Enterprise forecasting · Main Street price

Stop guessing what to reorder.

Skucast is the inventory & purchasing command center for Shopify — the demand forecasting big retailers run, plus self-driving purchase orders, vendor scorecards, RMAs, daily action reports, and a built-in AI that answers questions about your stock. Built for shops with 100–10,000 SKUs and real PO volume.

$99/month · 14-day free trial · No credit card · Cancel anytime

Smart Forecaster

Croston's method for intermittent items. Auto-classifies every SKU. Tells you exactly when to reorder — before you stock out.

Live view from a real Skucast dashboard

SKU
Product
On Hand
ETA
Tier
391-2-C
12V Solenoid
6
Jun 2
Urgent
KWR-005
Wireless Remote
8
Jun 2
Urgent
74-06
15' Extension Cord
10
Jun 2
Urgent
395-55
2-Button Remote
28
Jun 6
Soon
HP-2200
Hydraulic Pump
42
OK
The big-retailer playbook

The forecasting national chains run — without the six-figure software.

Big-box retailers don't reorder on gut feel. They run statistical demand models that treat a slow-moving spare part differently from a top seller, and trigger replenishment automatically. That technology normally costs hundreds of thousands a year.

Skucast puts the same class of method — Croston's intermittent-demand forecasting, automatic SKU classification, and rule-based auto-replenishment — in a Shopify app any independent shop can run for $99 a month.

Enterprise demand-planning suites
Six figures/yr · months to implement · a team to run it
Basic Shopify reorder apps
Naive sales averages · break on the long tail · constant babysitting
Skucast
Enterprise-grade method · live in 10 minutes · $99/mo

Your whole back office, in one Shopify app.

Forecasting, purchasing, receiving, returns, vendor management, daily reports, and a built-in AI — the command center for shops that buy and resell real inventory.

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Croston-method forecasting

Auto-classifies every SKU as smooth, lumpy, dead, seasonal, or new — and recommends reorder quantities from real demand patterns, not naive averages.

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Self-driving reorder

Every evening Skucast drafts the purchase orders your forecast says you need — grouped by vendor, ready for you to glance at and send. Replenishment runs itself.

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Purchase orders that don't suck

Create, email, and receive POs. Magic-link acknowledgement lets suppliers confirm in one click. Partial receives, shipping-cost blending, ETA tracking, bundle expansion.

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Margin-drift alerts

When a supplier quietly raises costs and your margin slips, Skucast flags it the moment you receive the PO — before it eats your profit for months.

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Protect your ad budget

Sold-out products keep burning Google & Meta ad spend on clicks that can't convert — and trip Merchant Center disapprovals. Stay in stock with Skucast and your paid traffic only ever lands on what's actually buyable.

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Vendor reliability scorecard

See which suppliers actually deliver on time. Lead-time tracking, fill rate, on-time-delivery %. Stop tolerating chronic late vendors.

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RMAs & returns

Open a return against a vendor, email or print a clean RMA on your letterhead, and track it through approval to credit — no more sticky notes.

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Daily action reports

A morning stockout briefing, "Today's Action Items," an end-of-day recap, and a Cash & Commitments view of every open PO and dollar on order. Signal, no noise.

Cmd+K command palette

Two keystrokes to any PO, supplier, or SKU. Built for the buyer who has the whole catalog in their head and just needs the data fast.

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Receiving & labels

Receive against a PO and print product/bin labels right from the same screen — the full receiving-to-shelf workflow, plus CSV import and role-based staff access.

The hidden cost of a stockout

A stockout isn't just a lost sale — it's a leak in your ad budget.

The minute a product sells out, Google and Meta keep running its Shopping ads. You pay for every click that lands on a "sold out" page — budget burned on something nobody can buy. And the out-of-stock status ripples into Google Merchant Center, where it triggers disapprovals that quietly drag down the performance of your whole feed.

Skucast fixes the root cause: it keeps you in stock. Forecasting and self-driving reorder put your hero SKUs back on the shelf before they run dry — so your paid traffic only ever lands on products you can actually sell, and your Merchant Center feed stays clean.

Run out without forecasting
Ads keep serving sold-out SKUs — you pay for clicks that can't convert
The Merchant Center ripple
Out-of-stock items trip GMC disapprovals and drag down feed health
Stay ahead with Skucast
Reorder before you run out — ads & feed only ever show what's buyable

From install to first PO in 10 minutes.

No data migration. No imports. Just connect your Shopify store and Skucast starts learning your demand from your existing order history.

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Install from App Store

One-click OAuth. Skucast reads your products, variants, and 12 weeks of order history to seed the forecaster.

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Add your suppliers

Quick form for each vendor — name, email, lead time. We auto-track lead times after your first few POs.

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Wait for the morning alert

Day 1: the forecaster identifies SKUs at stockout risk. Email + dashboard alert with one-click "Create PO" buttons.

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Send PO, receive, repeat

Click send, supplier acknowledges via magic link, you receive against the PO when it arrives. Margin drift flagged automatically.

One plan. Everything in the box.

No per-SKU fees, no per-user fees, no forecasting tier you have to upgrade into. The AI is included. Cancel anytime from your Shopify admin.

Launch price

Skucast

The full inventory & purchasing back office
$99 / month
14-day free trial · No credit card
  • Croston-method demand forecasting (smooth/lumpy/dead/seasonal/new)
  • Self-driving reorder — nightly auto-drafted POs
  • Purchase orders with magic-link supplier ack + ETA tracking
  • Real-time margin-drift detection on receive
  • Vendor reliability scorecard (lead time, on-time %, fill rate)
  • RMAs & return management (email + print)
  • Daily reports — Action Items, morning briefing, EOD, Cash & Commitments
  • AI Ask included — plain-English questions in Cmd+K
  • Receiving, label printing, CSV import, role-based staff access
  • Unlimited SKUs, unlimited users, unlimited POs
Install on Shopify →
Billed through Shopify. AI Ask is included at no extra cost. Customer SMS is an optional add-on (below).
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Customer SMS Optional add-on

Automatically text customers a Google-review request after they buy, plus order-status updates (confirmed, shipped, delivered). Sends from your own business number, with built-in STOP/opt-out handling. Connect your number and turn it on when you're ready.

Ask about SMS

Migrating from Stocky?

Stocky shuts down August 31, 2026. Skucast imports your purchase history, supplier relationships, and lead-time data in 5 minutes — no spreadsheet wrangling.

Stocky migrants: 50% off your first 90 days. Promo code STOCKY2026
See migration guide →
Stocky EOL: Aug 31, 2026

Common questions.

How does the 14-day free trial work?
14 days from install. No credit card required at signup — Shopify Billing handles the trial. You won't be charged until day 15. Cancel anytime during the trial from your Shopify Apps page, no charge.
What does Skucast access from my Shopify store?
For the core app: products, variants, inventory levels, vendor names, completed order line items (for forecasting), and shop info — no customer personal data. The optional Customer SMS add-on additionally uses customer name and phone number to send the texts you turn on. See our Privacy Policy for the full list.
Is the forecasting really "enterprise-grade"?
It's the same class of method large retailers and enterprise warehouses use: Croston's method for intermittent demand, automatic per-SKU classification, and rule-based replenishment. Basic Shopify reorder apps use naive sales averages that work for fast movers but fall apart on the long tail of slow-moving parts — exactly where stockouts and dead stock cost you money. Skucast gets the long tail right too, without the six-figure enterprise software.
Is the AI really included?
Yes — AI Ask is part of the $99 plan, no add-on fee. Press Cmd+K and ask in plain English ("what's about to stock out?", "which vendors are late?", "what did I order from Acme last month?"). It reads your live data to answer, and can draft a reorder for you to confirm. It never takes an irreversible action without you clicking confirm.
Does Skucast help with my Google & Meta ads?
Indirectly — and it adds up. When a product sells out, Google and Meta keep serving its Shopping ads, so you pay for clicks to a sold-out page; the out-of-stock status also ripples into Google Merchant Center as disapprovals that drag down your whole feed's ROAS. Skucast's forecasting and self-driving reorder keep your sellers in stock, so your paid traffic and your Merchant Center feed only ever feature products customers can actually buy. The best inventory tool is quietly an ad-spend tool too.
How is the forecasting different from Stocky's?
Stocky uses naive velocity averages, which work for fast-moving smooth-demand SKUs but fall apart on the long tail. Skucast uses Croston's method (the standard for intermittent demand) and auto-classifies every SKU — so spare parts that sell 2x/month get the right model, and your top sellers get a different one.
Can Skucast text my customers?
Yes, with the optional Customer SMS add-on. It sends a Google-review request after a purchase plus order-status updates (confirmed/shipped/delivered) from your own business number, and handles STOP/opt-out automatically. It's off until you connect a number and enable it — email us to set it up.
Is this only for trailer/RV/parts shops?
No. Skucast was built and battle-tested inside a real Shopify parts dealership, but everything it does — forecasting, POs, RMAs, vendor scorecard, daily reports — applies to any shop that buys and resells real inventory with vendor relationships and meaningful PO volume.
What happens to my data if I uninstall?
Everything is deleted within 48 hours of uninstall, per Shopify's shop/redact compliance policy. Want a CSV export first? Email [email protected] and we'll send it before deletion.
Is my data private?
Yes. Each merchant runs in an isolated tenant — no shared databases, no cross-merchant data access. Storage is Cloudflare KV with merchant-scoped keys. You can export everything as CSV/JSON anytime, and request full deletion via email.
Who built Skucast?
Skucast was built by a Shopify dealer team that outgrew Stocky. The product runs in a real trailer/parts dealership today — Shopify since 2019, real catalog, real POs, real customers. We use it ourselves every day before any customer touches it. Skucast is a product of CARMOTIVE LLC, a Michigan-based software company.

Run inventory like you mean it.

14-day free trial. No credit card. $99/month after. Cancel anytime from your Shopify admin.

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