Life After Stocky: A Better Way to Run Inventory Inside Shopify POS

If you’re one of the thousands of Shopify merchants who rely on it for retail operations, that date isn’t abstract. It’s the day your inventory workflows need a new home. Stocky already left the Shopify App Store back in February — this month, it goes dark for good.

Here’s the good news: this deadline is also an opportunity. Because the honest truth about Stocky is that many high-growth merchants outgrew it long before Shopify retired it. It handled the basics. It didn’t handle growth.

Deposco’s new native extension for Shopify POS does both.

Everything you use today, working on day one

Migration anxiety is real, so let’s clear it first. Deposco covers all of the workflows Stocky users depend on daily and more.  The new Deposco app elevates that experience by bringing critical features into the Shopify POS UI:

• Cycle counting — keep counts accurate without closing the store
• Purchase orders — create, track, and manage POs without leaving POS
• Receiving — check inventory in accurately, the moment it arrives

No gap. No workaround spreadsheet. Your team keeps doing what they do, in the Shopify POS screen, they already know — no app switching, no second device.

Then it takes you where Stocky couldn’t

Coverage is the floor. The reason to make this move is what sits on top of it.

Now you can sell what’s truly available. Real-time Available-to-Promise (ATP) visibility shows associates accurate inventory across every location — store, warehouse, in transit. When the shelf is empty, they save the sale rather than lose it.

Now you can route every order to the smartest location. Dynamic order routing weighs inventory, proximity, and cost automatically. No one has to think about it. It just ships from the right place.

Now you can turn every store into a fulfillment asset. Buy Online, Pickup In Store. Ship-from-Store. Both run natively in Shopify POS, so your physical footprint starts working as hard as your website does.

And behind the screen sits the full Deposco platform: AI-powered demand forecasting, warehouse management, order management, and supply chain intelligence to scale from your first store to your hundredth-plus.

The bigger picture: escaping the Franken-Stack

Stocky’s retirement is part of a larger story. As brands blend digital and physical retail, many end up stitching together a Franken-Stack of point solutions — one app for counts, another for forecasting, a third for fulfillment. The result is technical debt, data latency, and inventory blind spots at exactly the moment growth demands precision.

Shopify’s vision is Unified Commerce: one platform for every way you sell. Deposco delivers the Unified Fulfillment that keeps that promise — in the warehouse, in the store, and everywhere in between. One system of record for inventory. One brain routing every order. One screen for the people who make it happen.

Three weeks is enough time — if you start now

Deposco customers typically deploy and see value in 90 days or less, and Stocky replacement workflows are live from day one. The app is available now on the Shopify App Store.

Stocky’s sunset picked the date. You get to pick what comes next.