Supplier management for Shopify

Give every supplier a record — lead time, contact, and every purchase order tied to it

Shopify gives you a one-line "Vendor" field on a product — no contact, no lead time, no history of what you've ordered from them. Binly adds a real supplier record, groups your products by vendor, and turns reorder suggestions into a purchase order for the right supplier in one click.

Suppliers and purchase orders are part of Starter, from $19/mo — not on the Free plan. No credit card required to start a trial.

Real supplier records

Store a contact person, email, phone, lead time in days, and notes for every supplier — not just a vendor name typed onto a product.

Products grouped by vendor

Reorder suggestions and bulk purchase-order creation are grouped by the vendor already set on your Shopify products, so you see what each supplier needs at a glance.

One click, one PO per supplier

"Create all purchase orders" turns reorder suggestions into a separate draft PO for each supplier, pre-filled with their saved contact for emailing.

The same dashboard your suppliers, POs, and reorder suggestions run from

Stock levels and low-stock items at a glance — the same view your suppliers and purchase orders connect back to.

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Binly inventory dashboard showing stock levels and low-stock items

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The Binly dashboard — stock levels and low-stock items at a glance.

Shopify doesn't have a supplier record — just a text field

Open any product in Shopify Admin and you'll find a "Vendor" field. Type a name into it, and that's the entirety of Shopify's built-in supplier management.

There's no page listing your suppliers, no place to save a contact email or phone number, no lead-time setting, and no view of what you've ordered from a given vendor or how much you currently have open with them. If you want any of that, it lives in a separate spreadsheet or your own memory — disconnected from the product data and purchase orders it actually needs to inform.

What Shopify gives you

  • A single "Vendor" text field on each product, editable per item
  • No contact info, lead time, or notes attached to that name
  • No purchase order history grouped by vendor inside Shopify Admin

What that costs you

  • Lead times tracked in your head or a separate sheet, disconnected from reorder timing
  • Purchase orders sent from your own inbox, with no record tying them to a supplier
  • No easy answer to "how much do we currently have on order with this vendor?"
That's the gap supplier management is for. Binly adds a real supplier record — with contact, lead time, and notes — and ties it to the products, reorder suggestions, and purchase orders that already reference that vendor.

How supplier management works in Binly

Three parts: a supplier record with the details Shopify doesn't track, products grouped by the vendor you already assign them, and purchase orders that know which supplier they're going to.

Create a supplier record

Add a name, contact person, email, phone, lead time in days, and any notes — one record per supplier, kept separately from any single product.

See products grouped by vendor

Binly groups your reorder suggestions by the vendor already set on each Shopify product, so you see everything you'd need to order from one supplier together, not scattered across your whole catalog.

Turn suggestions into a PO per supplier

Assign a supplier to a purchase order — or let "Create all purchase orders" do it automatically — and the reorder point for that product factors in the lead time you set for the supplier.

Set up in three steps

1

Add your suppliers

Enter each supplier's name, contact person, email or phone, and lead time in days. A couple of minutes per vendor.

2

Group reorder suggestions by vendor

Binly's reorder page groups suggested restock quantities by the vendor already on your products, using each supplier's lead time to calculate the reorder point.

3

Create a PO per supplier

Use "Create all purchase orders" to generate one draft PO per supplier from your reorder suggestions, or build one manually and assign a supplier yourself.

A supplier record that leads somewhere

A contact list on its own doesn't restock anything. Every supplier in Binly is attached to the purchase orders and reorder suggestions that already reference it.

Assign a supplier to a purchase order and "Email to vendor" pre-fills that supplier's saved email address — no retyping it from memory. Receive the delivery later, in full or partially, and the received quantity is written back to Shopify against that same purchase order, reconciled against what was actually ordered.

If Stocky held your supplier list

Stocky let you attach a supplier to a product and to purchase orders. Binly's supplier records cover the same job — contact, lead time, and a link to your POs — with reorder suggestions and bulk PO creation grouped by vendor on top.

Stocky itself stops working August 31, 2026, and nothing carries over automatically — including whatever supplier records you kept there.

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This wasn't optional, and it doesn't migrate. Shopify's own Stocky app is being discontinued — delisted from the Shopify App Store in February 2026, with a full shutdown on August 31, 2026. Shopify doesn't export supplier records at all — that's a Shopify limitation, not something any replacement app can work around — so plan to re-enter your suppliers wherever you land before that date.

Supplier management is part of Starter

Suppliers, purchase orders, and reorder suggestions aren't on the Free plan.

Binly's Free plan covers stocktakes and low-stock alerts. Starter, from $19/mo, adds supplier records, purchase orders and receiving, and reorder suggestions that factor in each supplier's lead time.

Common questions

Not really. Shopify products have a single-line "Vendor" text field, but there's no supplier record behind it — no contact info, no lead time, no cost, and no view of purchase history tied to that name. An app like Binly is needed to add any of that.

Yes. Every supplier record includes a lead time in days, and Binly's reorder point calculation for products tied to that supplier factors it in — so the suggestion accounts for how long a reorder actually takes to arrive.

Assigning a supplier is optional on any single PO, but doing so lets "Email to vendor" pre-fill their saved address, and it's how "Create all purchase orders" groups reorder suggestions by vendor into separate draft POs automatically.

No — Shopify doesn't export supplier records from Stocky at all, which is a Shopify limitation rather than something any replacement app can work around. Re-enter your suppliers in Binly before Stocky shuts down on August 31, 2026.

No. Supplier records, purchase orders, and reorder suggestions are part of Starter, from $19/mo. Binly's Free plan covers stocktakes and low-stock alerts.

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