Which Stocky alternative is closest to the whole thing?

None of them, honestly. The broad suites cover purchasing, receiving and transfers well and stop at the stockroom door; the focused tools do one job properly. Two apps that each do their job is usually cheaper than one that half-does four.

Do I have to decide before my data disappears?

Export first, decide afterwards. Sales history and supplier costs are what people find missing later, once the old data is out of reach and the new app is already set up.

Can I run two of these at once?

Yes, and for most shops that is the sensible answer. A purchasing app and a floor-restocking app touch different parts of the day and different Shopify data, so they sit alongside each other without fighting.

Why would you send me to a competitor?

Because a merchant who installs the wrong app writes the review that tells everyone else the app was wrong. We would rather be the right answer for fewer people.

Leaving Stocky · Guide

Stocky alternatives, compared honestly

Stocky is gone. Which app should I actually be looking at?

Work out which half you are replacing first

Every comparison of Stocky alternatives goes wrong in the same place: it treats one app as the answer to a product that was four products. Purchasing and suppliers. Stocktakes. Reorder suggestions. And the daily job of getting stock from the back onto the shelf.

Nothing on the App Store covers all four well. Pick by the half your staff touched every week, and accept that you may end up with two tools that each do their own job properly.

If you used Stocky for purchase orders

This is most people, and it is not what we do. Shopify now has purchase orders built in, and several apps extend them: FyreTrail describes itself as a full wholesale-to-retail inventory suite with receiving, landed cost and payment tracking; Stockyard and Alfred are both purpose-built purchase-order apps written by people who watched the same threads you did.

What to test before paying: cost, price and margin visible while you receive, landed cost, a CSV export rather than only a PDF, and due dates with paid/unpaid tracking. Those four gaps are the ones merchants keep raising in the Shopify Community, each with its own open feature request.

If you used Stocky for reorder suggestions

Reorder points and forecasting are a different discipline again, and there are apps aimed squarely at it. Replenly advertises reorder suggestions with a free tier; StockCue is built around forecasting. Judge them on how they handle lumpy, seasonal demand, because a second-hand or independent retailer rarely has the smooth sales history a forecast wants.

If you used it to keep the shop floor stocked

This is the part we built for, and it is the part most of the alternatives stop short of. Shopify holds one inventory figure per location, so a product reads as in stock whether it is on the shelf in front of a customer or in a box in the back. Nothing in the platform tells those apart.

The vendor of one of the more comprehensive suites said it plainly in a public thread: moving stock from a back room that is not its own Shopify location to the shop floor is not something their app does. Location-to-location transfers are a different job from the one your staff do with a trolley every morning.

What that job needs is a minimum and a target per product per location, till sales pulling the shelf figure down through the day, and the resulting list on the device somebody is already holding, in the order they walk the stockroom.

What ours does not do

No forecasting. No scheduled transfers between locations. No label printing. Purchase orders and suppliers exist on the top plan, but a dedicated purchasing app will do more with them than we will.

The shelf figure is an estimate between counts, not a measurement, and we say so on the screen where it appears. Anyone telling you they know exactly what is on your shelf without someone counting it is selling you something.

Common questions

Which Stocky alternative is closest to the whole thing?: None of them, honestly. The broad suites cover purchasing, receiving and transfers well and stop at the stockroom door; the focused tools do one job properly. Two apps that each do their job is usually cheaper than one that half-does four.
Do I have to decide before my data disappears?: Export first, decide afterwards. Sales history and supplier costs are what people find missing later, once the old data is out of reach and the new app is already set up.
Can I run two of these at once?: Yes, and for most shops that is the sensible answer. A purchasing app and a floor-restocking app touch different parts of the day and different Shopify data, so they sit alongside each other without fighting.
Why would you send me to a competitor?: Because a merchant who installs the wrong app writes the review that tells everyone else the app was wrong. We would rather be the right answer for fewer people.

See what your own Stocky export is missing before the shutdown.

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