# Stocky alternatives, by the part of Stocky you actually used > Stocky was four tools in one and it was free. Here is what replaces each part, what each replacement costs, and what you can skip if you only used one. - Source: https://storestandards.com/blog/stocky-alternatives/ - Published: 2026-08-17 - Author: Marcus Ilori, Support lead, Store Standards - Topics: Receiving, Operations ## Key points - Stocky was four tools in one. Work out which of them you opened before you shop, because most shops used two. - Purchase orders, receiving and transfers are now in the Shopify admin, at no extra cost. - Forecasting is the expensive gap at $49 to $199 a month. Labels are the frequent one at $0 to $20. --- Nearly every list of Stocky alternatives compares whole apps against each other. That is the wrong shape for the problem. Stocky was not one product. It was four, sold together, and free with [Shopify POS Pro](https://storestandards.com/glossary/shopify-pos/). Almost nobody used all four. So the useful question is not "what replaces Stocky". It is "what replaces the parts of Stocky I actually opened, and what does that cost". ## The five jobs, and what covers each Prices below were read from each app's own App Store listing on 17 August 2026. App pricing moves, so check before you buy.
What Stocky did What covers it now From
Purchase orders, receiving, transfers The Shopify admin Included
Barcode labels from a delivery A label app $0 to $19.99
Forecasting and reorder suggestions A demand planning app $49 to $199
Supplier records Usually the same planning app Included with it
Stocktakes with a history A spreadsheet, or an inventory app $0 upwards
## Purchase orders, receiving and transfers **Covered, and it is free.** This is the part that moved into the Shopify admin. You can raise a [purchase order](https://storestandards.com/glossary/purchase-order/), receive against it in parts, and watch the stock update. If this was all you used Stocky for, stop reading and spend nothing. You are already migrated. The steps are in [how to receive a purchase order in Shopify](https://storestandards.com/blog/receive-a-purchase-order-in-shopify/). ## Forecasting and reordering **Not covered, and this is the expensive one.** Stocky suggested what to reorder and when. The admin does not. It is also the most crowded category, which is why most Stocky alternative articles you find were written by companies in it. Four names come up repeatedly. Ratings and prices are from their listings on 17 August 2026: - **Prediko**, 4.9 from 231 reviews, $49 a month - **Sumtracker**, 4.8 from 115 reviews, free to install, then $59 - **Fabrikatör**, 4.8 from 105 reviews, $99 a month - **Inventory Planner by Sage**, 4.4 from 130 reviews, free to install and then priced on a quote, billed outside Shopify Two things to notice. The entry price is around $50, which is more than the label apps and the receiving apps put together. And "free to install" here means a trial rather than a free plan, so read the pricing page before you count on it. If you carry a few dozen lines, you may not need any of them. A [reorder point](https://storestandards.com/glossary/reorder-point/) per line, reviewed each quarter, does most of the work. There is a [reorder point calculator](https://storestandards.com/tools/reorder-point-calculator/) here for setting them, and a [safety stock calculator](https://storestandards.com/tools/safety-stock-calculator/) for the buffer underneath. ## Suppliers **Not covered as a record.** The admin has no supplier object holding terms and lead times. Most planning apps carry one, which is a reason to choose that app on this as well as on the forecast. Export your supplier list from Stocky first. There is no export button, so it means copying names, contacts and terms into a spreadsheet by hand. It is the single most time-critical item in [the Stocky shutdown checklist](https://storestandards.com/blog/stocky-shutdown-checklist/), because it is the one thing the read-only window afterwards cannot give you. ## Stocktakes **Partly covered.** You can count and adjust in the admin. What you lose is the count as a kept record with a variance you can go back to, which matters when you argue with a supplier or explain shrinkage to an accountant. Some inventory apps carry proper [stocktake](https://storestandards.com/glossary/stocktake/) workflows. A spreadsheet and the [stock accuracy scorecard](https://storestandards.com/tools/stock-accuracy-scorecard/) cover a small shop, and the reasons counts go wrong in the first place are in [why your Shopify stock count drifts](https://storestandards.com/blog/why-shopify-stock-counts-drift/). ## Barcode labels from a purchase order **Not covered.** Shopify says so directly. Labels print from the product list rather than the purchase order screen, and quantities do not fill in from a partial [receiving](https://storestandards.com/glossary/receiving/). A category of app appeared in mid 2026 aimed at exactly this gap, ours included, so treat what follows accordingly. The prices are low and the free plans are real: - Shopify's own [Retail Barcode Labels](https://storestandards.com/compare/retail-barcode-labels-alternatives/) is free, and rated 2.3 from 466 reviews. It prints from your product list, so the quantities are yours to work out. - [FlochLabels](https://storestandards.com/compare/flochlabels-alternatives/) and [AOP PO Label Printer](https://storestandards.com/compare/aop-po-label-printer-alternatives/) both have free plans and both charge $9.99 for more volume. - [Receivio](https://storestandards.com/compare/receivio-alternatives/) at $19 and [StockKit](https://storestandards.com/compare/stockkit-alternatives/) at $14 do the receiving as well as the labels, so they overlap with the admin. How they differ on the thing that matters, which is where the label count comes from, is in [Shopify apps that print barcode labels from a purchase order](https://storestandards.com/compare/best-shopify-barcode-label-printing-apps/). If you would rather install nothing, the free routes are in [how to print barcode labels from a Shopify purchase order](https://storestandards.com/blog/print-barcode-labels-after-stocky/). ## What it adds up to Three shapes of shop, using the numbers above. **You used purchase orders and receiving.** Your bill is nothing. The admin does both, and you were migrated the day it shipped. **You used purchase orders and labels.** Between nothing and about $20 a month, depending on how many labels you print. Both label apps with free plans stop somewhere between 200 and 500 labels a month, which is a real month of deliveries for a small shop. **You used forecasting too.** Somewhere between $50 and $200 a month, and the planning app is nearly all of it. This is the case where Stocky being free with POS Pro really shows, and it is worth being sure you used the forecast rather than glanced at it. ## How to shop Write down which of the five headings above you opened Stocky for in the last month. Not which sounded useful. Which you opened. Most shops land on two. If they are purchase orders and labels, you need the admin and one small app. If they are forecasting and suppliers, you need one larger app, chosen on the forecast. If it is all five, price a full replacement and expect it to cost more than Stocky did. The rest of what moved and what did not is in [what Stocky did that Shopify's admin still does not](https://storestandards.com/blog/stocky-gaps-shopify-admin/).