We converted to Shopify Purchase Orders since the Stocky sunset, but the current PO workflow stops short of accounts-payable management. We built a working prototype that extends Shopify’s existing Purchase Orders with supplier payment terms, invoice/ship/expected dates, payment due dates, payment tracking and partial payments, supplier credits and applying credits to future POs, multi-currency handling, and CSV export.
The key value is that all of this remains tied directly to Shopify’s native Purchase Orders rather than requiring merchants to maintain a separate AP system.
While we’ve been able to prototype this as an app, our preference would be for these capabilities to become part of Shopify’s native Purchase Order functionality. Maintaining a separate app means hosting the application and storing data that would ideally live directly alongside the PO data in Shopify (mimicking Stocky).
I’d be happy to share the working prototype, code, and more detail on the workflow with the Shopify product team if this is an area you’re exploring. I think there’s an opportunity to make Purchase Orders significantly more useful as an end-to-end purchasing and accounts-payable tool for merchants.
