Comparisons

Who Restocio is not for

Most software pages tell you who should buy. This one tells you who should not, and what to look at instead, so you can rule us out in two minutes rather than two weeks.

Marcus VolstedCo-founder, Restocio Published 10 October 20266 min read

Restocio is the wrong tool if you dropship, sell print-on-demand, run a shop counted at the till with barcodes, sell across several channels from an ERP, or manufacture from raw materials. It plans purchase orders for one Shopify store that buys stock ahead from suppliers and waits for it. If your business does not work like that, very little of it will help you.

What Restocio assumes about your store

Everything in the app rests on a few things being true of you. You buy stock before you sell it, and the goods take weeks to reach you, often from overseas, so the date you order matters as much as the quantity. Your sales also have to happen in Shopify, because Shopify's orders are the only demand Restocio reads.

When that holds, the app does its real job. Every product gets an order deadline and a quantity, and a single order can be split across sea, rail and air so you pay for speed only on the units that need it. That job is described end to end in our guide to Shopify replenishment. When one of them is false, the job has nothing to work on.

Stores it does not fit

Your store	Why it is a mismatch	Look at instead
Dropshipping	You never buy stock ahead, so there is no order to size and no deadline to hit	The app that routes your orders to the supplier
Print-on-demand	Each unit is made after the customer orders it. There is no lead time to plan against	Your print provider's own dashboard
Physical shop run on a POS and barcodes	There is no stocktake screen, no barcode scanning and no label printing in Restocio	A POS or warehouse system built around counting
Several channels, run from an ERP	Restocio connects to Shopify and nothing else, so sales on other channels never reach it	Your ERP's planning module, or a planner with channel integrations
Manufacturing from raw materials	There are no bills of materials and no component planning	A tool with BOM or MRP features
Several Shopify stores you plan as one	One account connects to one store	A planner that pulls several stores into one plan
A local supplier who delivers in days	It works, but most of what it does is the freight split and the long-lead deadline, and you would use neither	A reorder point in a spreadsheet

The last row is the soft one. Nothing breaks if you buy from down the road. You would just be paying for planning your supplier's short delivery already does for you.

Partial fits deserve one sentence too. If you dropship most of your range but import a few hero products by container, it is a judgment call: Restocio will plan the imported products, and the question is whether they carry enough of your revenue to justify a subscription.

Is Restocio an ERP?

No, and it is not trying to become one. The reasoning is on our vision page, so it is not repeated here. The practical version for this list is short. If your stock already lives in an ERP that several sales channels feed, that system is where your purchasing belongs, and a tool that only sees one Shopify store would be planning from part of the picture.

Where it fits but falls short today

These are not reasons to walk away for most importers. They are the gaps you would otherwise discover in your second week, so here they are in one place. Each was checked against the product on 2 October 2026.

Stock is planned as one pool. Restocio reads your total stock across Shopify locations and sizes orders for the store as a whole. It does not plan each warehouse separately.
Bundle sales do not reach their parts yet. A bundle set up in Shopify as a product made of other products is recognised, so its stock and cost are read from the parts. A sale of the bundle is not yet counted as demand for those parts, which means the parts can be under-ordered if bundles carry a large share of your volume.
Duty is not in landed cost. The per-unit figure is goods plus their share of freight. Every report built on it says on the page that the values are short by the duty on imported goods.
The interface is in English only. More languages are under consideration, driven by where customers turn out to be.
No ordering within a cash limit. The quantity comes from demand and lead time. Telling the plan what you can afford this month and having it cut to fit is an idea on the roadmap, not a setting.
No public API. Your own systems cannot call Restocio or pull its numbers programmatically.

This list is true on the day it was written and will go stale as features ship. The roadmap is the live version. If one gap decides it for you, ask us where it really sits before you start a trial.

Who it is built for

A Shopify store that imports, usually from Asia, where the same order could travel by boat in weeks or by plane in days and the choice moves both the price and the arrival date. If that is you and importing is still new, start with our map of the importing posts. If it is not you, one of the rows above has probably already told you where to look, and we would rather you went there.

Common questions

Does Restocio work for dropshipping?

No. Restocio decides how much stock to buy ahead from a supplier and by which date. A dropshipping store never buys ahead, so there is nothing for it to size. The tool that routes your orders to the supplier is the right place to spend that money.

Does Restocio support multiple Shopify stores?

Not today. One account connects to one Shopify store. Multiple stores and brands under one plan is listed under consideration on the public roadmap, which means it is an idea we like and have not committed to.

Does Restocio plan each warehouse or location separately?

No. It reads your total stock across Shopify locations and plans the store as one pool. You can choose which location received goods are booked into, but the deadline and the quantity are worked out for the store as a whole.

Does Restocio handle bundles or bills of materials?

Partly for bundles, not at all for bills of materials. A Shopify bundle takes its stock and cost from its parts, but a bundle sale is not yet counted as demand for those parts, so the parts can be under-ordered. There is no raw materials or BOM planning.

Does Restocio connect to Amazon, a 3PL or an ERP?

No. It connects to Shopify and nothing else. Sales that never become a Shopify order are invisible to it, and it has no integration with a third-party warehouse or an ERP.

What languages is Restocio available in?

The app is in English only today. More languages are listed under consideration on the roadmap.

Marcus Volsted

Co-founder, Restocio

Marcus co-founded Restocio and works on it daily with a Swedish importer who plans their purchasing in it every working day. Restocio is built in Sweden by two founders, one Swedish and one Danish, and Marcus is the Danish one. Why we are building it.