E‑commerce & retail
Portable Shopify Supplier Ledger
Flat $19/mo to import Stocky suppliers and purchase orders, track what you owe each supplier and its due date, and export everything any time.
In plain English
- What category is this?
- Sellers and shoppers use this to list, sell, fulfill, or buy products online. Here the focus is e.
- The idea, briefly
Build one flat $19/mo per store for a supplier-side ledger: a one-click Stocky supplier and purchase-order CSV import, supplier payables on every plan (what you owe, due dates, paid/unpaid, landed cost and cost-on-receive across locations), and full data export any time - versus replacements that meter on SKUs and locations. Honest caveat: Stockcast's free plan, Provido's $39/mo Lite plan and Purser's free plan already include a Stocky CSV import, and Purser's free tier already has accounts payable and payables export, so neither the importer nor the payables ledger is unique; the flat unlimited-location store price plus portability is the only remaining wedge, and it is unproven.
More ▾- What buyers expect
People comparing tools like Stockcast: Inventory Forecast, Forthcast, Inmana Restock expect the basics to work without surprise fees or missing pieces. The loud complaints are: The price anchor is $0 because Stocky was free for years, so displaced merchants reject mainstream replacement pricing; and per-SKU and per-location tiering pushes small multi-location merchants into the top tiers.
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Competitors
8- Forthcast$19.99/mo
- Inmana Restock$19/mo
- Provido$39/mo
- Purser$37.99/mo
- Inventory Planner by Sage$244/mo
Parsed from public pricing blurbs (entry paid tier when available). Max in set: $244/mo.
| Competitor | From | Free tier | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockcast: Inventory Forecast | $19/mo | Yes | apps.shopify.com✓ |
| Forthcast | $19.99/mo | — | forthcast.io✓ |
| Inmana Restock | $19/mo | — | community.shopify.com✓ |
| Provido | $39/mo | Yes | apps.shopify.com✓ |
| Purser | $37.99/mo | Yes | apps.shopify.com✓ |
| Stockie | See notes | — | apps.shopify.com✓ |
| Prediko Inventory Management | Unverified | — | prediko.io✓ |
| Inventory Planner by Sage | $244/mo | — | inventory-planner.com✓ |
What customers complain about
7| Gap | Src |
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The price anchor is $0 because Stocky was free for years, so displaced merchants reject mainstream replacement pricing. | |
Per-SKU and per-location tiering pushes small multi-location merchants into the top tiers. | |
Some merchants call supplier payables the missing piece - one writes 'Invoice due dates and knowing what you owe each supplier: that is the one nobody replaces' - but the same per… | |
Migration loses supplier data: Stocky supplier records cannot be bulk-exported, so a replacement must be rebuilt by hand. | |
Budget-tier tools fall short on costing at receipt. | |
Merchants are wary of rebuilding their workflow inside another app they cannot leave, because they are only here after a tool disappeared. | |
The low end is being compressed from both directions: Shopify's native purchase orders are free, Purser's free tier bundles payables and Stocky PO-history import, |
Documented Interpreted
How competitors find customers
3| Tactic | Src |
|---|---|
| Answer and post inside the Shopify Community 'Stocky replacement' mega-threads with an up-front build disclosure and honest fit limits; | community.shopify.com✓ |
| Put the Stocky migration job in the app-store listing headline and description to capture migration-intent search. | apps.shopify.com✓ |
| Earn Shopify tech-partner status and an 'official Stocky alternative' recommendation, then let the app-store review flywheel compound (Prediko). | prediko.io✓ |
Your angle & pricing wedge
| Piece | Claim | Src |
|---|---|---|
| Angle | One flat $19/mo per store for a supplier-side ledger: a one-click Stocky supplier and purchase-order CSV import, | apps.shopify.com✓ |
| Wedge | Mechanism: bill the store, not the SKU count or location count. Charge one flat $19/mo including a Stocky supplier/PO importer and a supplier-payables ledger, | apps.shopify.com✓ |
How others got traction
3| Move | Why | Src |
|---|---|---|
| Prediko obtained Shopify tech-partner status and positions itself as the 'officially recommended St… | Company-attributed on its own pages: it calls itself a 'Shopify certified technology partner' and reports 250+ five-star reviews. | prediko.io✓ |
| Inmana Restock launched by posting a disclosure-first thread inside the exact Stocky migration comm… | Founder-attributed: the post opens 'Disclosure up front: we built Inmana Restock' and then lists what the app does not do. | community.shopify.com✓ |
| Stockcast made Stocky data migration a day-one product feature and headline positioning rather than… | Company-attributed on the opened listing: 'import your Stocky purchase order CSVs and we reconstruct your supplier list automatically'. | apps.shopify.com✓ |
Market heat
Stocky was a free Shopify inventory app used by over 120,000 merchants before Shopify retired it in 2026, with current Stocky user data not migrating automatically (vendor-authored article by Katana's COO).
More ▾The Shopify Community migration thread 'Replacement to Stocky?' (587141) shows 82 replies / 6,389 views as of October 2026.
The Shopify Community thread 'Stocky App Going Away after August 31 2026' (587292) shows 159 replies / 7,353 views.
Prediko states it is 'Shopify's certified tech partner & officially recommended Stocky alternative' and reports 250+ five-star Shopify App Store reviews.
Prediko reports 'Trusted by 2500+ Shopify merchants' on its homepage and a $5M seed led by Felix Capital (company-reported).
Dozens of replacement apps launched within months (Stockcast, Forthcast, Inmana Restock, Provido, Binly, Replenly, Replenishly, SKUward, Nventory, Stockroom, Stockysafe, ChannelBay), many replying inside the same community threads.
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Revenue signals
4| Signal | Src |
|---|---|
Stocky was a free Shopify inventory tool used by over 120,000 merchants, and Shopify confirmed current Stocky user data will not automatically migrate to its n… | mytotalretail.com✓ |
Stocky supplier records cannot be exported and historical purchase orders do not migrate, | community.shopify.com✓ |
Prediko reports 'Trusted by 2500+ Shopify merchants', 250+ five-star reviews and a $5M seed led by Felix Capital; this is company-reported, not audited. | prediko.io✓ |
Category list pricing documented from opened pages: Stockcast $19-$59/mo, Forthcast $19.99/mo, Inmana $19-$79/mo, Provido $39-$199/mo and Purser $0-$37.99/mo. | apps.shopify.com✓ |
Should you build this?
Who pays and for what: small Shopify merchants selling physical products relied on the free Stocky app to send supplier purchase orders, receive stock and keep supplier records, and roughly 120,000 of them lost it when Shopify retired the app in 2026, with data not migrating automatically. The job this product does is the supplier side - get the supplier list and order history out of Stocky, and know what you owe each supplier and when it is due across locations - not demand forecasting. The opening is narrow and the evidence contradicts the strongest version of the wedge: dozens of replacements launched within months, several are free, Stockcast's free plan, Provido's $39/mo plan and Purser's free plan all already bundle a Stocky CSV import, Purser's free tier already ships accounts payable and payables export, Shopify's July 2026 preview adds a purchase-order read API, and the price anchor is the $0 app merchants used for years. Do not assume displaced merchants will pay.
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