Comparison
Stockroom vs Shopify for inventory & back office
Shopify is an excellent storefront and checkout, but its native inventory is intentionally basic: counts and simple transfers, no costing depth. Stockroom is the operational back office behind it: purchasing, landed cost, reservations, audits and multi-location truth, with reports your storefront can't produce. And it connects directly, so this isn't a second system to key everything into twice: you choose what sells online, stock stays in step the moment it moves, and web orders arrive here to pick and pack.
Where Shopify shines
Shopify is a best-in-class online store and POS with a huge ecosystem and smooth checkout.
Where it stops
Native inventory has no weighted-average cost ledger, no landed cost, no purchase-order receiving flow, no cycle-count audits and no reservations, so margin, valuation and true reorder timing live outside Shopify.
Side by side
Stockroom vs Shopify, capability by capability
A fair look at what each tool covers. Plan-dependent items are noted rather than dismissed.
| Capability | Shopify | Stockroom |
|---|---|---|
| Online store & checkout | Not our job | |
| Connects to your store (stock out, orders in) | N/A | |
| Basic stock counts & transfers | ||
| Purchase orders & receiving | App required | |
| Weighted-average cost & COGS | Limited | |
| Landed cost (freight allocation) | ||
| Reservations / available-to-promise | Basic | |
| Cycle-count audits + variance | ||
| Kits / bundles + units of measure | App required | |
| Lot / expiry traceability | ||
| Inventory valuation & P&L reports | Limited |
Online store & checkout
- Shopify
- Stockroom
- Not our job
Connects to your store (stock out, orders in)
- Shopify
- N/A
- Stockroom
Basic stock counts & transfers
- Shopify
- Stockroom
Purchase orders & receiving
- Shopify
- App required
- Stockroom
Weighted-average cost & COGS
- Shopify
- Limited
- Stockroom
Landed cost (freight allocation)
- Shopify
- Stockroom
Reservations / available-to-promise
- Shopify
- Basic
- Stockroom
Cycle-count audits + variance
- Shopify
- Stockroom
Kits / bundles + units of measure
- Shopify
- App required
- Stockroom
Lot / expiry traceability
- Shopify
- Stockroom
Inventory valuation & P&L reports
- Shopify
- Limited
- Stockroom
Why teams switch
What you gain moving to Stockroom
Shopify merchants who need real costing, purchasing and audits behind the storefront.
The back-office depth you unlock
- A true weighted-average cost ledger: every movement is signed and costed, so on hand, COGS and margin are always reconciled.
- Landed cost: freight allocates across received lines so your unit cost reflects reality, not just the invoice.
- Reservations / available to promise and backorders derived from confirmed orders. You never oversell.
- Real cycle-count audits with live shrink, overage and accuracy metrics, not just a manual stock adjustment.
- Per-location truth with a request/ship/receive transfer workflow; stock only moves on receipt.
- Two-way Square sync so you can keep selling on Square while Stockroom owns your inventory truth.
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