How to Export Your Stocky Data Before the August 2026 Shutdown

If you run Stocky, you have a hard deadline. Shopify is shutting Stocky down on August 31, 2026, and a few things you might assume will move with you (purchase order history, stocktake history, supplier records) will not. The good news is that the most important data, product details and current inventory counts, can be pulled into Shopify with CSV files you probably already know how to use. This guide walks through what to export, what cannot be exported at all, and where each piece of data lands in the Shopify admin so you can plan the work well before the cutoff.

Why you have to export Stocky data before August 31, 2026

Stocky will not be available after August 31, 2026, so any data you want to keep needs to be out of the app before that date. The clock actually started earlier: on February 2, 2026, Stocky was removed from the Shopify App Store, and merchants can no longer reinstall it. If you uninstall it before exporting, you cannot put it back. Any Stocky APIs you or a third party rely on will also stop working on August 31, 2026, so scheduled exports or integrations that pull from Stocky need to finish their work before then. Shopify’s guidance is direct: export anything from Stocky you want to keep before the shutdown date.

Practically, that means treating Stocky like a system that will be gone. Whatever records you might need for audits, accounting, supplier disputes, or trend analysis should be saved as files you own, stored somewhere outside Stocky, before the end of August 2026. Waiting until the last week is risky because if anything goes wrong with an export, there is no support path after the app is shut down.

What Shopify will not move for you

It is worth being specific about what does not happen automatically. Historical Stocky data, including old purchase orders and past stocktakes, will not move into Shopify after August 31, 2026. There is no background job that copies them over. If you want a record of what you ordered from a supplier in 2024 or the variance counts from last year’s stocktake, you have to export those records yourself while Stocky is still running. Shopify’s instruction is to manually export the records you want to keep using Stocky’s built-in reports.

Suppliers are the harder case. Suppliers cannot be exported from Stocky at all. There is no report that produces a clean supplier list with contact details, payment terms, and currencies in a file you can re-import elsewhere. If you want that information preserved, you have to capture it by hand, by opening each supplier in Stocky and copying the fields into a spreadsheet you control. Treat this as its own task with its own time budget, because for stores with dozens or hundreds of suppliers it is the slowest part of the migration.

The pattern is the same for any other historical view you depend on inside Stocky: if it can be produced as a report, export it; if it cannot, copy it out by hand. Once August 31, 2026 passes, none of it is retrievable. The official transition page is the source of record for what does and does not migrate.

Export your products and inventory with Shopify CSV files

Product and inventory data is the easiest part because Shopify already supports CSV import and export for both. The product CSV handles product details: titles, handles, variants, options, prices, and the other fields that describe what you sell. You can use it to export your current catalog as a backup, and to import bulk changes.

How you handle stock counts depends on whether you have one location or many. The sample product CSV includes an Inventory quantity column only for stores with a single location. If your store has multiple locations, that column is not the right place to track stock, and you should use the inventory CSV file for per-location quantities instead.

The inventory CSV is the file that exports current inventory quantities and can also update quantities for products in each location. There are two export modes worth understanding before you pick one.

All states vs Available

The All states export includes a separate row for each variant at each location and columns for every inventory state (on hand, committed, available, and so on). The Available export is simpler and only deals with available quantity, but it does not give you the same overwrite protection that All states does. If you are exporting because you want a complete snapshot you could re-import safely, use All states. If you only need a quick view of what is available right now and do not plan to re-upload, the Available export is fine.

Required columns

When you prepare an inventory CSV for import, the required columns include Handle, Location, and Option1 Value. Handle matches the product, Option1 Value identifies the variant within that product, and Location tells Shopify which physical or virtual location the row applies to. If any of those columns are missing or mislabeled, the import will not work. Keep the column headers exactly as Shopify expects them, especially if you are editing the file in a spreadsheet that likes to auto-rename or auto-format cells.

A practical sequence for the catalog side of the migration: export your products with the product CSV as a backup, export your inventory with the All states inventory CSV as a snapshot, and store both files somewhere outside the Shopify admin. If you ever need to rebuild a location’s counts, you have the file to do it.

Move purchase orders and suppliers into Shopify

Shopify’s admin has native purchase order functionality, which is where new purchase orders should live after the shutdown. Each Shopify purchase order can be exported as a PDF from the admin, so you have a portable record per order. That is useful both for sharing with suppliers and for your own files.

Suppliers in Shopify are created in the admin when you create a purchase order, through the managing suppliers workflow. One detail to plan around: payment terms and supplier currencies are specific to each individual purchase order and are not saved as default values on the supplier profile. If you have a supplier you always pay net 30 in EUR, Shopify will not remember that for next time at the supplier level. You set those fields on every purchase order you create.

Because Stocky suppliers cannot be exported, the only way to seed Shopify with your supplier list is to re-enter the details by hand. Before you start, build a simple spreadsheet of your active suppliers with contact info, default currency, default payment terms, and any other notes you currently rely on inside Stocky. Then create the suppliers in Shopify as you write the first purchase order to each one, using your spreadsheet as the reference. Inactive or one-off suppliers from years ago probably do not need to be recreated; only the ones you still buy from.

For historical purchase orders that you exported from Stocky as files, treat those as archival records rather than something to recreate inside Shopify. Save the exports somewhere durable (a shared drive, a finance folder, an accounting system) and reference them when you need to look up a past order. Re-keying years of historical orders into Shopify is rarely worth the time.

Your pre-shutdown export checklist

Set an internal deadline that is at least a few weeks before August 31, 2026. Treat the official date as the failure point, not the target. A reasonable working order:

1. Snapshot your catalog

Export the product CSV from Shopify as a baseline of your current catalog. Save it with a date in the filename. This is your fallback if any later step damages product records.

2. Snapshot your inventory

Export the inventory CSV using the All states option so you have per-location quantities for every variant, plus the columns needed to re-import if necessary. Save it alongside the product CSV.

3. Export Stocky records you want to keep

Using Stocky’s built-in reports, export the historical records you want to preserve, especially purchase orders and stocktakes. These will not migrate automatically, so whatever you do not export by August 31, 2026 is gone. Save the files outside Stocky.

4. Capture suppliers by hand

Open each active supplier in Stocky and copy the fields you care about (name, contact, currency, payment terms, notes) into a spreadsheet. There is no supplier export from Stocky, so this step is manual.

5. Set up suppliers and purchase orders in Shopify

When you are ready to place your next order, create the supplier in the Shopify admin as part of creating the purchase order. Set payment terms and currency on the order itself, since those are not stored as defaults on the supplier profile. Export each finished purchase order as a PDF if you want a portable copy.

6. Confirm any API consumers are switched off

If you or a developer built integrations that read from Stocky’s APIs, plan their migration before August 31, 2026, because the APIs stop working on that date. Anything still pointed at Stocky after the cutoff will fail.

7. Store everything in one place

Keep the product CSV, inventory CSV, Stocky report exports, supplier spreadsheet, and any PDFs together in a single folder, organized by date. If a question comes up next year about an old order or a count from before the shutdown, you will know exactly where to look.

Limitations

kijun does not forecast demand, auto-reorder inventory, replace Shopify POS stocktake workflows, or recover Stocky supplier records that Shopify says can’t be exported. It focuses on supplier scoring, supplier risk monitoring, and Stocky CSV migration support.

Use kijun’s built-in Stocky migration guide to import purchase order records and start scoring suppliers 0–100 from delivery performance. Turn exported Stocky records into supplier scorecards.

This article was drafted with AI assistance and checked against cited sources through kijun’s editorial workflow. Last updated: 2026-05-24.

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