Your barcode-label app relied on Stocky? Here's what to use after August 31, 2026

LabelCraft - barcode labels for Shopify that print at exactly the size you set.

The guarantees behind every label

Exact to ±0.1 mm

Every label prints at the size you set - measured, not approximate.

Never a silent failure

Overflow or a missing barcode always raises a visible warning before you print.

Whole dots in native ZPL

Native ZPL puts every bar on whole printer dots. Bars under 2 dots wide, or PDF EAN/UPC bars thinner than the GS1 minimum, raise a warning.

Blanks filled, fixes on request

We only write to your barcodes that were empty when we read them, unless you ask us to fix them.

Try it now - no install needed

Paste your Stocky (or any supplier) CSV export and instantly see which barcodes will scan, which are missing or invalid, and what your labels will look like once printed. It is a public tool: free, no install, no sign-up.

Preview your Stocky labels

Shopify retired Stocky on August 31, 2026, and on that date Stocky and all of its APIs stopped working. Stocky had already been removed from the App Store on February 2, 2026. If you printed barcode labels for the items on your purchase orders through a Stocky integration, that workflow disappeared with Stocky - so you need a replacement that prints from native Shopify receiving instead. LabelCraft is that replacement: it prints labels that actually scan from Shopify's native Purchase Orders (received via Transfers), from Stocky exports, and from any other PO app's CSV.

Install free - 200 labels per month →

LabelCraft is free for up to 200 labels per month. Pro is $6.99/mo with a 14-day trial when you need higher volume. Every label is rendered to your exact stock size with a ±0.1 mm dimension promise, so what you measure on paper is what we drew - no silent scaling at the printer.

Which apps are affected by the Stocky API shutdown

Several barcode-label apps were built around Stocky's purchase-order workflow. A few examples that advertised printing labels directly from Stocky POs:

CTS Multi Barcode Labels - its listing offered “Stocky integration for quick and easy label printing from purchase orders.”
MS Barcode Labels & Generator - its listing let you “print labels directly from Stocky’s purchase order.”
Any custom app or script that read Stocky data through the API. The Stocky API stopped responding on August 31, 2026, so anything that pulled POs, suppliers, or stocktakes from it lost that access.

To be precise: an app like that may keep working for the parts that don’t depend on Stocky - for example printing from a Shopify order or a product page. It is specifically the Stocky purchase-order label path that ended when Stocky and its API were switched off. If that was how you labelled received stock, this is the gap to close.

What native Shopify gives you - and what it doesn't

Shopify’s official replacement for Stocky is native Purchase Orders and Transfers in the admin (Inventory → Transfers). You can create POs, receive shipments, and even scan barcodes to speed up receiving. But there’s one thing native receiving still can’t do:

Native Shopify receiving can’t print barcode labels. Shopify’s own help docs are explicit that barcode printing isn’t available in admin transfers - you scan existing codes, but you can’t generate the labels for what just arrived. That’s exactly the job LabelCraft does.

How LabelCraft replaces the Stocky label workflow

LabelCraft’s "Receive & label" feature reads your native Shopify Transfers shipments directly. It takes the accepted quantity on each line, builds the print job for you, and renders exact-size labels - so labels go on the products as soon as the box is open, with no manual counting or copying between apps.

Prefer to work from paper, a supplier slip, or an exported PO? "Print from a list" is the on-ramp: paste or upload a CSV and LabelCraft matches each row to your catalog by SKU or by barcode/UPC. Matching is exact and never guessed - anything it can’t match with confidence lands in an Exceptions panel for you to resolve, so a wrong code never slips onto a label. See our receiving guide for the full walkthrough.

Generate valid barcodes for items that arrive without one

Some items show up with no barcode at all. LabelCraft’s one-click "Generate missing barcodes" fills the gaps: it creates a real GTIN-13 when you’ve set a GS1 prefix in Settings, or a unique internal Code 128 otherwise. It never overwrites a barcode you already have. See our GS1 barcode guide for how to set up your prefix.

Your migration checklist after August 31, 2026

Work through these in order. Each one sets up the next, and together they get you printing labels from your purchase orders again without Stocky.

Keep what you exported from Stocky. Hold on to the purchase orders, receiving records, and stocktakes you downloaded before the deadline as a reference: there’s no way back in now, and supplier data couldn’t be exported at all.
Check your catalog barcodes. Run a Barcode check over your products to find blanks, duplicates, and malformed codes before they reach a label.
Install LabelCraft and do a test print. It’s free for 200 labels a month, so you can set up and test on your real hardware at no cost.
Switch receiving to native Transfers + LabelCraft. Move new purchase orders into Shopify Transfers and let LabelCraft handle the labels, so your receiving no longer runs through the Stocky path.

Install free - 200 labels per month →

Still on a Stocky-based label setup from before August 31, 2026, and not sure where your workflow lands? Our support team can help you get fully moved over and printing.

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