Guide · After the Aug 31, 2026 shutdown

How to export your data from Stocky after the shutdown

Shopify has retired Stocky. Its own help centre put it plainly: “Stocky won’t be available after August 31, 2026.” That date has passed; the export window has not. This is the list of what to pull out, where each control actually lives, and — the part most guides skip — what you were never at risk of losing in the first place.

It is written to be useful whether or not you ever install anything of ours. Every path below is one we could find in Shopify’s own documentation; where we could not, we say so instead of guessing.

What is actually at risk, and what isn’t

Most of the panic about this shutdown is about data that was never in Stocky. Stocky read your Shopify catalogue; it did not own it. Here is the split.

Shopify also notes that stock transfers have already moved out of Stocky into the Transfers page in your Shopify admin, so that workflow is not part of the scramble — only Stocky’s historical transfer records are.

Before you start

Shopify’s own instruction is to “Stop creating new purchase orders in Stocky about 14 days before August 31, 2026” and to receive anything already in transit before the deadline. That window closed some time ago. If you have open purchase orders still sitting in Stocky, export them for reference and re-raise the live ones wherever you have landed.

Set aside an hour. Make a folder. Name the files as you download them — several of these exports come out with names that will mean nothing to you in November.

The six steps

1. Save your supplier list by hand

   This is the one with a real deadline, and it is the one everybody leaves until last.

   Shopify states it flatly: “Suppliers can’t be exported from Stocky.” There is no export button, and no supplier report that produces the records. Stocky’s API documents a suppliers endpoint — but “Any Stocky APIs will stop working on August 31, 2026,” and getting Stocky API access turned on is not something we would rely on being able to arrange in a few days. If you already have API access, use it. If you don’t, don’t make it the plan.

   The route that always works: open each supplier in Stocky and copy the fields into a spreadsheet — name, company, contact name, email, phone, address, account number. Boring, and it takes an hour for most stores.

   Do it even if you are not sure where you are going next. Shopify’s native Suppliers records are created one at a time by hand (Products → Purchase orders → Create purchase order → Supplier → Create new supplier), and there is no documented supplier CSV import. Your spreadsheet is what saves you re-keying from memory.

2. Download your purchase orders from Stocky

   In your Shopify admin go to Apps → Stocky → Purchases. Click a PO number, then Download, and pick your format — PDF, Plain Text or CSV. Alternatively click Send and tick Attach CSV to email a copy to yourself.

   It is one purchase order at a time. There is no bulk “export all purchase orders” button. Shopify’s documentation describes only the per-PO Download and Attach CSV routes. Several third-party guides confidently describe an “export all” control; we went looking and could not find it documented anywhere, so plan on the report in step 3 for a bulk view.

   Be clear about what you are making: an archive, not a migration. Shopify says “Historical purchase orders can’t be imported into Shopify,” and that its CSV upload “only adds product line items to a new draft purchase order. It can’t import past purchase order statuses, received quantities, or supplier links.” That is the shape of the problem everywhere, not a quirk of one app. Export the closed ones to keep; export the open ones because you will be re-raising those by hand.

3. Run and download the Stocky reports you will want later

   In Stocky, use the Reports drop-down and pick a report. Shopify lists these: ABC Analysis, Best Sellers, Low Stock (Vendors, Products, Variants), Orders, Products, Purchase Orders, Sale Items, SKU/Variant, Statistics, Stock on Hand (Current and Historical), Adjustments, Transfers, and Profit.

   The five worth your time:

   • Purchase Orders — the header-level history of every PO, which is the closest thing to the bulk export that doesn’t exist. Shopify’s migration page specifically tells you to export your completed purchase order reports.
   • SKU/Variant — your per-variant costs. Take this one before you touch any cost setting (step 6).
   • Stock on Hand — Historical — a snapshot of what you held on a past date. You cannot reconstruct this later from anything.
   • Adjustments — why stock moved, which is the audit trail behind your stocktakes.
   • Transfers — Stocky’s historical transfer records.

   On the download step, we will be precise about what is documented and what isn’t: Shopify walks through it for the SKU/Variant report — set your Filters and click Update, choose your Columns and click Update, then Save Report and Create report, and then “Click either CSV or PDF to download the report in the file format that you want.” The page that lists all the report types does not repeat the download step, so on the other reports look for the CSV / PDF links rather than assuming they sit in the same place.

4. Export each stocktake as CSV

   In Stocky, click Inventory → Stocktakes. Shopify’s instruction is: “Click CSV, or Download → CSV during a stock adjustment, to download a .csv file.” On a barcode count, the adjustment screen is the one at the end, after Create stock adjustment and Perform Adjustment.

   One honest caveat: Shopify’s wording is about downloading during the stocktake process, and we could not establish whether a count you closed months ago still offers the download. If one doesn’t, the Adjustments report from step 3 carries the resulting stock movements, which is the substance of the count even if it isn’t the count sheet.

5. Export what Shopify already holds

   This is the step that lowers the blood pressure. None of it is going anywhere.

   • Products → Export gives you the product CSV, which carries the Barcode column and Cost per item for every variant.
   • Products → Inventory → Export gives you per-location quantities. Note this file has no cost column — to get cost and quantity in one sheet, join the two exports on SKU.

   Barcodes, costs, inventory levels and the catalogue itself are Shopify’s records. Stocky read them; it never owned them. Any replacement you choose — ours included — reads the same data straight from your store, which is why the setup step of a new inventory app is usually a sync rather than an import.

6. Cost history: the sync switch is behind you

   Stocky kept a weighted average unit cost that recalculated every time you received stock. Shopify keeps a single static Cost per item per variant. There is no Shopify field for the history behind it, so the history is the thing at stake.

   Before the shutdown this was a decision: Stocky’s automatic cost price syncing, under Apps → Stocky → (account icon) → Preferences → COGS, wrote its averages into Shopify — and Shopify warned it “overwrites the existing cost per item value in your Shopify admin and can’t be undone.” That switch lived in Stocky, and Stocky is read-only now, so it is behind you: whatever cost per item Shopify holds today is what you have.

   What is still yours to do: run the SKU/Variant report with the cost columns while the window is open, so the history behind that number is not lost with the app.

After August 31 — what you can still get

If you are reading this late, the situation is better than the internet suggests.

• Shopify says “You’ll have read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days after that date.” The app has stopped working; the export route stays open for a while.
• But “at least 90 days” is a floor, and Shopify has not published a deletion date. It is breathing room, not a second deadline to plan around.
• The API is the exception. It stopped on August 31 with no read-only tail — so if you never got your suppliers out, the by-hand route in step 1 is the only one left, for as long as the read-only window lasts.