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Shopify is retiring Stocky on 31 August 2026: how to keep forecasting your inventory
If you've leaned on Stocky to tell you what to reorder and how much to buy, that safety net is going away. This guide covers what actually changes on 31 August 2026, what you lose, and the practical ways to keep forecasting demand once Stocky is gone.
What Stocky did, and what you actually lose
Stocky bundled a lot of features, but for most merchants the part that mattered day to day was the demand and reordering brain. It looked at your sales history and suggested what to reorder, when, and roughly how much, then helped you turn that into a purchase order. When it goes, these are the specific things that stop working for you:
- Reorder suggestions, the "you're about to run low on this" prompts.
- Demand forecasting, which projects how fast each product will sell.
- Suggested order quantities per supplier.
- The purchase-order workflows tied to those suggestions.
Basic stock tracking lives in Shopify itself and isn't going anywhere. What Stocky leaves behind is the decision layer that turns "here's how much I have" into "here's what to buy."
Your realistic options
There are four paths, and they aren't equal for every store.
1. Do nothing and reorder by gut
This is free, and it's fine if you carry a handful of SKUs you know intimately. It falls apart once you have dozens of products with different lead times and seasonality, which is the exact situation Stocky existed to solve. Expect more stockouts, and more cash tied up in dead stock.
2. Build a spreadsheet
Export your orders, work out average daily sales, add a buffer, and calculate a reorder point per product. This is genuinely doable, and it's a good way to understand the math (our reorder point guide walks through it). The problem is upkeep. It's a manual re-export and recalculation every week, and it quietly goes stale the moment you stop maintaining it.
3. Move to a full inventory-management suite
Tools like inFlow or Ordoro replace Stocky and a lot more: multi-warehouse, shipping, purchase orders, sometimes accounting. If you genuinely need all of that, they're a good fit. They're also heavier to set up and priced accordingly. For a store that only misses Stocky's forecasting, a full suite is usually more than you want to pay for or learn.
4. Use a focused forecasting app
This is the middle path. A small tool that does the one thing you'll miss from Stocky, reading your sales history and telling you what to reorder, without a migration project. That's the niche Brimstock was built for.
How to migrate the forecasting piece
Whichever tool you land on, the practical steps are the same.
- Write down your lead times. For each main supplier, how many days pass between placing an order and it being on your shelf? This one number drives every reorder calculation.
- Decide your service level. How often is a brief stockout acceptable? For most products a 95% service level is a reasonable starting point, and your bestsellers deserve higher.
- Pick a tool that reads your existing Shopify history, so you don't have to re-key anything. Your order history already holds everything a forecast needs.
- Sanity-check the first suggestions against your own instinct for a week or two before you trust them blindly. A good tool shows you why it recommends a number.
- Switch before 31 August, while Stocky is still there as a fallback and you have room to get comfortable with the new workflow.
Keep forecasting after Stocky, in a couple of clicks
Brimstock reads your existing Shopify sales history and tells you what to reorder, when, and how much. No POS, no setup, no re-keying. Free for up to 50 products.
Get Brimstock on the App StoreFor the record, Brimstock is our app, so treat it as one option among several. The guidance above holds whichever tool you choose.
Frequently asked
Is Stocky really being discontinued?
Yes. Shopify has announced Stocky's retirement on 31 August 2026. If you depend on its forecasting and purchase-order features, you need an alternative in place before then.
Will I lose my stock levels?
No. Your inventory quantities live in Shopify itself. What disappears is Stocky's layer of suggestions and forecasting sitting on top of them.
What's the cheapest way to replace just the forecasting?
A spreadsheet costs nothing but takes constant upkeep. A focused app like Brimstock is free for small catalogues and $19 a month for unlimited products, well below the price of a full inventory suite if forecasting is all you actually need.
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