Stocky is shutting down: what Shopify merchants need to do before August 31, 2026

If you run inventory through Shopify POS, you have probably leaned on Stocky for purchase orders, stock counts, and reorder suggestions. That era is ending: Stocky is being retired on August 31, 2026. After that date you should not count on it to plan a single purchase order.

The good news is that a deadline this clear is easy to plan around. The merchants who get hurt are the ones who wait until the last week, when their catalog, suppliers, and lead times are all still locked inside an app that no longer works.

What actually changes

Stocky is a planning layer that sits on top of your Shopify data. When it goes away, your products, orders, and on-hand quantities still live safely in Shopify. What you lose is the intelligence built on top of them:

• Supplier records, lead times, and costs you entered by hand
• Reorder points and the demand history behind them
• Open and historical purchase orders
• Stock-count workflows and adjustment history

None of that is automatically portable. If you have spent two years tuning lead times and reorder points, that institutional knowledge is the thing worth rescuing.

Your options

Do nothing and rely on Shopify's native screens. Shopify admin shows you stock levels, but it will not tell you what to reorder, how much, or when. For a small catalog you can survive on gut feel. Past a few dozen SKUs it gets expensive fast, in both stockouts and dead stock.

Move to a dedicated inventory planning tool. This is the right call for most operators. The key is to migrate your existing knowledge, not start from a blank slate, and to pick a tool that plans around the cash you actually have rather than just flagging low stock.

How to export your Stocky data

Before the shutdown, pull everything Stocky lets you export to CSV: your product and supplier list with costs, your lead times, and your reorder points. Keep the orders export too, even if you do not import open POs, it is a useful record of past demand.

We wrote a full walkthrough that takes about five minutes end to end: How to migrate from Stocky to InventoryIQ in 5 minutes.

A migration checklist

• Export products, suppliers, costs, lead times, and reorder points to CSV
• Export your order history as a demand record
• Finish any open purchase orders inside Stocky rather than mid-migration
• Pick a replacement and import your CSVs
• Spot-check 10 SKUs: do the lead times and reorder points match?
• Run one reorder cycle in the new tool before you trust it fully

Where InventoryIQ fits

InventoryIQ imports your Stocky CSVs, products, suppliers, lead times, and reorder points, and then prioritizes reorders by ROI under your real cash runway. It connects to Shopify with read-only access, so it never touches your live inventory levels. Stocky migrants currently get an extended 30-day free trial through the shutdown window.

Want to see the math first? Estimate your savings with the calculator before you move a single SKU.