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The Stocky shutdown checklist

Stocky stops working on August 31, 2026 — 26 days from today. Most of the advice being written about this says "export your data." That is the easy part. The hard part is that several of the things you most rely on have no export path at all, and you only find out after the deadline, when there is nothing to be done about it.

This page lists what comes out, what doesn't, and which Stocky job each kind of replacement actually covers. It is not a pitch — we cover one of the five jobs below and say so plainly. Everything is sourced, and claims from Shopify are marked separately from claims made by merchants.

The actual timeline

  1. 2025

    Demand forecasting and inventory transfers removed. If you still use those, you have already replaced them.

  2. February 2, 2026

    Stocky delisted from the Shopify App Store. Existing users kept access.

  3. August 31, 2026

    Stocky stops working. Shopify's wording: it "won't be available after August 31, 2026."

  4. At least 90 days after

    Read-only access to export your data. Shopify says "at least," and has not published a deletion date — so this is a floor, not a plan.

Dates from Shopify's official migration guide.

What survives the export

Worst first. The things at the top of this list are the ones worth spending your remaining time on, because no tool and no amount of money will get them back afterwards.

  • Suppliers

    No export path

    There is no supplier export. Shopify states suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky. Names, contacts, payment terms, minimum order quantities and lead times have to be copied out by hand, screen by screen.

    Source: Shopify's migration guide

  • Supplier notes and context

    No export path

    The free-text notes attached to a supplier — who runs late in Q4, who needs a call before an order, which factory had the quality problem — have no export path at all. Merchants in the community threads describe this as the single hardest thing to reconstruct, because it was never written down anywhere else.

    Source: merchant reports in the Shopify Community. Verify against your own store.

  • Par levels and reorder points

    No export path

    Reorder points you tuned over years do not appear in the CSV export or in the API documentation. If you want them, record them manually before August 31.

    Source: merchant reports in the Shopify Community. Verify against your own store.

  • Received dates

    API only

    The date stock actually arrived — as opposed to the date the PO was raised — is reported to be reachable through the API but absent from the standard CSV export. This is what your real supplier lead times are calculated from. Losing it means relearning them from scratch.

    Source: merchant reports in the Shopify Community. Verify against your own store.

  • Cost history per delivery

    API only

    Current cost per product exports fine. The trail of what you paid on each delivery over time is reported to be API-only, and it is what tells you a supplier has quietly raised prices three times in a year.

    Source: merchant reports in the Shopify Community. Verify against your own store.

  • Purchase orders

    Exports

    PO headers and line items export as CSV. They will not automatically move into Shopify — Shopify is explicit that historical purchase orders do not transfer — so keep the file somewhere you can still read it in three years.

    Source: Shopify's migration guide

  • Stocktake history

    Exports

    Stocktake records export as CSV. Same caveat: they do not migrate into Shopify, so the export is the only copy you will have.

    Source: Shopify's migration guide

The one thing to do today: open Stocky, go to your supplier list, and copy it into a spreadsheet by hand — contacts, terms, minimum order quantities, lead times and the notes. It is the only item on this list with no export path whatsoever, and it is the one that takes longest to rebuild from memory.

Which job are you actually replacing?

Stocky did five separate jobs, and almost nothing does all five. Most of the frustration in the community threads comes from merchants evaluating a purchase-order tool against a reporting need, or the reverse. Work out which of these you actually used it for first.

  • Purchase orders and receiving

    Inventory Surplus does not do this

    Shopify's native purchase orders now cover the basic loop. Merchants in the threads consistently report gaps around partial receipts, landed cost and CSV export, so check those specific things against how you actually work before committing.

  • Supplier records

    Inventory Surplus does not do this

    Somewhere to keep contacts, terms, MOQs and lead times. Since nothing exports from Stocky, you are rebuilding this by hand regardless of what you choose — which means a spreadsheet is a legitimate answer.

  • Demand forecasting and reorder points

    Inventory Surplus does not do this

    Stocky's forecasting was removed in 2025, so if you are still using it you have already replaced this. Dedicated forecasting tools are the most expensive category on the board.

  • Stocktakes

    Inventory Surplus does not do this

    Counting and reconciliation. Several apps in the App Store cover this specifically; it is the most commoditised of the five jobs.

  • Finding and clearing what isn't selling

    Inventory Surplus covers this

    The reporting job: which SKUs have stopped moving, how much cash they are holding, and what to do about each one. This is the one Stocky users tend to notice last and miss most, because Stocky's reports made it visible without anyone having to ask for it.

We are not going to publish a ranked list of apps we compete with and pretend it is impartial. The App Store's inventory optimization category and the Stocky tag on the Shopify Community are better places to compare, and the threads there include merchants who have already switched.

The part we do

Inventory Surplus finds the SKUs that have stopped selling, totals the cash they're holding, and gives you a clearance price for each one. It does not do purchase orders, receiving, suppliers, stocktakes or forecasting, and it will not import your Stocky history. If the report you'll miss is "what isn't moving and what is it costing me," that's the gap it fills. Free for up to 100 SKUs.

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Questions

When exactly does Stocky stop working?
August 31, 2026. Shopify's migration guide states Stocky won't be available after that date. It was delisted from the Shopify App Store in February 2026, and demand forecasting and inventory transfers were removed in 2025, so parts of it have been gone for a while already.
How long do I have to export my data after August 31?
Shopify commits to read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days after the shutdown date. Treat that as a floor rather than a guarantee: Shopify has not published a date on which the data is deleted, and read-only access to an app you can no longer operate is not a good place to keep your only copy.
What can't I export from Stocky?
Suppliers cannot be exported — Shopify says so directly. Merchants in the Shopify Community also report that supplier notes and par levels have no export path in either the CSV export or the API, and that received dates and per-delivery cost history are reachable through the API but missing from the standard CSV.
Do my old purchase orders move into Shopify automatically?
No. Shopify is explicit that historical purchase orders and stocktakes do not automatically move into Shopify after August 31, 2026. They export as CSV, and that file is the only copy you will have.
Does Inventory Surplus replace Stocky?
Only one part of it. Inventory Surplus does not do purchase orders, receiving, suppliers, stocktakes or forecasting, and it will not import your Stocky history. It covers the reporting job — which SKUs have stopped selling, how much cash they're holding, and what to do about each one. If you need the purchase-order side, you need a different app, and this page says which category to look in.

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