Shopify is retiring Stocky. Move to Inventory Genius and keep replenishing without a gap — seasonal demand forecasting, reorder suggestions and purchase orders, built right into your Shopify admin.
Inventory Genius is an independent third-party application by Kakariki Green Ltd. It is not made by, endorsed by, sponsored by or affiliated with Shopify Inc. or Stocky. Shopify and Stocky are referenced only to describe compatibility and migration.
Shopify has already stripped out Stocky's core planning features and pulled it from the App Store. Full shutdown lands August 31, 2026. Your suppliers and purchase history don't migrate on their own.
Inventory Genius syncs your products, orders and stock, then tells you exactly what to reorder, when, and from whom — for every SKU at every location.
Stocky's min/max forecasting was the first thing Shopify removed. Inventory Genius brings it back — smarter. Seasonal trends, sales velocity and lead times, projected per SKU per location.
See what to order now, what can wait, and what it costs — grouped by supplier and location. No more guessing from a spreadsheet of best-sellers.
Turn a reorder suggestion into a PO, email your supplier, and track it through to received — all without leaving Shopify. Export PDF, CSV or straight to your WMS.
Open, in transit, ready to receive — see your whole pipeline on one board, with late orders flagged before they hurt your fill rate.
Critical, low, out-of-stock and overstocked views, with days of cover across every location — so cash stops sitting in slow movers.
Inventory projected against safety stock, with suggested and incoming POs on the same timeline — the forward view Shopify Admin simply doesn't have.
Stocky's barcode scanning was locked inside Shopify POS Pro. Inventory Genius puts counts, transfers, receiving and stock checks in any phone's browser — no POS Pro, no scanner gun, no extra app to install.
✓ Works on any device, on any Shopify plan — staff just open it in the browser. No POS Pro and no scanner hardware.
Inventory Genius adds a Point of Sale extension right inside Shopify POS — a live Sales Snapshot, barcode scanning, stock counts and receiving at the till. On any Shopify plan, with no POS Pro upgrade required, all in sync with the same data your forecasts and purchase orders run on.
✓ Works inside Shopify POS on any plan — the POS-Pro-locked shop-floor workflow Stocky users lose, back without the upgrade.
Shopify rebuilt stock tracking, transfers and basic POs into the admin — but left demand planning behind. Here's how the three stack up.
| Capability | Stocky (shutting down) | Shopify Admin (built-in) | Inventory Genius |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seasonal demand forecasting | Removed Jul 2025 | ✕ None | ✓ Trend & peak-season |
| Reorder suggestions by stock-out risk | Basic | ✕ Low-stock alerts only | ✓ Ranked & grouped |
| Per-location reorder points & safety stock | Limited | ✕ None | ✓ Full |
| Purchase orders & email suppliers | ✓ | Basic POs | ✓ + PDF / CSV / WMS |
| Supplier lead time & cost tracking | ✓ | ✕ None | ✓ |
| Forward stock projections vs safety stock | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| ABC analysis & reporting | ✓ | Basic analytics | ✓ |
| Multi-location inventory & transfers | Transfers removed | ✓ Native transfers | ✓ + mobile pick / receive |
| Mobile scanning — transfer, receive & stocktake | Receiving only (POS Pro) | Basic (POS app) | ✓ Full, any phone |
| Requires Shopify POS Pro | Required | — | ✓ Any plan, no POS Pro |
| Import your Stocky purchase history | — | ✕ | ✓ During onboarding |
| Embedded in the Shopify admin | ✓ until shutdown | ✓ | ✓ Works with Shopify |
| Actively developed & supported | ✕ Read-only after Aug 2026 | ✓ | ✓ |
Shopify Admin's built-in tools cover stock tracking, transfers, basic purchase orders and low-stock alerts — but not demand forecasting, reorder-point calculation, velocity-based restock or safety-stock buffers.
No CSV gymnastics, no rebuilding suppliers from scratch. Inventory Genius pulls in what Stocky leaves behind during onboarding.
Add Inventory Genius to your store. It syncs your products, orders, stock and locations automatically — no manual import.
Bring your historical purchase orders across during onboarding so your forecasts start with real lead-time and demand history — not a cold start.
Within minutes you'll have ranked reorder suggestions, per-location forecasts and one-click POs. Keep replenishing without a gap.
No new platform to learn, no data living in someone else's silo. Inventory Genius runs inside your Shopify admin alongside your products, orders and locations — and it works right inside your Shopify admin.
Shopify removed Stocky's forecasting and transfer features on July 7, 2025, and delisted it from the App Store on February 2, 2026. Shopify says Stocky won't be available for managing inventory after August 31, 2026, with read-only access for a limited period after that — historical purchase orders and stocktakes won't transfer automatically, so export anything you want to keep.
Yes. Inventory Genius syncs your live products, orders, stock and locations from Shopify automatically, and imports your historical purchase orders during onboarding so your forecasts start with real demand and lead-time history. (Note: Stocky itself doesn't let you export suppliers, so plan to recreate those — Inventory Genius makes that quick.)
Shopify Admin now handles stock tracking, transfers, basic purchase orders and low-stock alerts. What it doesn't do is demand forecasting, reorder-point calculation, velocity-based restock suggestions or safety-stock buffers — the planning work Stocky used to do. That's exactly the gap Inventory Genius fills.
No. Stocky required a POS Pro subscription, and its barcode scanning only worked for receiving inside Shopify POS. Inventory Genius works on any Shopify plan — and its mobile scanner runs in any phone's browser, no POS Pro and no scanner hardware.
Yes — that's a core part of Inventory Genius. Staff scan barcodes on any phone to run stocktakes (with live variance review against your Shopify on-hand), pick and receive transfers between locations, and check in incoming purchase orders. Piece and case counts are both supported.
Stocky used simple min/max rules (and Shopify removed even those). Inventory Genius forecasts each SKU at each location using seasonal trends, sales velocity and supplier lead times, then ranks reorder suggestions by stock-out risk and projects your stock forward against safety stock.
Most stores are up and running the same day. Install, let the sync run, import your PO history, and you'll have ranked reorder suggestions and forecasts ready to act on.
Switch now, import your purchase history, and keep replenishing without a gap. Works with Shopify. Works on any plan.
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