The Best Stocky Alternative for Shopify: A Migration Guide

For years, Stocky was the answer when a Shopify merchant asked "what should I reorder, and when?" It shipped with Shopify POS Pro, and its buy suggestions, supplier purchase orders, and stocktakes ran a lot of retail back offices. That era is ending. If you are reading this, you have probably already seen the notice and you are looking for somewhere to land before the deadline. This guide is that landing.

What is actually happening to Stocky

The facts are straightforward, and they are worth stating plainly because the timeline is short.

• Removed from the App Store on 2 February 2026. No new merchant can install Stocky. If you do not already have it, it is not an option.
• Stops working entirely on 31 August 2026. Existing POS Pro merchants keep access until that date, then it goes dark.
• It was POS Pro only. Stocky was bundled with Shopify POS Pro at $89 per month per location. Online-only sellers could never use it in the first place.

Shopify has published its own migration guidance for moving off Stocky, and it is honest about the split: basic inventory operations move into Shopify Admin, but forecasting and reorder planning do not. Read that carefully, because it defines exactly which of your workflows survive and which need a new home.

What Shopify Admin now covers, and what it does not

Shopify has genuinely improved native inventory. Purchase orders, transfers, and stock adjustments now live in Admin, and for a lot of stores that is enough for day-to-day movement. The problem is that the intelligence layer, the part that told you what to buy, is not coming back natively.

Everything Shopify Admin leaves out, Miko Restock puts back, on any plan.

If the only thing you used Stocky for was receiving and transfers, native Shopify will carry you. If you used Stocky to decide what to order and how much, that is the gap you now have to fill, and it is the reason a dedicated alternative exists.

What to look for in a Stocky alternative

Not every "inventory app" replaces Stocky. Plenty are warehouse or multichannel platforms that are far heavier than a Shopify retailer needs. When you are specifically replacing Stocky's planning brain, look for these:

• Works on any Shopify plan. You should not have to keep paying $89/month for POS Pro just to plan inventory, especially if you sell online.
• Forecasts from your own sales history. Real demand planning reads what actually sold, not a flat "reorder at 5" rule.
• Reorder points that respect supplier lead time. Running out three weeks before a shipment lands is a lead-time failure, not a stock-level one.
• Purchase orders you can send to suppliers. A buy plan is only useful if it becomes an order.
• Dead-stock visibility. Knowing what to stop buying frees the cash to buy what sells.
• Guided stocktakes with bin locations. A proper counted stocktake, not a spreadsheet, is how your on-hand numbers stay honest, and it is a Stocky feature people miss most.
• A way to bring your Stocky history across. Suppliers and past POs should not be retyped by hand.

The native Shopify alternative: Miko Restock: Inventory & PO

Miko Restock: Inventory & PO was built for exactly this moment: a native Shopify app that rebuilds Stocky's planning layer without the POS Pro requirement. It reads your store's own sales history and turns it into decisions.

• The Buy Sheet. One screen that tells you what to reorder, how much, and by when, with days of cover and a recommended order quantity per product. This is the Stocky buy suggestion, rebuilt.
• Reorder points with lead time. Set a supplier's lead time once and Restock raises the trigger so orders land before you sell out, not after.
• The Dead Money Finder. Splits dead stock from slow movers and ranks it by the cash it would free up, so you know what to discount or stop buying.
• The Stockout Calendar. A forward view of when each product is projected to hit zero, so nothing surprises you.
• Purchase orders, emailed to suppliers. Raise a branded PO from the Buy Sheet and send it, then receive against it. Reorder Autopilot can draft the POs for you.
• Guided stocktakes with bin locations. Run a proper counted stocktake by location, scan or key in counts, and reconcile the variance in one pass, the Stocky stocktake workflow, rebuilt natively.
• Cost Guard. Flags cost and margin drift so a supplier price rise does not quietly eat your margin.

It runs on every Shopify plan, Basic included, with a free tier that already includes the Buy Sheet, Dead Money Finder, Stockout Calendar, low-stock alerts, and up to 20 purchase orders a month. Pro is $15 a month, with a 7-day free trial, for unlimited POs, full stocktakes with bin locations, Cost Guard, and Reorder Autopilot. For context, that is Stocky-grade planning for a fraction of the $89/month POS Pro plan it used to require.

Stocky vs Miko Restock: the honest comparison

How to move off Stocky without starting from scratch

The one thing you do not want is to lose years of supplier and purchase-order history. Restock includes a Stocky Rescue importer for precisely that. The migration is short:

• 1. Export from Stocky before 31 August 2026. Pull your suppliers and purchase-order history to CSV while you still have access.
• 2. Install Miko Restock. It connects to your existing products and inventory automatically, on whatever plan you are on.
• 3. Run Stocky Rescue. Import the CSVs so your suppliers and past POs come across intact.
• 4. Set supplier lead times and open the Buy Sheet. Within a session you are back to knowing what to reorder, without POS Pro.