Stockfeed

Keep your stock in step with your suppliers: read their stock files on a schedule, matched by SKU.

Free plan, paid from $14.99 a monthIn review

Stockfeed is a Shopify app that keeps your stock in step with your suppliers. Most suppliers publish their stock as a file: a CSV at a link, a shared Google Sheet, a file in Dropbox. Stockfeed reads it on a schedule, matches its rows to your products by SKU and sets their stock, so you don’t sell what your supplier no longer has.

One screen to set up: paste the file’s address. Stockfeed reads its first line and picks the SKU, stock and price columns itself, whatever the file calls them, with commas, semicolons or tabs between them and either decimal style.
Preview first: see every change a run would make before it makes any. Each run lists what it changed.
Reads what suppliers write: “12 pcs” is 12, “>50” is 50, “out of stock” is 0. Rows it can’t read are counted and skipped.
Your rules: the location to stock, only one vendor’s products, a safety buffer kept back, and whether that vendor’s products missing from the file go to 0.
Prices: set your prices from the file’s cost, with your markup, rounded up to .99 or a whole amount.

Plans

Billed by Shopify.

Free: one feed of up to 500 rows, read daily.
Pro: up to five feeds of 25,000 rows each, read as often as every hour, and prices from the file. $14.99 a month or $149 a year, with a 7-day free trial. Your price stays the same for as long as you keep the plan; cancel any time from the app.

Good to know

The file has to be reachable at a link without signing in: a Google Sheet shared with anyone who has the link, a Dropbox share link, or a file on the supplier’s own server. FTP, Excel and XML files aren’t read yet.
Stockfeed changes stock and prices only; it doesn’t create products from the file.
A variant that doesn’t track its stock at the feed’s location is left alone and counted in the run’s summary.
Each run sets your stock to the supplier’s number, less the buffer. Orders between runs lower it as usual, and the next run sets it to the supplier’s figure again.

Try it

Two sample supplier files, for a development store: supplier.csv (SKUs SF-1001 to SF-1010) and northwind.csv (semicolons and decimal commas). Give a product one of their SKUs, add a feed with the file’s address and click Preview.

Support

Write to spyridwn.pd@gmail.com with your store’s address (your-store.myshopify.com) and, if it’s about a feed, the file’s address.