What to use after Shopify Stocky shuts down (August 31, 2026)

Short answer: Shopify is retiring Stocky, the inventory app bundled free with POS Pro. It was removed from the App Store on February 2, 2026 (no new installs), and it fully shuts down on August 31, 2026. The app and its APIs stop. Your data won't migrate automatically, so export your purchase orders, counts, and reports first (Stocky can't even export your supplier list). For a replacement: if you're a larger, multi-channel brand that lives on forecast accuracy, a demand-planning platform ($49-$250+/mo) is worth it. If you just want the everyday basics back (low-stock alerts, reorder points, and purchase orders), a simple, flat-priced app such as Parwise, starting free, is the closer like-for-like. The honest details are below.

What's happening to Stocky (the verified timeline)

Stocky has been the default "basic forecasting and purchase orders without paying for enterprise software" since Shopify bundled it free with POS Pro in 2018. It's being wound down in three steps:

• July 7, 2025: Stocky stopped supporting inventory transfers between locations and min/max forecasting.
• February 2, 2026: removed from the Shopify App Store. You can no longer install or reinstall it.
• August 31, 2026: full shutdown. The app stops working and its APIs go dark, so anything wired to Stocky breaks with it.

There is no native one-to-one replacement coming. Shopify's admin absorbed Stocky's basic purchase-order and receiving workflows, but not the forecasting or the reorder guidance, so most merchants need to move to a third-party app before the deadline.

What you actually lose

For most POS Pro merchants, Stocky did three everyday jobs:

1. Low-stock visibility: a daily view of what's about to run out.
2. Reorder guidance: a sense of when and how much to reorder.
3. Purchase orders: raise a PO to a supplier and receive it.

Be fair about Stocky here: its forecasting was never its strong point, and it was widely regarded as unreliable. So you're replacing the workflow, not a precision forecasting engine. That matters, because it means most stores don't need to trade up to a $200/mo planner to be better off than they were.

Export your data before August 31

This is the one step you can't undo. Historical data (purchase orders, stocktakes, inventory records) does not automatically migrate to Shopify or to a new app. Pull it while Stocky still runs:

• Export your purchase orders, inventory counts/stocktakes, and any reports you rely on.
• The catch most people hit: Stocky can't export your supplier list. Vendor names, lead times, and costs have to be re-entered by hand in whatever you move to. Budget time for it, and pick a replacement that makes re-adding suppliers fast.

Do this early. A shutdown deadline is exactly when support queues are longest and "I'll do it next week" runs out of next weeks.

How to choose a replacement (the honest version)

There are three real options, and the right one depends on what you actually need, not on which app has the loudest "AI" badge.

• A demand-planning platform: Inventory Planner, Cogsy, Prediko, Sumtracker. These do deep, ML-style demand forecasting and multi-channel planning, and charge roughly $49 to $250+ a month (Prediko starts at $49; Inventory Planner runs into the low hundreds). If you're a larger, multi-channel brand whose P&L lives on forecast accuracy, that's money well spent.
• A simple, focused replacement: the cheap and free apps appearing fast (Parwise, Forstock, Assisty, and brand-new free entrants). These bring back the everyday alerts / reorder / PO workflow without the planner price tag. Read the fine print, though. See the pricing trap below.
• Shopify's native admin alone: fine if all you need is on-hand tracking and the basic POs it absorbed from Stocky. The gap, in one merchant's words: "it doesn't tell you when to reorder or how much. You still have to figure that out yourself." For more than a handful of SKUs, that gets old fast.

The thing to compare isn't the headline price. It's whether the price stays flat as you grow, whether the reorder math is transparent and editable, and whether it actually does receiving, not just reports.

The pricing trap to watch: flat vs revenue-banded

Here's where "cheap" can quietly stop being cheap. Several of the simpler Stocky replacements are revenue-banded: the entry plan covers you up to a revenue ceiling, then steps up. As of June 2026, Prediko bands by revenue ($49 up to $100K, then $119, then $199), and Forstock bands too ($39 up to ~$250K, then $79, then $159). The model is legitimate (it lets a vendor charge a small store little and a big one more), but it means the plan you adopt at $39 can become $79 or $159 for the same job, just because you grew.

One merchant summed up the trap: "apps look reasonable until you realize they scale by orders or locations, then suddenly you're in ERP pricing territory for pretty basic inventory stuff."

A flat plan sidesteps it. The number you budget this year is the number next year. (Full breakdown: flat-price vs revenue-scaled Shopify inventory apps.)

Where Parwise fits

Parwise is built for the Stocky refugee who wants the everyday jobs back: flatly priced, transparent, before the deadline.

• Low-stock alerts + an on-hand dashboard: the daily "what's running low" view, free.
• Reorder points from your real sales velocity: average daily sales × lead time + safety stock, shown and editable, not a black box. Free (the everyday "when and how much" call that native won't make for you).
• Purchase orders with a real receiving lifecycle: draft, send, partial-receive, receive/close, with supplier lead times. ($39/mo.)
• Supplier-feed automation + multi-location: for stores that have outgrown the basics. ($79/mo.)
• Flat pricing, $0 / $39 / $79, never metered by revenue, orders, SKUs, or locations (reorder points are free).
• Migration-friendly: imports your products and on-hand straight from Shopify, and makes re-adding the suppliers Stocky won't export fast.
• No customer personal data: Parwise reads orders for SKU, quantity, and cost only; never customer names, emails, or addresses.

Stocky vs Parwise vs the planners

Bottom line: if you want the everyday Stocky jobs back (flatly priced, transparent, and set up before the deadline), Parwise is the closest like-for-like at a price that stays sensible as you grow. If you need true demand science and multi-channel planning, pay for a planner. We'll tell you which is which rather than oversell.

FAQ

When does Shopify Stocky shut down? Stocky was removed from the Shopify App Store on February 2, 2026 (no new or re-installs) and fully shuts down on August 31, 2026, when the app and its APIs stop working. Inventory transfers between locations and min/max forecasting were already discontinued on July 7, 2025.

Will my Stocky data move to Shopify automatically? No. Purchase orders, stocktakes, and inventory records do not migrate automatically. You have to export them manually before August 31, 2026. Note that Stocky cannot export your supplier list, so vendor names, lead times, and costs must be re-entered by hand in your new app.

What's the best Stocky alternative? It depends on your size. Larger multi-channel brands that depend on forecast accuracy are well served by a demand-planning platform like Prediko, Cogsy, or Inventory Planner ($49-$250+/mo). Stores that just want the everyday basics back (alerts, reorder points, and purchase orders) are better served by a simple, flat-priced app such as Parwise, which starts free.

Does Shopify's native admin replace Stocky? Partly. Shopify absorbed Stocky's basic purchase-order and receiving workflows, so you can raise and receive POs natively. It does not replace the reorder guidance. It won't tell you when or how much to reorder, which is the gap third-party apps fill.

What's the cheapest Stocky replacement? Free tiers exist (Parwise's free plan covers low-stock alerts and an on-hand dashboard; some apps offer reports-only free plans). Watch the pricing model rather than just the entry price: several cheaper apps are revenue-banded, so the cost climbs as you grow. A flat plan keeps the price predictable: Parwise is $0 / $39 / $79 regardless of your revenue, and reorder points are on the free tier.