mo ($100 annual) up to 2,500 orders a year; Manage $59/mo | 12-month forecasting and POs on Replenish only | Sellers who need stock sync across stores plus reorder suggestions |
| Prediko | $49/mo under $100k GMV; higher bands quoted | AI forecasting and POs included; BOM forecasting +$20/mo | Shopify brands comfortable with pricing that rises with GMV |
| StockTrim | Priced by revenue band, for example $298/mo at $3M to $5M | Forecasting and POs; multi-level BOM forecasting +$90/mo | Brands that also make products from raw materials |
| Inventory Planner | Quote only, based on inventory volume | Forecasting and POs, unlimited users | Larger catalogs that want a long-established planning tool |
Revenue and GMV pricing looks cheap for a small store and climbs as you grow; Storekeeper prices by location and channel instead. If what you really need is barcode receiving and picking, a scanning system suits you better, and our inventory software with barcode scanner page compares those. If you also run Inventory Planner quotes, see our Inventory Planner alternative breakdown.
Stocky replacement questions, answered
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