Export Your Stocky Data Before It's Gone: The Complete Checklist

July 2026 · 6 min read

Shopify is retiring Stocky on August 31, 2026. After that date the app — and everything in it — goes away. Your purchase order history, supplier list, stocktake records, and forecasting data don't transfer anywhere automatically. If you don't export them, they're gone.

The good news: exporting everything takes about twenty minutes. Here's exactly what to grab, in priority order, and what to do with it afterward.

Why you can't skip this

Stocky holds data that exists nowhere else in your Shopify admin:

• Purchase order history — what you ordered, from whom, at what cost, and when it arrived. The backbone of your reordering decisions and your cost accounting.
• Supplier records — contact details, lead times, and currencies you've built up over years.
• Stocktake history — your shrinkage and accuracy paper trail.
• Cost prices — if you maintained unit costs in Stocky rather than Shopify, this may be your only copy.

Shopify's native admin keeps your products and inventory levels. It does not keep any of the above.

The export checklist, in priority order

Stocky's export options live inside each section of the app (look for the export or download-CSV action). Work through these top to bottom:

1. Purchase orders (do this first)

Export your full PO history, not just open orders. You want every line: PO number, supplier, SKU, quantity ordered, quantity received, unit cost, and dates. This is the single most valuable file — it's your cost history and your proof of what reorder cadence actually worked.

2. Suppliers

Names, emails, phone numbers, and — critically — lead times. Lead time is the number most merchants forget they ever entered, and it's the input that makes reorder math work.

3. Stock analysis / forecasting reports

Export the current view even if you're moving to another tool. It's a snapshot of your velocity assumptions at the moment of migration — useful for sanity-checking whatever replaces Stocky.

4. Stocktakes

Your count history. Accountants and auditors ask for this; future-you will not remember the numbers.

5. Transfers (if you use multi-location)

Transfer history between locations, for the same paper-trail reasons.

Where to put it

Immediately: a dated folder in cloud storage (stocky-export-2026-08/), not a Downloads folder. This data is irreplaceable after the shutdown.

Longer term, you have three options:

1. Spreadsheets. Free, and fine if you place a handful of POs a year. The lead-time-aware reorder math is on you.
2. Enterprise inventory platforms. Powerful, but most start at $100–300+/month and take weeks to implement — heavy for a store that just needs POs and reorder points.
3. A purpose-built Stocky replacement. Full disclosure: this is what we build. Restockly does purchase orders, suppliers, receiving that syncs to Shopify inventory, and reorder suggestions — and it imports the Stocky PO export from step 1 in one click, suppliers included. It's $19/month flat with a 14-day trial, so you can import your export and see your reorder dashboard populated before you pay anything.

Whichever you choose, choose before August 31. Migrating from a live Stocky install with fresh exports is easy. Reconstructing history after shutdown is impossible.

One thing Stocky never did (and your next tool should)

Stocky's low-stock alerts were plain threshold checks: "fewer than X units → alert." That's how merchants ended up reordering after it was already too late — the alert fired with 10 units left, but the supplier needed three weeks to deliver.

A reorder point should be: daily sales velocity × (supplier lead time + safety stock days). If you sell 3 a day and your supplier takes 14 days, you need the trigger at ~50 units, not 10. And suggested quantities should subtract what's already inbound on open POs, so you never double-order. Whatever tool you pick next, check that it does both.

The 20-minute version

1. Export POs, suppliers, stock analysis, stocktakes, and transfers from Stocky.
2. Open each CSV and verify it's complete.
3. Copy the folder to cloud storage.
4. Pick your replacement and import while Stocky is still alive to cross-check against.

Done before your coffee gets cold — and done is the only version of this story where September goes smoothly.