Stocky shutdown checklist, and what to do before 31 August

Stocky was delisted from the Shopify App Store in February 2026 and stops on 31 August. The API goes at the same time, so anything reading from it stops too.

There is a read-only window afterwards for getting your data out. Do not plan around it. The list below is ordered by what happens if you leave it too late.

What comes out, and what does not

The second column is the one to read twice. Nothing on the top three rows arrives in your admin on its own, so what you export this month is what you will still have in November.

This week: get the data out

Suppliers, by hand. Stocky has no supplier export. There is no button and no CSV. Open the supplier list, copy the names, contacts and terms into a spreadsheet, and keep it where you will find it later. Everything else here can be exported. This one cannot, and the read-only window will not hand you a button that never existed.

Purchase order history. Export it. Historical purchase orders do not migrate into the Shopify admin, so the export is your record of what you bought, at what price, from whom.

Stocktakes. Same again. If you use past stocktakes to argue with a supplier or explain a variance to an accountant, you want them on disk.

Cost prices. Check what Stocky holds that Shopify does not, particularly cost per item and any landed cost you have built up. That data is worth more than the app was, and rebuilding it means going back through invoices. The landed cost calculator is here for when you have to work one out again.

Before the last week: stop starting things in Stocky

Shopify’s own advice is to stop raising new Stocky purchase orders about two weeks before the sunset, and to close off the ones already in flight. Two weeks before is now.

An order half received when the app stops is the worst case. The supplier thinks it is open, Shopify has some of the stock, and the record of what is outstanding is in an app you can no longer open. Close them, or move them to the admin, but do not leave them.

For anything still arriving after the sunset, raise it in the Shopify admin instead. It handles part deliveries, and how to receive a purchase order in Shopify covers what changes when you do.

Then: replace it, job by job

Stocky was four products in a trench coat, and most shops used two of them. Work out which two before you go shopping, because the prices are not close to each other.

Purchase orders and receiving. In the Shopify admin now. Raise the order, receive against it, and the stock updates. If that is all you used Stocky for, you are done and it costs nothing.

Forecasting and reordering. Not in the admin, and this is the expensive gap. The planning apps that fill it start at $49 to $99 a month, which is more than the rest of this list put together.

Suppliers. Not in the admin as a record of its own. Most planning apps carry one, which is a reason to pick that app on suppliers as well as on the forecast.

Barcode labels from a purchase order. Not in the admin either, and this is the one that surprises people. Shopify says plainly that labels print from the product list rather than the purchase order screen, and that quantities do not fill in from a partial receiving. The label apps that fill this gap cost $0 to $20 a month, and several have real free plans. What to do instead is how to print barcode labels from a Shopify purchase order.

Sorted by job, with prices and ratings for each replacement, that is Stocky alternatives by the part you actually used. The full list of what moved and what did not is what Stocky did that Shopify’s admin still does not.

On 1 September

Three checks in your first week without it.

Your stock levels still move when you receive a delivery. Your reorder decisions are coming from somewhere other than memory. And the labels for the stock you received this week actually got printed, because that is the job that quietly stops happening when the tool for it disappears.

If you are reading this after the date

Two things still work in your favour.

The read-only window means your data is probably still reachable, so try the exports before you assume they are gone. Start with suppliers, because that is the list you cannot rebuild from Shopify.

And nothing you have lost affects today’s stock levels. Those live in Shopify, not in Stocky, and they kept working. What you have lost is history and the tools around it, which is a real cost but not an emergency. Fix the jobs in the order they come back at you: labels on the next delivery day, reordering at the end of the month.