Moving from Stocky

Stock Buddy does the jobs Stocky did, and imports your Stocky suppliers, supplier costs and purchase orders so you keep your history.

Stocky closed on 31 August 2026. If you can still open it, export your data now: once Stocky is gone, your history goes with it.

1. Export from Stocky

Export these as CSV files and keep them somewhere safe:

Suppliers
Supplier products, with their costs
Purchase orders, with their lines

A spreadsheet of your own works too, saved as CSV, as long as it has a column for each thing you want to bring over (for example supplier, SKU and cost).

2. Install Stock Buddy

Install it from the Shopify App Store and open it from Apps in your Shopify admin. It starts on the free plan, and the paid plans have a 30-day free trial, so you can import and check everything first.

3. Import, in this order

In Stock Buddy, go to Import and add one file at a time: suppliers first, then supplier products, then purchase orders. For each file you see what was found and which columns were matched, and you can fix a match before importing.

Products are matched to Shopify by SKU, then by barcode.
Rows that can't be imported are listed with the reason, and you can download them, fix them and import them again.
Importing never changes your stock or costs in Shopify. Old purchase orders come in as history.
Importing the same file twice doesn't create duplicates.

4. Carry on where Stocky left off

Everything you used Stocky for has a place in Stock Buddy:

In Stocky	In Stock Buddy
Purchase orders with supplier costs	Purchase orders, with each supplier's cost filled in
Receiving, in full or in part	Receive stock, by typing or scanning barcodes
Stocktakes with a scanner	Stocktakes on any phone camera, with several people counting at once
Stock adjustments with reasons	Adjust stock: damaged, lost, stolen, returned or other
Landed costs	Landed costs on a PO, split by value, quantity or weight
Low-stock reorder suggestions	Reorder by stock levels or from recent sales, into a draft PO
Sales reports by product	Best sellers, ranked A, B and C

Stock transfers between locations are now built into Shopify, so Stock Buddy leaves those to Shopify. It doesn't do forecasting, accounting or tax.

Questions

The help page covers each feature step by step. Anything else, email support@stockbuddy.uk.