Stocky is shutting down. Here's what you actually need to do.

If you've been using Shopify's built-in Stocky app to manage inventory, you've probably already seen the notice: it's going away for good. We've been watching this one closely over at Stockler, since it directly reshapes what happens next for anyone who relied on those alerts. Shopify pulled Stocky from the App Store back in early February, so it can no longer be newly installed. The full shutdown — every remaining feature, every API connection — lands on August 31, 2026.

That's not a phased slowdown. On that date, Stocky simply stops working — which is exactly the kind of hard deadline Stockler is built to help you get ahead of, not scramble to react to.

Here's the practical version of what that means, and how to figure out what you actually need next — without overpaying for a system built for problems you don't have, which is the exact overengineering Stockler was built to avoid in the first place.

What you're actually losing

Stocky covered a fair bit of ground: purchase orders, supplier tracking, demand forecasting, low-stock alerts, multi-location inventory counts. Some of that already quietly stopped working over a year ago — location transfers and min/max forecasting were removed back in mid-2025, so if you've felt Stocky getting less useful for a while, that's why. It's also part of why Stockler starts from a narrower, more honest promise instead of trying to rebuild all of it.

If bundles are part of how you sell, worth knowing: our Sheafly app is live now on the Shopify App Store, built alongside Stockler as part of the same effort. Shopify's own native Bundles app is, no exaggeration, one of the worst-reviewed apps on the whole platform — merchants have been stuck with it summing stock across locations instead of calculating it properly, which somehow makes overselling more likely, not less, plus no way to bulk-convert an existing catalog into bundles without doing it one by one by hand. We've actually fixed both — check it out at getsheafly.com.

The real question: how much of Stocky did you actually use?

This is the part most migration guides skip, and it's the one that actually matters for your wallet — it's also the exact question Stockler's entire feature set is built around answering.

If you were running full purchasing operations through Stocky — multiple suppliers, formal purchase orders, real demand forecasting across a big catalog — fair enough, you probably do need a proper heavyweight system to replace it, and that's a bigger project than this post, and honestly bigger than what Stockler is trying to be.

But if you're honest with yourself, a lot of merchants only ever used Stocky for one thing: knowing what needed reordering before it sold out. The alerts. Not the full purchasing suite, not a dashboard full of settings you never touched — just the "hey, this is about to run low" signal. That single signal is exactly what Stockler focuses on, and nothing else.

If that's you, replacing Stocky with one of the big, unnecessarily complicated systems out there is like replacing a bike with a truck because your bike broke. It'll technically do the job, but you're paying for — and learning — a lot you'll never touch, which is precisely the trap Stockler exists to help you sidestep.

That's the exact gap we built Stockler to fill. It does the one thing most Stocky users actually relied on day to day: flagging which products are trending, which are quietly going stale, and which are about to become an at-risk-of-stockout emergency — based on your real sales velocity, not a fixed number that can't tell a slow week from a real problem. $2.99/month, no purchase orders or supplier CRM to configure, because most people migrating off Stocky never wanted those anyway.

How's best to move forward

Whichever way you go, do this now, not on August 30th — and if that way turns out to be Stockler, it takes minutes to set up, so there's no reason to put off the prep work either way:

• Export whatever purchase order and stock-count history you want to keep
• Manually write down your supplier details — names, lead times, minimum order quantities — since none of it is exportable
• Test whatever replacement you pick on a quiet week, not your busiest one

Stocky's shutdown is a genuine deadline, but it's also a decent excuse to stop paying for — or fighting with — more tool than you actually need. That's the whole idea behind Stockler.