The Stocky alternative purpose-built for cost of goods sold
Stocky was five apps in one. Four have easy replacements. The fifth, knowing what your stock actually cost, is the one your accountant asks about at every close.
Shopify has retired Stocky and points former Stocky users to the Shopify admin and Shopify POS. Shopify native inventory covers purchase orders, transfers and adjustments, but Cost per item is still a static field, and Shopify's own migration guide states that weighted-average or landed-cost allocation requires a third-party app. Landara is that app for the cost side.
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What went when Stocky went
Stocky is gone. For the stores that relied on it for cost tracking, the thing waiting underneath is a spreadsheet, and a spreadsheet cannot see a sale. Whatever replaces it has to beat that without carrying the weight of a full inventory management system.
Inventory cost tracking
No built-in way left to value inventory or produce a real cost of goods sold figure.
Stocktakes
Physical counts and variance adjustments went with Stocky's stocktake tool.
Purchase order costing
Landed cost per unit, freight and duty folded in, is gone from the Shopify workflow.
Reports for your books
No period COGS number to hand your bookkeeper or post to Xero / QuickBooks.
What Shopify replaced, and what it did not
Shopify absorbed most of Stocky's quantity side into the admin. It did not absorb the cost side, and it says so.
Shopify native now does
- Purchase orders, which Sidekick can draft
- Transfers between locations
- Adjustments with reason codes and a full audit trail
- Barcode receiving and quick counts in POS
Shopify native still does not
- Cost stock by FIFO or weighted average
- Allocate freight, duty or clearance into unit cost
- Produce a COGS figure or inventory valuation for your accountant
- Post anything to Xero or QuickBooks
Source: Shopify Help Center, Transitioning from Stocky. Checked September 2026, when it read "Stocky is no longer available as of August 31, 2026."
Everything you need from Stocky, tied to your books
Perpetual FIFO COGS
Each receipt becomes a dated cost layer; every Shopify order depletes the oldest first. Choose FIFO or moving average.
Stocktakes + barcode scanning
Count by hand or with a USB/Bluetooth scanner (or camera). The variance posts straight to COGS: shrinkage costed FIFO, found stock added at cost.
Bookkeeper-ready journal
A clean period COGS figure and a Dr COGS / Cr Inventory journal. Post it to Xero or QuickBooks, or export a CSV.
Landed cost per unit
Upload a PO and supplier invoice; freight and duty fold into every unit's cost before it ever hits your books.
Sync costs back to Shopify
Push true landed unit costs into Shopify so its own product cost and profit reports line up too.
Reconcile vs Shopify
Compare Shopify on-hand to your cost basis on demand and turn any drift into a costed adjustment.
What only Landara does
Plenty of tools will show you a cost. These are the differences that decide whether the number survives contact with your accountant, and they are why a cost ledger is not interchangeable with a forecasting app, a purchase order app or a spreadsheet.
Cost layers per receipt, not one cost field
Shopify holds a single cost per variant and overwrites it whenever it changes, so last month's cost is simply gone. Landara keeps a dated layer for every receipt, which is what FIFO requires and what makes the figure auditable months later.
A journal your accountant posts, not a number you retype
A Dr COGS / Cr Inventory journal ready for Xero or QuickBooks, alongside revaluation, write-down and shrinkage journals. You review it and you post it. Landara never writes to your ledger unasked.
Landed cost inside the layer, not on a spreadsheet beside it
Freight, duty, insurance and clearance are allocated across the units on the shipment, so the layer that depletes on a sale already carries what it truly cost to land those goods.
Recoverable import tax stays recoverable, never capitalised
Import GST and VAT are reclaimable, so they never inflate inventory value, while customs duty correctly does. Tools that treat every border charge alike overstate landed cost and leave the tax off your BAS.
Two costing bases, not one opinion
Cost at sale and cost at fulfilment, switchable whenever you need. They are two views of the same COGS and are never summed, so you can match whichever basis your accountant works from.
A ledger with no delete button, not an editable history
A correction is a reversing movement, never a deletion, so the audit trail behind a period you have already posted stays intact. That is the difference between a record and a working file.
Shopify keeps owning quantity, so there is no migration
Landara never maintains a competing stock-on-hand number and never asks you to move inventory into another system. Connect it, and it costs the movements Shopify already reports.
Built for the cost side only, and honest about it
Landara does not forecast demand or run your reorder workflow, and will tell you so. It does the one job that has an accounting deadline behind it, which is why it sits happily beside whatever you pick for planning.
The late-invoice test
A container of 1,000 units lands. Supplier invoice: $10,000 ($10/unit). You receive stock, Shopify Cost per item says $10, and you sell 400 units in the first three weeks. Then the forwarder bills $1,800 freight and the customs broker bills $700 duty + $250 clearance. True landed cost is $12.75/unit. COGS on the 400 units sold is understated by $1,100, and the 600 on hand are undervalued by $1,650.
With Shopify alone, nothing changes unless someone retypes Cost per item, and even then the 400 already sold stay at $10. With Landara, you attach the two invoices to the shipment: the FIFO layer re-costs to $12.75, the period COGS journal trues up, and Shopify Cost per item updates.
Stocky vs Landara vs a full IMS
| Capability | Stocky (retired) | Landara | Full IMS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perpetual FIFO COGS | partial | ||
| Stocktakes + barcode | |||
| Ready-to-post COGS journal | partial | ||
| Landed cost per unit (freight + duty) | partial | ||
| No migration / lives on Shopify | |||
| Still supported going forward |
Landara adds the cost layer and cost of goods sold on top of Shopify, without becoming a full inventory platform.
Pick the two tools that do the jobs you need
Stocky was one app doing four jobs. Nothing is one app doing four jobs any more.
| Job | Tool |
|---|---|
| Count stock, receive purchase orders, transfer between locations | Shopify native (free) |
| Forecast demand, plan reorders | Prediko, Cogsy, Inventory Planner, Fabrikator |
| Cost stock, allocate freight and duty, post COGS | Landara |
| Replace Shopify inventory entirely | Cin7 Core, Unleashed, Katana (expect an implementation) |
Most ex-Stocky stores need the first row plus one of the next two. Very few need the last. See all comparisons.
Picking the cost side back up
- 1Find any Stocky export you took before access ended. If you have one, it is the only copy of that history you control. If you do not, nothing below depends on it.
- 2Install Landara from the Shopify App Store and connect Xero or QuickBooks Online.
- 3Seed an opening FIFO baseline from Shopify on-hand quantities and unit costs in one sync.
- 4Cost forward. New purchase orders and freight invoices go in as documents, and historical Stocky POs can be uploaded too if you want the cost history.
Still weighing a full IMS against a cost layer?
Open the assistant you already trust with a prompt that points it at our public product file and asks it to interview you about what you actually used Stocky for, then recommend a path. It is told to say so plainly if Landara is not the right tool for you.
Read the exact prompt we send
Shopify has retired its Stocky app and I need to replace it. Please fetch https://landara.co/llms-full.txt to learn what Landara does, then help me decide honestly between two paths: moving to a full inventory management system (like Cin7 or Katana), or keeping Shopify as my inventory system and adding a cost layer like Landara for FIFO cost of goods sold, landed cost, stocktakes, and the monthly journal my bookkeeper posts. Ask me what I actually used Stocky for (purchase orders, stocktakes, COGS reports), my order volume, whether I import or manufacture, and whether Shopify's own inventory tracking works for me, then recommend the path that fits, including telling me plainly if Landara is not the right fit.
Questions about replacing Stocky
Has Stocky gone?
Yes. Shopify has retired Stocky, and directs former Stocky users to manage inventory in the Shopify admin and Shopify POS. If you exported your purchase orders and stocktake history before access ended, keep that file, because it is the only copy you control. If you did not, Landara can still start costing from your Shopify on-hand quantities and unit costs.
Does Shopify have a built-in Stocky replacement?
For quantities, purchase orders, transfers and adjustments, yes. Shopify native inventory covers all of that. For costing and cost of goods sold it does not, and Shopify’s own migration guide points to third-party apps for weighted-average or landed-cost allocation.
Is Landara an inventory management system?
No. Shopify stays your inventory system and keeps owning quantity. Landara adds the cost layer underneath it: FIFO cost layers per receipt, landed cost per unit, COGS on every order, and the journal for your books.
Do I need my Stocky data to start?
No. Landara seeds an opening cost baseline directly from Shopify on-hand quantities and unit costs, so you can be costing forward the same day without touching Stocky. If you did keep an export, historical Stocky purchase orders can be uploaded as documents afterwards for the cost history behind them.
What do I use for forecasting and reordering now?
A planning app. Prediko, Cogsy, Inventory Planner and Fabrikator all replace that half of Stocky. Landara does not forecast and does not try to, which is why it sits beside a planner rather than competing with one.
What does Landara cost?
Landara is priced by monthly Shopify orders, with unlimited users and no contract. There is a free tier, and landed cost and FIFO costing are included on every plan including the free one. See landara.co/pricing for the current bands.
“Landara has made it much easier to keep track of my actual product costs. I really like that it takes things like shipping and duties into account instead of just showing the basic cost. Simple app, easy to use, and I’m already getting a much clearer idea of my real margins.”
“I installed Landara because I was getting tired of guessing what my inventory was actually costing me. What I liked most was being able to see the product cost together with things like shipping and duties, I've been trying to keep a closer eye on my margins, so having those costs in one place has made things much easier for me. It didn't take me long to get setup either, which was a nice bonus.”
“I honestly didn’t expect Landara to make this part of my store that much easier. I installed it mainly to get a better handle on my actual product costs, and I was pleasantly surprised by how everything comes together. I’m still exploring it, but so far it’s been really useful and I’m impressed with how it works.”
“I've just started using Landara, and so far I'm impressed with how it handles landed costs. I especially like being able to account for things like freight and duty instead of treating the supplier price as the whole cost. Still exploring the app, but it already looks like it could save me a lot of spreadsheet work.”
The cost side, after Stocky
Perpetual FIFO COGS, stocktakes with barcode scanning, and a bookkeeper-ready journal, on top of the Shopify you already run.