Why suppliers are the data that hurts most
When merchants talk about migrating off Stocky, the recurring theme on the Shopify community forums is not forecasting — it is the fear of manually re-keying suppliers. If you have dozens or hundreds of vendors, each with contact names, emails, account numbers and addresses, rebuilding that by hand in a new app is hours of error-prone work.
It gets worse: many shops order primarily by vendor relationship, not by sales velocity. As one merchant put it, "99% of our orders are from vendors" placed on negotiated purchasing tiers and terms. Lose the supplier records and you lose the backbone of how you actually buy.
The catch: the Stocky UI cannot export suppliers
This is the frustrating part. Open Stocky, look through every export option, and you will not find a way to export your supplier list. It simply is not there. Shopify's own migration guidance effectively confirms suppliers are not part of the standard export path — which is why so many merchants assume the data is trapped.
It is not trapped. It is just hidden behind the API instead of the UI.
The fix: Stocky's v2 API exposes suppliers
Stocky ships a documented, read-only v2 API. Its /suppliersendpoint returns exactly what the UI won't:
- Supplier name and company name
- Account number
- Contact name and contact email
- Address, phone and fax
The endpoint supports pagination (up to 250 records per page via since_id), so even large supplier lists come out cleanly. The only hard limit is time: the API stops responding on August 31, 2026, and the read-only UI period afterward still cannot export suppliers. So this must happen before the shutdown.
How to do it
- In Shopify admin, open Stocky → Preferences → API and copy your API key. Some plans require Shopify support to enable API access first.
- Paste your store name and key into the free RestockLoop Exporter. Your key is used only for this request and is never written to disk or logged.
- Download the ZIP. It includes
suppliers.csvalongside your purchase orders, line items, stock adjustments and tax types — plus the raw JSON for a lossless backup.
Prefer to do it yourself? You can call the API directly with the Store-Name and Authorization: API KEY= headers and page through /api/v2/suppliers.json. The exporter just saves you the pagination, CSV-mapping and rate-limit handling.
What you still cannot get
The API returns supplier records, but not the operational settings attached to them inside Stocky — lead times, MOQs, case packs and reorder rules are UI-only and not exposed anywhere. If you rely on those, note them down manually before August 31 so you can recreate them in your replacement app.
Then import without retyping
Once you have suppliers.csv, you never have to type those vendors again. The file is structured to import into replacement tools — and the flat-rate reorder + PO app we are building will restore your suppliers (and their PO history) from the exporter ZIP in a single click, which is something no tool that can't read the supplier data is able to offer.