Stocky, discontinued 31 August 2026
Shopify Stocky replacement: what to use now it has been discontinued
Shopify retired Stocky and points you at native inventory instead. If all you used was stock counts that is fine. If you used purchase orders, suppliers or demand forecasting, native inventory does not replace those, and this is what your options actually are.
Checked 29 September 2026
What happened
Shopify's own documentation is blunt about it: the Stocky app is no longer available after 31 August 2026, and it has already been pulled from the App Store so nobody new can install it. Shopify's guidance is to move to native Shopify inventory management.
Stocky was free, but it was never free to everyone. It required Shopify POS Pro, which is why a lot of stores that would have benefited from it never ran it in the first place. It also had a 3.0 star rating across a couple of hundred reviews, which tells you it was useful rather than loved.
What Stocky actually did
This is the part that matters, because the replacement conversation only makes sense if you are honest about which of these you used:
- Purchase orders. Raising a PO against a supplier, sending it, and receiving stock against it.
- Supplier records. Lead times, costs, and who you buy what from.
- Demand forecasting. Suggested reorder quantities based on sales history.
- Stock transfers between locations.
- Cost tracking and margin per item.
- Stocktakes with a barcode scanner.
Most stores used two or three of these, not all six. Write down which ones you actually opened last month. That list is your requirement, and it is usually shorter than people expect.
What native Shopify inventory covers, and what it does not
Native inventory tracks quantities per location, lets you adjust them, and shows you what you have. For a store that only ever used Stocky to see stock levels, it is a complete replacement and you can stop reading.
What it does not do is purchasing. There is no purchase order object, no supplier record, no lead time, no reorder suggestion. If your ordering process was look at Stocky's suggested quantities, raise a PO, receive against it, none of that survives the move. You will end up doing it in a spreadsheet, which works until roughly the point where two people need to look at it on the same day.
The three routes out
| Route | Covers | Roughly costs | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native inventory plus spreadsheets | Stock levels. Purchasing by hand | Nothing extra | Under ~200 SKUs and one person ordering |
| A paid inventory app | Varies. Most cover POs and suppliers | Typically per order or per month, rising with volume | Standard process, happy to fit their workflow |
| A custom build | Exactly the parts you used, and nothing else | A build fee, then a flat monthly | Non-standard purchasing, or per-order pricing has become the problem |
Prices for the paid apps in this category are mostly quote-only or volume-tiered, so the honest answer on cost is that it depends on your order count. Where a vendor publishes real numbers, they are on the individual comparison pages.
When a custom build is not worth it
Worth saying plainly, because it is the answer for a good number of stores: if you used Stocky for stock levels and the occasional stocktake, native inventory does that, and paying anyone to rebuild it would be money set on fire.
A build starts making sense when your purchasing has something in it that off-the-shelf apps keep failing to model. Ordering against a production schedule rather than a stock level, suppliers with different lead times that have to be reconciled into one delivery date, or a forecast that has to account for something the app has never heard of. That is the point where you are paying for an app and still doing the real work in a spreadsheet next to it.
Not sure which route is yours?
Send me the list of Stocky features you actually used and your monthly order volume. I will tell you which of the three is right, including when the answer is native inventory and nothing else.