Reordering, purchase orders & the Stocky move
Straight-talking guides on working out how much to reorder, sending purchase orders to suppliers, and keeping the workflow running as Stocky retires.
Stocky is retiring: a migration guide for Shopify merchants
Shopify is retiring Stocky on August 31, 2026. Here is what changes, a checklist to move off it cleanly, and how to keep reorder suggestions and purchase orders running.
How to work out how much inventory to reorder (with the formula)
The reorder quantity formula, laid out with a worked example: sell rate times lead time plus coverage, plus safety stock, minus what you already have and what is incoming.
How to send a purchase order to your supplier from Shopify
How purchase orders work in Shopify, why one PO per supplier is the right unit, and how to email a PO so the supplier's reply comes back to you.
Reorder point vs low-stock alert: why "low" is not a number
A low-stock alert fires at a threshold you picked once. A reorder point moves with how fast a product sells and how long the supplier takes. Here is the difference, and why it matters.