Stocky Alternatives in 2026: an Honest Guide by Use Case
Most "Stocky alternative" pages are a feature list with a buy button. This one starts with the parts nobody replaces, because that's what decides whether you need a paid app at all.
Full disclosure. I built Restocked, one of the alternatives on this page. Weigh what follows accordingly. I've tried to write the page I wanted to read when I was working out what Stocky users actually need, including the parts my own app doesn't do and who to use instead.
Two dates, not one
February 2, 2026. Stocky was delisted. Shopify's migration page puts it plainly: "On February 2, 2026, Stocky is being delisted from the Shopify App Store and you can't reinstall Stocky." [2] If you uninstall it today to test a replacement, you cannot put it back. Run alternatives alongside Stocky, never instead of it.
August 31, 2026. The app stops working: "The Stocky app will no longer be available after August 31st, 2026." [1]
The part that catches people out: your history does not come with you. Shopify's wording is that historical data "such as old purchase orders and stocktakes, won't automatically move into Shopify after August 31, 2026." [2] Whatever you want to keep, export it before the end of August. Nobody can retrieve it for you afterwards.
The one question that decides everything
Stocky was really two products sharing a login. Almost every replacement is strong on one side and thin on the other, and most of the price gap between them comes down to which side you're buying.
The purchasing half
- Low stock monitoring
- Reorder suggestions from sales history and lead times
- Purchase orders grouped by supplier
- Supplier lead times, MOQs, pack sizes
- Supplier and ABC reports, average unit cost
The warehouse half
- Barcode label printing
- Receiving against a purchase order
- Stocktakes and cycle counts
- Transfers between locations
- POS-side workflows
No cheap app replaces both halves well. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.
What Shopify native actually covers
Shopify's advice is to move to the built-in inventory features. [2] For a real share of Stocky users that genuinely is enough, and you shouldn't pay for an app you don't need. Native Shopify gives you purchase orders with products, quantities, costs, payment terms and supplier contact details, plus transfers for receiving, inventory adjustments, and POS. [3]
What the native purchase order documentation never mentions: reorder suggestions, or demand forecasting. [3] That's the gap, and it's the one merchants keep naming.
"the native replacement drops the parts I cared about most, reorder suggestions and purchase orders"
Shopify Community, "Stocky shuts down in August. What are you actually moving to for reorder/POs?" [5]
The one Shopify admits it can't do
On its own migration page, Shopify states: "Suppliers can't be exported from Stocky." [2]
That's the sentence worth sitting with. After a few years in Stocky, your supplier list isn't a list of names. It's lead times, minimum order quantities, pack sizes, who's reliable in November, and what you actually paid last time. Stocky kept suppliers as objects that existed only inside the app, separate from Shopify's vendor field, with their own prices and currencies and pack sizes. [4] None of that has a native destination, and there's no export button.
Whatever you move to, budget an afternoon for rebuilding supplier data by hand, or pick something that lets you paste it in quickly. It's the single biggest hidden cost of this migration.
The comparison
| Shopify native | Restocked | Prediko | Fabrikatör | 506 EasyScan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price / month | Included | Free, then $19 | $49 | $99 | $9.99 |
| Reorder suggestions | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Purchase orders | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supplier lead time & MOQ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial |
| Paste-in supplier import | No | Yes | — | — | — |
| Barcode scanning | Via POS | No | No | No | Yes |
| Receiving workflow | Via transfers | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Stocktakes | Quick Count | No | No | No | Yes |
| App Store rating | — | New, 0 reviews | 4.9 (220) | 4.8 (109) | 5.0 (325) |
Prices, ratings and review counts read directly from each App Store listing on July 25, 2026 [6]. They move. Check before you buy. Restocked launched in June 2026 and has no reviews yet, which is a real reason to be cautious with it, and I'd rather say so here than have you find out after installing.
On price, since it comes up in every thread
Stocky came free with POS Pro. Going from free to $99 a month for the same job is a hard sell, and merchants say so bluntly:
A merchant who ran Stocky free for six years calls $59/month unreasonable and won't go above $1,000 a year for a replacement.
Shopify Community, "Replacement for Stocky?", July 7, 2026 [7]
That reaction is why Restocked has a free tier covering the top 25 reorder suggestions, and why the paid plan is $19. If a $49 to $99 tool solves more of your problem, it's probably worth it, and Prediko and Fabrikatör are both well reviewed. But if what you lost was low stock visibility and POs by supplier, you shouldn't have to pay warehouse-software prices to get it back.
Migration checklist before August 31
- Export your history now. Purchase orders, stocktakes, supplier reports. It doesn't migrate itself and it doesn't come back. [2]
- Copy your supplier list out by hand. Names, contacts, lead times, MOQs, pack sizes. There's no export, so do it while you can still read the Stocky screens.
- Run the replacement in parallel, never instead. Remember you can't reinstall Stocky if you remove it. [2]
- Set lead times first, then judge the suggestions. Reorder dates come from sales velocity crossed with lead time and safety stock. Wrong lead times give wrong suggestions.
If the purchasing half is what you're missing
Restocked tracks sales velocity per product and tells you what to reorder, when, and how much, using supplier lead times, MOQs and safety stock. It generates purchase orders grouped by supplier, and imports your Stocky supplier list from a single paste. Free plan for the top 25 suggestions, $19/month for unlimited.
See Restocked on the App StoreNo barcode scanning, no receiving, no stocktakes. If you need those, 506 EasyScan and Fabrikatör are the better buy, and I'd rather you install the right thing.
Still deciding?
The most useful thing on the internet right now isn't a comparison page, it's the merchants arguing about this in public. The main thread has over a hundred replies and is still moving. [8] Read what people with your store size and your workflow are moving to, then come back and pick.