Stocky alternatives: 12 apps compared

The comparison table

🔑 Prices are compared at the tier that reaches the same feature set, not at each app’s cheapest tier. “The same feature set” here means demand forecasting plus purchase orders plus receiving plus writing the result back to Shopify inventory. Comparing first tiers reverses the ranking: Stockie starts at $4.99, but that tier is alerts only and its purchase orders are on the $59.99 tier.

“Not stated” means we could not confirm it from public information — it does not mean the feature is missing. Prices and review counts change often, so check each listing before you commit.

Three things the table shows

1. Every app but one needs sales history first

The requirement is stated openly in the apps’ own listings: Fabrikatör asks for six months of orders, Monocle for twelve months and twenty SKUs, Stockful learns from two years of daily history, Stockie forecasts from real sales history, Prediko needs sufficient history. That is a reasonable design for an established store, and it means the whole category goes quiet in the three situations where a stockout costs most: a new store, a newly launched product, and a season the shop has not traded through yet. Apparel and DTC brands can be in that position on half their catalogue at any time.

2. Nobody replaced the POS tile

Stocky’s full App Store name was Stocky — Inventory Management for Shopify POS Pro, and it had a tile on the point-of-sale smart grid. All twelve third-party alternatives here are admin-only. Stockful lists Shopify POS under compatibility, but neither its site nor its documentation describes POS functionality, so that most likely means data compatibility. If your staff counted stock from the till, today the only POS-native path is Shopify’s own built-in inventory features.

3. “Migration” means very different things

Some apps mean a CSV importer, some mean a support engineer will help you, and some do not say. The distinction that matters is what actually moves. Suppliers, purchase orders, stock adjustments and tax types are reachable through the Stocky API, so they can be copied with their relationships intact. Reorder points, supplier lead times, stock count history and minimum order quantities are not in the API — they only come out as CSV or by copying the screen. An app that imports a supplier list but drops your reorder points has still cost you the part that took years to tune.

Which one fits your store

• You want someone else to do the migration. Fabrikatör — the only app stating hands-on migration support. Budget $99 per month and six months of order history.
• You want the safest, most proven choice. Assisty at $19 (4.8 from 341 reviews) or Inventory Planner if you need multi-warehouse and multi-currency planning and can absorb the setup effort.
• You are launching products faster than you accumulate history. UreyukiBox — it estimates opening orders from comparable products in your own catalogue and applies your country’s retail calendar without learning it from your sales.
• You mostly want a dashboard to make decisions from. Prediko, if the revenue-scaled pricing works for you.
• You only need alerts and will raise orders by hand. Stockie’s entry tiers, or Shopify’s free native purchase orders plus a spreadsheet.
• Your team works from the till. No app covers this yet. Shopify’s native POS inventory features are the only option today.

About UreyukiBox, in full

We make this one, so read it with that in mind. Here is what is actually different, and what is not.

What is genuinely different

• It works before the first sale. Seasonality comes from a fixed calendar for your store’s own country — 51 countries, each cut in its own time zone, from Japan’s thirteen gift and holiday events through Lunar New Year and Singles’ Day in China, Chuseok in Korea, Diwali in India, Eid across Southeast Asia and the Gulf, and the Southern Hemisphere school year. Opening order quantities come from how comparable products in your own catalogue sold in their first thirty days. Neither needs the product to have sold before.
• It moves purchase order history, not just a supplier list. Suppliers, purchase orders, stock adjustments and tax types are copied from the Stocky API with their relationships preserved, and the CSV-only data is imported separately.
• It refuses to answer rather than guess. With no comparable products, the opening-order estimate returns nothing instead of a default. With too little data to measure variability, safety stock falls back to a plain deterministic reorder point. Purchase tax presets ship for 53 countries, and for the six where a single national rate would be wrong — the US, Canada, Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia — it ships no rate at all rather than a confident wrong one.
• The whole loop is in one app. Reorder-point alerts by email, Slack or LINE, suggested order quantities, purchase orders as PDF or CSV emailed to the supplier, receiving in part-shipments, and the result written back to Shopify inventory — plus stock counts, adjustments, transfers between locations, barcode scanning and label printing, landed cost with freight apportioned, and margin reporting by product and supplier.

Where it is behind

• No reviews. It was published recently. Assisty has 341 and Prediko 224; we have none. If proven-in-production matters more to you than anything above, that is a legitimate reason to choose one of them.
• No POS screen. Planned for v2, with no date attached. Neither has anyone else’s.
• Multiple locations start on the Business plan. Stockie includes unlimited locations from its cheapest tier.
• No backorders or pre-orders (Fabrikatör has these), no 3PL or WMS integrations, and no accounting integrations.

Pricing: Free for up to 100 products, then $19, $39 and $83 per month. Stores billed in Japanese yen pay ¥2,980, ¥5,980 and ¥12,800. Paid plans include a 14-day trial, and the Stocky migration runs on the Free plan.

The interface, the App Store listing, alerts and support replies are all in English, and the migration tools and the CSV import work on any Shopify store. Purchase orders follow your store too: totals are in your store’s currency, and purchase tax lines are seeded from your store’s country — stores in more than 45 countries get their national VAT or GST rates as presets, and you can edit those rates (or add your own) inside the app. Countries where purchase tax has no single national rate — like the US and Canada — get a document with no tax line, the way a resale purchase order is normally written.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Stocky alternative?

There is no single winner — the twelve apps split by what you need. For the least migration effort, Fabrikatör states hands-on migration support. For the longest track record, Assisty has the most reviews (4.8 from 341) and Inventory Planner is the most feature-complete. For forecasting products that have no sales history, or for moving suppliers and purchase order history automatically while the Stocky API is still reachable, UreyukiBox — which we make — is the only one of the twelve that does either. Checked against App Store listings on 1 August 2026.

Does Shopify have a built-in replacement for Stocky?

Partly. Shopify’s native purchase orders and transfers let you create and receive orders for free, and they are the only option with a POS surface. What they do not include is demand forecasting, reorder points, supplier lead times, minimum order quantities or landed cost — so the ordering decision itself stays in a spreadsheet. Shopify also states that Stocky data cannot be imported into the native feature.

Which Stocky alternatives work without sales history?

Almost none. Checked on 1 August 2026, Fabrikatör asks for six months of orders, Monocle for twelve months and at least twenty SKUs, Stockful learns each product’s seasonality from two years of daily history, Stockie forecasts from real sales history, and Prediko requires sufficient history. That leaves new stores, newly launched products and a store’s first run at a season uncovered across the category. UreyukiBox works from the country calendar and from how comparable products in your own catalogue started, neither of which needs the product to have sold yet.

Do any Stocky alternatives have a POS screen?

No. Stocky was bundled with Shopify POS Pro and had a tile on the point-of-sale home screen, but all twelve third-party alternatives in this comparison are admin-only. If your team counted stock or received deliveries from the till, the only POS-native option today is Shopify’s own built-in inventory features. UreyukiBox has the underlying workflows — stock counts, receiving, adjustments, transfers and barcode scanning — running in the admin, and a POS surface is planned for v2 with no date attached.

Can I still move my Stocky data to another app?

Until 31 August 2026, yes. While the Stocky API is reachable, suppliers, purchase orders, stock adjustments and tax types can be copied out programmatically; reorder points, supplier lead times, stock count history and minimum order quantities are not in the API and have to come out of Stocky as CSV or by copying the screen. After the shutdown date, assume nothing can be exported. Rescuing the data is worth doing before you have decided which app to keep.

How much do Stocky alternatives cost?

From free to quote-only. Compared at the tier that actually includes forecasting plus purchase orders plus receiving plus writing back to Shopify inventory, the range runs from $19 (UreyukiBox, Assisty) through $25–$60 (IFH Forecasting Hero, StockTrim, Monocle, Prediko, Stockie) to $99 and above (Fabrikatör, Cogsy) and quote-only (Inventory Planner). Comparing first tiers instead reverses the ranking, because several apps put purchase orders behind their top tier.