What are the best Shopify Stocky alternatives now?

Why are Shopify merchants replacing Stocky right now?

Shopify merchants need a Stocky alternative now because Stocky’s inventory-management functions have shut down, while Shopify’s built-in replacement still leaves real gaps for serious purchasing teams.

Shopify delisted Stocky from the App Store on February 2, 2026, then ended its inventory-management functionality on August 31. Merchants who already had Stocky keep read-only access for at least 90 days, mainly so they can export records before that window closes. Stocky’s APIs also stopped working when the inventory product shut down.

This is a proper forced migration. Stocky had been included with Shopify POS Pro and handled jobs that many retailers did every week: forecasting what to reorder, creating purchase orders, tracking suppliers, receiving goods, counting inventory, moving stock between locations and calculating inventory costs.

Shopify has rebuilt quite a lot of that inside Shopify Admin and POS lately. So the choice is wider than “Which app replaces Stocky?” Some stores can now live without a replacement app. Others will immediately miss supplier-specific purchasing, better forecasting, large stocktakes or proper costing.

That difference drives the whole comparison.

Can Shopify’s built-in inventory really replace Stocky?

Shopify’s built-in inventory can replace Stocky for a small retailer, but it still falls short once purchasing, supplier data or stock counting becomes complicated.

Shopify now lets merchants create purchase orders, attach suppliers, receive stock, transfer inventory between locations, review inventory adjustments and use Shopify POS for quick counts. Shopify’s current migration guide also says Sidekick can analyze demand, suggest replenishment and draft purchase orders. That is much closer to Stocky than Shopify’s older inventory tools were.

The problems appear around the details buyers deal with every day. Shopify gives each product one standard Vendor field. If the same item comes from several suppliers, each with its own SKU, lead time, minimum order quantity or case size, Shopify recommends storing those details in metafields or metaobjects. Staff still have to apply much of that information manually when they order.

Costing is another clear step backward for some Stocky users. Stocky could calculate average unit cost as new inventory arrived and fold shipping or other adjustments into landed cost. Shopify’s native product cost remains a static cost-per-item field. Shopify itself recommends a third-party app when weighted-average costing or automatic landed-cost allocation is required.

Physical counts also expose the limit quickly. Shopify POS Quick count currently handles up to 1,000 items in one session. For a proper full-location stocktake with several people, Shopify’s official workflow is to export inventory to CSV, count externally and import the result. That is workable for an occasional annual count. It is clumsy for a retailer doing regular cycle counts across a large catalog.

We therefore see native Shopify as the first option to test, especially for small stores, rather than the default answer for every former Stocky merchant.

Stocky job	Shopify handles it today?	Where Shopify still feels weak
Purchase orders	Yes	No direct PO emailing or PO merging
Receiving stock	Yes	Complex receiving is more basic
Suppliers	Yes	Multiple suppliers and case packs need custom data
Reordering	Partly	Sidekick helps, but dedicated planners go much deeper
Stocktakes	Partly	Large counts still push merchants toward CSV or another app
Inventory costing	Basic	No native weighted-average costing or automatic landed-cost allocation

What did Stocky do that Shopify still handles awkwardly?

Stocky’s biggest remaining advantage was the way purchasing rules, suppliers and inventory data worked together without much manual setup.

A good example is pack sizes. Stocky could know that a supplier sold a product in cases of 12 and flag an order quantity that did not divide correctly into those packs. The same product could have several suppliers, different prices and different currencies. Shopify can store most of those facts today, but much of the purchasing logic around them still has to be handled by staff or another app.

Forecasting worked the same way. Stocky could take recent daily sales, calculate how many days of stock a merchant wanted and suggest an order quantity. Merchants could also use minimum levels, shelf limits or target stock quantities. Shopify now gives merchants analytics and Sidekick, so the raw information is increasingly available, yet the workflow feels less purpose-built.

Then there is Stocky’s average-cost system. If a retailer owned 10 units bought for $10 and received another 10 at $5, Stocky could update the average unit cost to $7.50. Shopify explicitly says average unit cost was unique to Stocky and does not appear natively in Shopify.

Those gaps explain why the Stocky shutdown affects merchants so differently. A shop that mostly created simple POs and moved inventory between two stores may be fine in Shopify now. A buyer juggling 8,000 SKUs, several suppliers per product, case packs and regular replenishment has lost a much bigger part of the workflow.

Is Stockroom the closest free Shopify Stocky replacement?

Stockroom is currently the strongest free Stocky replacement we found, and its feature list is surprisingly close to what many retailers actually lost.

MyWorks launched Stockroom shortly before the Stocky shutdown. The current Shopify App Store listing says Stockroom is still free and includes unlimited purchase orders and suppliers, partial receiving, multi-location POs, stock counts, transfers, barcode labels, forecasting, COGS reporting and landed-cost tracking. It can also email purchase orders as PDFs, something Shopify’s native PO tool still cannot do directly.

Stockroom has expanded quickly too. The app now includes bills of materials, builds and component costing for simple manufacturing, plus QuickBooks integrations through MyWorks. Those are additions Stocky itself did not really center on.

The fresh migration feedback is unusually relevant. Stockroom currently has 13 Shopify reviews with a 5.0 rating and a Built for Shopify badge. Several reviews posted around the Stocky shutdown specifically describe switching from Stocky. One merchant said the migration was almost seamless; another said Shopify’s native PO system had been its first choice before Stockroom proved much closer to the workflow the store wanted.

We still would not pretend 13 reviews equal years of evidence. Stockroom has only been on the Shopify App Store for a couple of months. Prediko, Stockie, Assisty and other established apps have much longer operating histories.

But Stockroom has already cleared the first hurdle that kills many newly launched replacements: real merchants are using it for actual Stocky migrations, and the product is still improving fast. For a conventional Shopify retailer, we would test Stockroom before paying for anything else.

Is Prediko the best paid Shopify Stocky alternative?

Prediko is our strongest paid Stocky alternative today because it combines serious forecasting with the practical inventory jobs retailers still need to do.

Prediko currently covers demand forecasting, replenishment suggestions, purchase orders, multi-location inventory, stocktakes, transfers, bundles and inventory reporting. Its Starter plan begins at $49 per month for stores below $100,000 in revenue and includes unlimited users, unlimited SKUs and unlimited purchase-order management.

More importantly, Prediko has now gone through real Stocky migrations. A recent Shopify reviewer said Prediko’s team imported the store’s suppliers and purchase-order history. Another retailer described Prediko as better than Stocky after moving across. The app currently sits around 4.9 stars with well over 200 reviews, so we have considerably more evidence here than with a newly launched replacement.

Prediko also solves a problem Stocky handled fairly simply: deciding what to buy next. The app looks at demand and stock coverage, then connects those forecasts directly to the buying table and PO workflow. That becomes valuable once a retailer has enough SKUs that “check sales, look at inventory, open spreadsheet, calculate quantity, create PO” starts eating hours every week.

The weak point is price growth. Prediko’s $49 entry point applies to smaller stores, while the next revenue tier is currently $119 per month and larger businesses move into higher or custom pricing.

Even with that caveat, Prediko is the paid app we would choose first when a retailer wants to improve on Stocky rather than simply recreate it.

Is Stockie the easiest Stocky replacement to learn?

Stockie may be the easiest Stocky replacement for retailers who mostly want familiar purchase orders and replenishment without learning a much broader planning system.

The similarity goes beyond the name. Stockie focuses on inventory forecasting, reorder quantities, lead times, purchase orders, receiving and product costs. The full PO workflow currently sits on its higher plan, around $60 per month.

Recent Shopify reviews are unusually useful because several merchants explicitly compare Stockie with the discontinued Stocky. One called Stockie the closest replacement they had found. Another said the switch was easy and praised how similar the day-to-day workflow felt. Stockie currently carries a 4.9 rating from 121 reviews and has Shopify’s Built for Shopify badge.

That gives Stockie a strong position between two extremes. Stockroom is free and already covers a huge amount. Prediko gives buyers more sophisticated planning. Stockie makes sense when the merchant mainly wants to keep raising POs, receiving them, tracking costs and deciding what needs reordering without changing the way the purchasing team thinks.

There is one annoying part. Purchase orders sit on Stockie’s most expensive standard tier, so merchants who need only POs can end up paying for forecasting features they barely use. One recent Stocky migrant complained about exactly that.

Still, we would rank Stockie near the top for retailers who want the least disruptive transition.

Is Assisty better than Stocky for complicated replenishment?

Assisty is stronger than old Stocky for deep replenishment analysis, but it becomes expensive if the merchant needs the full purchasing workflow.

Assisty currently has one of the biggest review bases in this group, with more than 350 Shopify reviews and a 4.8 rating. The app covers demand forecasting, multi-location replenishment, inventory reports, buying tables and purchase orders. Recent merchants have specifically praised its recommendations for deciding how much stock to move between stores.

The main attraction is depth. Assisty can slice inventory performance in far more ways than a typical small retailer ever needed from Stocky. For a buyer managing a large catalog, the ability to look at sell-through, forecasts, stock coverage and replenishment across locations can remove a surprising amount of spreadsheet work.

The pricing deserves close attention, though. Assisty has cheaper reporting plans, but its current Shopify listing puts AI and machine-learning forecasting, purchase orders, receiving, the advanced buying table and buying calendar in the $199-per-month Shopify Plus tier.

That changes who should buy it. A store spending millions of dollars a year on stock can recover $199 very quickly if better replenishment prevents a few bad orders. A small retailer mainly trying to replace Stocky POs has cheaper choices that feel much closer to the original problem.

Assisty belongs on the shortlist once inventory analysis itself has become a serious job inside the company.

Is Sumtracker better if Shopify is only one of your sales channels?

Sumtracker is one of the best Stocky alternatives for merchants selling through Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, eBay or Walmart at the same time.

Sumtracker approaches inventory from a different starting point. Instead of treating the Shopify store as the whole business, it synchronizes the same stock across several stores and marketplaces. It also supports bundles, stocktakes, purchase orders, transfers, landed costs and forecasting.

That can solve a much bigger headache than Stocky ever did. Imagine a product with 12 units left that is simultaneously listed on Shopify, Amazon and Etsy. The important job is keeping all three channels working from the same inventory figure so the merchant does not sell the 13th unit. Sumtracker is built around that problem.

The current Manage plan costs $59 per month for stores within its stated 2,500-orders-per-year allowance and handles multi-channel syncing, bundles, stocktakes and multi-location inventory. The Replenish tier is currently $119 per month and adds purchase orders, transfers, 12-month forecasting, automated reorder suggestions and sales-velocity calculations. Higher-volume stores pay more.

Sumtracker has been on Shopify for roughly six years and currently has more than 100 reviews with a 4.8 rating. One recent merchant described using it to track both raw materials and finished products with complicated many-to-one and one-to-many relationships, which is well beyond basic stock syncing.

For a Shopify-only store, we prefer Stockroom, Prediko or Stockie. Once inventory is shared across several marketplaces, Sumtracker becomes much harder to beat.

Is Fabrikatör worth paying more for better inventory forecasting?

Fabrikatör is worth considering when forecasting is the real problem, especially for a growing DTC brand that has already outgrown spreadsheet-based buying.

Fabrikatör currently starts at $99 per month for stores below $500,000 in annual revenue. The plan includes inventory forecasting, purchase orders, bundle planning, reports, backorders and preorders. The price rises to $149 below $1.5 million of annual revenue and $199 below $2.5 million.

The product is clearly built around planning. Fabrikatör forecasts demand by SKU, tracks supplier lead times and costs, then helps buyers turn that planning into purchase orders. It also integrates with QuickBooks, Xero, ShipHero and Katana.

Current Shopify data gives us a decent amount of confidence in the product. Fabrikatör has been listed for about six years, has more than 100 reviews and carries a 4.8 rating. Shopify’s own review summary highlights predictive ordering, inventory forecasting and the app’s ability to handle large SKU catalogs.

There are some recent complaints too. One merchant reported abandoning a preorder workflow after waiting weeks for an issue to be fixed. That is worth knowing because it shows the app’s broad feature set does not mean every workflow is equally mature.

Fabrikatör becomes attractive when the buyer spends more time deciding what to order than physically counting or receiving inventory. Retail-floor-heavy stores have better fits elsewhere.

Is Inventory Planner by Sage still a good Stocky alternative?

Inventory Planner by Sage is still a serious forecasting product, but we would put several newer Shopify-focused alternatives ahead of it for a straightforward Stocky migration.

Inventory Planner has more history than most products in this comparison. It handles forecasting, replenishment, purchase orders, stock planning and multi-channel inventory, with integrations including Amazon, QuickBooks, ShipBob, WooCommerce, Cin7 and Linnworks.

Long-term usage is a real strength. A recent reviewer said the company had already used Inventory Planner for three years and had committed to another three. Another merchant described the product as essential for purchasing across several sales channels.

The current App Store picture is more mixed than with Prediko or Stockie. Inventory Planner sits around 4.5 stars with roughly 150 reviews, including a noticeable number of one-star ratings. One merchant reported a prolonged syncing problem after paying roughly $4,000 for a year. A single complaint cannot tell us how common that experience is, but the lower overall rating gives us less reason to overlook it.

Pricing has also become harder to compare. Shopify currently shows Inventory Planner as free to install and asks merchants to contact the company for pricing based on their needs.

Inventory Planner still makes sense for businesses that specifically want a mature planning layer across several systems. For a retailer asking, “What replaces Stocky without turning this into a six-month software project?”, Prediko and Stockie now make the cleaner case.

Is Thrive the better Stocky replacement for physical stores?

Thrive is a strong Stocky alternative for physical retailers, especially when Shopify has to share inventory with Square or Clover.

Thrive has been on Shopify for roughly nine years and currently has more than 100 reviews. The app handles stock counts, barcodes, purchase orders, vendors, bundles, expiration dates, min/max levels and forecasting. Shopify’s review summary repeatedly highlights multi-SKU inventory, barcode workflows and the ability to keep stock synchronized across Shopify, Square and Clover.

The mixed-POS support is the important part. A retailer with a Shopify website and Shopify POS everywhere probably does not need Thrive’s biggest advantage. A retailer running Shopify online, Square in one store and Clover somewhere else suddenly has a much harder inventory problem.

Pricing reflects that scope. Thrive currently starts at $59 per month, but purchase orders and vendor management enter on the $129 Standard plan. Stock forecasting appears on the $279 Professional plan, which supports up to five locations or integrations and 10,000 monthly transactions.

So Thrive can look expensive next to Stockroom or Prediko until we compare the right businesses. For a retailer trying to keep several physical systems synchronized, paying more for one shared inventory layer can make much more sense than stitching together several cheaper apps.

When do SKULabs, Cin7 Core or Katana make more sense than a Stocky replacement?

SKULabs, Cin7 Core and Katana make sense once a Shopify merchant’s inventory problem has grown well beyond what Stocky was designed to handle.

SKULabs is the clearest example for warehouses. It combines inventory with barcode receiving, picking, packing, shipping and warehouse operations. Its current Shopify listing has more than 60 reviews with a 5.0 rating. One recent retailer reported moving a roughly 12,000-orders-per-month operation onto SKULabs without stopping production. That tells us far more about its target customer than another checklist of PO features.

Cin7 Core goes even broader. Its current Standard plan starts around $349 per month and combines purchasing, inventory, orders, accounting connections, production and CRM-style functions. Cin7 says its platform connects with more than 700 systems. At that stage, Shopify has become one sales channel inside a bigger operational stack.

Katana fits manufacturers. The current Core plan starts around $299 per month, and the software connects raw materials, bills of materials, production scheduling and finished inventory. A merchant buying finished T-shirts from a supplier has little reason to pay for that. A company buying fabric, producing garments and tracking work in progress has a completely different problem.

These products become interesting when the company needs warehouse execution, ERP functions or manufacturing control anyway. Buying them purely because Stocky disappeared would usually mean paying for far more software than the business needs.

How much Stocky data can merchants still migrate now?

Stocky merchants should preserve their old data immediately because Shopify does not automatically carry most Stocky history into the new inventory system.

Shopify’s current migration guide is very clear about the gap. Historical Stocky purchase orders and stocktakes do not automatically move into Shopify. Suppliers cannot be exported directly from Stocky. Historical POs also cannot be recreated through Shopify’s PO import with their old statuses, received quantities and supplier relationships intact.

The timing makes this more urgent these days. Shopify says merchants keep read-only Stocky access for at least 90 days after the shutdown. Stocky’s APIs have already stopped working, so old migration tools that depended on those APIs can no longer be assumed to work the same way.

We would therefore export completed purchase-order reports, stocktake history and historical cost records while Stocky is still accessible. Waiting until a new system is fully configured creates the unnecessary risk that useful history disappears first.

Some replacement vendors are helping around this. A recent Prediko customer said the team imported suppliers and PO history during its migration. Stockroom reviewers also describe easy Stocky transitions. Those examples are encouraging, although we would ask each vendor exactly which data can still be recovered today before buying on the promise of “Stocky migration.”

The migration question is now almost as important as the software choice itself.

Does an expensive inventory app actually replace Stocky better?

Paying more rarely gives a closer Stocky replacement; higher prices mostly buy more forecasting, more channels, warehouse tools or broader business software.

The spread is huge. Shopify’s own tools are included with the platform. Stockroom is currently free. Prediko starts at $49 for smaller stores. Stockie’s PO plan sits around $60. Fabrikatör starts at $99. Sumtracker’s replenishment tier is $119. Assisty’s full AI forecasting and purchasing tier is $199. SKULabs and Katana start around $300, while Cin7 Core begins around $349.

A tenfold price difference only makes sense because these products are solving very different problems. SKULabs adds warehouse picking and shipping. Katana adds manufacturing. Cin7 starts moving toward ERP territory. Sumtracker connects marketplaces. Thrive connects different POS systems. Fabrikatör spends more of its energy on planning.

For the typical former Stocky retailer, the interesting change today is how little software may be required. Shopify itself now handles the foundation, and the merchant can pay specifically for whatever remains painful.

That pushes us toward smaller tools until complexity proves they are insufficient.

Merchant situation	Best place to start	Typical current entry point
Simple Shopify inventory and POs	Shopify native	Included
Full Stocky-style retail workflow	Stockroom	Free
Better forecasting plus Stocky workflows	Prediko	$49/month
Familiar PO and replenishment workflow	Stockie	Around $60/month
Multi-channel inventory	Sumtracker	$59/month for management, $119 with replenishment
Planning-heavy DTC brand	Fabrikatör	$99/month
Mixed physical POS systems	Thrive	$129/month for POs
Warehouse-heavy operation	SKULabs	Around $300/month
Manufacturing	Katana	Around $300/month
ERP-level inventory	Cin7 Core	Around $349/month

What are the best Shopify Stocky alternatives now?

The best Shopify Stocky alternatives right now are Stockroom for most retailers who want a close replacement, Prediko for merchants who want better planning, and Shopify itself for stores whose inventory needs are fairly simple.

Stockroom gets our first recommendation because the value is currently hard to ignore. It is free, Built for Shopify and already handles unlimited POs and suppliers, receiving, stocktakes, transfers, forecasting, labels and landed costs. The app remains young, so we would run a real PO, receiving session and stocktake before committing the whole operation. Still, the wave of fresh Stocky-migration reviews makes Stockroom much more convincing now than it was immediately after launch.

Prediko is our best paid all-round choice. The product has several years of history, well over 200 Shopify reviews, a 4.9 rating and fresh evidence of successful Stocky migrations. More importantly, it improves the part of Stocky that most growing merchants eventually outgrow: forecasting what to buy, when to buy it and how much cash to put into each SKU.

Stockie comes next when familiarity matters. The product looks particularly good for retailers whose Stocky routine revolved around purchase orders, receiving and replenishment and who would rather avoid a more ambitious planning platform.

From there, we would stop trying to rank every app on one universal scale. Sumtracker moves to the top for multi-marketplace inventory. Fabrikatör makes more sense for planning-heavy DTC brands. Assisty works for teams that want deeper replenishment analysis. Thrive is much easier to justify when Square or Clover are involved. SKULabs belongs in warehouses. Katana belongs in manufacturing. Cin7 Core belongs in businesses that are already heading toward an ERP.

And Shopify native deserves more credit than most “Stocky alternatives” lists give it. Shopify can already handle enough of the old Stocky workflow that a small merchant should try native inventory before adding another monthly subscription.

So our final ranking depends on how much of Stocky the merchant actually misses. For a normal Shopify retailer, we would test Shopify native first, install Stockroom if Shopify feels too basic, and move to Prediko when forecasting and purchasing have become important enough to justify paying for a dedicated system.

Need	Best Shopify Stocky alternative now	Our judgment
Simple inventory management	Shopify native	Try this before paying for another app
Closest free replacement	Stockroom	Best value and our first app to test
Best overall paid replacement	Prediko	Strongest mix of maturity, forecasting and operations
Easiest familiar migration	Stockie	Excellent for PO-heavy Stocky users
Complex replenishment analysis	Assisty	Powerful, but harder to justify for small stores
Multi-channel inventory	Sumtracker	Best fit when Amazon, Etsy, eBay or Walmart matter
Forecasting-heavy DTC	Fabrikatör	Strong planning tool with solid history
Multi-POS physical retail	Thrive	Especially useful with Square or Clover
Warehouse operations	SKULabs	The better choice once fulfillment dominates
Manufacturing	Katana	Built for raw materials and production
ERP-scale business	Cin7 Core	Makes sense after the business has outgrown inventory apps