Stocky alternative · honest comparison
Stocky is being retired. Where your costs go next.
Shopify is sunsetting Stocky. If you make what you sell — candles, soap, bath-and-body, ceramics, jewelry, baked goods — the part of Stocky you can least afford to lose is your cost history. Here is the honest version of what happens on August 31, 2026, and how to land your numbers somewhere that is built for makers.
The deadline
Stocky stops working on August 31, 2026
After August 31, 2026 you can no longer use Stocky to manage inventory, and Stocky’s APIs stops working the same day. Shopify keeps read-only access to export your data for at least 90 days after — then it is gone.
The catch for your books: historical purchase orders can’t be imported into Shopify, and suppliers can’t be exported from Stocky at all. Shopify’s own guidance is to export your completed purchase-order reports, stocktake history, and historical cost data as CSV before the deadline — and stop creating new Stocky purchase orders about two weeks before it.
That CSV is the thing worth saving. It is your real cost history, and it is exactly what our importer is built to receive.
Source: Shopify Help Center — “Transitioning from Stocky”.
What a maker loses when Stocky closes
- Your purchase-order and cost history — Shopify can’t import it back, so a CSV export is the only copy you keep.
- A single place where a material’s real cost lives and updates as prices move.
- The forecasting and stocktake tooling Stocky bundled for Shopify retail — useful, but built for reselling stock, not for costing what you make from raw materials.
How your Stocky export lands
- Upload the CSV (or paste it in). Our column mapper lines your materials and their costs up to an import — with a dry-run preview (how many materials and products will land, and any conflicts) before anything is written.
- From there, every material carries a moving-average cost. Each new purchase you snap or enter re-averages it, so a product’s cost always reflects what you actually paid this month — the average-cost method, disclosed on every report.
- And a 24-hour undo window means the whole import is a single, reversible step.
The move itself, written out
However this comparison lands for you, carrying a year of cost history across is its own job, and it has the same five stages whoever you are leaving: freeze, export, copy out what will not export, rebuild, reconcile. Switching costing tools without losing your numbers is that running order in full. How to export your data from any inventory tool covers getting the files out, telling a real export from an empty one, and the records that never export at all. What to look for in a maker costing tool is the nine questions worth asking before you commit to anywhere, including who should skip this whole category.
Side by side
| What matters | Stocky | Batchnook |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Retired after August 31, 2026 — APIs off, read-only export for at least 90 days (Shopify Help Center) | Not open yet, and taking migrators now: join the launch list today, and your materials, costs and history export as JSON or CSV, free on every tier, so the copy you keep is never ours to switch off |
| Your cost history | Historical purchase orders can’t be imported into Shopify; export completed-PO reports and cost data as CSV before the deadline (Shopify Help Center) | Upload (or paste) that CSV — the column mapper receives your materials and costs, then the moving-average ledger recomputes true cost from there |
| Built for | Shopify retail merchants managing stock across POS and online | Makers costing products from raw materials: candles, soap, bath-and-body, ceramics, jewelry, baked goods, laser and 3D-printed work |
| Receipt capture | Purchase orders and stocktakes, entered in-app | Snap a supplier receipt; the scan reads the lines and you approve them before anything counts. |
| Costing method | Inventory and demand tools for Shopify retail | Moving-average cost per material, recomputed on every purchase — disclosed average-cost method on every report. |
| Price | Was included with Shopify POS Pro (being retired) | Free to start · Bench $19/mo · Studio $29/mo |
Stocky facts verified from the Shopify Help Center, July 2026. Their current numbers may differ — always check their own site. We never invent a competitor claim: rows we can’t verify say “check their current…”, not a made-up figure.
Our promises to makers
Batchnook runs on a set of promises — marketing claims that are also product constraints, so a rebrand or a price change can’t quietly revise them:
- One published price per tier, and 30 days’ notice before it changes.
- No order-line meters, ever.
- Your data walks free — export everything, always.
- Tax-ready numbers, never tax advice.
Try the maker-first way, free
No card, no countdown — the Free plan covers 3 products and 3 receipt scans a month, and any change to it reaches you at least 30 days ahead. Snap a receipt and watch every product’s margin update.
Or look at the full pricing page — the entitlement table is exact, on purpose — or read the other comparisons.