Why the built-in export is not enough
Most guides tell you to open Stocky and click "Export." That works for some reports, but it has two well-documented gaps that bite exactly when you are trying to leave:
- Suppliers cannot be exported from the UI at all. There is simply no button for it. Merchants have been asking about this on the Shopify forums for months.
- Bulk PO export drops line items.The "Purchase Orders → Export All" option gives you PO headers without the individual SKUs. To get line items you have to open each PO and email yourself a per-PO CSV — impractical if you have hundreds of orders.
The good news: Stocky has a documented read-only v2 API that does expose suppliers and full purchase-order line items. The catch is that this API stops responding on August 31, 2026. That is your hard deadline.
Method A — the API (complete, recommended)
The Stocky API exposes five resources: purchase orders (with line items), suppliers, stock adjustments, stock adjustment items, and tax types. Pulling them yourself means writing paginated requests with two headers (Store-Name and Authorization: API KEY=) and handling rate limits — doable, but fiddly.
The fast path is our free RestockLoop Exporter, which does exactly this for you:
- In Shopify admin, open Stocky and go to Preferences → API. Copy your API key. (On some plans you may need Shopify support to enable API access first.)
- Paste your store name and API key into the exporter. Nothing is saved — the key is used only for this one request and dropped from memory immediately.
- Click export. The tool paginates all five resources and streams a ZIP straight to your browser containing clean CSVs plus the raw JSON.
You end up with suppliers.csv, purchase_orders.csv, po_line_items.csv, stock_adjustments.csv and the rest — structured so they can be imported into replacement apps rather than retyped.
Method B — manual UI export (fallback after August 31)
Shopify keeps Stocky read-only for roughly 90 days after shutdown (until about November 30, 2026). If you miss the API window, you can still:
- Export reports and stock adjustments from the UI as CSV.
- Open each purchase order individually and use "Email with CSV attachment" to capture its line items.
- Manually copy supplier details into a spreadsheet, one supplier at a time — the only way to save them without the API.
This is tedious and incomplete, which is exactly why exporting via the API before August 31 is worth doing now.
What you cannot export (screenshot it)
Some configuration lives only inside Stocky and is not available even through the API: supplier lead times, MOQs, case packs, reorder rules and forecasting settings, plus transfers (already removed in July 2025). If you depend on these, take screenshots or notes before the shutdown so you can rebuild them in your next tool.
Do it this week
The single highest-value action is to pull a full API export now, while the endpoint is live. Once you have the ZIP, you can evaluate replacements at your own pace — and import the data in one step when you pick one.