How to export your Stocky data before read-only access ends

What Shopify says to export

Shopify's migration guide tells Stocky merchants to export, using Stocky's built-in reports:

1. All completed purchase order reports, as CSV files. This is the big one: your order history, what each supplier charged, and when goods arrived.
2. Your stocktake history. Past counts are your only record of shrink over time.
3. Your historical cost data. What you paid for each product before today's cost.

Shopify is plain about why: your historical Stocky data "doesn't automatically move into Shopify," and you "can't reference specific historic Stocky purchase orders or stocktakes in Shopify." Nothing you leave in Stocky comes back. (Source: Shopify Help Center: Migrating from Stocky to Shopify inventory management.)

Step by step

1. Open Stocky from your Shopify admin and go to its reports. Stocky has no single "export everything" button; each kind of data comes out of its own report.
2. Run the purchase orders report over the full date range, back to your first order, and download it as CSV. A report run over the default range looks complete but silently leaves out older orders.
3. Open each completed stocktake and download it as CSV. Name each file after the count (for example stocktake-2026-03-back-room.csv) so you know later which file was which count.
4. Export the cost or product report that carries cost per item, as CSV.
5. Write down your suppliers by hand: names, emails, lead times, minimums and terms. Stocky can't export them (see how to recover them).
6. Save every file in two places, such as your computer and a cloud drive, before the window closes.
7. Drop the files into the free Stocky Export Checker to confirm what's inside before you rely on them.

Report and menu names inside Stocky may differ slightly from the wording above; the three exports Shopify names are the ones that matter.

What you can't export

Suppliers. Shopify's guide says it in four words: "Suppliers can't be exported from Stocky." Supplier names survive only on your purchase order rows; contacts, lead times and minimums don't survive at all. Here is how to rebuild that list.

Open purchase orders as live orders. Shopify's advice was to close them out before the shutdown, and to recreate "only the remaining quantities" in Shopify for any order still open at the cutover. Your export still records them, so you know what's still owed.

Quick answers

When does Stocky read-only access end?

Shopify says you have read-only access to export your Stocky data for at least 90 days after August 31, 2026, which is about November 29, 2026. Shopify set that as a minimum, not a promised end date, so export now.

Can I export suppliers from Stocky?

No. Shopify's migration guide states that suppliers can't be exported from Stocky. Supplier names appear only on your purchase order rows, so copy supplier details by hand.

Does my Stocky data move into Shopify automatically?

No. Shopify says historical Stocky data such as old purchase orders and stocktakes doesn't automatically move into Shopify, and you must export what you want to keep using Stocky's built-in reports.

Check your Stocky export first: two minutes, nothing uploads.

The free Stocky Export Checker reads your Stocky CSV files in your browser and tells you what is inside them: purchase orders, products, suppliers named on your orders, open orders still to arrive, and what is missing. It also builds a list of the suppliers you'll need to re-enter, because Stocky can't export them.

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What Sutler doesn't do

What Sutler does and doesn't do: Sutler suggests what to reorder from your sales, lead times and minimums, with the math shown, but makes no promise about forecast accuracy, and it does not do transfers between locations. What it does is the purchasing desk: purchase orders, receiving, labels, stocktakes and landed cost, and it imports your Stocky export into working purchase orders.