Shopify's app store has dozens of tools that touch "inventory" in some way, and it's easy to assume they're all competing to solve the same problem. They're not. Here's an honest breakdown of three commonly compared tools, and — more importantly — the different problems each one is actually built for.
Stocky (by Shopify)
Best for: purchase orders, demand forecasting, receiving inventory, and suggested reordering. Available if you're on Shopify POS Pro.
Stocky is focused on the buying side of retail operations — deciding what and how much to order, and processing it in. It integrates tightly with Shopify POS and gives strong reporting on sell-through and forecasting.
What it doesn't do: track where product physically sits, sales floor vs. stockroom, or manage the day-to-day process of moving product from the back to the front. It answers "what should we buy," not "what needs to go out on the floor today."
SKUSavvy
Best for: bin/shelf locations, pick lists, receiving, transfers, and barcode labeling.
SKUSavvy is closer to a lightweight warehouse management system built for Shopify. If you need to know exactly which bin an item lives in, manage transfers between multiple locations, or run barcode-based operations, this is a strong fit.
What it doesn't do: it's built around location and transfer tracking generally, rather than specifically automating the "sale happens → floor needs replenishing" workflow. It can support that use case, but it's not purpose-built for it.
Stockroom Runner
Best for: turning your Shopify sales into a live, shared checklist for restocking your sales floor — specifically the backroom-to-floor replenishment workflow, not general inventory management.
Where the other two tools focus on inventory ownership and location, Stockroom Runner focuses on the operational question that happens after all of that: when something sells, does someone actually bring more out, and does the team know when the floor is caught up?
What it doesn't do: it's not a purchase ordering system or a demand forecasting tool, and it doesn't manage bin-level warehouse locations. It assumes you already know what you own — it's focused purely on getting sold items back out to the floor efficiently, with shared visibility across your team.
For a lot of stores, the honest answer is that you'll eventually want tools from more than one category — they solve different layers of the same operation, not competing versions of the same thing.
Which One Do You Actually Need?
Ask yourself which question is causing you the most pain right now:
- "I don't know what to reorder or when." → Stocky
- "I don't know where things are physically stored, or I need to manage transfers between locations." → SKUSavvy
- "I know what I have, but my sales floor keeps running empty because restocking isn't happening consistently." → Stockroom Runner
A store with great purchase order forecasting can still lose sales to a slow, disorganized replenishment process on the floor. Getting the buying right and getting the floor right are separate wins.
If your gap is the floor, not the forecast
Stockroom Runner is built specifically for getting sold items back onto your sales floor — worth a look regardless of what else is already in your stack.
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