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Stocky is Shopify's built-in inventory management tool. It's great at what it does — but it can't look up a product by barcode, fetch product data, or show you market prices. Scan-Z was built to solve exactly those problems.
| Feature | Scan-Z | Stocky |
|---|---|---|
| Scan UPC barcode to look up product data | ✓ | — |
| Auto-fill product title, description, brand | ✓ | — |
| Live market price comparison (low / avg / high) | ✓ | — |
| One-click product creation in Shopify | ✓ | — |
| USB barcode scanner support | ✓ | — |
| Phone camera barcode scanning | ✓ | — |
| Purchase order management | — | ✓ |
| Inventory forecasting | — | ✓ |
| Supplier management | — | ✓ |
| Free to use | — | ✓ |
| Works for adding new products | ✓ | — |
Stocky is a solid inventory management tool built directly into Shopify. It helps you manage purchase orders, forecast demand, and keep track of supplier relationships. If you already have products in your store and need to reorder them efficiently, Stocky does that well — and it's free.
Stocky assumes your products already exist. It has no mechanism to scan a barcode, look up what the product actually is, or create a new listing. It also has no market price data — you won't know what a product sells for across the market from within Stocky. For merchants who regularly add new products (resellers, dropshippers, wholesale buyers), Stocky simply doesn't help.
Scan-Z and Stocky aren't competing for the same job. Scan-Z handles getting new products into your store — fast, from a barcode. Stocky handles keeping track of what you already have. Many merchants use both: Scan-Z to add products, Stocky to manage reorders.
Try Scan-Z free for 3 days. Scan a barcode, create a product, see the market price — in under a minute.
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