Stocky Alternatives Compared — Including the Free Ones

August 2026 · 9 min read

Shopify retires Stocky on August 31, 2026. If your store ran purchase orders, reordering, or stocktakes through it, you need a replacement — and the options range from free to $100+/month, with very different assumptions about who you are. This is the comparison we wished existed: every serious option, what it really costs, and who should pick it.

Before anything else: export your Stocky data now, even if you haven't chosen a replacement. Your PO history, suppliers, and stocktakes don't transfer anywhere automatically, and access doesn't last long after shutdown. Here's the complete export checklist. It takes twenty minutes and it's not optional.

The short version

• You barely used Stocky's brains? Shopify's free native purchase orders may be enough. Try that first.
• You want POs plus reorder points that respect lead times, cheaply? That's Restockly ($19 flat) — the gap we built for.
• You want full demand forecasting and budget isn't the constraint? Prediko or Sumtracker are the serious suites.
• Your workflow is built around barcode scanning? EasyScan.
• Your world revolves around QuickBooks? Stockroom by MyWorks — free, with eyes open about why.

The comparison

The free options, honestly

Shopify Admin's native purchase orders

When Shopify announced the Stocky sunset, it moved basic purchase-order creation and receiving into the admin itself, free on every plan. If you used Stocky a few times a quarter to log an order and receive it, this is genuinely all you need, and you should not pay anyone — including us — for more.

What it doesn't do is think ahead. There are no reorder points, no lead-time math, no "you'll run out of this in 12 days and your supplier takes 14" warnings, and no import of your Stocky history — your years of cost and supplier data don't come along. It records orders; it doesn't help you decide when to place them. That gap is precisely why the paid category below exists. (We wrote a full head-to-head on native POs with a five-minute test for whether free is enough for you.)

Stockroom by MyWorks

Free, unlimited POs, partial receiving — a real product, and if your accounting runs on QuickBooks it deserves a serious look, because its paid QuickBooks sync is the point of the whole exercise. Go in understanding the model: the free app is the funnel for that paid sync. Stocky was free too — free tools sponsored by a company with other priorities can be retired when those priorities shift, which is how everyone reading this article got here. A $19 tool whose only business is being worth $19 has different survival incentives. That's an argument, not a guarantee — weigh it yourself.

The premium suites

Prediko

The most complete inventory-planning platform in the category: AI demand forecasting, buying budgets, raw-material planning, team workflows. If you're a scaling DTC brand doing serious volume and inventory planning is a core discipline for you, Prediko is excellent and worth its price. If you're a two-person shop that needs eight POs a month, it is a fighter jet for a grocery run — most of what you're paying for will go unused.

Sumtracker

The multi-channel answer: if you sell on Shopify plus Amazon, eBay, or Etsy and need stock synced across all of them with POs and forecasting on top, Sumtracker earns its ~$59/month. If Shopify is your only channel, you're paying for syncing you don't need.

EasyScan

Not a Stocky replacement so much as a barcode-operations tool that also touches POs. If your receiving and counting workflows are built around scanners and you loved Stocky mostly for its barcode features, EasyScan is the specialist. For PO-and-reordering work it's the wrong shape.

Where Restockly fits

We built Restockly for the merchants Stocky actually served most: small retail and POS stores that need real purchase orders — created, emailed to suppliers, received in full or in part — and reorder suggestions that account for how fast things sell and how long suppliers take. One-click import of your Stocky CSV brings your POs and suppliers with you. It costs $19/month flat, whatever your size, with a 14-day trial — and the founder personally handles Stocky migrations for free.

What Restockly deliberately isn't: an AI forecasting platform, a multi-channel sync engine, or a warehouse scanning system. If you need those, the suites above are the honest recommendation. The bet behind Restockly is that most Stocky refugees don't need them — they need the workflow they had, without adopting a platform to get it.

What about stocktakes?

One Stocky feature has no clean successor in this list: stocktakes and cycle counts. Shopify's native replacement, Quick Count, lives inside the POS app and requires POS Pro; none of the PO apps above (ours included, today) rebuild Stocky's counting workflow. If counts are critical to your operation, factor that into your choice — and watch this space, because it's a gap we're actively working on.

Whatever you choose, do these two things this week

1. Export everything from Stocky. The checklist is here. Access to your historical data does not last long past August 31, and no replacement can import what you didn't save.

2. Pick something before the deadline, not after. The worst outcome isn't choosing a slightly-wrong app — every option here has a free trial. It's September 3rd with no PO system, no reorder warnings, and a supplier asking where the order is.