Stock transfers

Note

Stocky transfers creation and managment is moving to the Shopify admin in 2025. All eligible transfers will be removed from Stocky and moved to the Shopify admin. Learn more about the Stocky transfers migration.

If you installed the Stocky app before May 12, 2025, then you'll have access to stock transfers functionality, however this feature is scheduled to be sunset in 2025 and historical transfers will migrate to Shopify transfers.

Plan requirement

This feature is available only for locations that are currently on the Shopify POS Pro subscription.

You can track stock transfers between your locations in the Stocky app. This lets you know where your inventory is at all times.

For example, if you’re having a regional sale in California, then you can transfer your stock ahead of time to the closest location to be ready for the sale. When the products arrive, you can accept the stock transfer within Stocky to update your inventory levels.

Stocky Transfers migration to the Shopify admin

Stocky Transfers creation and management will be removed from Stocky and will be moved to the Shopify admin. Transfers in the Shopify admin introduces the following features:

• Multiple shipments: model the fact a transfer might require multiple shipments, for accurate receiving flows.
• Barcode scanning: use your mobile device camera or a connected barcode scanner to add variants to transfers and shipments, and receive variants within a transfer shipment for accurate inventory identification and counting.
• Bulk inventory CSV importing: add variants to your inventory transfer with a CSV upload.
• Shipment level receiving: accept a complete shipment of inventory, for faster receiving.

Considerations for the Stocky Transfers migration to the Shopify admin

Review the following considerations to prepare for Stocky transfers migration to the Shopify admin:

• Stocky can continue to be used to manage Suppliers, Purchase Orders, Stocktakes, and Adjustments.
• The Shopify POS Stocky extension will be automatically updated.
• Existing eligible transfers will be migrated to the Shopify admin and included in Shopify analytics reporting.
• The following transfers are ineligible and won't be migrated:
  • Transfers with same origin and destination
  • Transfers with inactive location(s)
  • Transfers without items
  • Line items with a negative quantity within a transfer
  • Delete line items within a transfer
  • Line items that were “restocked at origin” within a transfer
• Historical transfers will be available in Stocky's Transfers until June 30, 2025.

Limitations of the Stocky Transfers migration to the Shopify admin

Review the following limitations of Stocky Transfers migration to the Shopify admin:

• Replenishments: admin transfers can't be created using the replenishment workflow
• Minimum and Maximum inventory: levels can't be set in Shopify admin
• Barcode printing: isn't availble in the Shopify admin transfers

You can use the Retail Barcode Labels app to print barcodes.

Create a stock transfer

You can use the Stocky app to create stock transfers between your locations.

Steps:

1. In the Stocky app, click Inventory > Transfers.
2. Click Create transfer.
3. Enter the locations the stock is moving between, and then click Create transfer.
4. Add the products and quantities.
5. Optional: to save the transfer as a Draft, click the back arrow.
6. When you're ready to send the products, click Mark as in transit. This reduces the inventory levels at the origin location of the transfer.
7. When the inventory has arrived at the destination of the transfer, click Receive all items. This increases the inventory levels at the destination location of the transfer.

Clone a stock transfer

You can clone an existing transfer to create a new transfer with the same details.

Steps:

1. In the Stocky app, click Inventory > Transfers.
2. Locate the transfer that you want to clone.
3. Click the arrow to open the transfer's menu, and then select Clone.
4. A clone of your transfer opens with a new transfer number. The date of the new transfer is the date you cloned it.
5. Add the products and quantities.
6. Optional: to save the transfer as a Draft, click the back arrow.
7. When you're ready to send the products, click Mark as in transit. This reduces the inventory levels at the origin location of the transfer.
8. When the inventory has arrived at the destination of the transfer, click Receive all items. This increases the inventory levels at the destination location of the transfer.

Receiving inventory transfers with a barcode scanner

Step 1: Add inventory transfers to a POS device's smart grid

Make sure to add an inventory transfer tile to each POS device that will be receiving inventory.

Note

You can manage the Stocky inventory transfers POS extension across all of your retail locations from your Shopify admin. Inventory transfers is a POS Extension that you can add to all locations. To learn more, refer to Activate apps using POS UI Extensions.

Steps:

1. In the Shopify POS app, tap Add tile on the smart grid.
2. Tap App > Stocky.
3. In the Inventory transfers field, tap Add.
4. Tap Save.

Step 2: Receive inventory transfers

1. In the Shopify POS app, tap Inventory transfers on the smart grid.
2. In the In transit tab, tap the inventory transfer that you want to receive.
3. Tap the item in the transfer that you want to receive.
4. Optional: If you received all the items in the transfer, then you can tap Receive all to complete the transfer.
5. Use your barcode scanner to scan each product that you received, or manually update the number of products that was received. If there are products in the transfer that you want to reject, then use the Reject section of the item transfer to change the inventory that you are receiving.
6. Tap Update to finish reviewing the product that you are receiving.
7. After you review each product in the transfer, tap Receive (X) item(s).

The statuses for the items in the transfer are updated to reflect the choices that you made when receiving the stock transfer. To update an item's status, you can click Action > Receive remaining items, or click Barcode scan and follow the steps above.