If you use Stocky to manage inventory in your Shopify store, you've probably already seen the news: Shopify has confirmed that Stocky shuts down completely on August 31, 2026. It was already removed from the Shopify App Store back on February 2, 2026, so merchants who don't already have it installed can no longer add it.
If you're currently relying on it, here's the timeline, what it means for your store, and how to think about replacing it — including one thing worth knowing even if you're not a Stocky user: it was never built to solve the problem this site focuses on.
The Shutdown Timeline
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| July 7, 2025 | Inventory transfers between locations and min/max forecasting were removed |
| February 2, 2026 | Stocky removed from the Shopify App Store — no new installs |
| August 31, 2026 | Complete shutdown. Stocky and its APIs stop working entirely |
Shopify has said merchants will get a period of read-only access after the shutdown date to export historical data, but purchase orders, stocktakes, and supplier records won't automatically carry over into Shopify Admin — that data has to be manually exported before it's gone.
If Stocky is still part of your daily workflow, the practical move right now is to export your purchase order history, stocktakes, and supplier information before the shutdown, rather than waiting for the deadline.
What Stocky Actually Handled
Stocky covered the front half of inventory management: demand forecasting, purchase orders, supplier tracking, low-stock alerts, and inventory reporting across locations. For merchants who leaned on it heavily, that's a real gap — those are planning and purchasing functions, not something you can just skip.
Shopify's official guidance points existing users toward the inventory features already built into Shopify Admin, which cover basic stock tracking and purchase orders but not everything Stocky offered. For stores with more complex forecasting or multi-location needs, a dedicated tool like Sumtracker or Finale Inventory is generally a closer like-for-like replacement.
What Stocky Never Solved — Even Before the Shutdown
Here's the part worth flagging regardless of what you replace it with: Stocky, like most inventory management tools, answered the question of what you own and what to reorder. It never answered a separate, more immediate question — once something sells, does it actually get moved from the stockroom to the sales floor before the next customer looks for it?
That's a workflow problem, not a forecasting problem, and it's one that persists no matter which inventory platform you land on after Stocky. We wrote more about why these are genuinely different problems in Inventory Accuracy vs. Sales Floor Availability.
If You're Choosing a Replacement
Worth separating the decision into two parts rather than looking for one tool to do everything:
- Forecasting and purchase orders — this is the direct Stocky replacement question. Shopify Admin's built-in tools, Sumtracker, and Finale Inventory are the common paths, depending on how complex your purchasing needs are.
- Getting sold product back onto the shelf — a separate, ongoing operational need that Stocky never addressed either. This is what Stockroom Runner is built for: turning your Shopify sales into a live restocking checklist your floor staff work from. It's not a forecasting or purchasing tool, and it won't replace what Stocky did — it solves the piece that sits downstream of it.
For the full picture of how these fit together, see our Complete Guide to Retail Replenishment.
Replacing Stocky? Don't forget the floor.
Whatever you choose for forecasting and purchase orders, Stockroom Runner handles the separate job of getting sold items back onto your sales floor — automatically, from your Shopify sales data.
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Stocky's shutdown is a real disruption if you were relying on it, and the smart move is exporting your data and picking a forecasting replacement well before August 31. But it's also a useful moment to double-check that whatever you land on actually covers the ground you need — Stocky, and most tools like it, were never built to solve the stockroom-to-sales-floor gap in the first place.