How does the receiving workflow work in Parwise?

On the Pro plan you create a PO in Parwise and send it to the supplier. When stock arrives, you open the PO and mark quantities received. Partial receipts keep the PO open for the remainder. When everything is received, you close the PO. On-hand inventory in Shopify updates at time of receiving.

Shopify POS Pro reorder and replenishment after Stocky

Short answer: Stocky was removed from the Shopify admin on February 2, 2026. Its APIs go dark on August 31, 2026, which means any integration built on top of it will also stop working then. If you ran your weekly replenishment routine through Stocky (checking low stock, setting reorder points, creating purchase orders), you need a replacement before that date. Parwise covers that same workflow on Shopify POS Pro: per-SKU reorder points, low-stock alerts, purchase order creation, and a receiving lifecycle from draft through close. Reorder points are on the free plan. Purchase orders are $39/month flat, no revenue bands.

What Stocky's weekly routine actually looked like

If you used Stocky regularly, your routine was probably something like this. Monday morning you opened the Restock view, sorted by quantity on hand, and looked for anything below its reorder point. You'd flag three or four SKUs, check the supplier's lead time and minimum order quantity, then pull together a purchase order inside Stocky and email it. Later in the week you'd mark items received and stock would update in Shopify.

That workflow is simple and it worked. The problem is the tool that powered it is gone, and the replacement is not obvious from within the Shopify admin today.

What Shopify provides natively now (and where it stops)

Shopify's admin does track on-hand quantities in real time. The POS home screen shows in-stock counts, Shopify reports can show units sold by SKU over any date range, and if you ask Sidekick "which products are running low?" it can answer with inventory counts. None of that changed with Stocky's removal.

What Shopify doesn't provide natively is a standing reorder system. You cannot set a per-SKU reorder point that triggers an alert automatically. You cannot create and track a purchase order inside the admin. You can't log a supplier's lead time or MOQ and have the system use that when it tells you what to order. Those were Stocky features, and they did not move into the core product.

So the gap is not "Shopify hides your inventory." The gap is the automation layer that turns inventory data into a weekly replenishment action.

How Parwise replaces that layer

Parwise is built around three pieces that map directly to the Stocky routine:

Reorder points. You set a per-SKU reorder point (or accept the calculated suggestion). The math is average daily sales (trailing 30 days) × lead time + safety stock. That formula is shown on the screen, not hidden inside a model. If your French press supplier takes 14 days and you sell 2 a day, Parwise suggests a reorder point of 28 plus whatever safety buffer you choose. You can override that number for any SKU at any time.

Low-stock alerts. When a SKU drops to or below its reorder point, Parwise flags it. You don't need to open a dashboard to find out: the alerts surface the SKUs that need action. (Email alert delivery needs an owned, authenticated sending domain to reach inboxes reliably, which is in progress; the in-app alert surface is live now.)

Purchase orders with a receiving lifecycle. On the Pro plan you can raise a PO to a supplier (with their lead time, MOQ, and unit cost already on file from your supplier records), send it, and track it through partial receive and close. When stock arrives and you mark it received, the on-hand quantities update.

Those three pieces cover what Stocky did for replenishment.

A realistic weekly workflow in Parwise

Here is what the weekly routine looks like in practice, using a coffee equipment shop with a POS Pro location as an example.

Monday, 15 minutes. Open the Parwise low-stock alert list. This week it shows four SKUs: a hand grinder variant at 3 units (reorder point is 8), a Fellow Stagg kettle at 1 unit (reorder point is 4), and two bag sizes of a single-origin coffee at 2 bags each (reorder points are 10 and 6). The coffee bags come from a different supplier than the equipment, so there are two purchase orders to raise.

Create PO #1: equipment supplier. Click into the hand grinder and kettle. Both come from the same supplier. Parwise already has the lead time (10 days) and MOQ (minimum 2 units on most items) from the supplier record you entered. You review the suggested order quantities, adjust the grinder order up by 2 because a local café just asked about stocking them, and create the PO. Hit send. Done in under 5 minutes.

Create PO #2: coffee importer. Same process for the two coffee bag SKUs, different supplier record. The importer has a 7-day lead time. You accept the suggested quantities, raise the PO, send it.

Thursday or Friday, 5 minutes. The kettle and grinder arrive. Open the receiving screen in Parwise. The kettle arrived complete (4 units); the grinder only partially (6 of 8 ordered). Mark the kettle line closed, mark the grinder as partially received. On-hand inventory in Shopify updates. The grinder PO stays open for the remaining units.

The next Monday. The remaining grinders arrive. Mark the grinder PO closed. Clean week.

The coffee bags will arrive on their own schedule. The Parwise PO tracker keeps them visible without you needing to follow up by email or maintain a spreadsheet.

Migrating your Stocky data: what to expect honestly

Stocky did not export its purchase order history in a standard format you can import into another tool. You will not migrate PO history automatically.

What you will migrate, and how:

Supplier records. Stocky had supplier names, email addresses, lead times, and sometimes unit costs. Parwise has a supplier CRUD screen (Pro plan). You will re-enter each supplier manually. For most POS Pro stores this is 5 to 15 suppliers, a one-time 30-minute task, not a project.

Reorder points. If you had Stocky reorder points set, Parwise does not have an import path for them directly. You have two options. First, use Parwise's calculated suggestions: the velocity formula (avg daily sales × lead time + safety stock) will generate a reasonable starting point for most SKUs once your supplier lead times are on file. Second, if you exported your data from Stocky before it was removed, you can use that as a reference while reviewing the calculated suggestions SKU by SKU. For most stores, accepting the calculated baseline and editing the SKUs you know are wrong takes an afternoon.

Open purchase orders. Any PO that was open in Stocky when it was removed on February 2 either closed in the real world by now or didn't. There is no automated way to port them. Check your email or supplier communications for the outstanding ones and re-enter only the still-open orders.

The honest picture: migration is a few hours of setup work, not weeks. The data that matters (which products you stock, what sold, who your suppliers are) all lives in Shopify already. Parwise's first-run backfill pulls your order history to calculate velocity. The manual piece is suppliers and reorder point review.

POS Pro multi-location (Scale plan)

If you run two or more retail locations on POS Pro, the Scale plan ($79/month) adds per-location stock visibility inside Parwise. You can see which location is running low on a SKU and which has surplus, rather than only seeing the combined on-hand count. That is especially useful for stores where you regularly transfer between locations or buy for a single receiving location and distribute.

Reorder intelligence on Scale still uses the same transparent velocity formula. Multi-location is a visibility layer, not a separate forecasting engine.

What Parwise does not do

Seasonal or trend-based forecasting. If your store has strong seasonal patterns (a ski gear shop, a holiday decoration retailer), Parwise's trailing 30-day average will underestimate demand going into peak season. You would need to raise reorder points manually before a known spike, or use a dedicated demand forecasting tool. Apps like Forstock and Inventory Planner offer AI or statistical forecasting that factors in seasonality. For stores with steady-ish demand, the trailing average is fine. For stores that live or die on reading a seasonal curve, that is a real limitation.

Automatic replenishment orders. Parwise tells you when to reorder and helps you create the PO; it does not auto-send POs to suppliers without human review. If you want fully automated replenishment (PO sent without touching a dashboard), you need a more specialized system.

EDI supplier connections. Parwise's Scale tier supports supplier-feed ingestion for lead time and cost updates from a supplier data file. It does not do EDI integration in the traditional sense. If your supplier sends 850/855 EDI documents, Parwise is not the right tool for that layer.

FAQ

What happened to Stocky and when do its APIs stop working? Shopify removed Stocky from the Shopify admin on February 2, 2026. The Stocky API endpoints are scheduled to go dark on August 31, 2026. Any app that calls the Stocky API (typically apps that import Stocky data or sync with it) will stop functioning on that date. Parwise does not depend on the Stocky API.

Does Parwise work with Shopify POS Pro? Yes. Parwise reads your Shopify order history and inventory data via the Shopify API, which covers POS transactions. If a POS sale depletes a SKU's on-hand count in Shopify, Parwise sees it and factors it into the velocity calculation.

Do I need POS Pro specifically, or does Parwise work on POS Lite? Parwise works on both. POS Pro is common context here because Stocky was included with POS Pro, making its removal most visible to those merchants. The reorder and PO features work regardless of which POS tier you use.

Does Parwise cost anything for just reorder points and low-stock alerts? No. The free plan covers low-stock alerts, an on-hand dashboard, and reorder points with no SKU or order cap. You only pay ($39/month) if you want purchase orders and the receiving lifecycle.

Can I set my own reorder point instead of using Parwise's calculation? Yes. Every SKU has an editable reorder point. You can accept the suggested number, raise or lower it, or set it from scratch. You can also set a store-wide default lead time and safety stock that Parwise uses as the starting baseline for any SKU you have not individually configured.

How does the receiving workflow work? On the Pro plan, you create a PO in Parwise and send it to the supplier. When stock arrives, you open the PO and mark quantities received. If you receive a partial shipment (which is common for backordered items), you mark the received units and the PO stays open for the rest. When everything has been received, you close the PO. On-hand inventory in Shopify updates at the time of receiving.

I had supplier data in Stocky. Is there a way to import it into Parwise? Not automatically. Stocky did not export supplier records in a format Parwise imports directly. You re-enter suppliers through Parwise's supplier management screen (Pro plan). For most stores this is a one-time setup task. If you had a Stocky data export before its removal, you can use that as reference while entering suppliers.

Does Parwise store any customer data? No. Parwise reads your order history for SKU, quantity, cost, and date. It does not read customer names, email addresses, or shipping addresses. It requests no read_customers Shopify scope. Raw order webhooks are purged within 7 days.

Parwise: Reorder Points on the Shopify App Store. Free plan available; 14-day trial on Pro and Scale.