With Stocky shutting down on August 31, I’m curious how multi-location Shopify merchants are planning to handle inventory going forward.
I’m researching workflows for stores that:
Ship 1K–10K orders/month
Use 2–3 warehouse locations
A few questions I’m trying to understand:
1. What are you planning to replace Stocky with?
(Another app, spreadsheets, Shopify native, something else?)
2. What are the biggest pain points with your current inventory workflow?
3. Which features are essential for multi-location inventory?
Examples I’ve heard so far:
Purchase order management
Transfers between locations
Demand forecasting
Low stock alerts
4. What price range feels reasonable for an inventory tool like this?
For context: I previously worked on multi-location inventory systems in the transportation industry and I’m trying to understand whether Shopify merchants face similar problems.
If anyone is open to sharing more detail about their workflow, I’d appreciate hearing more.
We’ve worked with our customers that fit this profile and here were some of their pain points that we work with them to address.
Inventory:
Not knowing when to reorder products and how much to order based on past sales trends and forecasted adjustments, and vendor lead times
Time consuming process to create POs
Trying to determine optimal inventory levels at each warehouse
Maintaining accurate inventory. Not using barcodes, and intuitive bin locations/naming
Fulfillment:
For this order volume, you need to be doing sku location slotting and multi-order picking. I’m shocked at how much time is wasted by companies this size still printing out orders to fulfill in FIFO sequence and one at a time. You can easily reduce pick time by 1/2 utilizing these things.
Shipping:
Packers determining which box shipping box to use. Since they don’t want to have to try a perfect fit box and then find out it won’t fit and have to build a new, larger box, they’ll error to the larger box, increasing shipping costs. Using an algorithm to figure out the smallest box size saves time for the user and shipping costs.
Manually comparing shipping rates from multiple carriers is so time consuming. This is easy for our system to do automatically to ensure you use the lowest cost carrier/service and save the manual time selecting.