Reorda / Blog / How to transfer stock between Shopify locations (now that Stocky's are gone) · Updated 2026-09-30 · By Reorda

Written August 14, 2026 · 4 min read

How to transfer stock between Shopify locations (now that Stocky's are gone)

If you ran a multi-location Shopify store on Stocky, you already know this problem: Stocky's inventory transfers quietly disappeared in July 2025, before Stocky inventory workflows ended August 31, 2026. Shopify’s native transfers can manage movement between your locations. Reorda offers a separate send/receive workflow if you prefer to manage transfers alongside its purchase orders.

What a real transfer workflow needs

A stock transfer isn't one action, it's two, separated by time and usually by a delivery truck: stock leaves the source location the moment it's picked, and it doesn't land at the destination until someone physically counts it in. Anything that treats it as a single instant edit gets one of those two moments wrong.

Reorda's transfers mirror the same send/receive shape as a purchase order:

• Draft. Pick a from-location and a to-location, add line items by search or barcode scan, set quantities.
• Send. Inventory debits from the source location immediately, the stock has physically left, so Shopify's count should reflect that right away, not whenever someone gets around to receiving it.
• Receive. Partial or full, inventory credits to the destination location only as items are counted in, the same partial-receiving pattern as a purchase order.

The problem with a naive transfer: negative inventory

Here's a detail that's easy to miss until it bites you: Shopify's own inventory-adjustment API does not reject a change that would push a location's available count below zero. That's by design, "continue selling when out of stock" is a checkout-time setting, not something the admin API enforces on its own. A transfer app that sends the debit without checking first will happily let you ship 50 units from a location that only has 12, and Shopify will just show you −38.

Reorda checks real availability at the source location before sending, not after. If any line on the transfer would exceed what's there, the send is blocked with the real number, not a guess, not "insufficient stock," the actual quantity Shopify reports for that location right now, so you can fix it before anything touches your inventory count.

In transit doesn't mean lost

Stock that's shipped but not yet received sits in a gap: it's debited from the source but not yet credited to the destination, so a naive total-inventory view makes it look like it evaporated. Reorda's reorder point calculation knows about that gap, quantity in transit between your own locations is tracked separately and included in effective stock to reduce a false "reorder from supplier" alert. The stock isn't gone, it's just between two shelves.

How to set up a transfer

1. Open Transfers in Reorda and create a new draft.
2. Choose the from-location and to-location, they can't be the same.
3. Add products by search, or scan barcodes with a paired USB/Bluetooth scanner, adding the same item twice merges the quantity instead of creating a duplicate line.
4. Hit Send. If everything's within stock, the transfer moves to in-transit and the source location's inventory drops immediately.
5. When the shipment arrives, open the transfer and hit Receive items, enter what showed up (barcode scanning works here too), which can be less than what was sent if something's missing or damaged in transit.

Transfers are part of Reorda's flat $19/month plan alongside purchase orders, suppliers, low stock forecasting and stocktakes, no extra module, no per-location fee. See the full roadmap for what else has shipped.