If you have run a Shopify store with physical stock, you probably know Stocky. It came bundled with Shopify POS Pro and handled reorder suggestions, purchase orders, transfers and stocktakes. Shopify is retiring it, which means the reorder workflow a lot of merchants quietly relied on needs a new home.
This guide covers exactly what changes and when, a short checklist to move off Stocky cleanly, and what to look for in a replacement so you do not lose the two things most merchants used Stocky for: knowing how much to reorder, and sending purchase orders to suppliers.
The dates that matter
Two dates, straight from Shopify:
- February 2, 2026: Stocky was delisted from the Shopify App Store. You can no longer install or reinstall it.
- August 31, 2026: the Stocky app and all of its APIs stop working. After that, any third-party tools that plugged into Stocky stop working too.
Shopify keeps your Stocky data available in read-only mode for roughly 90 days after the shutdown, purely so you can export it. That export window is the safety net, not a reason to wait.
What actually changes
Here is the part that gets misreported. Shopify is not leaving merchants with nothing. Its built-in inventory management in the admin and POS covers a lot of what Stocky did:
- Inventory tracking across locations and sales channels
- Stock transfers between locations
- Stock adjustments and low-stock alerts
- Purchase orders
Shopify’s native path also includes Sidekick, its AI assistant, which can answer questions like “what should I reorder?” and draft a purchase order from your sales data. So reorder help is not gone entirely.
What is missing is a structured reorder engine you configure and can check. Sidekick gives you an ad-hoc answer in chat; it does not hold per-supplier lead times, coverage windows and safety stock as settings, apply case packs and minimums automatically, or lay out the arithmetic behind each suggested quantity so you can see how it was reached and change an input. Stocky gave you a repeatable, reviewable reordering workflow. That workflow is the piece most reorder-focused merchants need to replace.
So before you do anything, work out which of Stocky’s jobs you actually used. Most merchants lean on a subset. If your daily use was “tell me what to reorder and let me send a PO”, your migration is simpler than you think.
Migration checklist
- Export what you need to keep. Pull your supplier list, cost prices, historical purchase orders and stocktake records out of Stocky. A spreadsheet is fine. Do this well before the deadline, not in the read-only window.
- Close open purchase orders. Receive and close anything in transit inside Stocky before August 31, 2026. Stop creating new POs in Stocky about two weeks ahead of the deadline.
- Write down your reorder assumptions. Lead time per supplier, how many days of stock you like to hold (coverage), and any safety stock. These are the numbers a replacement needs to match Stocky’s suggestions.
- List your case packs and minimums. If a supplier only ships in cases of 12, or has a minimum order, note it. A good replacement applies these automatically.
- Pick a replacement for the core job first. Reorder suggestions plus purchase orders. Add the extras (transfers, stocktakes) via Shopify’s native tools only if you genuinely used them.
- Run both in parallel for one order cycle. Place one reorder using the new tool alongside your old habit, and compare the numbers before you trust it fully.
What to look for in a replacement
Not every Stocky feature has a like-for-like replacement, and you may not need one. Focus on the workflow you actually run:
- Reorder quantities from real sales, not just low-stock alerts. A warning that stock is low is the easy part. The useful output is a number: how many units to order.
- Show the math. You want to see how the suggested quantity was reached (sell rate, coverage, safety stock, on hand, incoming), so you can check it and change an input if you disagree. A black box is worse than a spreadsheet.
- One draft purchase order per supplier, with case packs and minimums applied, that you can email to the supplier.
- Assumptions you control. Lead time, coverage and safety stock as defaults, with per-supplier and per-product overrides.
How Restock Point fits
Restock Point covers the reorder-and-PO core of Stocky. It reads your recent Shopify sales, works out a reorder quantity for each product, and shows the full arithmetic behind every number. Selected products become one draft purchase order per supplier, with case packs and minimums applied, which you can email to the supplier so their reply comes straight back to you.
To be straight about scope: Restock Point is focused on the reorder and purchase-order workflow. It is not a full Stocky clone. If your daily Stocky use was stock transfers between locations, barcode stocktakes or advanced multi-location planning, Shopify’s native tools handle those now. If it was “what do I reorder, and send the PO”, that is exactly what Restock Point is built for.
It is $29 per month with a 14-day free trial, and installs into your Shopify admin.
The short version
Stocky going away is a good moment to keep only the parts you used and drop the rest. Export your suppliers and costs before the read-only window, close your open POs before August 31, 2026, and pick a tool that gives you a reorder number you can actually check. Then send the PO and get on with your day.