Can you import your Stocky purchase orders into Shopify?

What Shopify's purchase order import does

Shopify's native CSV upload for purchase orders "only adds product line items to a new draft purchase order." In Shopify's words, "it can't import past purchase order statuses, received quantities, or supplier links." (Source: Shopify Help Center: Migrating from Stocky to Shopify inventory management.)

So a Stocky export uploaded to Shopify becomes, at best, a new draft order with the same products in it. It does not become a record of what you ordered last spring, what arrived, and what you paid.

Your three options

How Sutler imports a Stocky purchase order export

• Received orders become closed purchase orders with their costs added to each product's cost history.
• Orders still open when Stocky closed become open purchase orders you can receive against, and they count as incoming stock.
• Each supplier's real lead time is learned from order and arrival dates.
• Rows are matched to your products by SKU, then barcode, then Shopify ID. Nothing in Shopify changes during the import.
• Stocktake exports import as approved past counts, so shrink comparisons start with history instead of from zero.

Run the free Stocky Export Checker first to see how many orders, products and suppliers your files contain.

Quick answers

Can I import Stocky purchase orders into Shopify?

Not as history. Shopify says historical purchase orders can't be imported. Its CSV upload only adds product line items to a new draft purchase order and can't import past statuses, received quantities or supplier links.

What should I do with Stocky purchase orders that were still open?

Shopify's advice is to recreate only the remaining quantities as a purchase order or transfer in Shopify. An app that imports Stocky exports can also bring them in as open orders.

Should I keep my Stocky CSV exports?

Yes. Shopify recommends exporting what you need for tax or audit records, because you can't reference historic Stocky purchase orders or stocktakes in Shopify.

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.