A Stocky alternative built for Shopify brands in 2026
Shopify has confirmed that Stocky will no longer be available after August 31, 2026. Merchants may have temporary read-only access after that date, but the app cannot be reinstalled once removed. Canopy is built as a direct replacement, covering purchase orders, stock management, weeks cover forecasting, a supplier portal, and a real-time P&L dashboard.
Is Canopy a Stocky replacement?
Canopy is built as a direct replacement for Stocky. Shopify confirmed that Stocky will no longer be available after August 31, 2026, and has not announced a built-in replacement for its purchase order and forecasting features. Canopy connects to your Shopify store via the official API, imports your products and stock levels automatically, and covers the core features Stocky provided — plus weeks cover forecasting, a supplier portal, phone barcode scanning, a real-time P&L dashboard, and AI reorder intelligence. Migration typically takes under an hour for most brands.
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Merchants who switch early get dedicated setup support. Those who wait until August compete for attention with thousands of others.
What's happening to Stocky?
Stocky was Shopify's built-in inventory management app — free for all Shopify merchants, it handled basic stock levels, low stock alerts and simple purchase orders. For small brands, it was genuinely useful.
Stocky has already been delisted from the Shopify App Store, meaning it cannot be reinstalled if removed. After August 31, 2026, Stocky will no longer be available. Merchants may have temporary read-only access after that date, but the duration has not been confirmed by Shopify. Shopify has not announced a direct built-in replacement for Stocky's purchase order and forecasting features.
This affects many Shopify merchants who have been relying on Stocky as their primary inventory tool. It's worth noting that your core Shopify data — products, orders, customers and stock levels — is not affected by the Stocky shutdown. However, purchase order history and supplier records stored in Stocky will need to be exported or recreated in a new tool.
After August 31, 2026, Stocky will no longer be available. Purchase orders can be exported as CSV, but supplier records cannot be bulk-exported automatically. We'd recommend exporting what you can and setting up a replacement tool well before the deadline.
The good news is that your core Shopify data is unaffected. Because Shopify stores your actual stock levels natively, tools like Canopy can import your live inventory in minutes. What typically takes longer is recreating your supplier records and cost prices — but that step also unlocks additional features like weeks cover forecasting and P&L reporting.
What Canopy replaces — and what it adds
Canopy covers the core features Stocky provided, plus additional capabilities that growing Shopify brands typically need as they scale.
| Feature | Stocky | CanopyYou |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify sync | ||
| Live stock levels | ||
| Low stock alerts | ||
| Purchase orders | ||
| Goods-in workflow | ||
| Phone barcode scanning | ||
| Supplier portal | ||
| Weeks cover forecasting | ||
| Landed cost calculator | ||
| Real-time P&L dashboard | ||
| Multi-location inventory | ||
| AI reorder intelligence | ||
| Available after Aug 2026 |
What merchants are saying about the Stocky shutdown
Across merchant forums and communities, the reaction to the Stocky shutdown has been consistent. Brands that relied on Stocky are looking for a replacement — and many wish the tool had offered more before the announcement.
"Our company is super dependent on Stocky. We have hundreds of purchase orders in there. The shutdown has thrown everything into question."
— Shopify merchant with high PO volume
"Manual receive is incredibly time consuming with our current setup. We have to reconcile every delivery line by line against the PO. There has to be a better way."
— Brand importing goods from overseas
"Importing costs is time consuming — every shipment I have to manually allocate freight and duty across 40+ SKUs in a spreadsheet. It takes hours."
— Merchant managing landed cost calculations
"I just want to know how many weeks of stock I have left without building a formula in Excel every time. Why is that so hard to find?"
— Shopify brand owner searching for Stocky alternatives
These are the kinds of problems — weeks cover, goods-in workflows, landed cost allocation, supplier packing lists — that Canopy was built to address. They're common pain points for Shopify brands that import finished goods from overseas.
What Canopy adds beyond core inventory management
Many inventory tools are built for marketplace sellers, manufacturers or enterprise businesses. Canopy is built specifically for Shopify brands that buy finished goods from overseas suppliers — the same type of merchant that typically relied on Stocky for day-to-day inventory management.
Supplier Portal
Share a secure link with your overseas manufacturer — no login required on their side. They open your PO, fill in quantities and upload their packing list directly into Canopy. The email-and-Excel nightmare ends on day one.
Phone Scanning
Use your smartphone camera to receive goods against a PO, run aisle-by-aisle stocktakes, and confirm dispatch — no dedicated hardware required. A feature many Shopify merchants have wanted for years.
Real-Time P&L
Gross margin per SKU, per channel and across your whole business — updated as each Shopify order comes in. Canopy includes your product costs, landed costs (freight, duty, insurance) and ad spend, giving you a clear picture of profitability.
AI Reorder Intelligence
Canopy analyses your sales velocity, seasonality and confirmed supplier lead times to calculate the optimal reorder date and quantity for every SKU. Not a static reorder point — a dynamic, daily-updated reorder plan that accounts for sea freight schedules.
“I built an £80M+ ecommerce business and spent £200,000 on OrderWise stock software I never learned to use. So I built Canopy.”
Pricing that makes sense
Canopy starts at £59/month, which works out at roughly £2 a day. For brands that rely on purchase orders and supplier management, that investment typically pays for itself by reducing stockouts and manual work.
Seed
For early-stage Shopify brands getting a grip on stock.
- Up to 500 SKUs
- 1 location
- Self-serve setup guides
Grow
For growing brands sourcing from overseas with complex supplier relationships.
- Up to 2,500 SKUs
- Up to 3 locations
- Supplier portal included
- P&L dashboard included
- Guided onboarding call
Scale
For established brands with thousands of SKUs and serious supplier complexity.
- Unlimited SKUs
- Unlimited locations
- Supplier portal included
- P&L dashboard included
- AI reorder intelligence
- White-glove data migration
How to migrate from Stocky to Canopy
Most brands complete the migration in under an hour. Here's what the process looks like — step by step.
Connect Canopy to Shopify
Connect Canopy to your Shopify store. The connection uses Shopify's official API and takes under 5 minutes. Your products, variants and current stock levels are imported automatically — the same inventory data Stocky used, because it all lives in Shopify.
Export your Stocky data
From Stocky, export your purchase order history as CSV. Note that supplier records in Stocky cannot be bulk-exported automatically, so you may need to recreate them. Canopy's Scale plan includes guided data migration where our team helps with this process.
Add suppliers and cost prices
Add your suppliers and your product cost prices to Canopy. This unlocks weeks cover forecasting and — on Grow and Scale plans — the full P&L dashboard. Grow and Scale plans include a guided onboarding call to walk you through this step.
Set up your first purchase order
Create a purchase order in Canopy and share the supplier portal link with your manufacturer. They fill in quantities, upload their packing list and Canopy's 5-layer error prevention validates it before a single unit hits your stock count.
Deactivate Stocky before August 31
Once you're confident Canopy is working as expected, you can disconnect Stocky. You don't need to wait until the shutdown date — migrating earlier gives you more time to get comfortable with the new workflow before the August 31 deadline.
Give yourself time before August 31
Migrating earlier means more time to get comfortable with a new workflow, import your supplier records, and explore features like weeks cover forecasting and the P&L dashboard — without deadline pressure.
Stocky migration questions answered
Everything you need to know about moving from Stocky to Canopy.
Yes — Canopy is the best Stocky replacement for Shopify brands that need more than Stocky ever offered. Canopy has everything Stocky had (Shopify sync, stock levels, low stock alerts, basic purchase orders) plus what Stocky never built: weeks cover forecasting, supplier portal, P&L dashboard, landed cost calculator, AI reorder intelligence and barcode scanning.
Shopify is shutting down Stocky on 31 August 2026. After that date, Stocky will no longer be available and all your Stocky data will be inaccessible. Shopify has confirmed there is no direct replacement within the Shopify platform — merchants are expected to migrate to a third-party inventory tool.
Migrating from Stocky to Canopy takes under an hour for most brands. Connect Canopy to your Shopify store (5 minutes) and Canopy imports all your products, variants and current stock levels automatically — the same stock data Stocky used, since it comes from Shopify. You then add your supplier and cost price details. The Grow and Scale onboarding calls walk you through this step by step.
Stocky does not export supplier lead times or purchase order history in a directly importable format, but Canopy's Scale plan includes white-glove data migration where our team imports your historical data from whatever format you have it in — Stocky exports, spreadsheets or other sources.
Stocky had no weeks cover forecasting, no P&L dashboard, no landed cost calculation, no supplier portal, no barcode scanning, no multi-location support beyond basic Shopify locations, and no AI reorder intelligence. It was a useful free tool — but most growing Shopify brands outgrew it within 12 months. Canopy picks up exactly where Stocky left off and goes much further.
Canopy connects to Shopify via the official Shopify Admin API. The connection is read-only and takes under 5 minutes. Canopy will be available in the Shopify App Store at launch.
Get early access to Canopy
Canopy is built as a direct Stocky replacement — with purchase orders, weeks cover forecasting, a supplier portal and real-time P&L. From £59/month.
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Seed at £59/mo, Grow at £129/mo, Scale at £199/mo. Pre-launch pricing available.