Stocky

Sadly after using Stocky for 8 years it is now officially unusable. The forecasting feature was never the most accurate but still very useful. But now to it's completely useless. Remember in the early day's of Stocky when it was a private Australian company having a chat with Seb the app's creator and the service was awesome and the features worked great. Since Shopify took it over it's progressively got worse, they didn’t buy it to grow it. They bought it to neutralise it and bundle it.

Great potential — completely neglected by Shopify

Stocky has the potential to be a fantastic app, but it’s been completely abandoned. I was told it used to be a 3rd-party app that actually worked well before Shopify took it over — and sadly, they’ve done nothing to improve it. In fact, they’ve even removed some of the original features. If I were the original developer, I’d be heartbroken to see what it’s become.

I’ve tried multiple times to integrate Stocky into my business, but it’s missing some really basic processes that make everyday use painfully slow and inefficient. There’s no way I could ask my team to work with it. I’ve ended up sticking with Google Sheets, which is far clearer, faster, and adaptable to my needs.

Whenever I’ve contacted Shopify support about Stocky, they’ve known absolutely nothing about it. I had to push to reach two people who seemed to understand it slightly better — but even they couldn’t offer any real solutions.

There’s a real gap in the market for what Stocky should be doing, but it seems it’s just not “glamorous" enough for Shopify to care about. A real loss.

All I wanted this app for was to have an easier time doing physical inventory of my store. This absolutely did not work. I was genuinely hoping for a way to simply scan all my product for my yearly inventory, but despite following all the instructions to set my scanner and do the actual scanning (and yes, I do have a compatible scanner), it did not work. So once again I will be doing inventory manually. One would think Shopify would have a good, functional physical inventory taking system, so it's frustrating and honestly baffling that they do not, especially after existing for so long.

Absolutely unusable for any real retail operation

This app is completely useless for us. We run multiple stores with a large product catalog, and Stocky simply does not offer the basic functionality any serious retailer needs.

First of all, there is no proper way for multiple staff members to perform inventory counts at the same time. No scanner app, no multi-user workflow, nothing. For a store with thousands of SKUs, this makes Stocky practically impossible to use.

On top of that, there is no simple POS tile that lets staff receive or transfer stock directly. Everything must be processed through orders that need to be created in advance. This workflow is absurd. We deal with hundreds of orders every single day — following Stocky’s process would require hiring several extra employees just to manage stock adjustments. It’s the most inefficient setup I’ve ever seen.

For anyone running an actual retail business with real inventory needs, this app is a complete waste of time.

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Für den Einzelhandel absolut unbrauchbar

Diese App ist für uns komplett unbrauchbar. Wir betreiben mehrere Stores mit einem großen Produktsortiment, und Stocky bietet nicht einmal die grundlegendsten Funktionen, die ein ernsthafter Einzelhändler benötigt.

Es gibt keinerlei Möglichkeit, Inventuren gleichzeitig von mehreren Mitarbeitern durchführen zu lassen. Keine Scanner-App, kein Multi-User-Workflow – nichts. Für einen Store mit tausenden Artikeln macht das Stocky praktisch unbenutzbar.

Noch schlimmer: Es gibt keine einfache POS-Kachel, über die Mitarbeiter Ware direkt einbuchen oder umbuchen können. Stattdessen muss alles über vorher angelegte Bestellungen laufen. Dieser Prozess ist völlig absurd. Wir haben täglich hunderte Bestellungen – nach Stockys Vorgaben müsste ich mehrere zusätzliche Mitarbeiter einstellen, nur um Bestände anzupassen. Das ist der größte Unsinn überhaupt.

Für jedes reale Einzelhandelsgeschäft mit echten Inventur- und Lagerprozessen ist diese App reine Zeitverschwendung.

Terrible. Says it works with Shopify POS. Then you install it, wonder why it doesnt work - and realise its pushing you to upgrade to Shopify POS Pro at $89 per month. I have no idea why they wouldn't allow small businesses on Shopify to have access to the app for even the most basic inventory management.

DONT USE THIS APP! Just another Shopify example of spending time to teach staff how to use, and running your operations on, only for them to deprecate features you rely on. Their response is now for you to seek out another 3rd party and pay more money. FIND ANOTHER APP NOW SO YOU DONT WASTE YOUR TIME HERE.

This is so frustrating, this app works well for us even with its flaws to enhance Shopifys POS limitations, but now functionality on Transfers is being moved from it and moved to Shopify Admin. I wouldn't mind if the changes were an upgrade on the app but we are losing functionality. Very Sad that development is not being put into a very useful app, and assuming that eventually all areas will be moved to Shopify Admin with limitations rather than just developing this app further.

Frequently glitchy, and with an extremely unintuitive workflow. Trying to get support from shopify is also extremely difficult as most of their support staff isn't familiar with the app, and will pass you around or give you incorrect advice. The most recent update was a downgrade!

Why haven't you guys updated this app? It has so much potential but makes everything so much more difficult. To start, at least let Stocky have the same functionality as the Shopify PO's & Transfers. This app is so painful to use. Please, please, please update this app. Please make it better. It is so close. Why make this app so much more difficult to use with less functionality than the Shopify counterparts?? Please, will you look at all the reviews below and make some common sense changes? Reach out to the people using this app and ask for their input. Shopify POS could be an absolute beast if this app was fixed and improved on.

Poorly optimized product. Doesn't balance to 0 when transferring inventory. Doesn't show products sometimes that are active. Barcode scanner only works in hidden option, not in line items.

All this app did was make our inventory worse.