Stocky is shutting down: what makers need to do before August 31, 2026

If you make what you sell — candles, soap, bath-and-body, baked goods — and you have been running your stock and costs through Stocky, there is a date you need on the calendar: August 31, 2026. That is the day Shopify retires Stocky.

This guide is the plain version of what that means. It is written so you come out of it with a real plan even if you never use our app. The single most important thing is near the top, so if you read nothing else, read the next two sections.

What actually happens on August 31, 2026

After August 31, 2026:

• You can no longer use Stocky to manage inventory.
• Stocky's APIs stop working the same day, so anything wired into Stocky (integrations, syncs) goes quiet.
• Shopify keeps read-only access so you can export your data for at least 90 days afterward. After that window, it is gone.

There are two catches that matter more than the shutdown itself, because they decide what you can and can't keep:

1. Historical purchase orders cannot be imported into Shopify. So the record of what you paid, and when, does not automatically survive inside Shopify's own tools.
2. Suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky at all. Your vendor list is one of the things you will need to rebuild by hand wherever you land.

Shopify's own guidance is to export your completed purchase-order reports, your stocktake history, and your historical cost data as CSV before the deadline — and to stop creating new Stocky purchase orders about two weeks before it, so your last export is clean.

(Source: Shopify Help Center, "Transitioning from Stocky." Dates verified July 2026. Shopify's help pages can change — check the current article before you rely on any single detail.)

The one thing worth saving: your cost history

Stock levels you can rebuild. A stocktake you can redo. The thing you genuinely cannot recreate is your cost history — the paper trail of what each material actually cost you across months of purchases.

That history is what tells you the truth about a product's margin. If a case of jars went from $0.90 to $1.35 a jar over the year, your candle's real cost moved with it, and the only place that story lives is in your purchase records. Lose the history and you are back to guessing — or re-keying a year of invoices by hand.

So the job before August 31 is narrow and clear: get your cost history out as CSV, and get it somewhere that keeps costing it for you.

Your before-the-deadline checklist

You can do all of this yourself, today, with nothing but Stocky and a folder on your computer.

1. Stop opening new Stocky purchase orders about two weeks out. Record any last purchases somewhere you control (even a simple spreadsheet) so nothing new is stranded inside Stocky at the end.
2. Export your completed purchase-order report as CSV. This is your cost history — the priority file.
3. Export your stocktake history as CSV. Your on-hand counts and their movements.
4. Export your historical cost data as CSV. Any per-item cost report Stocky offers.
5. Write down your supplier list by hand. Because Stocky can't export it, a quick copy-paste of vendor names, contacts, and typical order sizes into a spreadsheet now saves you a scramble later.
6. Save everything twice. One copy on your computer, one in cloud storage you own. These are your records; treat them like receipts.

If you do only steps 2 through 5 before the deadline, you have kept the parts that can't be recreated. Everything after that is about where those files go next. Our companion walkthrough, how to export your data from Stocky, covers each export click by click.

Where your numbers go next

Here is the honest fork in the road. Stocky was built for Shopify retailers — merchants who buy finished stock and resell it, and need counts synced across a point of sale and an online store. Some of what leaves with you fits that world.

But if you make your products from raw materials, Stocky was never quite the right shape. It tracks stock; it doesn't cost a recipe. A candle isn't a unit you bought — it's half a pound of wax, an ounce of fragrance, a jar, a wick, and a label, and its cost changes every time any one of those moves. That is a different job, and it's the job a maker costing tool is built for.

So the two reasonable destinations are:

• Shopify's own built-in inventory tools, if what you mainly need is stock levels synced across POS and your online store. That's a fair call for a retail-shaped business.
• A maker costing tool, if what you need is true per-product cost from raw materials — margins that stay honest as prices move, and reports you can hand your accountant. Our honest roundup of the best Stocky alternatives for makers weighs the real options, including the ones that aren't us.

How Batchnook receives a Stocky export

If the maker path is yours, here is exactly what the move looks like in Batchnook, in plain terms and with nothing dressed up (there's a fuller side-by-side on the Stocky comparison page):

• You bring the CSV in. Choose the generic "CSV / spreadsheet" import, paste your Stocky export in, or upload the file, and a column mapper lines your materials and their costs up to the right fields. There is no magic "Stocky button" — it's an honest column-map that takes a few minutes.
• You see a dry run first. Before anything is saved, a preview tells you how many materials and products will land and flags any conflicts. Nothing is written until you say so.
• 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 lately — the average-cost method, disclosed on every report.
• The whole import is reversible for 24 hours. If it doesn't look right, one undo removes exactly what was just added.
• Recipes get built in Batchnook. Stocky is a retail stock tool, so it doesn't carry maker recipes to bring over. You build each product's recipe once — the wax, the fragrance, the jar — and from then on your cost updates itself.

And if re-keying sounds like the part you'd put off forever, that's the part we help with directly. Migrating from Stocky or Stocksmith? Send us your export and we'll map it into Batchnook for you — the first 50 files, through October 31, 2026. It's scheduled and hands-on: we do it on our clock, not a live queue.

Why the deadline is real, not a sales tactic

We want to be straight about the urgency, because "act now" is easy to abuse. The date is Shopify's, not ours. August 31, 2026 is when Stocky stops working; the 90-day read-only window is a grace period for exports, not a reprieve. The reason to move before then isn't fear — it's that a clean export taken while Stocky still works is worth far more than a rushed one taken from a read-only shell in October. Do the export early; decide where it lands at your own pace.

FAQ

Stocky closes on August 31, 2026. Get your cost history out now, then give it a home that keeps costing your products for you.