Stocky Is Shutting Down: What Shopify Jewelers Should Use Instead

The short answer: Shopify is retiring Stocky on August 31, 2026. Its native inventory tools cover the basics like locations, transfers, and adjustments, but not purchasing or forecasting, and they were never built for jewelry. If you run a Shopify jewelry business, Forge replaces the Stocky workflow you're about to lose, and it adds what Stocky couldn't do: track metal by weight, build pieces from BOMs, serialize stones, and keep COGS current with spot.

If you sell jewelry on Shopify POS Pro, you've probably leaned on Stocky for purchase orders, supplier records, stock counts, and reorder points. That's ending. Shopify has set a hard shutdown date, and the migration has a couple of traps that bite if you wait. This guide lays out what's going away, when, and what a jeweler should move to instead, mapped feature by feature.

What's happening to Stocky, and when

This isn't a rumor or a pricing tweak. Shopify has published a firm timeline:

July 7, 2025: Stocky stopped handling inventory transfers between locations and min/max forecasting. Both moved into Shopify admin.
February 2, 2026: Stocky was delisted from the Shopify App Store, so there are no new installs or reinstalls.
August 31, 2026: Stocky stops working. In Shopify's words, "Stocky won't be available after August 31, 2026," and "any Stocky APIs will stop working on August 31, 2026."

Two details matter more than the date, and both are easy to miss:

"Your historical data in Stocky, such as old purchase orders and stocktakes, won't automatically move into Shopify after August 31, 2026." And separately: "Suppliers can't be exported from Stocky."

So your purchase-order history and counts don't carry over on their own. You have to export anything you want to keep, and your supplier list can't be exported at all, which means you'll rebuild vendor records by hand wherever you land. Shopify documents the full process on its official Stocky migration page. The sooner you choose where you're going, the less of that work you do twice.

What you're actually losing

Stocky came free with Shopify POS Pro, the plan that runs about $89/mo per location, so for a lot of shops it was simply the purchasing layer that happened to be included. It did real work under the basics: purchase orders, supplier and vendor management, stocktakes, multi-location stock, reorder points, demand forecasting, and a stack of reports. After August 31, Shopify's native tools keep the warehouse fundamentals like locations, transfers, adjustments, and low-stock alerts, but the purchasing and forecasting layer goes with Stocky. Shopify itself points merchants with heavier needs toward third-party apps.

For jewelers there's a second loss underneath the first. Stocky was a unit-counting tool. It tracked finished goods by the each, with no sense of the metal weight, the recipe, or the certificate behind a piece. So for a jewelry business, matching what Stocky did is the starting point, not the finish line.

Stocky to Forge, feature by feature

Here's the direct map. The last column is what Stocky couldn't do, and where a jeweler gains ground.

Stocky feature	After Aug 31, 2026	Forge equivalent	The jeweler upgrade
Multi-location inventory	Gone	Multi-location stock, each synced to its Shopify location (Workshop)	Tracked by weight, not just unit counts
Inventory transfers	Removed Jul 2025	Transfer orders between locations, with partial receives (Workshop)	Move metal and stones, not just SKUs
Stocktakes / counts	Gone	Physical counts by weight and by piece	Count metals by weight; count serialized stones individually
Purchase orders	Gone	Purchase orders (Studio)	The PO cost folds straight into true per-piece COGS
Suppliers / vendors (not exportable)	Gone	Vendor management with per-vendor pricing (Studio)	Multiple vendors and prices per material
Reorder points	Gone	Reorder points plus auto-replenishment build suggestions (Bench)	Suggests what to make, not only what to buy
Reports (stock value, COGS, sales)	Gone	Reporting with COGS and valuation, CSV export with QuickBooks columns	Valuation reflects metal weight and bench labor
Backorders	Gone	Made-to-order auto-build	Sell a piece you haven't made yet, without overselling

One honest gap. Stocky did statistical demand forecasting, projecting future sales from history. Forge doesn't, and we won't pretend it does. Forge handles replenishment a different way: reorder points flag what's running low, and purchasing-needs analysis (Workshop) rolls every below-reorder item into purchase orders. If a forecasting model drives how you buy, keep a dedicated forecasting tool alongside Forge. For most studios, the question that actually needs answering is simpler: what's below reorder, and should I build it or buy it?

What Stocky never did for jewelers

This is the part that turns a like-for-like swap into a real gain. None of the following existed in Stocky, or in the generic Stocky alternatives built for resellers.

Weight, not units

Forge tracks materials in grams, dwt, troy oz, and carats. A fulfilled order deducts 4.7g of 14K yellow and the 0.5ct center stone from stock, not "1 unit." That's the gap behind why Shopify's own inventory doesn't work for jewelry, and Stocky left it open too.

Recipes and build orders

Multi-level bills of materials cost up from current stock, and build orders reserve components when they're created and deduct them on completion. Stocky counted the finished piece. It had no view of the recipe underneath it.

Serialized stones and certificates

On Studio and up, individual stones and finished pieces are serialized, each with its own cost and its GIA or lab certificate on file: report number, shape, carat, color, clarity, cut, measurements. Counting a parcel of certified diamonds is nothing like counting t-shirts, as the gemstone tracking guide gets into.

COGS that keeps up with the metal

When gold moves, your costs move with it. Forge captures actual COGS at build, and on Workshop, live metal spot pricing keeps material costs current on its own. The margin math is in our guide to true COGS when gold prices move.

The rest of the workshop

On Studio, Forge also runs custom orders (quote, deposit, design, delivery), repairs (intake through return), and outsourced casting or setting, where you send materials to a vendor, capture their invoice, and receive the piece with the vendor's charge folded into its cost. None of that lived in Stocky.

Migrating off Stocky before August 31

Two things to do now, in order:

Export what you want to keep. Pull your purchase-order history and stocktakes out of Stocky while it still runs, since Shopify won't move them for you. Write down your suppliers somewhere too, because Stocky can't export them.
Decide where you're landing before you rebuild. Rebuilding vendor records once is plenty. If that's Forge, set up your materials and vendors there from the start.

A few things make the switch easier for jewelers in particular. Forge lives inside Shopify Admin and doesn't need POS Pro, so you're not paying for a point-of-sale plan just to manage purchasing the way Stocky required. It's self-serve on the Shopify App Store from $29/mo with a 14-day free trial. And if you're coming from Craftybase, a spreadsheet, or an ERP, Forge imports your materials, BOMs, and stock in minutes. If you're still comparing tools, we line them up in our piece on the best Craftybase alternative for Shopify jewelry stores, and there's a step-by-step jewelry inventory count guide for getting your opening numbers right.

You're going to stand up a new inventory system before August either way. It may as well be one that was built for jewelry in the first place.