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Scan-Z vs Stocky

Stocky is Shopify's built-in inventory tool, and it's good at what it does. It just can't look up a product by barcode, fetch its data, or tell you the market price.

Scan-Z compared with Stocky
Feature	Scan-Z	Stocky
Scan a UPC barcode to look up product data	Yes	No
Auto-fill product title, description, brand	Yes	No
Live market price comparison (low / avg / high)	Yes	No
One-click product creation in Shopify	Yes	No
USB barcode scanner support	Yes	No
Phone camera barcode scanning	Yes	No
Works for adding brand-new products	Yes	No
Purchase order management	No	Yes
Inventory forecasting	No	Yes
Supplier management	No	Yes
Free to use	No	Yes

What Stocky is built for

Stocky is a solid inventory tool built into Shopify. It manages purchase orders, forecasts demand and tracks supplier relationships. If your products already exist and you need to reorder them efficiently, Stocky does that well — and it's free.

Where Stocky falls short

Stocky assumes the product already exists. There is no way to scan a barcode, look up what the item actually is, or create a listing from it. There's no market price data either. For merchants who regularly add new products — resellers, dropshippers, wholesale buyers — Stocky doesn't help with the part that takes the time.

Use them together

These two aren't competing for the same job. Scan-Z gets new products into your store fast, from a barcode. Stocky keeps track of what you already have. Plenty of merchants run both.

Add the products Stocky can't touch

Start free with 10 scans a month; paid plans from $5/month. Scan a barcode, see the market price, create the product — in under a minute.

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