The Stocky Export Checklist: What to Pull Before August 31, 2026

Exporting is the only part of the Stocky shutdown that is genuinely irreversible. Everything else is a decision you can revisit; this is a file you either have or you don't.

Work down this list in order. The order matters — the last two steps depend on the first three.

What can you actually export from Stocky?

Three things, per Shopify's own migration documentation:

Pull all three even if you cannot imagine needing them. The files are small and the alternative is a reconstruction project.

One thing to do before you export: close out what you can. Anything sitting in a draft or partially received purchase order is in a state the export was not designed around. Receive what has arrived, cancel what is dead, then export.

What can't be exported, and what that costs

Two hard limits, both worth planning around rather than discovering.

Suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky. This is the one that catches people. It is not a format problem you can work around with a clever query — there is no supplier export. Everything you know about a supplier lives either in your head, in your email, or implicitly in the purchase order history you just downloaded.

What you actually have to rebuild, per supplier:

• Contact details and the person you actually deal with
• Lead time, and how much it really varies from the quoted number
• Minimum order quantities and case-pack or container constraints
• Payment terms
• Unit costs, and how they have moved

The PO export gets you the last two and lets you infer lead time from order and receipt dates. The rest is manual.

Historical purchase orders cannot be imported into Shopify. The CSVs you just pulled are for your own records and for whatever you move to next. They do not load back into Shopify Admin. If you plan to run supplier scorecards or landed cost analysis on past orders, that analysis now happens in your files, not in the platform.

How long do you have after August 31?

Shopify says you will have read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days after August 31, 2026.

Read the wording carefully. It is a minimum, not a commitment to a date, and it is read-only — enough to retrieve something you missed, not enough to run a migration through. Treat August 31 as the deadline and the window as insurance.

The related deadline is quieter and worse: any Stocky APIs stop working on August 31, 2026. If anything you own reads from Stocky programmatically — a reporting script, a middleware connector, a spreadsheet someone wired up years ago — it stops that day, and it will fail silently rather than loudly.

Do not uninstall Stocky to tidy up

Stocky was delisted from the Shopify App Store on February 2, 2026. You cannot reinstall it.

So the instinct to uninstall the app once you have "finished" is the one genuinely unrecoverable mistake available here. Leave it installed until the date passes. There is no upside to removing it early and no way back if you were wrong about having exported everything.

When Shopify Admin is all you need

For a lot of former Stocky users, the export is the hard part and the rest is straightforward: purchase orders, transfers, receiving, quantity adjustments and inventory history are all native in Shopify Admin now. If that is the half of Stocky you used, migrate and stop reading. It is included, it works, and paying for a tool to do what Admin now does for free is a bad trade.

Where Shopify Admin genuinely does not follow is the planning half — demand forecasting from sales velocity and seasonality, reorder points, and safety stock sized to actual demand variability. Those were the lighter half of what Stocky did and they did not make the move.

Which half you used is the whole decision, and we walk through it properly in the honest guide to what replaces Stocky. The head-to-head on what Admin does and does not cover is in Planster vs Shopify Admin, and if you want to know what the planning layer costs before you go looking, our pricing is flat and on one page.

The supplier records you are about to rebuild by hand are worth rebuilding somewhere the terms actually drive your ordering — see supplier management — and the purchase-order history you are exporting is the input a demand forecast needs before it can tell you what to order next.

The order to do it in

1. Close out draft and partially received purchase orders.
2. Export completed purchase order reports, stocktake history, and cost data.
3. Rebuild supplier records by hand, working from the PO export. Start this first, it takes longest.
4. Find anything that reads the Stocky API and rewire it.
5. Migrate operations to Shopify Admin.
6. Leave Stocky installed until September.