Stocky has been the go-to inventory app for Shopify POS retailers for years. Stock counts, transfers, demand forecasting, supplier management. If you need to know what's on the shelf and what to reorder, Stocky does that well.
But here's the thing most people don't talk about: Stocky starts after products already exist in Shopify. It manages what you have. It doesn't handle how it got there.
The gap nobody owns
You go to market. You write 20 purchase orders across 15 vendors. You come home with a stack of PDFs, photos, and handwritten notes. Somehow all of that has to become real products in Shopify with accurate costs, vendor info, sizes, descriptions, and images.
That's the gap. Stocky doesn't touch it. Shopify admin doesn't touch it. You either type everything by hand or hire someone to do it for you.
Invoe owns that gap. Upload a PO, and Invoe reads every line item, cost, vendor detail, payment term, and ship date. Products get created with descriptions, images, pricing, and variants. Then you review and publish to Shopify.
Side by side
| Feature | Stocky | Invoe |
|---|---|---|
| PO scanning (PDF, photo) | StockyNo — manual entry | InvoeYes — reads any format |
| Automatic product creation | StockyNo | InvoeYes — descriptions, tags, SEO |
| Image extraction | StockyNo | InvoeYes — pulled from vendor sources |
| Vendor CRM | StockyBasic supplier list | InvoeFull — terms, contacts, history, stats |
| Payment terms tracking | StockyNo | InvoeYes — Net 30, COD, deposits |
| Receiving verification | StockyYes — stock counts | InvoeYes — against original PO |
| Demand forecasting | StockyYes | InvoeNot yet |
| Stock transfers | StockyYes | InvoeNo — use Shopify for transfers |
| Publish to Shopify | StockyNo — products must exist first | InvoeYes — full product + variants |
An important note about Stocky
Shopify removed Stocky from the App Store in February 2026 and will discontinue it entirely in August 2026. They're migrating core features (stock counts, transfers, purchase orders) into Shopify's native inventory management.
If you're currently on Stocky, Shopify's built-in tools will cover counting and transfers. But the product creation gap stays the same. That's where we come in.
They work together, not against each other
This isn't really a competition. Invoe handles everything before products hit your shelves — scanning, parsing, vendor records, receiving, and publishing. Shopify's inventory tools handle everything after. Different jobs, same store.
If you've been using Stocky for supplier management and PO creation, you'll find Invoe does more on that front anyway. Reading your POs into products, automatic vendor records, payment term tracking, and image extraction are things Stocky never offered.