How to Export Your Stocky Data Before Read-Only Access Ends
By Canopy Team
Quick answer
Stocky stopped working on 31st August 2026. Shopify says you have read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days after that date, but it has not published a fixed end date, so check Shopify's notice in your admin and export now. Download each purchase order as a CSV (Apps, Stocky, Purchases, click the PO number, Download, CSV), save your stocktakes and the reports you rely on, and copy your supplier details by hand, because Shopify says suppliers can't be exported from Stocky.
What Shopify has said, with dates
- 2nd February 2026: Shopify delisted Stocky from the Shopify App Store, so it can no longer be installed.
- 31st August 2026: Stocky stopped working, and its APIs stopped with it.
- After 31st August 2026: read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days. Shopify gives no exact closing date, so check Shopify's notice in your admin.
- Nothing moves across by itself: historical purchase orders and stocktakes are not migrated into Shopify, and suppliers can't be exported from Stocky.
One more warning from Shopify's Stocky page: data from an uninstalled Stocky app might not be retrievable. Do not uninstall Stocky until every export below is saved and checked. Your core Shopify data, such as products, orders, customers and current stock levels, lives in Shopify itself, not in Stocky, so it is not affected.
What to export
- Purchase orders. Every completed PO as a CSV, plus any open or cancelled POs you want on record. These are your history of what you ordered, when and at what price.
- Suppliers. Shopify says suppliers can't be exported, so copy the supplier details Stocky holds (for example name and contact email) into a spreadsheet by hand, and add lead times, minimum orders and payment terms from your own records.
- Costs. Your historical cost data. The SKU/Variant report shows cost per unit, selling price and number of sales for each variant, and the Stock on hand reports show the current value and cost of your inventory.
- Stock adjustments and stocktakes. Your stocktake history, and the Adjustments report (date, reason and employee for each adjustment).
- Reports. The Purchase orders report (arrival destination, delivery status, payment status), the Transfers report, and any of Low stock, Best sellers or ABC analysis that you used to decide what to buy.
How to export, step by step
- Step 1. In your Shopify admin, go to Apps and open Stocky.
- Step 2. Click Purchases. Click a PO number, click Download and choose CSV. Choose PDF as well if you want a copy that looks like the order your supplier received. Repeat for every PO you want to keep.
- Step 3. From the Reports drop-down menu, run the Purchase orders report and save it.
- Step 4. Run the SKU/Variant report and the Stock on hand reports to keep your cost history, then the Adjustments and Transfers reports.
- Step 5. Go to Inventory, then Stocktakes. Open each stocktake you want to keep and click CSV to download it. The file includes product name, SKU, barcode, Shopify ID, retail and cost prices, expected and actual stock, and adjustment totals.
- Step 6. Open each supplier in Stocky and copy the details it holds (for example name and contact email) into a spreadsheet. Add lead times, minimum orders and payment terms from your own records.
- Step 7. Save everything in one folder named with today's date, and keep a second copy somewhere else.
- Step 8. Open every file. Check the row counts look right, the dates cover the period you expect and the cost columns are filled in.
Shopify's help pages describe the Download button on a purchase order and the CSV button inside a stocktake. They do not describe an export button on every report. If a report screen has no download option, print it to PDF from your browser or copy the table into a spreadsheet.
Export checklist
- Every completed purchase order downloaded as CSV
- Open and cancelled POs saved, if you want them on record
- Purchase orders report saved
- SKU/Variant and Stock on hand reports saved (cost history)
- Adjustments and Transfers reports saved
- Every stocktake you want to keep downloaded as CSV
- Supplier details copied into a spreadsheet, with lead times, MOQs and payment terms added from your own records
- Low stock, Best sellers or ABC analysis saved, if you used them
- All files in one dated folder, with a second copy
- Every file opened and checked
- Stocky left installed until all of the above is done
What to do with the files
Shopify does not import Stocky history. Its migration guide says the CSV upload on a Shopify purchase order only adds product line items to a new draft PO: past statuses, received quantities and supplier links do not come across. So treat the export as an archive, and use it to set up what comes next:
- Re-create open orders in Shopify. Create each order still on its way as a Shopify purchase order, using the CSV upload for the line items, and receive it through its linked transfer when the stock arrives.
- Set up your suppliers in Shopify and assign them to purchase orders, using the spreadsheet you copied by hand.
- Check your costs. Compare the Stocky cost history with your latest supplier invoices, and update Cost per item in Shopify wherever it has drifted. A stale cost makes every purchase look cheaper than it really is.
- Check your lead times against how long your recent deliveries actually took, rather than figures entered years ago.
- Archive SKUs you will not reorder, so they stop cluttering your stock reports.
- Keep the rest as your record of what you bought, when and at what price, which helps when you talk to suppliers about prices.
Where each Stocky job lives in Shopify now
- Purchase orders and receiving: Shopify purchase orders, received through a linked transfer, with partial deliveries recorded as shipments.
- Moving stock between locations: Shopify inventory transfers, in the admin or in Shopify POS.
- Stocktakes: stock counts in the admin, or Quick count in Shopify POS for spot checks.
- Adjustments: inventory adjustments in the admin, with reasons and an adjustment history.
- Reports: custom reports in Shopify Analytics, including inventory adjustments and transfers.
- Reorder help: Shopify points to Sidekick, its AI assistant.
Planning reorders after Stocky
Shopify's tools record what you order, receive and count. Deciding what to buy and when is a separate job, and you can do it in a spreadsheet using your weeks of cover (how weeks of cover is calculated). If you would rather use an app, Canopy Inventory, which we are building, is a read-only Shopify app that shows weeks of cover for each SKU, reorder-by dates and suggested buy quantities from your Shopify sales. It cannot import your Stocky files, scan barcodes or create purchase orders, so those jobs stay in Shopify. It is coming soon to the Shopify App Store, and our Stocky alternative page sets out what it covers and what it does not.
Coming soon to the Shopify App Store. One email the day it is live. Free for your 50 most recently sold SKUs.
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Sources
- Migrating from Stocky to Shopify inventory management: help.shopify.com/en/manual/inventory-and-locations/transitioning-from-stocky
- Stocky (Apps by Shopify): help.shopify.com/en/manual/apps/apps-by-shopify/stocky
- Stocky purchase orders: help.shopify.com/en/manual/sell-in-person/shopify-pos/inventory-management/stocky/inventory-management/purchase-orders
- Stocky stocktakes: help.shopify.com/en/manual/sell-in-person/shopify-pos/inventory-management/stocky/inventory-management/stocktakes
- Stocky report types: help.shopify.com/en/manual/sell-in-person/shopify-pos/inventory-management/stocky/reporting/report-types
Frequently Asked Questions
Shopify says you have read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days after 31st August 2026. It has not published a fixed end date, so check Shopify's notice in your admin, and export now rather than waiting.
In your Shopify admin, go to Apps and open Stocky. Click Purchases, click the PO number, click Download and choose CSV (PDF, Plain Text and CSV for Dymo are also offered). Repeat for each PO you want to keep.
No. Shopify says suppliers can't be exported from Stocky. Copy the supplier details Stocky holds into a spreadsheet by hand, and add lead times, minimum orders and payment terms from your own records.
Not as history. Shopify's CSV upload only adds product line items to a new draft purchase order. Past statuses, received quantities and supplier links do not come across, so keep your Stocky export as an archive.
Yes. Shopify recommends its native purchase orders, transfers, stock counts and inventory adjustments in the Shopify admin to replace those parts of Stocky.
No. Products, orders, customers and current stock levels are stored in Shopify itself, not in Stocky. Only data held in Stocky, such as purchase orders, suppliers and stocktakes, needs exporting.
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