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How to replace Stocky on Shopify

Updated October 28, 2026

Shopify shut down Stocky on August 31, 2026. If you relied on it to know what to reorder and to manage purchase orders, this guide walks through what Stocky did, what you need to replace, and three ways to do it, starting with a free one.

What Stocky actually did

Most small stores used Stocky for four jobs. It helps to check which ones you really need before picking a replacement:

1. Reorder suggestions: which products are running low and how many to buy.
2. Purchase orders: writing the order to your supplier.
3. Receiving: checking off a delivery so Shopify stock goes up.
4. Stock counts: counting the shelf and correcting Shopify to match.

Shopify's own admin now covers some purchase order and inventory work, but merchants in the Shopify Community have pointed out that the reorder suggestions are the part with no built-in replacement. For most stores, that's the gap to fill.

Step 1: Write down how you reorder today

Before choosing a tool, answer three questions. They decide which option below fits you:

• How many products do you reorder? (Under about 50 is easy to do by hand. Hundreds is not.)
• How many suppliers, and how long does each usually take to deliver?
• Do you order on a schedule (every Monday) or whenever something runs low?

Option 1: A free reorder spreadsheet

If you have a small catalog, a spreadsheet can do Stocky's main job. You need four numbers per product:

Then add three formulas:

• Sales per day = Sold in last 30 days ÷ 30
• Days of stock left = In stock now ÷ Sales per day
• Order amount = Sales per day × (Lead time + days you want to cover) − In stock now − On order

Anything with fewer days left than its supplier's lead time needs ordering now. For example, a candle that sells 2 a day, has 18 in stock and comes from a supplier who takes 10 days has 9 days left, so it should already be on order. To cover 30 days after it arrives: 2 × (10 + 30) − 18 = 62 to order.

The catch: you have to re-export and update it every time you reorder, and the lead times are your guesses, not what really happened. It works well for a few dozen products and gets painful past that.

Option 2: A full inventory planning app

Larger stores with many suppliers, warehouses or bundles often move to a full inventory planning or ERP-style tool. These do forecasting, multi-warehouse planning and accounting connections. They're powerful, but they usually cost far more than Stocky did and take real time to set up. If you only used Stocky for reordering, they're often more than you need.

Option 3: A simple reorder app (SteadyShelf)

We built SteadyShelf for stores that want Stocky's reorder workflow without the size and price of a planning suite. It runs inside your Shopify admin and does the four jobs above:

• Days of stock left for every product, most urgent first.
• Suggested order amounts from your real sales, rounded to your supplier's case size.
• Real supplier delivery times: it learns how long each supplier actually takes from your past orders, instead of using a guess.
• Order emails written for you, opened in your own Gmail or Outlook so you review and send them yourself.
• Receiving and stock counts that update your Shopify inventory.

It uses your last 60 days of Shopify sales, so suggestions are ready on day one. It's $20 a month after a 7-day free trial, billed through Shopify, and you can cancel any time.

See SteadyShelf on the Shopify App Store

Getting set up in about 10 minutes

1. Install SteadyShelf from the Shopify App Store.
2. On the first setup screen, turn your product vendors into suppliers (or add them yourself), then pick the email app you order from.
3. Add each supplier's usual delivery time and case size. SteadyShelf improves the delivery times as you receive orders.
4. Open Stock to see what needs ordering, then press New order.

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