Stocky vs UreyukiBox

The short version

Stocky vs UreyukiBox, feature by feature

Rows are grouped the way Stocky users actually think about the app: deciding, ordering, receiving, and everything physical.

Where Stocky is still ahead

Three honest gaps, so you can rule UreyukiBox out quickly if they are your core workflow:

• POS integration. Stocky ships inside POS Pro. UreyukiBox is an admin app and a POS extension is not planned — a retail floor workflow built around POS devices will not map over.
• Supplier payment terms. UreyukiBox does not store per-supplier closing dates or payment cycles, so the purchasing cashflow calendar projects spend at the date stock arrives. Real payments land later, so the calendar shows the money as needed earlier than it truly is — safe, but not exact.
• Minimum order quantities do not migrate. Stocky exposes MOQs neither through its API nor in any CSV export, so they cannot be carried over. UreyukiBox stores an MOQ per supplier link, but you enter it yourself.
• No review history yet. UreyukiBox is newly listed on the App Store. If a long public track record is part of how you choose software, that is a fair reason to pick an older app.

Where UreyukiBox goes further

• Safety stock you can reason about. Reorder points carry a service level and a statistical safety-stock component computed from your own demand and lead-time variability — shown as a breakdown, not a black box.
• Double-ordering prevention. Suggested quantities subtract stock on hand, inbound transfers, and orders you have already placed in the app — so a slow supplier does not get ordered twice.
• Slow movers handled separately. Products that sell occasionally are estimated from order frequency and size rather than a 30-day average that swings wildly.
• Money-side visibility. A purchasing cashflow calendar projects when draft orders will hit your bank account, and dead-stock detection shows where cash is sleeping.
• Your Stocky history comes with you. Supplier records, PO history and product–supplier links are copied through the Stocky API — relations intact, not flattened into spreadsheets.

Data migration from Stocky, in two steps

Migration is the part a Stocky replacement most often fumbles, so here is exactly how it works — no hand-copying of supplier records:

1. API copy. Paste a Stocky API key and the wizard copies suppliers, purchase order history, stock adjustments and tax rates, then links each product to the supplier you last ordered it from.
2. CSV import. Upload your Stocky CSV export and map the columns yourself — reorder points, lead times and stocktake history come in even though the Stocky API never exposed reorder points or lead times. A preview shows how many existing values would be overwritten before anything is written.

Both steps depend on Stocky still being reachable, which is why the deadline is real: export first, decide second. The shutdown checklist covers what to export in what order.

Also worth comparing: Shopify’s native purchase orders

The third option is free: Shopify’s built-in purchase orders. They record what you decided to order but do not decide anything — no reorder alerts, no suggested quantities, nowhere to store lead times. If you are weighing that route, read Stocky vs Shopify’s native purchase orders before deciding.

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