Comparison · Stocky shut down 31 August 2026
Stocky is gone. Choose the stock tool you actually need.
Shopify's Stocky purchase-order and inventory app was retired on 31 August 2026, and its work moved into Shopify's own admin. If you are choosing what to do next, the question is not "which app replaces Stocky" but "does my stock work belong inside Shopify at all?"
What happened to Stocky
Stocky was a Shopify-owned inventory app for purchase orders, demand forecasting and stocktakes, sold as a separate subscription. Shopify announced its retirement and moved the core inventory features into the Shopify admin and Shopify POS. That is a normal platform consolidation: the shop keeps selling, but the separate app, its historical workflows and its exports change shape.
If your stock history still lives in a Stocky export, keep that file. Nothing in the shutdown guarantees your access to the old interface, and a CSV is the only reliable bridge to whatever you use next.
The two honest paths
Path A: stay inside Shopify
If nearly all your stock moves through Shopify orders, Shopify's own inventory is the shortest path. Products, variants, locations, transfers and purchase orders live in the admin, and POS shares the same quantities. You pay the Shopify subscription you already pay; there is no second vendor and no second login.
The cost is the platform fee and the shape of the tools. Shopify's inventory is built around variants and orders; counting is an adjustment flow, purchase orders are functional rather than deep, and anything Shopify does not do arrives as an app with its own subscription. If you sell only online, that trade is usually right.
Path B: a dedicated counting app beside Shopify
If your stock also lives on a shelf that Shopify never sees — a physical shop, a market stall, a workshop — a dedicated app earns its place. Mobile Inventory is built for that shelf: scan a delivery in, count blind on a phone with no signal, reorder from a minimum, and keep a ledger that names who changed what.
The cost is a second system and a sync question. Mobile Inventory does not sync with Shopify yet; today the bridge is CSV import and export. If automatic two-way sync is a hard requirement this month, stay in Shopify and revisit us when the integration ships.
Side by side
| Shopify inventory (post-Stocky) | Mobile Inventory | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Included in the Shopify subscription; POS Pro is an add-on per location | $19/month (or $15 annual); Pro $39/month (or $31 annual) |
| Where it lives | Shopify admin, POS and the Shopify app | Android app and a web portal |
| Built around | Products, variants and orders | A count and an append-only movement ledger |
| Stock count | An adjustment workflow; counts can be done per location | Blind by default, resumable, uncounted-safe, duplicate-safe submit |
| Offline count | Depends on the Shopify app and POS mode; not the product's headline | Queue with a visible waiting count; replays once |
| Purchase orders | In the admin; depth varies by plan | Draft, send and partial receive on Pro |
| Reorder suggestions | Based on sales velocity and stock settings | Per-item minimum; suggested top-up = 2×minimum − on hand |
| Import and export | Shopify CSV formats | Items CSV/XLSX/JSON, history CSV; import with rejected-row preview |
| Works without Shopify | No | Yes — it is the primary use case |
| Shopify sync | Native, by definition | Not yet; CSV today |
| Who can use it | Anyone with a Shopify subscription | Any shop; no storefront required |
Shopify's plan prices and POS add-ons change by region and billing period; check Shopify's pricing page for your market. Mobile Inventory's prices are on our pricing page. We are not affiliated with Shopify.
What a Stocky user actually misses
Stocky's value was three things: purchase orders that matched what a shop buys, a stocktake flow, and demand forecasting tied to sales. Shopify's admin covers the first two at a basic level and sells the third through apps and reports. What tends to be missed is the shape of the count: a dedicated screen, a printed sheet, a review of variances before anything is written.
That is the gap Mobile Inventory fills. It does not forecast demand from order history, and it does not replace Shopify's order management. It gives you a count that a person can complete in a stockroom and a ledger that explains the number afterwards.
Getting the old data out
- Export products, variants and quantities from Shopify or from your last Stocky export. Keep the file.
- Reduce it to the columns a count needs: name, SKU, barcode, unit, cost, price, minimum, quantity.
- Import it into Mobile Inventory and read the rejected-row preview. Nothing is written until you run it.
- Count one location blind to confirm the opening quantities.
- Set minimums on the items you reorder; the list starts suggesting top-ups.
- If you stay on Shopify too, export from Mobile Inventory as CSV or XLSX and reconcile weekly until a native sync exists.
What to do with the old Stocky data
A Stocky export is usually a product list with quantities, suppliers and sometimes purchase-order history. The quantities are the part worth keeping: they are the only record of what the shelf held when the app closed. The purchase-order history is useful for a week and then rarely opened; export it to a spreadsheet and file it.
If the quantities are months old, do not import them as opening stock and trust them. Import the catalogue with zero stock, then run one blind count to set the real number. A count takes an afternoon and gives you a figure you can defend; an old import gives you a figure you will spend the next quarter explaining.
What we do not have
No Shopify sync, no automatic order download, no demand forecasting, no multi-channel listings, no serial or lot tracking. If any of those is the reason you used Stocky, Shopify's own tools or a Shopify app is the better answer today. We would rather say that than sell you a workaround.
The honest verdict
One more question decides most cases: where does the stock physically sit? If it sits in a Shopify fulfilment location and leaves through Shopify orders, the platform's own inventory is the cheapest correct answer. If it sits in a stockroom, a van or a market crate, the platform never sees it, and a phone-first ledger will be more accurate than a system of record that assumes every unit is a line item in an order.
If your stock exists to fulfil Shopify orders, stay in Shopify; the consolidation is inconvenient but the integration is worth more than a second system. If your stock exists on a shelf and Shopify is only one of the ways it leaves, a dedicated counting app is the better fit — and the CSV bridge is enough to start without betting the shop on a migration.
Stocky's shutdown date and the movement of its features into Shopify's admin are as published by Shopify in 2026. Product details for Shopify are from its public documentation; Shopify changes its admin often, so verify the specific workflow you depend on. If a row here is wrong, email[email protected].