Stocky is gone. Here is exactly what Shopify does and doesn't replace

Shopify delisted Stocky on 2 February 2026 and shut it down on 31 August 2026. For a lot of small brick-and-mortar stores on POS Pro it was the only purchasing tool they had ever used, so the question is not “what is the best inventory suite” but “what did I actually do in Stocky every week, and where does that live now?”

This is a map of the recurring Stocky jobs, what Shopify's own admin covers today, and where you still need something on top. It is written from the public community threads merchants posted during the shutdown and from building Restock Ops to close those gaps; it is not a ranking of every app on the market.

What Shopify's admin covers natively

• Purchase orders: you can create a PO in Shopify, add products and supplier costs, and mark it ordered. At the time of writing the Admin API exposes purchase orders read-only, so apps cannot create or receive them for you.
• Transfers: moving stock between your own locations, marking shipments in transit and receiving them, with quantities appearing as incoming on the product.
• Inventory states: available, committed, incoming, on hand, reserved and so on, per location, with a history of adjustments and their reasons.
• Unit cost per variant (a single current value, no history).

What merchants said they lost

These come up in almost every shutdown thread, phrased slightly differently each time:

• Receiving part of an order. Suppliers short-ship and back-order constantly; a PO that can only be received in full forces you to either fake the receipt or hold stock off the floor.
• “On order” visibility. Ordered quantities are not visible on the product until a transfer is marked in transit, so staff reorder things that are already coming.
• Supplier notes and vendor associations. Minimum order values, lead times, case sizes, the rep's email — Stocky kept them next to the PO.
• Barcode labels from what was just received, not from a product search.
• Stocktakes with a scanner, showing expected against counted and letting you review before anything changes.
• Invoice status and due dates on the PO, so the person paying bills can see what is outstanding.
• Cost history and cost updates on receipt.
• Export. A PO you can send to your accountant or open in a spreadsheet.
• Simple reorder suggestions from a reorder point and recent sales, without a forecasting subscription that costs more than the shop's rent per square foot.

How to think about replacing it

Keep Shopify as the system of record for quantities and cost. Anything else creates a second ledger you have to reconcile, and reconciliation is exactly the job a two-person shop does not have time for.

Put the documents Shopify does not keep — suppliers, POs, receipts, counts, cost history — in a tool that writes back to Shopify through the normal inventory adjustments, with a preview and a log. That way the Shopify inventory history stays the single audit trail, and if the tool disappears one day your quantities are still right.

Pick something priced for a store, not for an operations team. Most of the Stocky workload is receiving boxes and counting shelves; you do not need demand forecasting for that.

Where Restock Ops fits

Restock Ops is built on exactly that idea: app-owned purchase orders with partial receiving, supplier notes and vendor links, cost history, barcode labels from a receipt, scanner stocktakes with discrepancy review, invoice status and due dates, CSV export, and a reorder report from reorder points and 30-day sales. Every write to Shopify is previewed, logged and reversible. Starter is $19/month for one location, Pro is $39/month for up to five, both with a 14-day free trial.