Stocky Replacement Apps, Six Weeks After Shutdown

Quick Answer: For most small Shopify stores, the practical Stocky replacement is a two-app stack: FyreTrail (free up to 500 POs/month) for receiving and label printing, plus Prediko or Sumtracker at $49/month for the planning side Stocky used to handle. If you want one app that covers both and you have the budget, Inventory Planner by Sage sits at the top of the ladder at $99 and up per month.

Stocky stopped accepting new installs on February 2, 2026. It stopped working entirely on August 31. For about six weeks now, every merchant who ran it has been living inside whatever replacement they picked, or no replacement at all. In the Shopify Community and r/shopify threads I follow, more than 14 different apps have been named as the answer. The honest version: no single app replaces Stocky, and the one that works for you depends on which part of Stocky you actually miss.

This is a comparison, not a top ten list. I've trimmed it to the five apps that keep coming up in post-shutdown migration threads, plus the one new entrant that was launched specifically for the gap Shopify's native tools left behind. The goal is to help you pick a Stocky replacement for your workflow without having to re-read 86 reply threads.

The decision you are facing now that August is behind us

If you were on Shopify POS Pro, Stocky cost you nothing on top of the $89 per location per month you were already paying. Any replacement is an incremental line item. That is the first thing that makes this painful. A tool you had for free for years is now a $12 to $99+ per month decision, and in some cases two decisions, because the planning side and the receiving side rarely live in the same app anymore.

The second thing: Shopify's native purchase order and transfer system is in a worse place than it was six months ago, not a better one. Through May and June 2026, Shopify forced merchants into a beta that splits what used to be a single "receive this PO" step into two separate operations - receive the purchase order, then create an inventory transfer to update stock in the right location. Merchants on r/shopify report that split adds roughly 20 minutes per incoming order. If you were planning to lean on native as a stopgap, you are leaning on a surface that is actively being redesigned, with no Shopify Staff comment on where it lands.

The third thing: supplier records never exported from Stocky, and still do not. Shopify's own migration guide confirms it. If you waited past August 31 and did not manually document your supplier contacts, lead times, and minimum order quantities, that data is gone. One merchant with 1,200 products and 50 suppliers (Sacred_Spirits, in the "Removing Stocky is a Material Retail Operations Risk" thread) described the manual rebuild as "an operational burden." That is a kind way to put it.

Two publicly documented merchants have left Shopify POS over the combined Stocky plus forced PO changes, naming the pattern as the reason - the clearest signal that for some stores no replacement app will be enough. Everyone else is picking something and getting on with it.

What each app actually does

Here is the shape of the field as of mid-October 2026. The columns matter: an app that handles PO creation is not automatically an app that handles stock transfers between locations, and vice versa.

App	Primary workflow	Entry price	Known limitation
FyreTrail	PO creation, barcode receiving, label printing	Free up to 500 POs/month	Does not handle stock transfers between locations
Sumtracker	Multichannel inventory sync + PO management	$49/month	Scales fine - one merchant reports 35,000 SKUs over 6 months with no major issues
Prediko	AI demand forecasting, automated reorder recommendations	$49/month	Forecasting-first; pair with FyreTrail if you also need brick and mortar receiving
Logistified Inventory Planning	Forecasting only (lowest-cost AI option cited)	$12/month	No PO management - this is a planning overlay, not a workflow
Inventory Planner by Sage	Full stack: PO, forecasting, landed cost	$99+/month	Approaches ERP pricing at higher tiers; custom quotes above a certain volume
Stock Transfer Pro	Stock transfers between locations (built for the forced PO beta gap)	New, launched June 9, 2026	Too new to have independent reviews - trial cautiously

Fabrikator also keeps coming up, usually in the $99+/month tier alongside Inventory Planner, with a stronger AI forecasting pitch. I have not seen a concrete merchant report of a successful migration into Fabrikator at small-store volume, so I left it off the main table and will mention it where it fits.

One note before you read the rest of this. The most visible recommenders of FyreTrail in community threads turn out to be associated with FyreTrail; the most visible Prediko recommenders turn out to represent Prediko. Neither posts under a vendor badge. I believe their products are real and the recommendations are directionally honest, but if you are picking a Stocky replacement based on who sounded most helpful in a Shopify Community thread, you are being advertised to. Trial each app yourself before you commit.

Setup time and data migration

Stocky's built-in reports export purchase orders and stocktakes cleanly. If you still have access to those exports (you had until August 31 to pull them, and the archive may still be downloadable, depending on how Shopify handled the cutoff), import those into whatever you pick. They are the less operationally critical data.

Suppliers are the painful part. Stocky never allowed supplier export. The field you miss is not just the name and the email. It is lead time, minimum order quantity, payment terms, the note that says "always order on Mondays or they are late," and the specific contact at that vendor who actually responds. If you have 20 suppliers, budget two to four hours to recreate. If you have 50, plan on a full day. If you are only now rebuilding this - six weeks after the shutdown - please do not do it in whatever random spreadsheet is open. Do it in the app you have decided to use, so you never have to type it twice.

Average cost data is the other quiet gap. Stocky tracked moving average cost per SKU, which fed margin calculations at receiving. Native Shopify receiving shows only quantity, not cost or margin. If your margin reports depended on Stocky-tracked average cost and you have not thought about where that number comes from in the new app, your gross margin dashboard is probably wrong right now. Prediko, Sumtracker, and Inventory Planner all let you track cost per receive; FyreTrail does on receiving but not with the same automatic averaging. This is small-sounding and it is not.

Setup time, rough:

FyreTrail: a few hours to connect, import products, and set up barcode printing. Transfers are the painful bit - if you need them, FyreTrail does not provide them and you need a second tool.
Sumtracker: a full day for a mid-size catalog. Multichannel sync setup is more involved than a single-channel PO tool. The payoff is one place for stock across Shopify plus Amazon, eBay, or whatever else you sell on.
Prediko: half a day for the forecasting side if you have clean sales history. It pulls from your Shopify orders directly.
Logistified: fast setup because the scope is narrow (forecasting only). You still need something else for PO workflow.
Inventory Planner by Sage: expect a week of configuration, more if you also want landed cost. The depth is the point; it is also the cost.
Stock Transfer Pro: unknown. The app is four months old. Treat any setup estimate as a guess.

Cost at a small store's volume

The thing that stings is the comparison to zero. Stocky was $0 incremental to POS Pro. Everything below is on top of what you already pay Shopify.

If you run under 500 POs a month and only need basic receiving, PO creation, and label printing, FyreTrail's free tier covers you at $0 per month. That is the only genuine zero on the list.

If you need forecasting on top of PO, the cheapest honest combination is FyreTrail (free, up to 500 POs) plus Logistified Inventory Planning ($12/month). That is $144/year all-in for a Stocky replacement that covers both the receiving side and the planning side, assuming you can live with FyreTrail's lack of location transfers and Logistified's narrower feature set.

The $29 to $49/month tier is where most small stores land. Sensible Forecasting at $29/month, or Prediko, Sumtracker, or SKUSavvy at $49/month. Call it $350 to $600 per year for an app that handles most of what Stocky did. That is not nothing, but it is also not a $250+/month ERP.

The $99+/month tier (Fabrikator, Inventory Planner by Sage) is where small stores should hesitate. These apps are good. They are also designed for bigger operations, and the pricing is calibrated for merchants whose inventory decisions move more revenue than the subscription costs. If you are running a mid-six-figure brand and you are spending $1,200/year on inventory software, you want to be sure the extra planning depth is worth the delta over Sumtracker.

One merchant on r/shopify ("Stocky replacement that isn't a $250/mo ERP?") framed the ceiling as $250+/month and asked for help. That ceiling exists for a reason. Avoid anything that quotes "custom pricing" until you have a trial PO cycle on the next-cheapest option.

What breaks at scale

This is the part nobody tells you until you have already migrated.

FyreTrail: no stock transfers between locations. If you have one storefront, this is fine. If you have two or more locations and move stock between them regularly, FyreTrail stops working for you the first time you need to send 20 units from your Toronto store to your Vancouver store. You will end up either (a) adding Stock Transfer Pro on top, which is too new to vouch for, or (b) handling transfers in native Shopify's new two-step flow, which is the thing people are leaving over.

Sumtracker: the most-cited "it just works at scale" option. One merchant managing 35,000 SKUs chose it and reports no major issues six months in. That is one data point, and it is still the most concrete scaling evidence any replacement has produced in community threads. For a multichannel store, this is the quietest answer.

Prediko: the AI forecasting is the pitch. In practice, the forecasting quality depends on how much clean, seasonal sales history you can feed it. If your store is less than a year old or your category is actively trending (potted plants, as one merchant put it, "are hotttt right now"), the forecast will overshoot or undershoot and you will second-guess it. Prediko is strongest for stable categories with 18+ months of sales data.

Logistified: $12/month gets you a forecasting overlay, not a workflow. It is a fine complement to FyreTrail for a small brick and mortar store. It is not a Stocky replacement on its own because it does not do PO.

Inventory Planner by Sage: scales further than any of the above. The question at a small store is whether you need that much headroom. If you are planning to triple inventory in 2027, maybe. If you are stable at your current size, you are paying for ceiling you will not use.

Stock Transfer Pro: I cannot tell you what breaks at scale because nothing is at scale yet. The app launched June 9, 2026. If you need the gap it fills, trial it with a small transfer first and have a backup plan.

The vendor-rep problem on scale: watch for recommendations that come from the same two or three accounts across every community thread. Those are often (not always) affiliated with the app being recommended. A one-off merchant comment from someone with no other posts about an app, saying "we have run this at X SKUs for Y months," is a much better scale signal than a thread regular who keeps surfacing in replacement discussions.

What I would actually pick, by workflow

I will not give you a "depends on your needs" cop-out. Here is where I would land in each case, as of mid-October 2026.

Single-location brick and mortar, barcode receiving, under 500 POs/month: FyreTrail free tier. Add Logistified at $12/month if you need forecasting. All-in cost: $0 to $144/year. Caveat: skip this if you also need stock transfers.

Multi-location retail with transfers between stores: Sumtracker at $49/month. The 35,000-SKU merchant is the most convincing single data point in any migration thread, and you need the transfers that FyreTrail does not provide.

E-commerce only, multichannel, under 10,000 SKUs: Sumtracker again. The multichannel sync is the moat. If you are Shopify-only and want the planning layer specifically, Prediko at $49/month is the second choice; pair it with FyreTrail for the PO side if you also do physical receiving.

AI-driven forecasting is the whole point, you have 18+ months of clean sales data: Prediko. Trial it against your actual history before you commit so you can see where it over- or under-forecasts in your categories.

You want one app, you have the budget, and the setup week is not a dealbreaker: Inventory Planner by Sage. This is the closest thing to feature parity with full Stocky. It is also roughly double or triple what a two-app stack costs. The planning depth is real; the question is whether you need it.

You just got forced into the native PO/transfer beta and the two-step flow is killing you: Stock Transfer Pro is worth a trial. Just a trial. Have a fallback.

You run a brand-new store with no sales history: honestly, native Shopify's PO is probably fine for the first six months, limitations and all. Pick a tool once you have enough data for forecasting to mean something. One merchant on r/shopify (trailmix17) does run native and tolerates it: "Native for me is ok so far, but the reporting for PO is ass, and the reason for inventory adjustments sucks." That is roughly the ceiling.

If you are stuck between two of these buckets and your real question is which trade-off you can live with, the first 15 minutes with a help1 expert is free - that is enough to walk through your SKU count, location setup, and PO volume and figure out which app is actually right for your store without wading through 86-reply threads.

Before you commit, run one real PO cycle

The fastest way to know whether an app works for you is to run one complete purchase order through it inside the free trial. Create the PO, send it to a vendor (or a fake one, if you want to test without a real supplier), receive against it when the stock arrives, print labels if your workflow needs them, and then check whether your stock reports and your margin numbers update correctly. If any of those steps makes you stop and go "wait, how do I...", that is the step that will cost you half a day every week once you commit. Better to find it on day two of a trial than week two of a paid subscription.

If your workflow depends on receiving stock without barcodes (common in apparel, food, and consignment, and the gap that lumine named most clearly in the "Native POs need to match Stocky" thread), test that specifically. If your workflow depends on moving stock between locations, test that specifically. The app that advertises the thing you need is sometimes the one that has a buried limitation on the thing you need next. For the broader pattern of inventory tools surprising you at the worst possible moment, I wrote up a similar story about multichannel sync in this flash sale postmortem earlier this year.

Six weeks after shutdown, the honest state of the Stocky replacement market is "pick two apps that cover what you actually use, and avoid anything that quotes custom pricing." That is the version of the advice that holds up outside of community threads where the loudest voices are selling. Run your trial PO cycle this week. The decision gets easier once you have your own data instead of someone else's recommendation.