I’m a current Stocky user and need to request an important feature for the native Shopify purchase order system before Stocky is discontinued in August 2026.
What I need: When receiving inventory from purchase orders, I need to see the following information for each item as I scan or enter quantities:
Cost (what I’m paying the supplier)
Price (what I’m selling it for)
Margin (profit margin percentage or dollar amount)
Why this matters: This information is critical for my receiving workflow because it allows me to:
Verify that supplier costs match what was agreed upon
Catch pricing errors immediately during receiving
Make informed decisions about products with incorrect margins
Ensure profitability before items hit my shelves
Current situation: Stocky provides this functionality during receiving, but the native Shopify purchase order receiving screen only shows quantities. Without this data visible during receiving, I’ll need to check each product individually after receiving, which is inefficient and increases the risk of errors.
Request: Please add cost, price, and margin columns to the purchase order receiving interface so this critical financial information is visible during the receiving process.
Your use case is interesting and I really want to know more haha. First, total disclaimer, I have an app on the store that does a lot of this already (FyreTrail), but I think it falls short with some of the visibility you’re asking for. That being said, I’m reaching out because I think it’s valuable and I want to support it.
Why are you checking each item when you receive it? Why not check when you order it? Is that not when you’re charged - before you’ve received it?
FyreTrail allows you to create PO’s (not in Shopify’s PO though) and then track products from order to sale. When you receive the items that you ordered you use that entered PO to check that all things arrived - but you still have visibility into costs (not margin’s yet - but this is incoming) and quantities too (including missing items). You can either follow up immediately or if you don’t have time, make a note to flag that order and remind you later. All costs are by PO and not by product in FyreTrail. This helps you stay at your margins as it will flag the price as being below pre-set margins for your category.
At any rate, if you use it and don’t like it, let’s chat and decide if what you don’t like can be changed or added. Literally just reach out.
The OP sounds like they work in B&M retail. It’s a completely different ballgame here compared to web shops. In this world, you place an order with a vendor. You typically receive dating terms on invoices. Net 30, 60, 90 or sometimes even net120 dating terms. When the vendor ships products, they quite frequently don’t ship the order complete. You may have to perform 2, 3, 4 or more receivings before the original order is fulfiled. Each receiving will be accompanied with an invoice for the products in that shipment. We don’t order to fulfil customer sales(orders). We order to fill our shelves and have backstock in our stockrooms.
Ok, thanks for the clarification. We also have a B&M store in addition and the app was built 100% on our actual processes.
To handle this, we put in the ability to handle full deliveries (all items show up at once) or “partial deliveries” which would allow you to track those 2, 3 or 4 additional parcels that complete the order over time. Now, sometimes this is expected, sometimes it’s not, but all deliveries are sourced to the same PO.
FyreTrail was honestly custom made for the wholesale to retail, stock your shelves, process. I have lots of plans for the future as well - including adding a lot more visibility into sales and profit maximizing through vendor price comparison.
With Stocky being discontinued in August 2026, the native Shopify Purchase Order system needs a critical update to match its functionality.
Currently, the native receiving screen only shows quantities. For an efficient workflow, we need Cost, Price, and Margin columns visible while scanning/entering inventory.
Why this is essential:
Cost Verification: Catch supplier overcharges in real-time.
Price Accuracy: Spot MSRP or pricing errors before items hit the floor.
Margin Protection: Ensure profitability at the point of entry rather than auditing post-receiving.
Without this data, we lose the financial oversight Stocky currently provides, making the receiving process inefficient and prone to costly errors. Please bring these columns to the native PO interface!
You can do PO’s with the free tier so it doesn’t cost you anything to do them. Are you saying you actually do more than 500/month (it resets each month)? Honest question. If I need to re-evaluate how many then that’s great feedback so thank you.
The actual limits are on the FyreTrail Tier Pricing so let me know if you feel that’s out of whack (and why) if you could.
Ok, fair enough. Allow me to clear up the confusion. With FyreTrail you’re starting at 0 when you sign up no matter how many items you have in Shopify. You build from there because FyreTrail has to store those SKU’s for you (i.e. they take up space in FyreTrail’s systems). I don’t look at what you have before FyreTrail because those are not things I create space for (they’re in Shopify already). I’m trying to keep things manageable on my end as well regarding how much it just costs to run, but trying to keep the costs reasonable in the process.
So really, the question is just, “How long will it take you to build up 1000 more SKUs where you need the next tier?” I also treat SKUs as Variants. I’m not sure how many products vs how many variants you have, but you would fall into the Professional tier if you create 2500 variants in FyreTrail. Until that point though, maybe you’re in the $59/mo Standard tier? If you want to figure this out with me just email me: support@fyretrail.com and I can suggest where you would fall. Until then though I do encourage you to at least try it out (the professional plan is free for two weeks and then you can choose which plan works best for your situation or just uninstall).
Completely agree with @RetailPOSUser. Also, another feature as previously requested: the ability to export a CSV and PDF of the purchase order. Shopify’s inventory reports need to be edited, so they are not suitable evidence for HMRC documentation and inspections. Thank you.
Thanks for this… I’m going to look into it because I need to add in PDF exports on our PO’s anyway and I should align with what the HMRC is looking for. If you have a link to what they deem suitable that would be great. Otherwise, I’ll go hunt for it.
I just need to keep a PDF as evidence of each Stock Transfer and/ or Purchase order - no special format requested by HMRC, just thorough documentation. It is maddening that the facility to export a PDF and or CSV has still not been provided by Shopify for either.
I think this is what you are looking for. This is the purchase order screen on SKUSavvy, which handles everything for purchasing, printing barcodes, vendor portal, costs, landed costs, notes, and full forecasting built right in.
I had to delete my reply to you it was so old! FyreTrail has changed so much and is now a full fledged “Inventory AND Purchase Orders app” so completely better than when it was back in February.
FyreTrail now meets all of what not only what you were asking for, but also what @STRATEGIES and @Galico-Digital were both asking for by way of allowing you to customize what is shown on the Purchase Order.
For you, you had asked that we allow exports of the PO via PDF for record-keeping for the HMRC. That has been in place for quite a while as well.
I don’t remember you ever checking us out, but if you did and I missed you then you may want to give it another shot. Lots of changes across the board after listening to people like you and the other stores that have now installed and are using FyreTrail to the fullest. Even prices have changed from where they were in February and are much more in line with how you use FyreTrail.
