The best Stocky alternatives

Shopify has spent the Stocky wind-down moving its features into core admin and POS: purchase orders, transfers, stock adjustments, demand forecasting. It's built in, it's free, and it's where your stock already lives.

Best for: Most small and simple stores. If you run a modest catalogue from a few suppliers, reorder on judgement, and don't need to interrogate last year's costs — stop here. This is the right answer and it costs nothing.

The drawback: It cannot take your history. Shopify's own guide says "Historical purchase orders can't be imported into Shopify." and "Suppliers can't be exported from Stocky." — so every PO you've raised and your entire supplier list either get rebuilt by hand or become CSVs in a folder. It also has no margin view: it knows your stock, not your profit.

Standalone Shopify inventory + margin console. It imports the Stocky purchase-order history Shopify won't take — as real, queryable POs with supplier, cost, dates and line items — and rebuilds the supplier list Stocky won't export. Then it carries on the job: purchase orders, reorder-point alerts, cost prices, multi-location receiving, and rolling-velocity forecasting if you want it. Plus per-order margin, netting cost, ad spend and processor fees.

Best for: Merchants who need purchase-order history preserved and want per-order margin. That's the specific pair, and the history half is the one nothing else on this list does. If your reordering depends on knowing what you actually paid last time and which supplier is chronically late — and you also want to know which orders make money — this is what we built.

The drawback: No Shopify POS UI extension and no stocktake or cycle-count workflow at all — Stocky did both, and if your stock is counted with a scanner at the till we are a downgrade on the part of the job you do most. Barcode receiving isn't shipped either: browser-based scan-to-receive is in development and unreleased, so today receiving is typed. We also don't print barcode labels, don't take multiple invoices against one PO, don't do landed-cost adjustments, and don't let you choose your own report columns. And we're a paid replacement for a tool that was free with POS Pro.

A long-established forecasting and replenishment tool, now part of the Sage stable. Deep demand forecasting, seasonality, purchase planning and open-to-buy budgeting across multiple sales channels.

Best for: Merchants whose actual pain is forecasting — where the cost of over- or under-buying dwarfs the subscription. If you're managing seasonal buys across channels and want serious replenishment maths, it's genuinely strong.

The drawback: Enterprise-priced and enterprise-shaped: it's aimed well above a small store, and the pricing and onboarding reflect that. It's a forecasting tool first — it won't give you per-order margin, and it's more machine than most Stocky refugees need.

Manufacturing ERP / MRP for makers. Bills of materials, production scheduling, raw-material versus finished-goods stock, shop-floor operations, with Shopify as one of the sales channels feeding it.

Best for: Anyone who makes what they sell. If you assemble from components and need to know whether you have the raw materials to build the order, Katana is doing a job neither Stocky nor we attempt.

The drawback: If you buy finished goods and resell them, the entire MRP layer is overhead you'll pay for and never open. It's not a Stocky replacement — it's a different category that happens to hold stock.

Full inventory ERP — multi-warehouse, B2B and wholesale, accounting integration, order management, light manufacturing. DEAR Systems now sits inside Cin7 as its core product line.

Best for: Operations that have outgrown a Shopify app: several warehouses, wholesale alongside DTC, real accounting integration. Genuinely comprehensive, and if that's your shape it's the correct tier.

The drawback: Heavy and costly. Implementation is a project, not an afternoon — expect onboarding fees and a consultant. Buying an ERP to replace a free POS add-on is a wild over-correction for most stores, and you'll feel it in month one.

A newer Shopify-native inventory planning app: AI-assisted demand forecasting, purchase-order creation and stock alerts, built specifically for DTC brands rather than adapted from an ERP.

Best for: Shopify-first brands who want forecasting and POs in a modern interface without the Inventory Planner price tag or the ERP baggage. Closest in spirit to what Stocky was trying to be.

The drawback: Younger and narrower than the incumbents, and Shopify-only — if you sell anywhere else it won't see it. Like the rest of this category it plans stock rather than measuring profit, so margin stays your problem.

Your Stocky CSV exports, opened in Google Sheets or Excel, with the reorder maths done by hand. Not a joke entry — it's what a real share of merchants will land on and it works.

Best for: Tiny catalogues. Under a hundred SKUs and a couple of suppliers, a sheet you understand beats software you don't. It's free, it's yours forever, no API can turn it off, and your Stocky history is already in the right format.

The drawback: It doesn't scale and it silently rots. No reorder alerts, no live stock sync, no forecasting, and the numbers drift the moment someone forgets to update it. There's no audit trail and no second opinion when it's wrong.