Stocky shut down on August 31. Here is your cutover checklist.
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Shopify switched Stocky off on August 31, 2026, and the barcode label printing it did for purchase orders and stocktakes stopped with it. What to do now: install LabelCraft, bring in any Stocky CSVs you exported, and print one real receive end to end. Looking for a Stocky replacement for labels? This is the checklist.
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What actually stopped on August 31, 2026
Stocky's inventory features (purchase orders, receiving, stocktakes, and the barcode-label printing tied to them) went away with the app. Your product and variant data stays in Shopify: SKUs, barcodes, costs, and inventory levels live on your products, not inside Stocky, so they were not deleted. What you lost is the workflow that turned a received PO into printed labels. Replacing that workflow is the whole job, and it is smaller than it sounds.
Why start with one real delivery
A receiving-and-labelling workflow is something you want to have tested on a real delivery before you depend on it, not discovered on a busy receiving day. Run it once on a quiet week and the next big delivery is routine.
Your cutover checklist
- Gather the Stocky exports you already have. If you exported your purchase orders and product list (SKU, barcode, cost, supplier) to CSV before the shutdown, keep those files: they are your backup and the source for your first imports. If you have none, go to step 2: your products and barcodes are already in Shopify.
- Install LabelCraft and confirm your barcodes. LabelCraft reads the barcodes already on your Shopify variants. Where a product has none, use “Generate missing barcodes” to create a valid EAN-13 (from your GS1 prefix) or an internal Code 128, with a dry-run preview before anything is written.
- Import a purchase order or receiving list. Use LabelCraft's Stocky importer to drop in a PO or received-quantities CSV. It recognizes Stocky's export format, maps the columns, and never multiplies or guesses a quantity silently: anything ambiguous is surfaced, not assumed.
- Print your first receive at the right size. Pick the template that matches your label stock, check the live preview and the scan-readiness verdict, then print at 100% scale. Labels come out exact to ±0.1 mm, and a barcode too narrow to scan is flagged before you print, never after.
- Scan-test the first labels. Scan a few of the labels you just printed to confirm they decode to the right SKU. Once one real receive has gone end-to-end, you are off Stocky for good.
What you keep, and what gets better
You keep exact-size labels for any printer (Dymo, Zebra, Brother, Munbyn, Phomemo, Avery sheets, or any custom size in millimeters), barcode generation from your own GS1 prefix, and a real receiving-to-label flow. What gets better: nothing is ever silently dropped - a missing barcode, a label that won't fit, or a barcode too small to scan is shown to you before the print, which is exactly the class of problem that made labelling from the old tools frustrating.
Frequently asked at cutover time
Did I lose my barcodes when Stocky shut down?
No. Barcodes live on your Shopify product variants, not inside Stocky. They are still exactly where they were. LabelCraft reads them straight from your catalog.
Do I have to migrate everything at once?
No. Start with your next real delivery: import that one PO, print its labels, and scan-test. You can bring in historical data at your own pace. August 31, 2026 ended Stocky's own features, not your data in Shopify.
What if a product has no barcode yet?
Use LabelCraft's “Generate missing barcodes” to create a valid EAN-13 or an internal Code 128, with a preview before it writes anything back to Shopify. Then print as normal.
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Want the background first? Read the Stocky shutdown overview and the receiving-barcode-labels guide, or contact LabelCraft support to plan your move.
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