Getting your data out of Stocky: the export, what survives, and what doesn't
Run your Stocky export while you still can. What the CSVs and data export contain, what they lose, and which replacement apps can import Stocky data.
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If Stocky still appears in your Shopify admin, run your export today. Shopify retired the app on August 31, 2026, and the migration guide promises only "at least 90 days" of read-only access after that date — as of October 2026, a window that closes around the end of November 2026. There is no published extension. If you uninstalled Stocky before the deadline, some of your history may be unrecoverable, and this page says plainly which parts are known, which are uncertain, and what to try.
Two export paths exist:
- Built-in reports — CSVs you generate yourself from inside Stocky (completed purchase orders, stocktake history, historical cost data).
- The full data export — requested through Stocky's deprecation page (stocky.shopifyapps.com/deprecated). It arrives as a ZIP by email, usually within a day, and per Stockroom's migration documentation it contains more than the built-in reports do.
Run both. They overlap, but not completely.
How much access you actually have left
What's confirmed, from Shopify's migration guide:
- Stocky was delisted from the App Store on February 2, 2026 — you cannot reinstall it.
- The app and its APIs stopped working on August 31, 2026.
- Stores with Stocky still installed get read-only access to export data "for at least 90 days" after that date.
What's uncertain, stated honestly: Shopify's guide doesn't say what happens the day after the 90-day window ends, and it doesn't address stores that uninstalled the app before the sunset. Our reading, as of October 2026 — plan for the export to stop working, and treat anything you haven't exported by late November 2026 as at risk.
How to run the export
Path 1: built-in reports
From inside Stocky, use the report screens to export:
- All completed purchase order reports, as CSV files. This is your purchasing audit trail — order dates, suppliers, line items, quantities, costs.
- Your stocktake history. Past counts don't migrate into Shopify's native system.
- Historical cost data. Keep it with your records even if your new tool never imports it.
One confirmed limitation: suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky's built-in reports. Shopify's guide is explicit about this. You'll rebuild supplier records manually or reconstruct them from PO line items (method below).
Path 2: the full data export ZIP
Stockroom — a free replacement app that built its onboarding around the Stocky exit — documents a fuller route: request the export on Stocky's deprecation page, receive the ZIP by email (usually within a day), and drop it into an importer. Per Stockroom's migration page, the ZIP contains:
- Supplier records (contacts, currencies, payment terms) with product-supplier-cost mappings
- Complete PO history with statuses — not just open orders
- The receiving timeline (what arrived when, in full or in part)
- Reorder levels, lead times, and bin locations, per product and location
- Adjustments and stocktakes (opt-in)
Treat the supplier detail as a vendor claim rather than a Shopify guarantee — Shopify's own guide says suppliers can't be exported via the built-in reports, and the ZIP path isn't documented by Shopify at all. Request the ZIP, open it, and look before you plan your rebuild around it.
What survives the Stocky export — and what doesn't
| Data | Survives? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Completed PO history | Yes (built-in reports) | CSV; the audit copy. Cannot be imported into native Shopify as historical POs |
| Receiving timeline (partial receipts) | Likely (ZIP path only) | Documented by Stockroom; not in built-in report CSVs |
| Stocktake history | Yes | From built-in reports; the ZIP can also carry count history (opt-in) |
| Historical cost data | Yes | Built-in reports |
| Supplier records | Conflicted | Not exportable per Shopify's guide; Stockroom says the ZIP includes them. Verify with your own export |
| Reorder levels / min-max | Likely (ZIP path) | Per Stockroom's documentation |
| Supplier lead-time history | Commonly lost | Settings may come through in the ZIP; the history of quoted-vs-actual gaps has no documented export path |
| Custom fields on POs and transfers | Commonly lost | Shopify maps custom-field workflows to native metafields going forward, but historical custom-field values have no documented migration |
| In-flight PO statuses | Lost unless closed before cutover | Shopify's guide says to recreate remaining quantities manually |
| Transfers history | Likely lost | Stockroom's importer explicitly skips stock transfers |
Rows marked "commonly lost" are the honest gray zone: we have partial evidence, not documentation, so treat them as gone until you see otherwise in your own export files.
What each replacement app can import
Import capability varies more than marketing pages suggest, so check before you commit to an app:
- Stockroom (free) is the most explicit: it imports the ZIP export directly — suppliers, full PO history, receiving timeline, reorder levels, bins — and its importer won't overwrite data you've already set. Its App Store listing advertises "Migrate from Stocky" as a core feature.
- Assisty advertises "auto migration of suppliers & purchase orders" on its App Store listing.
- Prediko advertises a Stocky import on its listing ("suppliers and purchase orders migrate automatically").
- InventoryX takes your Stocky CSV export free as the onboarding path — you upload the export, and the buying list starts from your catalog and stock data instead of a cold start.
Worth knowing: several apps in this category reserve data migration or hands-on onboarding for paid plans, and terms change quickly in the post-Stocky land grab. Ask the specific question — "does Stocky import cost extra on this plan?" — before you build your export around one vendor. For the full field-level comparison of who's who, see the Stocky alternatives page.
Rebuilding what the export loses: a worked example
Suppose your export shows 214 completed POs across 6 suppliers. The PO CSV won't hand you lead times — but it contains what you need to compute them. For each supplier:
- Pull every PO's ordered date and the received date from the matching transfer or receipt record.
- Compute the gap per PO, then the median.
Example for one supplier, "Northline Goods," across 31 POs: quoted lead time 30 days. Your actual gaps: median 38 days, and the last six orders averaged 47. The supplier got worse. If you enter 30 into your new tool, every reorder point on Northline SKUs fires about two weeks late — which is precisely how stores end up dark on their bestsellers while "knowing" they ordered in time. Plan Northline at 47–50 days and set a calendar check at day 40.
Do this for your A-grade suppliers first. It's an afternoon of spreadsheet work and it converts a lossy export into the most valuable number in your whole inventory system. (If you'd rather keep this in a sheet permanently, our Shopify inventory spreadsheet template includes the lead-time columns.)
If you already uninstalled Stocky
What's known: uninstalling before the sunset removed your self-service export path, the app can't be reinstalled (delisted February 2, 2026), and Shopify doesn't retain Stocky data in your admin — historical POs and stocktakes were never copied into native Shopify.
What's uncertain: whether support channels can restore temporary access on a case-by-case basis. It costs one support ticket to find out. If the answer is no, your fallback is reconstruction from what Shopify does have: order history for demand, adjustment history for counts, and PO PDFs or emails in your inbox for purchasing. Painful, but the demand and cost data — the parts that drive reordering — are rebuildable.
Common questions
How do I export my data from Stocky? Two paths, as of October 2026: the built-in reports inside Stocky (CSVs of completed purchase orders, stocktake history, and historical cost data), and the full data export requested through Stocky's deprecation page, which arrives as a ZIP by email — usually within a day. Run both; they overlap, but not completely.
How long do I have to export Stocky data? Shopify's migration guide promises "at least 90 days" of read-only access after the August 31, 2026 sunset, with no end date published. As of October 2026 that window closes around the end of November 2026, and there's no guaranteed extension. Treat anything you haven't exported by late November as at risk.
Can I export suppliers from Stocky? Not from the built-in reports — Shopify's guide is explicit about that. The full data export ZIP reportedly includes supplier records with contacts, currencies, and payment terms, but that path is documented by third-party importers rather than by Shopify, so request the ZIP and look inside before you plan your rebuild around it. Otherwise, reconstruct suppliers from PO line items.
Which apps can import Stocky data? Stockroom imports the full ZIP export — suppliers, complete PO history, receiving timeline, reorder levels, and bins. Assisty and Prediko advertise Stocky migration on their App Store listings. InventoryX takes your Stocky CSV export free as the onboarding path. Ask whether import costs extra on your chosen plan before you build the export around one vendor.
What happens to my Stocky data if I already uninstalled it? The self-service export path is gone and the app can't be reinstalled (delisted February 2, 2026); Shopify doesn't retain Stocky data in your admin, so historical POs and stocktakes were never copied into native Shopify. One support ticket will tell you whether temporary access can be restored case-by-case. If not, demand and cost data are rebuildable from order history and PO records.
Where to go next
Once your data is safe, the strategic question is what to run instead. The Stocky replacement guide walks the full migration decision by store type, and the alternatives comparison has verified pricing for every serious candidate.