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Stocky is going away. Here's what to actually look for in a replacement.
Shopify is retiring Stocky on August, 31st, 2026 and you're now shopping for a replacement. This post is the checklist we wish existed: what to evaluate, what to ignore, and the questions to ask any vendor (including us) before you commit.
July 13, 2026
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Shopify is retiring Stocky on August, 31st, 2026 and if you're one of the thousands of independent retailers who quietly ran your purchasing on it for years, you're now shopping for a replacement you never wanted to need.
We've been talking to Stocky users every week, and one retailer described the situation better than we could: she felt "between a rock and a hard place." The apps that come up when you search for a replacement are either full inventory-management platforms built for warehouses and 3PLs — priced accordingly — or lightweight tools that are missing one of the three things she actually used every day.
This post is the checklist we wish existed: what to evaluate, what to ignore, and the questions to ask any vendor (including us) before you commit.
What Stocky users actually used
Stocky could do a lot, and different stores used it in very different ways. But for most independent retailers — the boutique, the toy store, the coffee roaster with a retail counter — the daily workload came down to three workflows:
- Purchase ordering — creating POs for your suppliers, with current costs.
- Receiving — checking product in when it arrives, usually with a barcode scanner at the register.
- Counting — periodic stock takes, often just once a year.
If that describes you, write those three down. That's your requirements list. Everything else — demand forecasting, multi-warehouse transfer orders, 3PL syncing — is a feature you'll be paying for and navigating around, not using.
The trap: replacing a free tool with a platform
The biggest risk in this migration isn't picking a tool that's missing a feature. It's over-buying: replacing a free, focused tool with a $200+/month inventory platform because its comparison chart had the most checkmarks.
Bloat has a real daily cost. Every workflow in a big platform has more screens, more settings, and more concepts (bins, zones, wave picking) that exist for operations ten times your size. Your staff has to learn it. And when the PO screen is buried under a warehouse-management interface, the tool stops getting used.
The right question isn't "which replacement has the most features?" It's "which replacement does my three workflows with the least friction?"
The checklist: 7 questions to ask any Stocky replacement
1. When I create a PO, does it only show me products from that supplier? This was a longstanding Stocky annoyance — searching for a product showed your entire catalog, not just the vendor you were ordering from. If you carry a few thousand SKUs across dozens of suppliers, supplier-filtered search is the difference between a five-minute PO and a twenty-minute one. Watch this specifically in any demo.
2. Can my staff receive with a barcode scanner — without a separate login? Receiving happens at the counter, between customers, often by part-time staff. If receiving requires logging into a separate website (as Stocky did), it gets skipped and your counts drift. Look for a Shopify-native app that opens inside the Shopify admin your staff already uses, and confirm the scanner works directly on the receiving screen — scan an item and it should find the line, no clicking into a field first.
3. How do stock takes work? You need to scan or count, upload the results, and have Shopify inventory adjust. Once a year, maybe quarterly. It doesn't need to be fancy; it needs to not fight you.
4. Does my PO become a bill in QuickBooks automatically? Here's the sleeper question, and the one Stocky never answered. Your purchase order already contains everything your bookkeeper needs — vendor, line items, amounts, payment terms. In most stores, someone still retypes that invoice into QuickBooks Online by hand. If your replacement can push the received PO into QBO as a bill, you're not just replacing Stocky — you're deleting a second job you'd stopped noticing you were doing.
5. Will they migrate my data — including receiving history? Supplier records, cost history, receiving history: rebuilding these by hand is days of work, and losing cost history breaks your margin reporting. Ask specifically whether migration from Stocky is included, what it covers, and whether there's a deadline.
6. What are the contract terms? You're replacing a free tool under a deadline — the last thing you should accept is an annual lock-in from a vendor you haven't lived with. Month-to-month, cancel anytime, is the fair standard. (Our CEO ran retail stores before Bookkeep and got burned by enough locked-in software contracts that we simply don't do them.)
7. What does it cost at your size? Get the real number for your revenue tier, not the "starting at" price. And compare it honestly against what Stocky cost you: nothing in subscription fees, but something in workarounds, double entry, and separate logins.
Where Bookkeep fits — including what we don't do
We built Bookkeep Inventory as a Stocky replacement for exactly the three core workflows above: ordering, receiving, and counting. It's Shopify-native (no separate login), receiving supports barcode scanning directly on-screen, POs can be built by supplier-filtered search, CSV import, or duplicating a previous order — and because accounting automation is our core business, a received PO can post to QuickBooks Online as a bill automatically.
In the spirit of question-asking, here's the honest scoping:
- Predictive ordering isn't in it today. Stocky's demand-forecasting features are on our roadmap, not in the current app. If forecasting was your primary Stocky workflow, we're not your replacement yet.
- Retail price edits happen in Shopify. Stocky let you adjust retail prices while building a PO; in our app, price changes are made in Shopify itself, where your catalog lives.
- It's not free. Stocky was. Standalone, our inventory app starts at $49/month, and it's included with our accounting plans. If all you need is a PO tool and the QuickBooks connection isn't interesting to you, there may be cheaper single-purpose options — we'd rather tell you that here than after you've migrated.
Migration: we're migrating Stocky data — supplier records and receiving history — free for anyone who signs up by July 31. After that it may still be possible, but we can't promise the white-glove treatment.
The deadline math
Whatever you choose, don't run this migration in December. You want your replacement installed, your suppliers migrated, and your staff comfortable receiving on it well before Q4 buying starts. Working backward, that means picking a tool in the next few weeks.
Start a free trial or if you want to see the receiving and PO workflow live first, book 15 minutes with us.
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