Export your Stocky data before 31 August 2026
Nothing moves across on its own, and one thing cannot be exported at all. This takes about half an hour and it is worth doing today.
This guide is useful whether or not you ever become a customer. If it saves you from losing a supplier list, it did its job.
What happens on 31 August 2026
- Stocky stops being available. It was delisted on 2 February 2026 and cannot be reinstalled.
- Stocky's APIs stop working, so anything you have wired into them breaks that day.
- You keep read-only access to export for at least 90 days afterwards — but do not rely on that window; a read-only app you cannot reinstall is a fragile place to keep your only copy.
- Historical purchase orders and stocktakes do not move into Shopify automatically.
The one that catches people out: suppliers
Your supplier list cannot be exported from Stocky. Purchase orders and stocktakes can be exported through Stocky's built-in reports. Suppliers cannot. If your supplier details live only in Stocky, they need to be copied out by hand before you lose access — names, contacts, lead times, payment terms, minimum order quantities.
If you have more than a handful of suppliers, do this first. It is the only part of the migration with no undo.
Step by step
- Suppliers — copy them out by hand. Open your supplier list and copy each one into a spreadsheet: name, contact person, email, lead time, minimum order quantity, payment terms, and which products they supply. This is the irreplaceable one.
- Purchase orders. Use Stocky's built-in reports to export your purchase order history. Keep both open and completed orders — open ones tell you what is still in transit, and you will need that on day one wherever you land.
- Stocktakes. Export your stocktake history. This is your audit trail for past counts.
- Anything you report on. If you regularly pull a Stocky report, export a copy now so you have the format and the history.
- Check what is in flight. Before the cutover, write down every purchase order that has been placed but not yet arrived, with expected dates. Incoming stock that nobody is tracking is the most common way a migration turns into a stockout.
- Store it somewhere permanent. Not in the app you are leaving.
Then decide where the reordering decision goes
Once the data is safe, the open question is what replaces the part of Stocky that suggested what to reorder. Shopify's built-in tools cover purchase orders, transfers, adjustments and history, but not forecasting or minimum and maximum levels.
To be fair to Shopify: the built-in tools genuinely do replace most of Stocky's day-to-day paperwork — purchase orders, transfers, adjustments, history and bulk edits are all there, included in your plan, with no app to install. Their AI assistant, Sidekick, is included on every plan and will answer questions like “what should I reorder?”. If your needs are mostly record-keeping, you may not need anything else, and we would rather tell you that than sell you something you do not need.
If you import, and the real question is not only how much to order but whether it goes by sea, rail or air, that is what Restocio does. We can also take the supplier spreadsheet you just built and import it, so the half hour you spent on step one is not wasted.
Common questions
Can I export my suppliers from Stocky?
No. Suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky. They have to be copied out manually before you lose access, which is why it is the first step in this guide.
How long do I have to export after 31 August 2026?
Shopify states read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days after 31 August 2026. Exporting before the date is safer.
Do my historical purchase orders move into Shopify?
No. Historical purchase orders and stocktakes do not move into Shopify automatically, and historical purchase orders cannot be imported. Export anything you want to keep.
Related guides
- Looking for a Stocky alternative?
- Stock replenishment, end to end
- Reorder point formula, with a worked example
Restocio plans purchasing for Shopify stores that import. It works out what to order, how much, and whether it should travel by sea, rail or air — so you pay air freight only for the units that genuinely cannot wait.