Moving Off Stocky Before the August 2026 Shutdown
Shopify is retiring Stocky on August 31, 2026. If you used it to keep stock accurate and organized rather than to run purchase orders, here is how to move that part of your workflow before the app stops working.
# Work Out Which Half of Stocky You Actually Used
Stocky did two fairly different jobs, and the right replacement depends on which one you leaned on. For some shops it was a purchasing tool: reorder points, purchase orders, supplier records, and demand forecasting. For others it was a stock-control tool: counting inventory, catching discrepancies, and keeping the Shopify number honest against the shelf.
Be honest about your own use before you shop. If purchase orders and forecasting were the point, look at a tool built for that, such as Prediko or Inventory Planner. If what you will miss is knowing where stock physically sits and keeping counts accurate, that is a warehouse problem, and it is the part BinTech is built to take over.
# Get Your Data Out While Stocky Still Works
The one thing you cannot do after the shutdown is pull your history. Before August 31, export what you want to keep: current stock on hand, any supplier and cost data, and past purchase orders if you report on them. A CSV of on-hand quantities per SKU is the file that matters most for the warehouse side, because it becomes your starting point when you assign bins.
Your product and inventory data itself lives in Shopify, not Stocky, so that stays put. What disappears is the layer Stocky added on top. Save the extras now rather than scrambling in the last week when everyone else is doing the same thing.
# Rebuild the Warehouse Side in BinTech
BinTech reads your products and inventory straight from Shopify, so there is no big import to babysit. The real work is recording where each SKU physically lives, which Stocky never did at the bin level and Shopify only does with a single field per product.
Start with a naming scheme you can read out loud, like aisle-bay-shelf, and label the shelves before you type anything. Assign your fast movers first so the busiest picks are covered on day one. If you kept a spreadsheet of locations, the Pro tier imports bin assignments by CSV, which is the fastest way to carry over what you already know. The getting started guide walks through the first bins in order.
# Replace the Stocktake Habit With Cycle Counts
The part of Stocky people quietly relied on was the count. In BinTech that becomes an ongoing habit rather than a yearly event. Count a bin, a location, or a subset of SKUs, review the variances, and push corrections back to Shopify in one step. Do a zone a day and your accuracy stays high without ever shutting the warehouse.
External changes still happen, so BinTech routes them into a variance view instead of letting them drift your numbers. A POS sale, a damaged unit, or a surprise return shows up for review rather than silently breaking your count. If you want the reasoning behind continuous counting, we wrote about it in the piece on combating phantom stock . The short version of the whole move lives on the Stocky alternative page .
Frequently asked questions
When exactly does Stocky stop working?
Shopify has set August 31, 2026 as the end date. After that the app is retired, so plan to have your replacement workflow running before then rather than on the day itself.
Is BinTech a full Stocky replacement?
No. BinTech does not write purchase orders or forecast demand. It replaces the warehouse and stock-accuracy side of Stocky: bin locations, pick lists, and cycle counts. For purchasing and forecasting, pair it with a tool built for that job.
Will I lose my Stocky data?
Your products and inventory live in Shopify and stay there. Anything specific to Stocky, like supplier records and past purchase orders, should be exported to CSV before the shutdown, because you cannot pull it afterward.
How long does it take to switch the warehouse side over?
The software setup is quick because BinTech reads from Shopify. The time cost is physical: labeling shelves and recording where each SKU lives. Assign fast movers first and you can be running real pick lists the same day.