Stocky is shutting down. Here’s what to do about the forecasting.
Shopify Admin took over purchase orders. It didn’t take over telling you what to reorder. OrderBee does. Reorder planning built for small Shopify brands, without enterprise pricing.
Four dates, that’s the whole story
You don’t need 500 words on this. Here’s exactly what happens and when.
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| July 2025 | Transfers and min/max forecasting removed from Stocky |
| 2 February 2026 | Stocky removed from the Shopify App Store |
| 31 August 2026 | The Stocky app and its APIs stop working |
| After 31 August | Anything connected to Stocky via its API breaks too |
What Shopify Admin covers, and what it doesn’t
- Stock tracking across locations
- Transfers between locations
- Basic purchase orders
- Inventory adjustments
- Demand forecasting
- Reorder suggestions (what & how much)
- Restock-to-target and safety stock
- Sales-velocity-based purchasing
If you only track quantities, Shopify Admin is enough and you don’t need us. If Stocky told you what and when to buy, keep reading.
The 4-step Stocky export checklist
Five minutes now saves your data. Once the app goes dark, this is gone.
- 1Export your purchase-order history to CSV. Now
From Stocky, export your PO history while the app still works. You keep it for your records; you won’t need it to start forecasting in OrderBee.
- 2Screenshot or recreate your suppliers
This is the one that catches people out: supplier data cannot be exported from Stocky. Screenshot every vendor record, or recreate them somewhere safe, before the shutdown.
- 3Save your historical stocktakes
Export or screenshot past stocktakes and counts you want to keep for reference.
- 4Note anything wired to Stocky’s API
Any integration or script calling Stocky’s API stops on the same day, 31 August. List them now so nothing breaks silently.
OrderBee vs Stocky, honestly
| Stocky | OrderBee | |
|---|---|---|
| Demand forecasting | Basic (min/max, removed Jul 2025) | Sales-velocity forecasting |
| Reorder suggestions | Limited | What, how much, and when |
| Lead-time handling | Manual | Built into the reorder point |
| Multi-channel | Shopify only | Shopify + wholesale + CSV, one forecast |
| Purchase orders | Yes | Yes (create, receive, track) |
| Barcode / POS stocktakes | Yes (POS-native) | Not our focus |
| Price | Free, but shutting down | €49–99/month |
Where Stocky was genuinely better: POS-native stocktakes and barcode scanning. If that’s the core of how you run stock, a POS-focused tool will serve you better than we will, and we’ll happily say so.
When OrderBee is not your answer
We’d rather you pick the right tool than churn out of a trial. Skip OrderBee if:
- You’re POS-heavy retail
Physical stores, barcode counts and register-side stocktakes are your daily reality. A POS-native inventory tool fits better.
- 1,000+ SKUs, multi-warehouse
At real scale and warehouse complexity, look at Inventory Planner or Prediko, they’re built for it.
- You need manufacturing / BOM
If you assemble finished goods from components and need bills of materials, that’s not what we do.
Free tools are gone. Enterprise pricing isn’t the only other option.
Forecasting, reorder suggestions and purchase orders for a single small brand.
More channels and volume, still a fraction of enterprise inventory suites.
Most Stocky alternatives sit at $200–300/month. OrderBee starts at €49. Stocky felt free because Shopify bundled it, but one prevented stockout usually pays for months of OrderBee. No “contact us,” no quote form.
From signup to your first reorder plan
- 1Connect Shopify
One click. Your historical orders and current stock come across automatically, no CSV wrangling to get started.
- 2Review your generated forecast
OrderBee builds a demand forecast from your sales history the moment it connects. Add wholesale or bol.com sales by CSV to forecast every channel together.
- 3Get your first reorder advice
See exactly what to reorder, how many cases, and by when. With lead time and safety stock already factored in.
OrderBee comes out of running a real product brand, Chilli Chan’s. We outgrew spreadsheets and hit the exact wall you’re hitting now: Shopify tracked our stock, but nothing told us what to reorder. So we built the forecasting piece we needed, and made it affordable for brands our size.
Built in Amsterdam. Real product, real screenshots, no stock photos. If you want to talk it through, the founder answers, get in touch.
Stocky migration questions, answered
Stocky was removed from the Shopify App Store on 2 February 2026, and the app and its APIs stop working on 31 August 2026. Transfers and min/max forecasting were already removed in July 2025. After 31 August, anything connected to Stocky through its API stops too.
No. Shopify Admin has absorbed purchase orders, transfers and adjustments, but there is no automatic migration of your Stocky forecasting setup. Export your purchase-order history to CSV before the shutdown. Supplier records cannot be exported from Stocky at all, so screenshot or manually recreate your vendors before 31 August.
No. Shopify Admin tracks stock, moves it between locations, and creates basic purchase orders, but it does not forecast demand, suggest reorder quantities, or tell you when to buy. That is the exact part of Stocky that is being orphaned, and the part OrderBee replaces.
OrderBee is built for small brands, priced accordingly, and set up in about 30 minutes. SKU count matters less than you would think: from about ten products onward, OrderBee is already the better fit once your stock sits in more than one location, you sell through more than one channel, or you buy from several suppliers. Inventory Planner and Prediko are strong tools for much larger operations at 200 to 300 dollars a month. If you are a small Shopify brand that just lost Stocky, OrderBee is sized for you.
OrderBee starts producing useful reorder suggestions with about eight weeks of sales history, and gets more accurate as more history builds up. When you connect Shopify, your historical orders come across automatically, so most brands see a forecast on day one.
You do not need it to get started. OrderBee forecasts from your sales history, not your old purchase orders, and that history comes in automatically from Shopify (or by CSV). Export your Stocky PO history to CSV before 31 August for your own records, but your forecasts and reorder suggestions do not depend on it.
OrderBee starts at 49 euros a month, with a Growth plan at 99 euros a month. That is well below the 200 to 300 dollars a month that most Stocky alternatives charge. Stocky felt free because it was bundled with Shopify, but the cost of a single avoided stockout usually covers a month of OrderBee several times over.
Yes. Shopify connects directly, and other channels such as bol.com, wholesale and marketplaces come in through CSV or your invoicing tool. OrderBee then forecasts and plans reorders across all of them together, so you buy for total demand, not one channel at a time. Stocky never did multi-channel.
On 31 August your Stocky data becomes read-only inside a dying app and then inaccessible, supplier records included, because those cannot be exported. You lose your forecasting and reorder history and start any replacement from scratch. Exporting your PO history to CSV and recreating suppliers now avoids that.
Yes. Alongside Shopify, OrderBee reads B2B and wholesale sales from Moneybird and WeFact, or from a CSV. Those orders feed the same forecast as your DTC sales, so reorder suggestions reflect your real, combined demand.
Losing Stocky at the end of August?
Connect your store and see your reorder plan in about 30 minutes.