Nobody asks for their tools to change. But Stocky winding down comes with an upside most shops don’t expect: a reason to stop settling.
And if you run a multi-brand shop, this guide is written for you specifically, not for the DTC brands and manufacturers everyone else is writing for.
First, the facts
Shopify is retiring Stocky in stages. It was pulled from the Shopify App Store on February 2, 2026, so you can’t install or reinstall it. On August 31, 2026, it stops working entirely and its APIs shut off with it. You get read-only access for a short window after that, and then your history gets hard to reach. The one thing to do now: export your data while the app is still live.
What replaces it doesn’t have to be one more tool you tolerate
Be honest about Stocky. It counted stock and tracked POs, and you worked around the rest: the manual data entry, the receiving you couldn’t undo, the catalog that never quite kept up. You didn’t love it. You learned it.
That arrangement ends in August. What comes next can actually fit the way a shop buys and receives. That’s what we built Invoe to be.
Point it at the orders you already have, from every brand you carry, and Invoe pulls in the products, costs, and images and builds your listings for you. You’re not rebuilding your catalog by hand. You’re approving one that’s already there.
The move itself is a file drop
Start with the part everyone dreads. Not “moving your data,” which sounds clean and technical. The real job is typing product listings into Shopify one by one, hunting the details down from wherever they live: your inbox, a folder of PDFs, a dozen brand logins, the stack of papers by the register.
With Invoe, it’s a file drop. Export your purchase orders from Stocky as a CSV. Drop the file in. Invoe reads every line, the vendor, the SKU, the cost, the quantity, and rebuilds your orders the same way it reads a brand-new PO.
From there it’s the move you’ll make all season. Point Invoe at any brand’s order, a PDF, a photo, a spreadsheet, a portal page, and it stages clean listings for you to review and publish. No re-keying, no copy-paste, no blank Shopify product to fill in.
Leaving Stocky and running your busiest buying season turn out to be the same job: getting a stack of orders into your store without keying them in. Invoe does that part now, and every buy after.
Stocky is really two products in one
Open Stocky and you’re looking at two tools stitched together. One half is incoming inventory: purchase orders, receiving, suppliers, cost. The other half is forecasting: best sellers, reorder points, suggestions for how much to buy next.
Most shops live in the first half and only visit the second. That first half, getting what you bought into your store accurately and fast, is exactly what Invoe is built for. It’s the whole reason we exist.
Why Invoe fits a shop, not a warehouse
There’s a reason tools built for big online brands never feel right in a multi-vendor shop.
A direct-to-consumer brand runs deep and narrow: a few products, deep stock, SKUs that sell for years. Their software optimizes a small, stable set.
You run shallow and wide: hundreds of products from dozens of brands, a few of each, a floor that turns over in weeks. Your hard problem isn’t squeezing one SKU. It’s getting a constant flood of new ones into your store before they sell through.
That flood is the whole point. Every order you drop in becomes products, costs, and images, handled for you, so buying wide and fast stops being a data-entry punishment. Same word, “inventory,” completely different job. Invoe is built for yours, on top of the Shopify you already use.
What you stop doing by hand
The left column is the hand-work Stocky left you. The right is what Invoe takes off your plate.
| Stocky | Invoe | |
|---|---|---|
| Building a PO | Hand-key or barcode-scan every line | Drop the order in any format, it builds itself |
| Moving your history over | Re-enter it | Drop your Stocky CSV export, it rebuilds the orders |
| Your live catalog | Tracks every product from the day it exists | Stays clean until product lands and you publish |
| A receiving miscount | Committed to live inventory | Scan or hand-count, partials stay open, undo within minutes |
| Product listings | Not touched | Description, SEO, and images pulled in for you |
| Vendor portal orders | Store a login, then do it by hand | Chrome extension grabs the order off Faire, Joor, NuORDER |
| Bills and payments | Tracked, no accounting export | Tracked, with a QuickBooks Online Bill CSV export |
| Barcode and price labels | Dymo print pipeline | Print-ready PDF today, direct printer integration on the way |
What Stocky users worry about, and what actually happens
We’ve read the same forums and Stocky threads you have. The worries are always the same.
Will I lose my workflow? No. You buy, you receive, you keep your costs straight, same as today. Invoe just does more of it for you.
Will I have to retrain my team? Less than you’d fear. The work is point at an order and approve. There’s no dense table to memorize.
Is this going to eat my season? It’s a file drop, not an implementation. You can do it between shipments, not instead of them.
The replacement isn’t more software. It’s less of the work you were doing by hand.
Where we’ll be straight: what Invoe doesn’t do
A clean move is one with no surprises in month two. So, plainly:
Forecasting and demand planning. Stocky’s “what and how much should I buy” half, the ABC analysis, the best-seller reports, the reorder points, isn’t something Invoe does today. We handle the incoming side: getting what you already bought from the truck to the shelf. If your team leans on Stocky’s buying suggestions, plan where that lives before August.
Day-to-day stock adjustments and stocktakes. Shopify stays your source of truth for on-hand counts. Invoe owns what’s coming in, not ongoing bookkeeping.
Your Stocky migration checklist
1. Separate the two halves. Write down what your team touches daily, the POs, receiving, and cost, versus what’s forecasting. The first half is what you’re actually moving.
2. Export your Stocky data while it’s live. Your purchase orders, supplier details, and costs. The PO export is the file you’ll hand straight to Invoe.
3. Drop one export into Invoe and watch it rebuild. Before you commit, see your own orders come back as clean, staged listings. That’s the whole migration in one move.
4. Decide where forecasting goes. If you rely on Stocky’s buying suggestions, plan that separately. It won’t come along with any incoming-inventory tool.
5. Note your quirks. Multi-location? Stocky splits that into location-suffixed POs. Custom shelf-location fields, portal logins: list them so nothing gets lost.
See if Invoe is the best fit for your Stocky replacement
If you want a practical home for your buying and receiving, we’d love to show you what we’ve built at Invoe! Start a two-week trial, drop in one of your real vendor POs, and receive it the way your team would in season. No implementation project, no migration headache. Just your purchasing work, moved somewhere it fits.
Find us as Invoe on the Shopify App Store.