Stocky migration
The Stocky migration checklist
Stocky stops working on 31 August 2026. Most of this list is Shopify's own recommended work, reordered into the sequence you'd actually do it in and dated against the deadline. One task is ours — the one their guide skips, because Shopify's honest answer to it is "you can't."
Working back from the deadline
The dates below assume you cut over on the shutdown date itself. If you'd rather cut over early — sensible, and it means a quiet week instead of a loud one — slide every row back by the same amount. The order is what matters, not the exact day.
Around end of July 2026 — export everything
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Export the historical data you need
Purchase-order reports, stocktake history and historical cost data, all as CSV out of Stocky's built-in reports. Do this first and do it while Stocky is definitely still running — every later step gets safer once the files are on disk.
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Rebuild your supplier list by hand
Stocky has no supplier export at all, so nobody can do this for you automatically. Read the supplier names off your purchase-order report, then fill in contacts, lead times and payment terms into a CSV. It is tedious and it is the step people skip and regret.
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Verify the exports parse
Check row counts against what Stocky shows on screen before you trust the files. A date-filtered export looks exactly like a complete one once the app is off. Our free checker parses the supplier, cost-price and purchase-order CSVs and tells you which rows are valid and which would be rejected.
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Decide where the history goes
This is the decision the official guide doesn't make for you, because Shopify's answer is that there is no answer: "Historical purchase orders can't be imported into Shopify." Either you accept the CSVs are archive-only, or you move them somewhere that can query them. Decide now, not on cutover day.
Early August 2026 — learn the destination
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Learn Shopify's inventory workflows
Stock levels, transfers, purchase orders and adjustments all have native homes in Shopify admin and POS now. They are not laid out the way Stocky laid them out. Spend an hour in the destination before you're forced to live in it.
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Update your third-party integrations
Anything reading Stocky's API — a 3PL sync, a reporting tool, a spreadsheet on a schedule — stops dead when the APIs stop. Inventory every integration now and find out what each one needs pointing at instead.
Mid August 2026 — close the loop on open orders
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Close your open purchase orders
Shopify explicitly recommends this roughly two weeks out. A PO that's still open when Stocky stops is a PO you'll be reconciling from memory and email. Receive what's landed, cancel what isn't coming, and stop raising new POs in Stocky.
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Re-export the PO report after closing
Your T-30 export is now stale — it shows those orders as open. Run the purchase-order report once more so your archive reflects final received quantities and actual landed dates. This is the version worth keeping.
Late August 2026 — test before you commit
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Test transfers, POs and adjustments
Run one of each end-to-end in Shopify, with real staff doing it, on real stock. Finding out that your receiving flow has a gap is a T-7 problem you can fix; it is a T+1 problem you cannot.
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Train your staff
Especially anyone on POS who has only ever counted stock through Stocky. The buttons moved. Ten minutes each now beats a week of miscounts.
31 August 2026 — cutover
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Remove Stocky's POS UI extension
It doesn't disappear on its own, and a dead tile on the POS is a support ticket waiting to happen. Do this last, once you're satisfied everything else is out.
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Do not uninstall until the exports are verified
Stocky was delisted from the App Store on 2 February 2026, so removal is one-way — you cannot reinstall it to grab a file you forgot. The read-only grace period covers the shutdown date; it does not cover you uninstalling early.
The two clocks
People treat 31 August 2026 as the point of no return. It mostly isn't — you keep read-only export access for at least 90 days afterwards, so missing the date costs you convenience rather than data. The genuine point of no return is uninstalling: Stocky was delisted on 2 February 2026 and can't be reinstalled. Sequence accordingly — export first, remove last, and don't let anyone tidy up the app list in between.
Where this checklist came from
The grey items are Shopify's recommendations from their transitioning-from-Stocky guide, which is the authoritative source for the current click-paths and worth reading alongside this. The green items are what we've seen missing: the supplier rebuild (there's no export to automate), the re-export after closing POs (your first export goes stale), and the decision about the purchase-order history that has to be made before the app switches off.
Start with the exports — check them free
Upload your supplier, cost-price and purchase-order CSVs and get a row-by-row compatibility report in about 60 seconds. No account, nothing stored. If Shopify native covers you, it'll say so.