Deadline: August 31, 2026
How to export your Stocky data
Shopify has told merchants to export their Stocky data to CSV before the app is retired, and has stated that historical Stocky purchase orders cannot be imported into Shopify. Exporting is therefore not a precaution — it is the only copy you will have.
A note on menu names
We are deliberately not printing an exact click path. Stocky’s export screens differ between stores and versions, and a step-by-step that does not match what you see on screen is worse than none at all when you are working against a deadline. What follows is what to look for and how to verify what you got.
The one thing most people miss
Suppliers and purchase orders are the obvious things to save. The data that actually disappears silently is the tuning:
- Reorder points — the threshold you settled on per product, often after years of adjustment
- Supplier lead times — how long each supplier actually takes
- Minimum order quantities and reorder quantities
None of these live in your Shopify product data, and none of them are part of what Shopify inherits. They exist in Stocky and in a CSV you export from it. If you skip this one export, rebuilding means going product by product from memory.
The procedure
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Confirm you can still sign in to Stocky
Everything below depends on having access. Check now, not on the last week, so that a lost password or a staff-permission problem is not discovered at the deadline.
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Stop creating new purchase orders about two weeks before the shutdown
Shopify advises stopping new purchase orders roughly 14 days before August 31, 2026, and receiving or closing everything still in flight. An order half-received when the app disappears is the hardest state to reconstruct.
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Export everything the export screen offers — do not curate
Exporting more than you need costs nothing. Missing something costs you data you cannot get back. Do not skip an export because "the API can fetch that anyway" — the API stops working at the same time the app does.
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Check each file before you trust it
Open a copy and confirm the row count is not zero, identify the column that identifies a product, note the date format, and confirm the character encoding is not mangled. A file that cannot be matched back to your products is not a backup.
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Store the raw files somewhere that is not your laptop
Cloud storage, or email them to yourself. Keep the originals exactly as downloaded and work only on copies.
What to take, in priority order
Priority A — exists only in a CSV
Reorder points, supplier lead times and reorder quantities, stocktake history, inventory levels per location, and any ABC analysis output. Take these first. If you run out of time, you want these.
Priority B — also reachable by API, take it anyway
Suppliers, purchase orders with their line items, stock adjustments, tax rates, and product or variant exports. The API stops answering when the app is retired, so "I can pull that later" has an expiry date. CSV exports also sometimes contain columns the API does not return.
Priority C — anything else on the screen
Scroll the export area top to bottom and take everything, including things this page does not list. Any list built from "what a replacement app needs" will miss concepts that only Stocky had.
Checking a file is usable (one minute each)
| Check | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Row count is not zero | An empty export looks like a successful one in your downloads folder. |
| There is a column identifying the product | SKU, inventory item ID, variant ID or an internal Stocky ID. Without one, the file cannot be matched back to your catalogue by anything — this is the single most important check. |
| Date format | DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY or ISO. Stocky’s date format varies by store — we have been caught by this twice building the importer — and it can differ between files. |
| Character encoding | Non-ASCII supplier or product names should be readable, not garbled. |
| Number formatting | Thousands separators, currency symbols and percent signs change how a value has to be parsed later. |
Write the answers down in a short note next to the files. In three months, "which column was the key, and was the date day-first?" is exactly what you will need and will not remember.
Do not open the files in Excel and save them again
Spreadsheet apps silently rewrite the character encoding, reformat dates and strip leading zeros from SKUs. Keep the downloaded file untouched and inspect a copy. This is the most common reason an import fails months later — and by then the original is gone.
Getting the CSV back into a working setup
UreyukiBox imports the CSV-only fields — reorder points, lead times and stocktake history — by letting you map the columns yourself, so it does not depend on your export having particular column names. While Stocky is still reachable it can also copy suppliers, purchase orders, stock adjustments and tax rates directly through the Stocky API.
The interface is available in English. Alerts and support are still Japanese, and the App Store listing is not localised into English yet. The migration tools and the CSV import work on any Shopify store, whatever its language or country.
Related guides
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Stocky shutdown checklist
What to export before August 31, 2026, in the order that matters.
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What happens to your data on August 31
Data by data: what survives, what Shopify will not import, and what is simply gone.
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Stocky vs Shopify’s native purchase orders
What the free built-in feature covers, and the gap it leaves.
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Stocky vs UreyukiBox
An honest feature-by-feature comparison, including where Stocky is still ahead.
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How to migrate from Stocky
Six steps in the order that protects your data, even before you pick an app.
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Reorder points on Shopify: the complete guide
The formula, safety stock and service levels, and choosing an app after Stocky.
All guides in one place: the UreyukiBox blog