Native purchase orders after Stocky: getting the supplier file right

From Shopify's Help Center page on migrating from Stocky, as retrieved on 2 October 2026 (source):

• Stocky was delisted from the Shopify App Store on 2 February 2026.
• Stocky is no longer available as of 31 August 2026, and Stocky APIs stopped working on that date. Inventory is now managed in the Shopify admin and Shopify POS.
• After 31 August 2026 you have read-only access to export your Stocky data for at least 90 days.
• Historical data such as old purchase orders and stocktakes doesn't move into Shopify automatically. To keep it, export the records you want using Stocky's built-in reports.
• Historical purchase orders can't be imported into Shopify. The native CSV upload for purchase orders only adds product line items to a new draft purchase order; it can't import past statuses, received quantities or supplier links.
• Suppliers can't be exported from Stocky.

Check that page for the current position before planning around these dates.

Nothing here, and nothing in Supplier Bridge, migrates, restores or recovers historical Stocky purchase orders. If you need those records, follow Shopify's instructions to export them from Stocky while read-only access lasts. The rest of this page is about new purchase orders created natively in Shopify.

With native purchase orders, Shopify lets you export an order as a PDF (More actions → Export PDF) to submit to your supplier (Creating purchase orders). It also offers report exports with Shopify's own columns, such as the purchase order cost report linked from the Stocky guide. If your suppliers accept a PDF, or that report, you may not need anything else.

Where a supplier imports orders into their own system, they usually need a CSV with their column names, order and delimiter. Before switching suppliers over to orders from native purchase orders, check for each one:

1. What file they accept today: PDF, email body, CSV upload, or a portal form.
2. If CSV, their current specification: headers, column order, delimiter, header row, and any fixed codes such as your account number.
3. Whether your native purchase orders carry the supplier's own product codes in the supplier SKU on each line. Shopify fills this from previous orders with the supplier, or uses your variant SKU when none is on file, so the first orders with each supplier need checking.
4. Who checks the first file with the supplier before you rely on it.

The field-mapping guide goes through each of these checks in detail.

After Stocky, you can choose between staying on Shopify's native inventory features or moving purchasing into a separate inventory or purchasing platform. Both are reasonable; they solve different problems.

If you only need the supplier file, a narrow export step keeps your purchase orders where Shopify keeps them. If you need purchasing features that Shopify's native tools don't provide (Shopify's migration guide lists what is built in), compare dedicated inventory systems instead, and check each vendor's claims about historical data.

Supplier Bridge exports one existing native purchase order at a time as a CSV built from a saved supplier template, with your choice of columns, order, fixed values, delimiter and header row. Orders up to 2,000 lines are supported; larger orders are refused rather than truncated. It produces CSV only, not XLSX, and it is not an inventory system.