Stocky stocktakes are shutting down: every replacement, compared (August 31, 2026)

There are two halves to the Stocky shutdown. One is purchase orders, suppliers and reordering — covered in our Stocky alternatives comparison. The other half, the one this page is about, is the stocktake: the periodic physical count where you walk the shelves, scan or key in what is actually there, look at the variance against Shopify, and correct it. Stocky did that job with two count types (Manual and Barcode), a Missed tab that surfaced everything you had not yet counted, filters by vendor and product type, and a zero-out option for anything left uncounted. All of that disappears on August 31, 2026.

##The dates, and what leaves with Stocky

##How we compare (and who is writing this)

We build Solvi Stocktake; the disclosure box at the top exists for that reason, and every rival below is described from its own App Store listing and reviews, not our marketing. The criteria are the things the Stocky stocktake actually did for you, not a generic feature grid. Can you count by scanning a barcode and by keying a SKU (Stocky's Manual and Barcode modes)? Is there an equivalent of the Missed tab, so you can see what you have not counted yet? Can you filter a count down to a vendor, type or collection instead of counting the whole store? And crucially — after you apply a count, can you undo it? Stocky's zero-out of uncounted items was irreversible, and that is the single most-reported way merchants have corrupted their inventory during a count.

##The replacements, in detail

Quick Count is Shopify's own answer and the default path if you already pay for POS Pro — but it is only that: available to POS Pro subscribers, with a 1,000-variant ceiling per counting session (sessions themselves are unlimited, so larger catalogues are split into batches). PML Stock Take is the highest-rated dedicated counter at 4.8 stars across 75 reviews, works without POS Pro, and bundles purchase orders and transfers alongside counting; reviewers single out its responsive support and its ability to handle catalogues past 20,000 SKUs. Cohub counts across up to four locations from $19/month, but its 3.3-star average reflects recurring reports of unreliable syncing and an Android crash when the device screen locks mid-count. Solvi Stocktake is ours: no POS Pro requirement, no session cap, a free tier for small or occasional counts, and a snapshot-plus-one-click-rollback model built specifically around the Stocky zero-out trauma.

##Migrate before August 31, 2026

##Doing this with Solvi Stocktake

Solvi Stocktake is built to be the like-for-like stocktake replacement for Stocky migrants, in their own vocabulary. You count by scanning a barcode with a USB or Bluetooth scanner in keyboard mode, with your phone camera, or by keying a SKU — the equivalent of Stocky's Manual and Barcode modes. Uncounted lines are surfaced the way the Missed tab did, and counts can be filtered to a vendor, type, tag or collection so a cycle count stays small. The part built directly against the Stocky trauma is the apply step: a count never writes to Shopify until you review the variance, uncounted items are never zeroed unless you explicitly opt in and confirm the exact number of items affected, and every apply takes a snapshot so you can roll the whole thing back in one click. It runs without POS Pro and without a per-session variant cap, and the free plan covers two counts a month so you can replace a Stocky cycle count at $0.