Practical guides on forecasting, reordering, and purchasing for Shopify merchants — from the team behind Stockwik.
Suppliers sell in cases and minimums, not the 33 loose units your math suggested. How to order the way suppliers actually sell without breaking your planning.
ReorderingBest sellers stock out for predictable reasons — static alerts, invisible lead times, slow reactions. A playbook for keeping your top products in stock.
PurchasingReceiving is where inventory accuracy is won or lost. How to receive against POs, handle short shipments and partials, and keep costs current.
Shopify basicsWhat Shopify's built-in inventory tools cover, and the planning jobs they leave to you — forecasting, reorder points, and knowing how much to buy.
PurchasingA practical purchase-order workflow for Shopify merchants — from reorder suggestion to sent PO to received stock — without spreadsheets or email archaeology.
OperationsHow to move stock between Shopify locations without losing track of it — statuses, receiving, short shipments, and when to transfer instead of reorder.
ReorderingSafety stock protects you from demand spikes and late deliveries. How to size the buffer in days of demand, when to raise or lower it, and what it costs.
ForecastingSales velocity — how fast each product sells — drives every good reorder decision. How to measure it, why plain averages mislead, and how to put it to work.
Stocky migrationStocky shuts down August 31, 2026. What still works, what data you can (and can't) export, and a step-by-step plan to move your Shopify store off it.
Stocky migrationWhat you can export from Stocky before the Aug 31, 2026 shutdown, what you can't (supplier data), and how to save everything that matters.
Stocky migrationAn honest comparison of Stocky replacements for Shopify — including where each one fits, where ours doesn't, and how to choose before the Aug 31, 2026 shutdown.
ReorderingThe reorder point formula (daily sales × lead time + safety stock), a worked example, and how to automate it across every variant in your Shopify store.
ForecastingHow to forecast inventory for a Shopify store — sales velocity, days of stock, seasonality, and turning forecasts into actual purchase orders.
Industry playbooksWhy apparel inventory is a variant problem — size curves, broken runs, case packs, long lead times — and how to plan reorders at the size/color level.
