Low-Stock Reports After Shopify’s Stocky: What Shopify Covers Now, and What It Doesn’t

Shopify’s Stocky was the inventory app included with Shopify POS Pro subscriptions. Shopify removed it from the App Store on February 2, 2026, and after the August 31 shutdown, stores have read-only access to export their data for at least 90 days.

Inventory work now happens in the Shopify admin and Shopify POS. Most of it has a clear new home. The low-stock report is the part that changed the most, so it’s worth being precise about what it did and where each piece lives now.

What the low-stock report in Shopify’s Stocky did

According to Shopify’s help page for the report, it:

• Listed variants that were out of stock or would run out sooner than their lead time, sorted by an estimate of the revenue lost per day while out of stock.
• Showed each variant’s reorder point, lead time, need (the stock needed to cover the lead time) and depletion (the estimated days until it runs out).
• Calculated the reorder point from sales per day and lead time. Shopify’s example: selling 5 a day with a 10-day lead time triggers the warning at 50 left.
• Took the sales rate from a sample period, the last 30 days by default.
• Kept lead times per vendor, with overrides per variant.
• Could email a daily list of low-stock variants, once a day, to one address.

All of that served one question: which products will run out before a new order can arrive?

What Shopify’s admin covers now

Shopify’s migration guide moves everyday inventory work into the admin and POS:

Task	Where it lives now
Purchase orders	Created in the admin, with line items you can import from a CSV. Stock is received through a transfer linked to the purchase order. You can’t email a purchase order from the admin: you download it as a PDF and send it yourself.
Suppliers	Supplier records in the admin, which you assign to purchase orders.
Transfers	Moves between locations, with partial deliveries recorded as separate shipments.
Adjustments and counts	Manual, bulk or barcode adjustments, plus stock counts that a manager can review and approve before inventory changes.
Reports	Default inventory reports, including Inventory remaining per product (days left from a 28-day sales average) and sell-through. Most reports can be filtered, set to a different date range and exported.
Low-stock alerts	Shopify Flow, a free app on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans. You install it and set up workflows from its templates.
Reorder suggestions	Sidekick, Shopify’s built-in assistant. Ask it “What should I reorder?” and it recommends items and can draft the purchase order or transfer.
Min/max levels and lead times	Custom metafields you create, such as a lead time in days for each variant.

The purchasing side, from purchase order to receiving, is covered natively. What’s thinner is the step before it: deciding what to order, and when.

What’s still missing for a daily reorder routine

Lead time isn’t part of any built-in calculation

Shopify has no supplier lead-time field. Its guide suggests a custom metafield such as supplier.lead_time_days, and notes that these metafields are for your reference: they don’t feed into purchase orders.

Shopify’s days-left report doesn’t use lead time either. It divides stock by a flat 28-day sales average, so none of the default inventory reports answers the old report’s question directly.

You answer it by putting two numbers side by side yourself. The 28-day math post shows how.

Reorder amounts come from Sidekick, by a method Shopify doesn’t publish

Sidekick suggests what to reorder and how much when you ask, and Shopify says it can also surface reorder recommendations before you run out. That’s useful. But Shopify doesn’t publish how it calculates the amounts or whether it uses your suppliers’ lead times, and none of the default reports shows a reorder point or a “need” figure for each product.

Alerts follow stock levels, not sales speed

Flow’s templates can email you when a variant’s stock gets low, email a vendor to start a reorder, or send a weekly summary of low-stock variants. The alerts trigger when stock drops below a level you choose.

A level that suits a product selling one a week is far too late for one selling ten a day. That’s why the reorder point in Shopify’s Stocky moved with each product’s own sales. A level you set by hand stays where you put it, so keeping it right means revisiting it as sales change.

Nothing arrives unless you set it up

In Shopify’s Stocky, the daily email was a setting you switched on. Shopify has no built-in report subscription. A scheduled email means building or adapting a Flow workflow, and the reports only help on the days you open them.

Stock on the way is a separate check

The days-left report has no column for stock that’s on its way to you. Before ordering from it, check the Incoming tab on your Inventory page, so you don’t order stock that’s already coming.

A workable routine with Shopify’s own tools

If you’d rather stay with what Shopify offers, this gets you close to what the old report showed:

1. Record lead times. Add a variant metafield for lead time in days, as Shopify suggests, or keep them in a spreadsheet.
2. Once a week, open Inventory remaining per product. Anything with fewer days left than its lead time needs ordering now.
3. Check recent speed. Open Inventory sold daily by product with a 7-day date range. If a product is selling much faster this week, its real days left are shorter than the report says.
4. Check Incoming before you order anything.
5. Work out the amount with Sidekick, or with the formula: sales per day × (lead time + cover days) − in stock − on the way. The reorder calculator does it for one product, and the post on how much to reorder explains each number.
6. Add a Flow alert for your fastest sellers, as a safety net between checks.

The weekly check is the part that slips on a busy week, and it’s the part the old report did for you.

If what you miss most is that daily list, StockDigest is one way to fill the gap. It runs the checks in steps 2 to 5 for every product each morning, using a lead time per product and subtracting stock that’s already on the way, and emails you when something needs attention. The low-stock report page shows what’s in that email.