Stocky closed on 31 August 2026: a migration guide

If you ran purchasing through Stocky, the deadline has passed. Shopify closed Stocky on 31 August 2026, and with it went the purchase orders, supplier records and stocktake workflows that a lot of Shopify stores quietly depended on. Disclosure first: we build Orbit Commerce, one of the options below.

This guide covers what stopped working, what you need from a replacement, the options on the table, and how to bring across the records you exported.

What went away

Stocky was where many merchants kept four things: supplier records (contacts, lead times, account numbers), purchase orders (open ones in flight and years of completed history), stocktakes, and low-stock forecasting. When the app shut, that data did not migrate itself anywhere. Anything not exported before then is gone.

The first action is simple, whatever you move to: find the Stocky CSVs you exported (suppliers and purchase orders both exported) and put the files somewhere safe. Everything else in this guide can happen on your schedule.

What you need from a replacement

Write down what your team actually did in Stocky before you evaluate anything. For most stores it comes down to five jobs:

• Knowing what to reorder, before it sells out
• Raising purchase orders against suppliers, and receiving them in when the delivery arrives
• Keeping supplier details and lead times in one place
• Counting stock periodically and correcting the numbers
• Getting orders picked and packed without mistakes

The trap is replacing one app with three. A purchasing app, a barcode app and a picking app can each be fine on their own and still leave you re-keying data between them, with three subscriptions and three support inboxes when something breaks.

Your options

Broadly, there are three routes. You can assemble apps: pick a purchasing app and a stocktake app from an app store and wire them together. It works, but you own the glue, and the monthly cost adds up fast.

You can move up to a dedicated inventory platform. These are powerful, and priced for operations teams. For most independent merchants it is more system than the job needs.

Or you can run your store on a platform where operations are part of the platform itself. That is the route Orbit takes. The Enterprise plan includes an Operations suite: reorder points and safety stock per item per location, purchase orders with suppliers and receiving, bin locations with consolidated pick lists, cycle counts with a variance report, and a batch fulfilment workbench with scan-to-verify packing. Same dashboard as your orders and stock, nothing extra to install.

How the Stocky import works on Orbit

Orbit ships a Stocky import wizard, built for exactly this shutdown. You upload the CSVs you exported (up to 20MB per file) and the wizard walks you through matching columns, shows you sample rows, and then imports your suppliers and purchase orders.

Two details matter. Open purchase orders become draft POs in Orbit, so orders that are mid-flight with a supplier carry on: you mark them ordered and receive them in when the stock lands. Completed purchase orders become closed, display-only history, so your records survive for reference and reporting. And the import never touches your stock numbers. History is history; your live counts stay exactly as they are.

You can run that whole rehearsal without paying anything. Every Orbit plan starts with a 14-day free trial, no card required, and starting on the Enterprise plan gives you the Operations suite and import wizard from day one. Import a copy of your Stocky data, raise a real purchase order, receive it in, and decide with your own suppliers and numbers on screen.

A realistic timeline

Now that Stocky has closed, in order:

• First: gather the supplier and purchase order CSVs you exported from Stocky and keep them safe.
• Next: choose the destination and trial it. Import a copy of your Stocky data and let whoever does your purchasing raise one real PO end to end. On Orbit this fits inside the 14-day free trial, Operations included, no card needed.
• Then: move purchasing for real. New POs go in the new system; open POs from Stocky get received there as deliveries arrive.

The checklist

• Suppliers exported, with lead times and account details
• Purchase orders exported, open and completed
• Replacement chosen and trialled with a real PO
• Open POs recreated or imported as drafts
• Team knows where new POs are raised from a fixed date

If you are weighing up the platform route, the Operations suite page shows the whole toolkit, including the import wizard. And if you are considering a bigger move, our guide to moving from Shopify without breaking it covers the rest of the store: products, customers, orders and redirects. The operating model that makes all of this stick is in inventory and fulfilment without the chaos.