Stocky shuts down August 31, 2026
Keep the workflow.
Keep your costs.
Anvil is the operational replacement for Stocky: purchase orders with real costs, weighted-average cost of goods, barcode receiving, label printing, and stock counts, with a CSV migration that takes minutes, not a weekend.
Shopify's built-in POs are not the replacement
Native purchase orders record what you ordered, at $0 cost, with no cost capture at receiving, no average-cost tracking, no supplier intelligence, and no labels. Here's what disappears with Stocky, and how Anvil keeps it.
Your cost history
Stocky carried a cost on every PO line. Shopify's native POs record what you ordered, at $0 cost, with no cost capture when stock arrives.
Anvil puts a real unit cost on every PO line, lets you amend it at the receiving dock, keeps a true weighted-average cost (AVCO) on an append-only ledger, and syncs the corrected cost back to Shopify. Your margin reports stay honest.
Label printing
Stocky printed barcode labels straight from a PO. Native Shopify doesn't print labels at all.
Anvil prints barcode + price labels from any received PO: a print-anywhere PDF sheet (Avery 5160) or direct to a Dymo. Labels encode the product's real barcode, so the till scans what the shelf says.
Supplier records
Stocky knew your suppliers. In native Shopify a supplier is just a name on a PO: no per-product costs, no lead times, no minimum order quantities.
Anvil keeps suppliers first-class: per-product cost, MOQ and lead time, plus reorder points and velocity-based suggestions that turn into ready-to-send POs.
Stock-takes
Stocky ran barcode stocktakes. Shopify's quick count works one variant at a time.
Anvil runs barcode stock counts per location: scan the shelf, review variance against what the system expected, apply. Adjustments book through the inventory ledger and sync to Shopify as a cycle count.
Switch in minutes
The migration importer is live today, not a waitlist. It's built around the files a Stocky merchant can actually export.
Export from Stocky
Grab your product + cost CSV and supplier list while Stocky is still up. (Suppliers can't be exported from Stocky; Anvil's template makes rebuilding the list a paste job, not a project.)
Upload to Anvil
The guided importer maps SKUs to your Shopify products, links per-supplier costs, and sets reorder points. You preview SKU matches before anything is written.
Review the results
The import runs in the background and reports exactly what was created, reused, or skipped, per row. Re-running is idempotent: no duplicates, ever.
One honest caveat: Anvil's cost averaging is purchase-price-based; landed cost (freight, duties) and multi-currency POs aren't in v1. If you import internationally, know that before you rely on it.
Questions Stocky merchants ask
- When exactly does Stocky shut down?
- Shopify has announced Stocky's sunset for August 31, 2026. After that date the app stops working, and any data you haven't exported is gone, because Shopify has no purchase-order API to pull it from later.
- What can I actually migrate?
- Your product-to-supplier cost mappings, supplier list, reorder points, and historical purchase orders (kept as audit records, they don't disturb your live Shopify inventory). Stocky can't export everything cleanly, so Anvil's importer is built around the files you can realistically get out, with templates for the rest.
- Do I need a Dymo printer for labels?
- No. The default is a PDF label sheet (Avery 5160 layout) that prints on any printer. If you have a Dymo with Dymo Connect installed, Anvil also prints direct to it.
- Does Anvil change my Shopify products?
- Anvil never writes product titles, descriptions, or retail prices. It writes exactly two things back: inventory quantities (when you receive, transfer, adjust, or count) and the unit cost on the inventory item, the numbers a procurement tool is supposed to own.
Don't wait for the shutdown notice
Export your Stocky data while you still can, and bring it somewhere built to use it.