Shopify shuts Stocky down on 31 August 2026
Know what you owe, and what your stock actually cost
Purser puts purchase orders, barcode receiving and accounts payable in the Shopify admin you already use. Shopify keeps only the last price you paid. Purser keeps every price and averages it across each delivery, so the margin you read is the margin you are earning.
Free plan, five purchase orders a month. Pro $37.99 a month. No transaction fees, no per-location charge.
Email support@gopurser.com with any questions before you install.
$0
Free plan
5
Purchase orders a month, free
$37.99
Pro, unlimited, per month
0
Transaction fees, ever
The money layer
One loop, from the order to the balance owed
Purchase order apps stop when the stock arrives. Accounting tools start when the invoice does. Purser owns the part in the middle, where what you ordered, what turned up, and what you owe for it have to agree.
Order
01PO-1005
Raised
Receive
025 units
Added to Shopify
Owe
03$100.00
Due 13 Aug
Order
01PO-1005
Raised
Receive
025 units
Added to Shopify
Owe
03$100.00
Due 13 Aug
Buying and receiving
- Build a purchase order from your catalogue, on one screen
- Scan stock in: quantity, cost, retail price, live margin, on-hand, all on one row
- Weighted-average cost recalculated on every delivery, including part-deliveries
Accounts payable
- Invoice numbers, due dates, and paid, partly paid or unpaid
- What you owe each supplier, aged: current, 1 to 30 days, 31 days and over
- Export the ledger for your bookkeeper
Cost per item
Cost that is right, and stays right.
Shopify stores one cost per item, the last price you paid. Purser keeps a weighted average across every delivery and leaves your history alone.
Weighted average cost
$13.33
10 at $10.00 + 5 at $20.00 ÷ 15
A $6.67 gap on every one of those fifteen units, carried into every margin figure you read.
Why Purser
Built for the merchant Stocky left behind
Accounts payable, without the QuickBooks detour.
Nearly every alternative pushes what you owe out into accounting software and calls it handled. Purser keeps the ledger in Shopify: invoice numbers, due dates, paid, partly paid, unpaid, and a running balance for every supplier. Export it when your bookkeeper asks. Do not rebuild it there.
Cost that is right, and stays right.
Shopify stores one cost per item, the last price you paid. Purser keeps a weighted average across every delivery and leaves your history alone.
Receiving on one screen.
Scan a barcode and the row is already there: quantity, what you actually paid, the retail price, the live margin, and what is on hand. No wizard. No second screen to fix the quantity you just typed.
It lives where you work.
Purser is a Shopify admin app built on Shopify's own design system. No separate login, no nightly sync to babysit, no third-party API to fall over on a Friday.
Average unit cost
The number Stocky gave you that Shopify does not
Stocky calculated an average unit cost: the average of what you actually paid across every delivery, updated each time a purchase order was received. Shopify’s own documentation says it plainly.
“Average unit costs are unique to Stocky and don’t display in Shopify.”
When Stocky goes on 31 August 2026, that number goes with it. Shopify’s admin keeps a single cost per item, overwritten by the last purchase order you received. Purser calculates a weighted average across every delivery, including partial ones, and keeps the history behind it.
Side by side
Where the difference actually shows up
| Capability | Shopify on its own | Inventory and forecasting apps | Purser |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purchase order speed | Multi-step, several screens | Check with vendor | One screen, one pass |
| Cost per item | Last price paid | Check with vendor | Weighted average, every receipt |
| Accounts payable | Bill Pay, US merchants only | Check with vendor | Native ledger and aging |
| Bringing your Stocky history | Manual CSV cleanup | Check with vendor | CSV import, free on every plan |
Checked July 2026. Competitor behaviour changes. Check it yourself before you decide.
Accounts payable
What you owe, aged, in Shopify
Invoice numbers, due dates, and paid, partly paid or unpaid. What you owe each supplier, aged. Export the ledger for your bookkeeper.
- Current
- 1 to 30 days
- 31 days and over
$100.00
PO-1005, New Supplier Co, due 13 August
Questions
The five people ask first
What happens to my Stocky data when it shuts down?
Nothing carries over on its own. Shopify does not import Stocky's purchase orders, supplier records or receiving history, and after 31 August 2026 the app and its API stop working. Export your data to CSV before then, whatever you decide to use next. Purser imports those CSVs, and the import is free on every plan.
Does Purser calculate true weighted-average cost?
Yes. Shopify records only the last price you paid on a purchase order and applies it to every unit you hold. Purser weights the cost of the stock you already had against the stock arriving, and recalculates on each receipt, including partial deliveries, so your margin figures reflect what you actually paid.
Does Purser sync with QuickBooks or Xero?
No, and that is the point. Every other app pushes what you owe out into accounting software, which is exactly the workflow merchants told us they were tired of. Purser keeps the payables ledger inside Shopify, and exports it as CSV whenever your bookkeeper wants it. A direct accounting integration is not on the roadmap for launch.
Is there really a free plan?
Yes. Five purchase orders a month, with every other feature switched on: accounts payable, weighted-average cost, receiving, corrections, credit notes and the CSV import. Pro is $37.99 a month and lifts the purchase-order limit and emails orders to suppliers. Drop back to the free plan and your data stays readable and exportable.
Do you charge transaction fees or per-location fees?
No. There is no fee per purchase order, per unit received, or per location. Pro is one flat monthly price.
31 August 2026
Stocky stops working on 31 August 2026
The supplier records, costs and purchase-order history you built over years do not move to Shopify by themselves. Export them, bring them into Purser, and keep the ledger you have been running your shop on.
Free plan, five purchase orders a month. Pro is $37.99 a month, flat.