Stocky Shopify Alternative: The Best Replacements in 2026

What Was Stocky, and What Did It Do?

Stocky was a free Shopify app — originally built by a company called Lingo Software and acquired by Shopify in 2017 — that gave merchants a complete inventory management layer on top of their Shopify store. It was embedded directly inside Shopify admin, required no separate login, and was free for all Shopify plan tiers.

Stocky's feature set covered everything a small to mid-sized merchant needed to manage their supply chain:

• Purchase Orders — Create, manage, and send POs directly to suppliers. Track what was ordered, what was received, and when.
• Supplier Database — Store supplier contact details, lead times, currencies, and minimum order quantities in one place.
• Demand Forecasting — Stocky analyzed your sales history and calculated suggested reorder quantities based on sales velocity and supplier lead time. It told you how many days of stock you had left before a stockout.
• Low Stock Alerts — Automatic notifications when inventory fell below a threshold you set.
• Inventory Counts — Barcode-based physical inventory counting to reconcile actual stock against Shopify's records.
• Multi-Vendor Reports — Filter your inventory across multiple vendors simultaneously — a feature Shopify's native reports still don't support.

For merchants with 1–10 suppliers and a product catalog under 500 SKUs, Stocky was the right tool for the job. It wasn't the most powerful inventory software ever built, but it was free, embedded in Shopify, and covered the basics extremely well.

Why Did Shopify Remove Stocky?

Shopify's official statement framed the Stocky removal as a "strategic shift" to focus on its core platform. The real answer is more commercial: Stocky served the Basic, Grow, and Advanced plan merchants — not Shopify Plus, where Shopify earns the majority of its platform revenue.

Shopify's product roadmap in 2025–2026 has concentrated heavily on B2B commerce, enterprise inventory management through third-party warehouse integrations, and AI-driven features for high-volume sellers. Maintaining a free tool for small merchants wasn't part of that strategy.

The deprecation also creates an explicit opportunity for Shopify's app partner ecosystem. By removing Stocky, Shopify is intentionally pushing small merchants toward third-party apps — a move that generates revenue for both Shopify (through the App Store commission) and developers who build the replacements.

For merchants, the result is the same regardless of the business rationale: a tool they relied on is gone, and they need to find a replacement before August 31, 2026.

What Did Merchants Lose When Stocky Was Removed?

The practical impact of Stocky's removal varies by how heavily merchants used each feature. Here's what's gone:

Purchase Order Management

Shopify has no native purchase order system. It never did — Stocky filled that gap entirely. Without Stocky, merchants who want formal PO workflows (numbered orders, line items, approval and receipt tracking) must use a third-party app. There is no workaround built into Shopify admin.

Supplier Records

Stocky stored supplier names, emails, lead times, currencies, and product costs in a structured database. This data was not exported automatically when Stocky was removed. Merchants need to recreate supplier records in whatever tool they migrate to.

Demand Forecasting

Stocky's reorder point suggestions were based on 30/60/90-day sales velocity from your actual Shopify order history. The formula — daily sales × lead time = units to order — isn't complex, but it requires pulling data from the Shopify Orders API, which merchants can't do without an app.

Automatic Inventory Updates on Receipt

When you marked a PO as received in Stocky, it automatically updated your Shopify inventory levels. Without an app that does this, merchants who want to track received inventory must manually edit stock levels in Shopify admin — a time-consuming and error-prone process, especially for large POs with many line items.

The Stocky Alternative Landscape in 2026

The market for Stocky replacements splits into two distinct groups: enterprise-focused tools built for high-volume brands, and simpler tools built for the merchants Stocky actually served. Here's how they compare:

The common thread across alternatives above $49/month: they're built for brands doing $1M+ in annual revenue, with complex multi-location warehouses and dedicated operations teams. They're not wrong for those merchants — but they're not the Stocky audience.

Stocky served merchants with a handful of suppliers, a manageable product catalog, and a need to create professional purchase orders without paying enterprise software prices. Most Stocky alternatives completely miss this segment.

EZstock: Built Specifically for the Stocky Migration

EZstock is a Shopify-native inventory management app built by Extensions Market specifically for the merchant segment Stocky served. It covers every core Stocky feature and adds demand forecasting that Stocky's later versions handled inconsistently.

What EZstock Does

• Supplier Database — Add suppliers with name, email, lead time, and default currency. Link any Shopify product variant to a supplier with a cost price and reorder point.
• Purchase Orders — Create POs manually or from a suggested reorder list. Each PO gets an auto-incremented number (PO-0001, PO-0002, etc.) and tracks status through Draft → Sent → Partial → Fully Received.
• PDF Generation and Supplier Email — Mark a PO as Sent and EZstock generates a professional PDF and emails it directly to your supplier. No manual PDF export or copy-pasting into email.
• Demand Forecasting — EZstock pulls 30-day sales velocity from your Shopify order history and calculates days of stock remaining per variant, factoring in your supplier's lead time. It suggests order quantities to cover 60 days of stock.
• Automatic Inventory Updates — Confirm receipt of a PO and EZstock updates your Shopify inventory levels via the Admin API. Enter the quantity received per line item and click one button — done.

EZstock Pricing

• Starter — $19/month: Up to 3 suppliers, 50 tracked products. Ideal for new merchants or those with a small supplier base.
• Growth — $49/month: Unlimited suppliers and products, full demand forecasting, PDF purchase orders, and supplier email delivery. The plan for most merchants migrating from Stocky.
• Pro — $99/month: Multi-location support, priority support. For merchants managing inventory across multiple Shopify locations.

All plans include a 14-day free trial. No credit card is required during the trial.

EZstock vs Stocky: Feature-by-Feature Comparison

EZstock covers every feature a merchant used day-to-day in Stocky. Low stock alerts and barcode scanning are on the product roadmap — the core PO and forecasting workflow is complete and production-ready today.

How to Migrate from Stocky to EZstock in Under 30 Minutes

Unlike some alternatives, EZstock doesn't require a complex data migration. You don't need to export your Stocky data or run any import scripts. Here's the setup process:

1. 1
   Install EZstock from the Shopify App StoreSearch for "EZstock" in the Shopify App Store, or visit apps.shopify.com/ezstock. Install the app and grant the required permissions (read products, write inventory, read orders).
2. 2
   Add your suppliersNavigate to EZstock → Suppliers → Add Supplier. Enter each supplier's name, contact email, default lead time in days, and preferred currency. This takes 2–3 minutes per supplier.
3. 3
   Link products to suppliersGo to EZstock → Products. Search for each product variant you want to track, select the supplier, set a cost price, and set a reorder point (the stock level that triggers a reorder alert).
4. 4
   Review the demand forecast dashboardEZstock's dashboard shows days of stock remaining for every tracked variant, sorted from lowest to highest. Products approaching stockout before your supplier's lead time expires are flagged immediately.
5. 5
   Create your first purchase orderNavigate to Purchase Orders → New. Select a supplier — EZstock pre-populates suggested order quantities based on sales velocity. Adjust if needed, add notes, and click Create Purchase Order.

Most merchants complete the full migration — suppliers, products, and first PO — in under 30 minutes. The 14-day free trial gives you time to run your first order cycle before committing to a plan.