Migrating from Stocky: the complete guide

Shopify retired Stocky on September 1, 2026. The app is gone, but your data isn’t: Stocky’s deprecation page lets you request a full data export, and Stockroom imports that export directly - suppliers, your complete purchase order history, the receiving timeline, reorder levels, bin locations and supplier costs - from one dropped ZIP file.

This guide covers how to get the export, what comes across, and how to be fully set up in Stockroom. It takes most stores well under an hour.

Step one: request your Stocky data export

Open stocky.shopifyapps.com/deprecated while logged in to your store and click Request export. Shopify prepares a ZIP file and emails a download link to the store owner - usually within a day, sometimes longer for large accounts. You can only run one export at a time, so request it once and wait for the email.

The ZIP holds eight CSV files: suppliers, supplier costs per product, products with their reorder settings, every purchase order line, stock adjustments, stocktakes, transfers, and per-location min/max levels with bin locations. You don’t need to open or edit any of them. Stockroom reads the ZIP as a whole.

Step two: drop the ZIP into Stockroom

Install Stockroom free from the Shopify App Store. The onboarding asks whether you’re coming from Stocky - say yes and drop the ZIP right there. If you’re already past onboarding, go to Settings → Data & sync → Import from Stocky and drop it there instead.

Stockroom reads the file, shows you what is inside (how many suppliers, purchase orders, reorder levels and so on) and imports it in one click:

• Suppliers - contacts, currency, payment terms, notes and tag rules, plus which supplier carries which product, at what cost, code and pack size.
• Your full PO history - every purchase order, open or closed, with its status: draft, ordered, partially received or received. This is what lets you look up your purchase history by supplier (“what did we pay for this SKU last autumn?”).
• The receiving timeline - which deliveries arrived when, in full or in part.
• Reorder levels, lead times and bins - Stocky’s min/max levels and bin locations land on your products, per location. Anything you’ve already set in Stockroom is left alone.
• Adjustments and stocktakes - optional, if you want count history along too.

How the import behaves:

• It doesn’t touch your Shopify inventory. The import creates documents and history inside Stockroom. Your live stock levels do not change. Stockroom only writes to Shopify when you do something in the app that should change stock, like receiving a delivery.
• It runs in the background. Large histories keep importing while you continue setting up.
• It’s safe to repeat. If you drop the export twice, or imported through Stocky’s API back when it was online, only what’s new is added.

If you already migrated through the API

Many stores ran Stockroom’s one-click API import while Stocky was still online. That import could not bring reorder levels, bins or supplier catalogs across, because Stocky’s API never exposed them. The data export does. Request it, drop it into Settings → Data & sync, and those come over; your purchase orders and suppliers are recognised and skipped.

If Shopify granted your store extended Stocky access, the API import is still there too, at the bottom of the same page.

A sensible migration checklist

1. Request your Stocky export. It’s free and arrives by email. It is also the only copy of your Stocky data you will get.
2. Install Stockroom (free, no credit card) and drop the ZIP in onboarding or in Settings.
3. Spot-check the history - pick a supplier you know well and confirm their POs, statuses and receiving dates look right.
4. Review reorder settings - the export brought Stocky’s levels across; Stockroom also suggests reorder points from your sales, so confirm or override them per product. Your pack sizes and minimum order quantities live here too.
5. Cut over your open POs - anything that was still open in Stocky imports as open here, so you can receive it in Stockroom from now on.
6. Connect QuickBooks if you use it - Stockroom pushes POs and bills to QuickBooks Online or Desktop through MyWorks. This step is optional.

What changes for the better

A few things longtime Stocky users notice straight away:

• No POS Pro requirement. Stocky needed a POS Pro subscription. Stockroom works on any Shopify plan.
• Incoming stock still shows in Shopify when you mark a PO ordered, the same way it did with Stocky.
• Landed cost is built in. Freight and fees are allocated across receipts into unit costs. Stocky never did this.
• More counting tools. Blind counts, cycle-count schedules, no-login counting links for staff, and stamped audit exports.
• It’s free. There is no PO cap, no trial period and no credit card needed to install.

Common questions

How long does the export take to arrive? Usually within a day. Shopify says exports can take 24 hours or more depending on how much data was in the account, and you can only run one at a time.

How long does the import take? Most stores are done in minutes; big PO histories finish in the background.

What isn’t imported? Stock transfers, because Stockroom uses Shopify’s own transfers and history cannot be written into them, and stocktake sessions themselves, since a completed stocktake already arrives as the adjustment it produced. Both are counted in the import summary.

What does Stockroom cost? Nothing. Purchase orders, receiving, suppliers, counting, labels, alerts and reports are all free. The only paid piece is MyWorks Sync, our accounting sync, if you want your purchasing flowing into QuickBooks.

The move is small: request the export, install Stockroom, drop the ZIP and spot-check a supplier.