Stocky shutdown checklist

The checklist

1. 1

   Export your reorder points and lead times

   These three fields live only inside Stocky — they are not part of your Shopify product data, and no Shopify feature will inherit them. Export them to CSV from Stocky while it is still online. This is the single most irreversible item on this list.

   • Save the file exactly as Stocky produces it. Do not open it in Excel and re-save: spreadsheet apps silently rewrite the character encoding and reformat dates, which is the most common reason an import fails later.
   • Keep a copy outside your laptop — cloud storage or email it to yourself.
2. 2

   Export your supplier list

   Supplier names, contact emails, phone numbers and addresses. Shopify’s native purchase orders can hold a vendor, but not the supplier record with the contact details you actually send orders to.

   • If you email purchase orders to suppliers, the contact email column is the one you will miss first.
3. 3

   Export your purchase order history

   Shopify has stated that past purchase orders cannot be imported into Shopify. Once Stocky is retired, this history exists only in the file you exported.

   • Purchase order history is also what tells you which supplier each product actually comes from — useful even if you never look at an individual old order again.
4. 4

   Export stock adjustments and your tax rates

   Adjustment history explains past discrepancies, and purchase tax rates are needed to reproduce your order totals correctly.

5. 5

   Decide what replaces the decision layer

   Recording orders and deciding orders are two different jobs. Shopify’s native purchase orders cover the first. If nothing covers the second, the day after Stocky is retired you are back to eyeballing stock levels.

   • Whatever you choose, do it before the deadline — after the shutdown you can no longer export the inputs it will need.

What Shopify gives you instead

Shopify has been rebuilding the physical-inventory side of Stocky natively: purchase orders you can record, plus bins and stock counts in a developer preview. That covers the hands — the physical actions. It does not cover the head: there is no reorder-point alert, no suggested order quantity based on how fast something sells, and nowhere to store a supplier lead time or a minimum order quantity.

Shopify has also said plainly that historical Stocky purchase orders cannot be imported. So the native features are a starting point, not a migration path — which is why the export step above is not optional.

Common mistakes

Opening the CSV in Excel and saving it again

This rewrites the character encoding and reformats dates. Keep the original file untouched and work on a copy.

Assuming your reorder points are in Shopify

They are not, and neither are lead times. Confirm you actually have them in a file before the deadline.

Waiting until the last week

Any migration that reads your Stocky account through its API also stops working when Stocky is retired. Copying the data out is easiest while the account is still live.