Stockroom vs Prediko for purchasing
Prediko is a Shopify planning app: a 12-month demand and supply plan, a buy table, and purchase orders raised from it, from $49 a month for stores under $100k of revenue to $199 a month under $2M. Its purchasing is solid. Stockroom does the purchasing job free at any revenue, inside your Shopify admin, and writes incoming and received stock to Shopify without a setting to switch on.
What it costs
Prediko’s price follows your trailing twelve months of revenue. Stockroom has one price.
| Feature | Prediko | Stockroom |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $49 under $100k revenue, $119 under $500k, $199 under $2M, then custom | Free at any revenue |
| Users, SKUs and POs | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Trial | 14 days | No trial needed |
| Raw materials and bills of materials | $20 a month add-on | Included |
Creating purchase orders
Prediko builds a PO from its buy table and covers the essentials well. Stockroom adds the other places an order starts.
| Feature | Prediko | Stockroom |
|---|---|---|
| Start a PO from reorder suggestions | The buy table | A buy plan grouped by supplier |
| Start a PO from a customer order | Not documented | From the order page, or add to an open draft |
| Import a whole PO from CSV | Yes | Yes |
| Create at POS by scanning | No | Yes |
| Create from an AI assistant | MCP | Claude, ChatGPT and others over MCP |
| Freight and fees on the PO | Fixed or percentage, spread by quantity | Spread by value, quantity or weight |
| Discounts on the PO | Not documented | Per line or per order |
| Ship one PO to several locations | Split by location | Yes |
| Approval before ordering | Six roles | Optional |
| Your own PO number format | Suggested from the last ten | Format tokens |
| Notes per line | Yes | Supplier-visible or internal |
| Attach files to the PO | Yes | Yes |
| Your product metafields as PO columns | No | Up to 20, two on the PDF |
| Team comments and @mentions on a PO | No | Yes |
Suppliers
Prediko keeps lead time, minimums and a cost per supplier. Stockroom adds the commercial terms.
| Feature | Prediko | Stockroom |
|---|---|---|
| Lead time and minimum order on the supplier | Yes | Yes |
| Payment terms on the supplier | Not documented | Yes |
| Several suppliers for one product | Switch when drafting | With cost comparison |
| Pack sizes | Yes | Yes |
| Price lists with quantity breaks | Not documented | Yes |
| Free-shipping threshold and minimum order value | Minimum by value | Both |
| Several email recipients per supplier | Not documented | Up to 11 |
Sending the PO to the supplier
Prediko emails from its own address with you copied in. Stockroom sends as you, and tells you what happened next.
| Feature | Prediko | Stockroom |
|---|---|---|
| Email the PO from the app | From Prediko’s address, you cc’d | Reply-to you |
| PDF with your logo and a format per supplier | Choose the columns | Yes |
| Email templates | Subject and body per send | Yes |
| Send from your own domain | No | Early access |
| Know when it was opened | Not documented | Yes |
| Supplier confirms and adds tracking on a link | Not documented | No login for them |
| PO lands in the supplier’s own Shopify store | No | Stockroom Network |
Receiving the delivery
Prediko receives well, and pushes to Shopify once you turn that on. Stockroom receives straight into Shopify.
| Feature | Prediko | Stockroom |
|---|---|---|
| Incoming quantity shows in Shopify | Not documented | On mark ordered |
| Received stock lands in Shopify | Opt-in, off by default | On receive, at that location |
| Partial deliveries | Yes | Yes |
| Receive by barcode scan | Scanner or phone camera | Admin, POS and a phone camera |
| Receive in Shopify POS | No | Yes |
| Accept or reject units | Not documented | Yes |
| Receive more than was ordered | With a warning | Yes |
| Invoice number and total on the delivery | Amount, date and file | Number, date and total |
| Read the invoice photo to fill in the counts | No | Stockroom AI |
| Undo a receive | Yes | Yes |
| Print barcode labels for what arrived | Barcodes from Shopify | 14 presets, Dymo and Zebra |
| Return goods to the supplier | Not documented | With a credit note |
What the goods cost you
Both work out landed cost. Prediko pushes it to Shopify once a day if the setting is on. Stockroom shows it and asks.
| Feature | Prediko | Stockroom |
|---|---|---|
| Freight and fees allocated into unit cost | By quantity | By value, quantity or weight |
| Update Shopify’s cost per item from the PO | Opt-in, once a day | You confirm each push |
| Update the product’s price from the PO | No | You confirm each push |
| Selling prices reviewed after a cost change | No | Price review report |
| Payment status on the PO | Amount and date | Unpaid, partial, paid |
| Owed to suppliers report | No | Yes |
Reordering and reports
Planning is Prediko’s whole reason to exist. Stockroom covers the reorder job and reports on the suppliers too.
| Feature | Prediko | Stockroom |
|---|---|---|
| Reorder points from your sales | A 12-month plan | Nightly |
| Low stock alerts | Scheduled reports | Email and Slack |
| Supplier on-time and lead-time report | No | Yes |
| Spend by supplier | Delivery schedule data | Vendor purchase history |
| Bills into QuickBooks | Open POs, one way, by hand | With MyWorks Sync, paid |
What Stockroom adds
What a PO in Stockroom does that Prediko leaves to you, or to a setting.
- Shopify shows what is coming. Mark a PO ordered and the incoming quantity appears on the product in Shopify and POS. Prediko tracks in-transit stock in its own screens.
- Receiving updates Shopify by default. Receive in Stockroom and the stock lands at that location in Shopify. In Prediko the push is off until you turn it on.
- Receiving happens at the till too. Stockroom has a receiving tile in Shopify POS as well as scanning in the admin and on a phone. Reject damaged units on the receive and read the invoice photo to fill in the counts.
- The PO goes out as you. Templates, a Cc list, reply-to your address and, in early access, sending from your own domain. You see when it was opened, and the supplier confirms on a link with no login.
- Prices keep up with costs. The price review report shows where a cost rise ate your margin and suggests a new price you can push to Shopify. Prediko pushes cost, not price.
- Suppliers hold their terms and compete. Payment terms, price lists with quantity breaks and a free-shipping threshold live on each supplier, and the cheaper one is flagged on the PO.
- Supplier returns with a credit note. Send damaged or wrong goods back and carry the credit against the next order.
- Free at any revenue. Prediko’s price steps up as the store grows. Stockroom’s purchasing stays free whatever you sell.
- The bill reaches QuickBooks. MyWorks Sync posts each PO and bill into QuickBooks. Prediko creates an open purchase order there, one at a time.
Where Prediko is the better fit
Prediko is demand planning first, and it is good at it. Stockroom does not try to match this.
- A twelve-month demand and supply plan. Achievable demand, budget validation and a supply plan per location and per store, with seasonality and growth modelled. Stockroom’s nightly reorder points are simpler by design.
- Planning across several Shopify stores. Combined locations so stock is not double-counted, and one plan over all of them. Stockroom works on one store.
- Risk views read against the plan. Stockout dates, overstock and dead stock measured against the twelve-month plan, with inventory value and sell-through alongside. Stockroom’s projected shortfall, dead stock and out of stock reports work from sales, and can be scheduled to your inbox too.
- Raw materials and production orders. A paid add-on that plans components from the finished-goods forecast. Stockroom raises builds from demand and puts their component shortfalls on the buy plan, but does not run a twelve-month component forecast.
- Warehouse and 3PL connectors. PO sync to ShipHero and a long list of WMS integrations, for stores whose receiving happens in a third-party warehouse.
Questions we get
Does Prediko update Shopify when I receive?
Only if you turn it on. Its documentation says the stock sync is off by default, and the cost push runs once a day when enabled. Stockroom writes received stock to Shopify as part of the receive, at that location, and shows you the new landed cost to confirm before it touches cost per item.
Does Prediko show incoming stock in Shopify?
Nothing in its documentation says it writes Shopify’s incoming figure. In-transit quantities are tracked inside Prediko. Stockroom writes incoming to Shopify when you mark a PO ordered, so the product page and POS show what is coming.
Can I use Stockroom with Prediko?
You could keep Prediko for the plan and place the orders in Stockroom, but Prediko would not see those POs as supply, so its plan would drift. If you need the twelve-month plan across several stores, use Prediko’s POs. If you buy for one Shopify store, Stockroom covers the job on its own.
How does Stockroom forecast?
Every night it works out a reorder point per product from your sales and lead times, then builds a buy plan grouped by supplier with minimums and pack sizes applied and the cheaper supplier flagged. It does not build a twelve-month plan or a budget view.
What does Prediko cost?
Starter is $49 a month up to $100k of trailing revenue, Scale-up $119 up to $500k, Growth $199 up to $2M, and Enterprise is custom above that. Raw materials and bills of materials are a $20 a month add-on. Two months are free on annual billing. As published on Prediko’s App Store listing and pricing page on 11 September 2026.
What does Stockroom cost?
Purchase orders and receiving are free, and they stay free. That is the core of the app. As Stockroom grows into deeper inventory management, the advanced end of that will be paid, along with hands-on onboarding and priority support. Pushing your POs and bills into QuickBooks is a paid MyWorks Sync subscription.
Try it on your next order
Install free, create one PO, email it, and receive it when it lands. Nothing in Prediko is touched.