PODesk Is Officially Live on the Shopify App Store: The Modern Free Stocky Alternative & Purchase Order Generator

The Procurement Crisis in 2026: Why We Built PODesk

Following Shopify's official discontinuation of Stocky, over 50,000 merchants found themselves stranded without a native purchase order workflow. The market offered two deeply flawed solutions:

• Disjointed Spreadsheets: Merchants were forced back into Google Sheets and Excel, wasting 4+ hours every week and risking disastrous out-of-stock blindspots on bestseller SKUs.
• Overpriced Enterprise ERPs: Heavy external software costing $150 to $350/month that required 3 to 6 weeks of painful onboarding just to send a basic vendor purchase order.

We realized that 90% of growing Shopify brands don't need complex, multi-tiered enterprise bloat. They need a fast, 100% native Shopify-embedded app that makes supplier purchasing, stockout alerts, and inventory receiving take less than 30 seconds.

That is why we built PODesk.

5 Core Capabilities Built for Scaling Shopify Brands

1. 1-Click Purchase Order Generation & Branded PDFs

Create vendor purchase orders in under 30 seconds. Add variants dynamically with automated SKU costing, custom numbering prefixes (PO-YYYYMMDD-XXXX), and download or email print-ready commercial PDF invoices with your brand's official logo and payment terms.

2. 30-Day Sales Velocity & Stockout Forecasting

Never guess when to reorder again. PODesk connects to Shopify GraphQL to calculate your real-time daily burn rate, showing an active countdown of which SKUs are 7, 14, or 30 days away from depletion. Auto-Reorder rounds up replenishment batches directly to your supplier's Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ).

3. 2-Minute 1-Click Stocky CSV Migration

Don't lose your procurement history. PODesk features an intelligent auto-mapping CSV engine that imports your entire legacy Stocky supplier directory, lead times, and SKU unit cost mappings in under 2 minutes.

4. Multi-Location Batch & Partial Receiving

Suppliers frequently fulfill large orders in split shipments. PODesk lets warehouse staff check off received quantities item-by-item with instant Shopify stock sync and hard stops to prevent costly over-receiving dock errors.

5. Native Shopify Polaris Embedded Experience

No external logins. No browser context switching. PODesk lives completely inside your official Shopify Admin using the clean Shopify Polaris design system for maximum speed, security, and team collaboration.

Transparent, Merchant-Friendly Pricing

Unlike enterprise competitors who hide their pricing behind sales demos, PODesk is committed to transparent, accessible software:

How to Install PODesk in Under 2 Minutes

1. Visit our listing on the Shopify App Store.
2. Click Install to connect PODesk with your Shopify store.
3. Import your suppliers via CSV or add them in 1-click.
4. Generate your first professional vendor purchase order immediately!