How hard is leaving Stocky? Score your store

What to Pull First, and What You Can Rebuild

Shopify shut Stocky down on 31 August 2026, and the shutdown had two halves running on different clocks. Stocky’s APIs stopped dead that day, with no grace period: so if your reordering, dashboards or spreadsheets pulled from Stocky’s API, they broke instantly and need repointing at Shopify’s own inventory data. Your archive did not go with them: Shopify says read-only access to export your data continues for at least 90 days after the shutdown date. That is a floor Shopify stated, not an end date it published, so it cannot be turned into a deadline on your calendar and should not be read as time in hand. (Shopify, “Transitioning from Stocky”, read 5 September 2026.)

That changes what this score is for. It is no longer a countdown to a migration date: the date has gone. It is a triage order: with a window of unknown length open on a read-only app, which drawer do you empty first, and what could you reconstruct from Shopify Admin if you never got to it?

The six inputs above already answer that, because each one is really a question about reconstructability rather than about size:

• Purchase-order reliance is the heaviest weight for a reason. POs exist only inside Stocky, and nothing in Shopify Admin holds a supplier order. Export these first: they are the least reconstructible thing you own.
• Suppliers and warehouses rank next, and awkwardly: supplier contacts, lead times and payment terms never exported cleanly as CSV even when Stocky was live. These are hand-copied while the app still opens, or rebuilt later from invoices and your payments ledger. High supplier counts mean a long manual job either way.
• Export habit is scored because it is the only input that tells you whether any of this already exists on your own disk. Regular exporters are largely done.
• Manual stock edits measure how much of your day Stocky was actually holding: the higher this is, the more urgent the forward-looking replacement, independent of the archive.
• Order volume and SKU count are the two that do not drive urgency here, which is the useful thing to know. Orders, products, variants, customers and current stock levels all live in Shopify Admin and were never at risk. They set how long the rebuild takes, not what you lose.

So a high score means a long export session and a long rebuild, not that anything is already lost. A low score usually means the archive was thin and Shopify Admin holds nearly all of it.

The migration risk was never only technical. Stores that move under time pressure make configuration errors, skip data validation, and go live untested. The score above is a measure of how much of that pressure your store is carrying, not a prediction of hours.

What Stocky Swap Replaces

The free Stocky Swap does one job: it keeps an order ledger you own.

• Real-time logging of every paid order to Google Sheets via a Make.com webhook
• Order ID, timestamp, SKU, product, quantity, revenue and fulfilment status on each row
• A historical ledger you can build reports and reorder calculations on

What it does not do: calculate stock on hand, send low-stock alerts, or replace Stocky's purchase order interface. Shopify Admin covers stock levels and purchase orders on every plan, with Shopify Flow for low-stock alerts. If your team needs more than that, evaluate a paid inventory solution for that specific workflow. We rank every option side by side in our full comparison of Stocky alternatives.

Migration Risk Factors Explained

Order volume is the primary driver of migration complexity. Stores processing over 1,000 orders per month need to ensure their Google Sheets formula performance is optimised and that Make.com's free tier (1,000 credits/month) covers their volume, or upgrade to Make.com's Core plan ($9/month for 10,000 credits, per make.com/en/pricing, read 25 September 2026) for more operations.

SKU count affects how long the initial data mapping takes. Each SKU needs to be mapped to a corresponding row in your Sheets inventory template. Under 200 SKUs, this is a 30-minute task. Over 500 SKUs, plan for a half day of data work.

Google Workspace raises some daily Apps Script quotas, which matters if you also run scripts on the sheet. It does not remove the Google Sheets API's request limits, and for order logging through Make.com those are rarely reached by a small store. Google Workspace is worth it for its other features, not as a fix for Sheets limits.