Stocky ends 31 August 2026
Stocky is being switched off. Your stocktakes do not have to stop.
Shopify pulled Stocky from the App Store in February and turns it off after 31 August 2026. Its own advice is to manage inventory in the Shopify admin and POS — which holds the numbers, but leaves out the part a shop opened Stocky for: several people walking the floor with phones, counting.
14 days free. No card, and nothing to install for the people counting.
What is actually changing
Three dates and one instruction, all of them Shopify's own — worth reading before deciding anything, including whether you need us.
It left the App Store in February
Stocky was removed on 2 February 2026. Shops that already had it kept it; nobody new can install it, which is why nothing you find in the store points at it any more.
It stops working after 31 August
Not a reduced version and not a phased wind-down: after that date you cannot use Stocky to manage inventory. Shopify does leave the door ajar — read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days — but the app itself is finished on the date.
Shopify's answer is the admin and POS
Their migration note says to manage inventory in the Shopify admin and Shopify POS. That covers holding the numbers. It does not cover handing a phone to four people and counting a stockroom at once.
Before anything else: get your records out
None of this is our advice, and none of it depends on choosing us — it is Shopify's own migration note. Historical data does not move into Shopify by itself, so what you do not export, you do not keep.
- Completed purchase orders, as CSV — Shopify says these cannot be imported into Shopify at all, so anything your tax or audit records need has to live outside it
- Your stocktake history
- Your historical cost data
The one you cannot export
Suppliers. Shopify states plainly that they cannot be exported from Stocky — if you need that list, somebody has to copy it out by hand before it goes.
The date is not quite the cliff it looks like: Shopify says you keep read-only access to export for at least 90 days after 31 August 2026. Managing stock stops on the date; getting records out does not.
Shopify's own migration guideWhat Handcount takes over, and what it does not
Stocky was several products in one. Handcount is one of them, done properly — so here is the honest split before you spend an afternoon on it.
It replaces
- Stock counts on phones — the counter opens a link in a browser, with nothing to install and no Shopify account of their own
- Several people counting one location at once, each seeing the others' running totals
- Counting with no signal: the catalog is on the device and the scans sync when the connection comes back
- Writing the counted quantities back to Shopify, with anything that sold mid-count held back rather than silently overwritten
- Notes from the floor, against one product or against the whole count, answered from your admin
It does not replace
- Purchase orders and receiving stock against them
- Suppliers, cost prices and margin reporting
- Demand forecasting and suggested reorder quantities
- Barcode label printing and stock transfers between locations
If those are why you opened Stocky, an inventory suite is the honest answer and we would rather say so now than after you have installed something. If it was the counting, that is the whole of what this does.
Something to tell us?
A bug that got in your way, a feature that ought to exist, or a question the pages here did not answer.