Shopify Stocky Has Shut Down: An Honest Guide to What Replaces It

Stocky stopped working on August 31, 2026. Shopify Admin now handles purchase orders, transfers and receiving, and Sidekick can suggest what to reorder. For most Shopify-only stores that is enough. Brands that relied on Stocky for safety stock, reorder points or lead-time-based ordering need another tool or a spreadsheet.

Full disclosure before anything else: Planster makes demand and supply planning software, so we are one of the options at the end. This guide tries to say plainly when the free option is the right one.

Shopify delisted Stocky from the App Store on February 2, 2026, and its APIs stopped working on the shutdown date.

What happened to Stocky?

Stocky shipped free with Shopify POS Pro and did two different jobs:

• Inventory operations: purchase orders, receiving, stock transfers, counts and supplier records.
• Inventory planning: demand forecasting, reorder suggestions and stock recommendations.

Shopify has moved the operations half into Shopify Admin. Purchase orders, transfers between locations, receiving, adjustments and stock counts are all native, and that migration works.

Part of the planning half has moved too, through Sidekick, Shopify's built-in assistant. Shopify's transition guide says Sidekick can recommend items to reorder based on sales data, draft the purchase order or transfer, and help you forecast demand. Shopify also lets you set minimum and maximum stock limits, which Sidekick respects when it drafts an order.

What the guide does not describe is how that forecast is built, a safety stock calculation, a service-level target, or order dates worked back from supplier lead times. Those were the reasons some brands used Stocky's planning features, and they are the gap that remains.

What should you do with your Stocky data now?

Do this regardless of which direction you go, because it is the only part you cannot redo later.

• Export now. Shopify gives read-only access to export Stocky data for at least 90 days after the shutdown date.
• Suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky. Rebuild supplier records by hand in Shopify Admin.
• Historical purchase orders cannot be imported into Shopify Admin. Keep the exported purchase order reports, stocktake history and cost data as your record.

Step-by-step, in the order the steps depend on each other: the Stocky export checklist.

Which half of Stocky did you use?

This is the whole decision.

If you mostly used Stocky to run operations

You created purchase orders, received stock, moved inventory between locations and ran counts. Shopify Admin covers this. It is native, included in your plan, and where Shopify is putting its development effort. Paying for a tool to do the same thing is a poor trade.

If you used Stocky to decide what to order

You used its forecasting or reorder suggestions to set purchase quantities and timing. Start with Sidekick: ask it what to reorder and compare its suggestions with what you would have ordered. If your demand is steady and your lead times are short, that may be enough.

If you need safety stock sized to your demand variability, order dates worked back from supplier lead times, or a forecast you can inspect and adjust per SKU, Shopify does not document those, and you will need another tool or a spreadsheet. Low-stock alerts through Shopify Flow are not a substitute: an alert fires when you are already low, which is often after the date you needed to order.

When is Shopify Admin the better fit?

For many former Stocky users, this guide ends here. Shopify Admin is the better fit when:

• Your ordering decisions are already obvious: steady demand, short lead times, few SKUs
• You sell on Shopify and nowhere else that matters to your plan
• Sidekick's reorder suggestions match what you would have ordered anyway

None of those are consolation prizes. Admin is included, it is the system your staff already use, and adding a paid tool to repeat what it does is a poor trade.

Why does the gap show up later?

Nothing breaks the day Stocky goes dark. Purchase orders still work and transfers still work, which is why the gap is easy to miss.

It shows up the first time you plan a peak season without a forecast you can check: no visible seasonality, no safety stock sized to demand variability, no order date worked back from lead time. If a large purchase order is wrong on the short side, the next decision is whether to keep taking orders you cannot ship yet, which is a backorder and a commercial decision as much as an inventory one.

What are the options, and what do they cost?

Roughly in order of cost, with what each is good for.

1. Shopify Admin with Sidekick: included

Best for: stores whose needs are mostly operational, with steady, predictable demand.

Native, included in your plan, and no migration beyond what Shopify walks you through. Sidekick adds reorder suggestions and drafted purchase orders. Shopify does not document safety stock or lead-time-based ordering.

2. Admin plus a spreadsheet: included, plus your time

Best for: a manageable SKU count, one channel that matters, and someone willing to own the file.

This works at small scale. It stops working when SKUs multiply, when you add channels, or when the person who built the file is away. The usual failure is not a wrong number but a stale one.

3. A Shopify inventory app

Best for: Shopify-centric brands that want forecasting back without a large platform decision.

This is the like-for-like replacement tier, and most former Stocky users should look here first. Prediko is priced on your trailing-12-month GMV, starting at $49/month under $100k GMV and stepping up through brackets from there, with raw materials and BOMs as a $20 per month add-on. Its agent, Pia, sends daily inventory updates by email and chat and drafts purchase orders.

Cogsy, which earlier versions of this guide listed here, has been discontinued and is no longer available.

When Prediko is the better fit

Prediko is the better fit when your business runs on Shopify, you are well below $50M in revenue, and you want forecasting and drafted purchase orders at a low monthly price. It is built around Shopify, which is the right trade if Shopify is where your demand is.

4. A multichannel planning platform

Best for: brands and manufacturers selling through retail, wholesale and Amazon as well as Shopify, where a wrong buying decision costs more than the software.

Inventory Planner is a long-established option, priced by quote on the volume of inventory you manage, and it has a prebuilt report catalogue. Planster is in this tier too; the next section says where it fits.

Where does Planster fit, and where doesn't it?

Planster is demand and supply planning software for consumable CPG brands and manufacturers between $50M and $500M, selling across retail, wholesale, DTC and Amazon. It reads from Shopify and your other channels and sits alongside Shopify Admin rather than replacing it.

• Forecasting. Each SKU gets the statistical model that fits its history best: Prophet, ETS, SARIMA or linear regression. See demand forecasting.
• Supply planning. Reorder points are worked from the forecast, lead times and MOQs, and safety stock is held in days of cover that convert to units from the forecast. See reorder recommendations.
• Scenarios and retail deals. Scenario planning shows the purchase orders and cash a promotion or launch commits before you approve it, and retail deal planning puts a retailer launch into the forecast with the date you have to order by.
• Daily checks. Every night Planster re-checks every SKU, open order and channel and sends a ranked list of what needs a decision, with the purchase orders already drafted.

The Plan tier, the full app for brands that buy finished goods, is $999/month. Pilot, at $99/month, puts the Planster agent on one of your systems and works through chat. Full details are on the pricing page, and the Shopify Admin comparison sets out where Admin stops and a planning tool starts.

Planster is the wrong choice when:

• You sell mainly on Shopify and are well below $50M. Option 3 fits better.
• Your needs are operational. Shopify Admin already covers them.
• You want reports ready on day one. Planster's reporting is custom: you build the reports you need, and there is no prebuilt catalogue. Inventory Planner has one.
• You want a long track record. Planster is newer than most tools on this list.

Planster drafts purchase orders and flags decisions; it cannot approve an order or send anything to a supplier without a person approving it.

What should you search for?

Searching "Stocky replacement" mostly surfaces option 3, because that is the tier that competed with Stocky directly. That is the right search if you want operations and light forecasting back in one app.

If Shopify Admin already covers your operations, you are no longer shopping for a Stocky replacement. You are shopping for a planning tool, which is a narrower and more expensive category. Knowing which of the two you need saves a month of demos.

The short version

1. Export your Stocky data now, during the read-only period. Suppliers cannot be exported, so rebuild them by hand.
2. Run operations in Shopify Admin. It is native and it works.
3. Try Sidekick's reorder suggestions before buying anything.
4. If you need safety stock, lead-time-based order dates or a forecast you can inspect, look at option 3 first.
5. Look at option 4 only if you sell well beyond Shopify and a wrong purchase order costs more than the software.