Stocky Has Shut Down: How to Migrate Now (2026)

If you were running purchasing through Stocky and didn't migrate before the deadline, here's where things stand: the deadline has passed, and you're now on a shorter, second clock to get your data out before it's gone for good.

This wasn't a feature deprecation. Shopify delisted Stocky from the App Store in February 2026, and on August 31, 2026 the app shut down completely, APIs included. Since then:

• Your purchase order history inside Stocky is no longer accessible through a working app: only through Shopify's read-only export window
• Supplier records and product–supplier assignments stored in Stocky are gone from your day-to-day workflow
• Anything that synced through Stocky's APIs has stopped syncing, permanently

Here's the good news: Shopify's migration guide states that read-only access continues for at least 90 days after shutdown so you can still export your data. That puts the cutoff at roughly late November 2026. That's a stated minimum, not a guarantee, and it's worth checking Shopify's live page in case it's changed. Migrating itself is still an afternoon of work, not a week. Most of the job is capturing data you already have: suppliers are the one exception, since Stocky never let you export those yourself, even before shutdown. This guide walks through it in order.

Step 1: Get everything out of Stocky (30–45 minutes)

Do this now, while Shopify's read-only export window is still open, even if you haven't picked a replacement yet. The exports are free; losing the data for good is not reversible. For the full detail on each of these (formats, verification, and common mistakes), see the full export walkthrough.

Capture this data:

1. Suppliers: Stocky won't export your suppliers (no CSV, no other format), so document them manually now: names, contacts, emails, lead times, minimum orders into a spreadsheet, while the read-only window is still open.
2. Products and variants with supplier assignments: which supplier sells which SKU, and at what cost (see caveats below)
3. Open and historical purchase orders: for your records and for anything still in transit (see caveats below)
4. Current stock levels: you'll reconcile these against Shopify's inventory anyway, but take the snapshot (see caveats below)

Save the CSVs (and your supplier spreadsheet) somewhere safe with the date in the filename. Even if your next tool imports directly, keep the raw exports as a backup.

Step 2: Decide what you actually need (15 minutes)

Stocky did three jobs for most small stores: reorder suggestions, purchase orders, and receiving/stock counts. Before you look at tools, answer two questions:

• Which of those three jobs do you use weekly? (Be honest: if you never ran stock counts, don't pay for a tool that's all about stock counts.)
• How many SKUs do you buy? Under ~500 SKUs with one location, the mid-market planning tools are more machine than you need. Inventory Planner by Sage doesn't publish a price at all: its pricing page says pricing is based on the volume of inventory you manage and is given on request (read September 6, 2026).

Write your answers down. They're your filter for Step 3.

Step 3: Pick your replacement (the honest checklist)

Whatever tool you choose (including ours), check these five things:

1. Can it import your Stocky data directly? Manual re-entry of hundreds of supplier–SKU assignments is where migrations die. One-click import of suppliers and assignments is the single biggest time-saver.
2. Does it tell you what to order, or just show dashboards? Small stores need decisions ("order 400 units of X by Tuesday"), not charts to interpret.
3. Can it create and send a real purchase order? PDF plus supplier email, not just a note in a dashboard.
4. No per-order or usage fees. A price that climbs with every order or every backorder punishes you for growing. Tiers you move up deliberately are a different thing from a fee you can't predict.
5. Does it work the day you install it? Your read-only export window is closing, not counted in months. A tool that needs a consultant to set up is the wrong tool right now.

Step 4: Migrate (60–90 minutes)

We'll use StockCue as the example: because we built it for exactly this situation, and the import is the part we're most proud of. The general flow applies anywhere:

1. Install the app and connect it to your store.
2. Run the Stocky import. Upload the files you exported under Settings → Import Stocky Data. StockCue auto-detects Stocky's column names and previews every row before writing, bringing across suppliers, product–supplier assignments, and open POs, including the suppliers Stocky never let you export from its own UI.
3. Spot-check ten SKUs. Do the suppliers, costs, and lead times match your records? Fix any mismatches now, not after your first PO.
4. Set reorder alerts. Enter lead times per supplier; the app computes reorder points from your actual sales velocity. This replaces the daily "check sales, check stock, do math in a spreadsheet" routine.
5. Create your first purchase order. Send it to a supplier as a PDF by email. If it goes out clean, you're migrated.

Step 5: There's no "run both" this time, so verify fast

Before the deadline, the standard advice was to run your new tool and Stocky side by side for a week before cutting over. That option is gone: Stocky itself is already read-only, so there's nothing to run purchasing through except your new tool. Instead, spend your first week verifying: create a real purchase order in the new tool, send it to a supplier, and confirm receiving works correctly when it arrives. Once that first PO clears cleanly, you're migrated. Keep Stocky's read-only screens open only as a reference for double-checking historical records, not as a working system.

The one thing not to do

Don't wait to export. Shopify's wording is "read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days" after the shutdown, and it has published no closing date, so there's a floor to plan around and no deadline anyone can quote you. That's a reason to move sooner, not later: every store that missed the August 31 shutdown is working through the same window, and rushed exports are how supplier data gets lost for good. An afternoon this week beats finding out the hard way when it closes.