Looking for a Stocky alternative?

Stocky is gone. What replaces it depends on whether you buy stock or make it.

Shopify retired Stocky on 31 August 2026. If you resell finished goods, Shopify's built-in inventory tools will probably cover you. If you manufacture what you sell — raw materials in, batches out — you're back to the gap Stocky never filled either.

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Catches low stock before you run out

Inventory Live

Item	On hand	Status
Lavender Body Butter 200ml	412	In stock
Amber glass jar, 200ml	1,240	In stock
Vitamin C Serum 30ml	38	Low
Shea butter, refined	6.2 kg	In stock

Raw materials and finished goods, always current

Reorder points Watching

Material	On hand	Reorder at
L-ascorbic acid	0.4 kg	1.0 kg
Dropper bottle, 30ml	90	250
Shea butter, refined	6.2 kg	4.0 kg
Amber glass jar, 200ml	1,240	400

2 materials below reorder point — restock before you run out

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What actually happened to Stocky

It wasn't sudden — Shopify wound it down over about fourteen months.

July 2025

Inventory transfers between locations and min/max forecasting were removed. For a lot of merchants this was the point Stocky stopped being useful, a year before it stopped existing.

Feb 2026

Stocky was pulled from the Shopify App Store. No new installs, and no reinstalling it if you removed it.

31 Aug 2026

Stocky stopped functioning and its APIs went dark. Shopify points merchants at the inventory management built into Shopify admin.

If you haven't exported yet: supplier records were the one thing Stocky never exported cleanly. Purchase order history and inventory counts could be pulled out, but supplier contacts, lead times and minimum order quantities generally had to be copied out by hand. If you're reading this after the shutdown and didn't capture them, rebuild that list from your purchase invoices rather than from memory — it's the piece people miss.

For the full background — why Shopify wound it down, what each removed feature did, and what the built-in replacement covers — see Shopify Stocky discontinued: what happened and what to do next.

The honest answer: it depends what you sell

Most "Stocky alternative" lists skip this question. It's the only one that matters.

You buy finished goods and resell them

Stocky was built for you — purchase orders, stocktakes, demand-based reorder suggestions. Shopify's built-in inventory management now covers most of that, and it's included in your plan.

Our advice: start there. Try the built-in tools before you pay for anything. If you hit a wall on multi-location purchasing or forecasting depth, that's when a dedicated replenishment tool earns its price — and it probably isn't us.

You make what you sell

Then Stocky was always a partial fix. It counted finished units. It never knew that a candle is 180g of soy wax, a wick, a jar and 20 minutes of your time — so it couldn't tell you what a candle cost, or how many you could still make.

Shopify's replacement has the same gap. Built-in inventory counts finished goods too. If the thing you actually need is materials, recipes and real cost per unit, no amount of retail replenishment fixes it.

Stocky, Shopify built-in, and Stocksmith

What each one covers for a business that manufactures its own products.

	Stocky (retired)	Shopify built-in	Stocksmith
Status	Shut down 31 Aug 2026	Included with Shopify	From $20/mo
Finished-goods stock levels	✓	✓	✓
Purchase orders	✓ Core strength	✓	✓ With material receipting
Raw materials tracked separately	—	—	✓ Core feature
Bills of materials / recipes	—	—	✓ Multi-level
Batch / production records	—	—	✓
Cost per unit & COGS	—	—	✓ Weighted average
Batch & lot traceability	—	—	✓ Indie and above
Demand forecasting	✓ Removed Jul 2025	Basic	— Not our strength
Multi-location transfers	✓ Removed Jul 2025	✓	✓
Channels beyond Shopify	— Shopify only	— Shopify only	✓ Studio and above

Stocky and Shopify feature detail reflects Shopify's published deprecation notices and admin documentation as of August 2026. Stocksmith's Pro plan connects one sales channel; unlimited channels start at Studio.

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What you get instead

Stock counted in materials, not just finished units

Every material gets its own record — wax, oils, jars, labels, components. Record a production run and the materials come off automatically while the finished goods go on. What the app shows you is what's actually on the shelf, without a month-end reconciliation.

Reorder points on materials, not only products
Automatic deduction when you record a batch
“How many can I still make?” answered from real stock

Manufacture · 120 unitsLavender Body Butter

Shea butter, refined− 9.6 kg

Lavender essential oil− 480 ml

Amber glass jar, 200ml− 120

Lavender Body Butter 200ml+ 120

3 materials deducted · 120 units added to stock

A cost per unit that stays true when prices move

Stocky tracked quantities. It never tracked what those quantities cost you. Stocksmith uses weighted average costing across your material purchases, so when your wax supplier raises prices by 12%, every product containing that wax re-costs itself and your margins update with it.

Cost per unit built from your actual purchase history
COGS reporting your accountant can work from
Margin by product, batch and channel

Cost & margin per unit

Materials$3.10

Labour$0.80

Overhead$0.28

True cost per unit$4.18

Sell price$18.00

Gross margin76.8%

Material price up? Your margin recalculates instantly

Keep selling on Shopify. Nothing about that changes.

Stocksmith sits behind Shopify rather than replacing it. Orders import automatically, stock adjusts, COGS updates. You carry on running your storefront exactly as you do now — the manufacturing layer is the part that's new.

And if you also sell at markets, on Etsy, or wholesale through Faire, those pull from the same stock pool instead of a second spreadsheet.

How the Shopify integration works →

Order activity Syncing

Shopify

Order #1043 · 3 items

2 min ago

stock −3

Faire

Wholesale · 24 units

18 min ago

stock −24

Amazon

Order 114-220 · 1 item

1 hr ago

Low: Serum

One stock count across every channel

Where Stocksmith isn't the Stocky replacement you want

We'd rather say this now than have you find out in week two.

You're a pure reseller

If you buy finished goods and sell them on, you don't have bills of materials and you won't use most of what you'd be paying for. Shopify's built-in inventory or a dedicated replenishment app is a better fit.

Purchasing automation was the whole point

Stocky's demand-based reorder suggestions were genuinely good. Stocksmith has reorder points and low-stock alerts, but not forecasting that models supplier lead times and sales velocity into a suggested PO.

You need retail POS depth

Stocky was tightly bound to Shopify POS and physical retail workflows. If your operation is store-first with stocktakes across several shopfronts, that's a retail problem and we're a manufacturing tool.

You want it free

Stocky cost nothing to install, and that's a hard act to follow. Stocksmith starts at $20/mo billed annually. If budget is the binding constraint right now, Shopify's built-in tools plus a costing spreadsheet is a legitimate stopgap.

Weighing up several options? Our comparison hub covers the tools small manufacturers most often look at side by side.

Stocksmith connects everywhere you sell

Import orders automatically and sync stock levels across all your channels — so you never oversell or run out of stock.

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Stocky shutdown — common questions

When exactly did Shopify Stocky shut down?

31 August 2026. Stocky stopped functioning on that date and its APIs stopped responding. The wind-down ran in stages: inventory transfers and min/max forecasting were removed in July 2025, and the app was delisted from the Shopify App Store in February 2026, which meant no new installs or reinstalls from that point on.

What is Shopify's official replacement for Stocky?

Shopify points merchants at the inventory management built into Shopify admin. For retailers reselling finished goods, that covers most of what Stocky did. For manufacturers it has the same limitation Stocky had — it counts finished products, so it can't track the raw materials those products are made from, hold a bill of materials, or work out a cost per unit.

Can I still get my data out of Stocky?

Not after 31 August 2026 — the app and its APIs are both off. If you exported before the deadline you'll have purchase order history and inventory counts. Supplier records were the weak point: supplier contacts, lead times and minimum order quantities were not part of a clean export and generally had to be copied out manually. If you missed them, rebuilding from past purchase invoices is more reliable than working from memory.

Do I actually need a paid app now Stocky is gone?

Often not. If you resell finished goods, try Shopify's built-in inventory management first — it's included in your plan and it covers the common cases. The one situation where it genuinely won't stretch is manufacturing: if your products are made from materials you buy and combine, no finished-goods counter can tell you your cost per unit or how many units you can still build. That's the gap worth paying to close.

Does Stocksmith replace Stocky's purchase ordering?

Partly, and it's worth being precise about which part. Stocksmith handles purchase orders and receipting against materials, so receiving a delivery updates your material stock and feeds your weighted average cost. What it doesn't do is Stocky's demand-based reorder suggestion — modelling sales velocity and supplier lead time into a recommended order quantity. You get reorder points and low-stock alerts instead, which is a simpler mechanism.

How much does Stocksmith cost compared to Stocky?

Stocky cost nothing to install, so any paid tool is a step up in cost. Stocksmith starts at $20/mo billed annually on Pro, which connects one sales channel. $41/mo on Studio adds unlimited sales channels, and $83/mo on Indie adds batch and lot tracking, traceability reports and unlimited users. There's a 14-day trial with no card required.

Replacing Stocky with something that understands manufacturing

14 days free, no credit card. Import your materials, build one recipe, and see the real cost of a product you've been selling for years — most people get that far in the first sitting.

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