Shopify Retired Stocky. Here Is What Moved to Admin, What Disappeared, and How to Replace the Rest

If you run a Shopify store with POS Pro, Stocky has probably been the quiet back office for years: purchase orders, stocktakes, transfers between locations, and the low-stock report you glance at on Monday morning. Shopify delisted it from the App Store in February 2026, removed transfers and min/max forecasting in July 2025, and switched it off on August 31, 2026. Shopify is not shipping a like-for-like replacement. Some of what Stocky did is now built into Shopify admin. The rest is simply gone unless you bring in another tool.

The mistake most merchants make is treating this as one migration. It is two. The parts that moved into admin are a settings change. The parts that disappeared are a workflow you have to rebuild, and they happen to be the parts that decide whether your best seller is in stock in November.

What moves into Shopify admin

These carry forward, and you should do the switch inside Shopify rather than looking for an app:

• Purchase orders. Shopify admin can create a PO, receive against it and adjust stock on arrival. It is plainer than Stocky, but it works.
• Transfers between locations. Built into admin under inventory.
• Stock adjustments and counts. Adjustments are in admin. Full stocktakes are thinner than Stocky's, so if you count often, test it soon.

If you exported your open POs and supplier list before the shutdown, keep those files close. The supplier list matters more than it looks: Shopify admin has no supplier record, so the contact emails, lead times and notes you kept in Stocky have nowhere to land.

What disappears

Stocky feature	In Shopify admin?	What you actually lose
Demand forecasting and reorder points	No	The "order 40 more by the 18th" number. Without it you are back to guessing from the low-stock list.
Supplier records	No	Contact, lead time, notes and history per supplier. Admin POs have a vendor name field and nothing behind it.
Supplier follow-up	Never existed	Stocky never chased a late PO either. Most merchants did it from memory and an inbox search.
Stocky API and reports	No	Any spreadsheet or integration that pulled from Stocky stopped on August 31.

Notice the pattern. Everything that survives is about counting what is on the shelf. Everything that disappears is about deciding what to order next and making sure it shows up. That second job is the one that runs out of stock when it goes wrong.

How to replace the reorder and supplier side

Here is the workflow TraxSail AI runs for a Shopify store, so you can compare it to whatever you are evaluating:

• Connect the store once. On-hand and thirty-day sell-through are pulled per listing from Shopify every few hours. No spreadsheet, no CSV upload.
• Match listings to the things you buy. A Shopify variant is what you sell. A supplier item is what you order. TraxSail pairs them, and a human confirms each match before it drives any number. A wrong AI guess never becomes a reorder.
• Get an order-by date, not a low-stock alert. Days of cover from real velocity, pulled earlier by that supplier's average lateness, so a chronically late supplier gets ordered from sooner. The suggestion includes a quantity that covers the reorder cycle plus the delay.
• One click to a tracked purchase order. The suggestion becomes a PO with the supplier, quantity and expected ship date filled in. It is now something the system watches, not a line in a notebook.
• The follow-up happens without you. If the supplier has not confirmed or the ship date passes, TraxSail emails them, reads the reply, updates the PO, and escalates tone on a schedule. You approve the drafts at first. Once a supplier has a clean track record you can let the routine ones send on their own.
• Reliability is scored from history. On-time percentage, average delay and how many nudges each supplier needs. That score feeds back into the next order-by date.

Stock counts, transfers and receiving stay in Shopify admin, where Shopify has decided they belong. TraxSail does not duplicate them.

A migration plan you can finish in an afternoon

• Find your Stocky export. Open POs, the supplier list and the last six months of PO history, if you pulled them before August 31. If you did not, export purchase orders from Shopify admin and pull the rest from supplier email threads. The history is what makes reorder suggestions possible on day one instead of month three.
• Recreate open POs in Shopify admin so receiving keeps working.
• Import the PO history into TraxSail. It reads the CSV Stocky produces. Three or more orders of the same item from the same supplier is enough to call a reorder pattern.
• Connect Shopify and confirm the listing matches for your top twenty SKUs first. That is where stock-outs cost the most.
• Turn on follow-up for your worst supplier only. Watch the drafts for a week. Then widen it.

Questions merchants are asking

Do I have to leave POS Pro? No. POS Pro is unchanged. Only the Stocky app inside it was retired.

Is there a free Shopify replacement for forecasting? Not from Shopify. Admin gives you a low-stock threshold per variant, which tells you that you are low, not when to order or how much.

What if I sell wholesale too? TraxSail also connects to Faire for brands selling to retailers, and the same reorder and follow-up logic runs across both channels against the same supplier POs.