7 Best Cogsy Alternatives Now That Cogsy Has Shut Down

Cogsy has been discontinued. Its own domain now redirects to a notice saying so, while its Shopify App Store listing stays publicly listed at $199 a month. This list ranks seven verified alternatives, checked against their live pricing pages in September 2026, with Cash Margin Partners first for pricing trapped cash rather than forecasting the next order.

Disclosure: Cash Margin Partners publishes this site. We rank ourselves first, and we name the closer functional replacement in the entry right below.

Before Anything Else: Do Not Install Cogsy

A merchant searching for Cogsy today can still find a visible Install button and a $199 monthly charge. That is the most important fact on this page.

Visit cogsy.com and you get a redirect to a notice reading "Cogsy has been discontinued and is no longer available." The redirect is site-wide, so every indexed deep link including the old pricing page and help.cogsy.com lands on the same notice.

Now open the Cogsy Shopify App Store listing. As of September 13, 2026 it shows 4.9 stars from 13 reviews, a single plan at $199 per month with a 14-day free trial, an Install button, and no shutdown notice anywhere on the page.

Its own links betray it. The listing's "See all pricing options" points at cogsy.com/pricing, and the developer website field points at cogsy.com, and both redirect to the discontinuation page.

Key data point

Cogsy's most recent Shopify App Store review is dated June 28, 2023, more than three years before this page was written. Thirteen reviews total, on a listing that launched July 1, 2021 and still accepts installs today.

What Happened, and What Nobody Has Said

The discontinuation notice runs to three lines. "Cogsy has been discontinued and is no longer available," then "Thank you to everyone who used Cogsy," then "Cogsy was part of Mayple."

Mayple Global is a cross-border logistics and fulfillment company for direct-to-consumer Shopify brands, founded in 2022. It handles customs, duties, and international shipping, and it doesn't replace inventory planning software.

The public discontinuation notice does not provide a shutdown date or describe customer notification, export access, or a migration process. Those details cannot be established from the notice alone.

Mayple confirms Cogsy has been discontinued but does not date the shutdown. The update date of an older third-party article does not establish when the service ended.

There is no migration guidance at all. No data export instructions, no timeline, no support contact, and no recommended successor. Former users are on their own, which is the situation this page exists to address.

What Cogsy Did, So You Can Replace the Right Thing

Cogsy's Shopify listing describes it as delivering "total inventory visibility from vendor to end customer." Its core was forward-looking rather than backward-looking.

The feature set covered demand forecasting up to 12 months out, what-if scenarios for best-case and worst-case planning, replenishment alerts with restock recommendations, purchase order generation, real-time reporting across warehouse locations, and the option to sell on backorder or take pre-orders.

Its integrations were Shopify natively, plus Amazon, Cin7, Extensiv, Fulfil, Linnworks, and ShipBob. Every one of those is an ecommerce channel or a third-party logistics provider.

Cogsy has been discontinued. Its historical listing described Shopify and fulfillment integrations; that listing alone does not establish support for Square or Lightspeed.

The Seven Cogsy Alternatives at a Glance

How We Evaluated These Cogsy Alternatives

We fetched every tool's live website, pricing page, and integrations page in September 2026, and we re-verified Cogsy's status the same day rather than trusting an inherited description. Where a vendor's own pages contradict each other, the entry says so.

Four criteria, weighted in this order:

• Does it replace the part of Cogsy you used? Forecasting, purchase orders, and backorder selling were three separate jobs, and few tools do all three.
• Is the pricing published? Cogsy's $199 was at least visible. Two tools here quote behind a demo.
• How fast can you be running? Confirm your remaining access and export options before choosing a replacement; the public discontinuation notice does not describe a migration process.
• Does it reach beyond Shopify? Cogsy never did, and several merchants have added a counter since 2021.

Pricing and features verified September 13, 2026. Cogsy's status verified the same day, against both its own domain and its Shopify listing.

1. Cash Margin Partners: Inventory Cash Analysis for Independent Retailers

Cash Margin Partners publishes this comparison and includes its own product. It is free inventory analysis software for independent retailers, with no credit card or time limit. It is not a replacement for purchasing, accounting, manufacturing, or workforce software.

After a successful import with sufficient evidence, the workspace identifies eligible recovery candidates, shows inventory cost basis, and suggests markdowns, same-category bundles, and liquidation review. Healthy, newly arrived, and data-incomplete items remain protected from recovery actions.

Connections and data

Cash Margin Partners offers read-only Shopify, Square, and Lightspeed Retail X-Series connections where production launch status and workspace eligibility permit. Lightspeed is a capacity-managed X-Series custom application, excluding R-Series, eCom, and Restaurant. Compatible item-level uploads remain available after column review; Clover uses that export path, not a native connection.

Shopify supplies unit cost when available; Square and Lightspeed analyses add costs through CMP's prefilled template.

Planning and recovery

Directional 30-, 60-, and 90-day inventory-risk estimates and confidence signals require a recent successful supported live connection with sufficient usable history and cost evidence. They support decisions and do not guarantee future sales or recovery prices.

The proposed CMP Exchange publishes a 20% fee on a completed marketplace transaction, with no software subscription. Live listings, Stripe checkout, payouts, and buyer availability remain subject to production acceptance and workspace eligibility; no sale or payout timing is guaranteed.

Start with the right analysis

The free five-step calculator provides a directional trapped-cash estimate from questionnaire answers. A separate free workspace supports SKU-level analysis after a supported store connection or compatible item-level upload.

Limitations

CMP does not buy inventory or guarantee buyers. Recommendations require owner review; pricing guidance uses heuristics and confidence signals, not a validated market-clearing price model.

2. Prediko: The Closest Like-for-Like Replacement

Prediko is a Shopify-native inventory planning app covering demand forecasting, purchase orders, supplier management, and raw material planning, priced on bands of the merchant's annual sales volume from $49 per month.

Prediko is the entry a former Cogsy user should read first. It occupies almost exactly the same position: Shopify-native, forecasting forward, building purchase orders, and tracking components for brands that manufacture.

Its positioning line is "Restock on time, every time," which is the same promise Cogsy made in different words. It carries a 4.9-star rating from 248 reviews on the Shopify App Store and says it serves more than 2,500 merchants.

Against Cogsy's 13 reviews with nothing since June 2023, that review depth is the substantive difference. A tool with 248 reviews and current activity is being maintained.

Key features

• Demand forecasting with seasonality, built on Shopify catalog data
• Purchase order creation, supplier management, and inbound tracking
• Raw material and component planning for brands that manufacture
• Stockout and overstock alerting in units and weeks of cover
• Sales channel consolidation across Shopify storefronts

Pricing

Prediko pricing starts at $49 per month for the lowest revenue band. Pricing varies with trailing annual revenue and billing selection; raw-material forecasting and bills of materials are a separate add-on. Confirm the current quote on the pricing page.

Who should choose Prediko

• Former Cogsy users who need forecasting and purchase orders back immediately
• Shopify-only brands with no physical point of sale
• Merchants who manufacture and need component-level planning

Limitations

Prediko supports Shopify, including Shopify POS and B2B, plus integrations with warehouse and fulfillment systems. Retailers using Square or Lightspeed should confirm a supported data path with Prediko rather than assuming Shopify POS support covers every POS platform.

Prediko vs Cash Margin Partners

Prediko does the job Cogsy did, and a merchant who lost a working purchase order workflow should buy it rather than us. Cash Margin Partners handles the consequence of years of that workflow, which is the cash now sitting in the back room.

3. Assisty: Best Free Tier for a Forced Migration

Assisty pairs demand forecasting and purchase order creation with slow-moving and aging stock reports, on a free plan covering six months of sales history, and markets itself directly at merchants leaving a discontinued inventory app.

Assisty matters here because of timing. A discontinued service creates a migration decision. Check which data you can retrieve and which fields the replacement accepts; Assisty's free plan may provide a way to evaluate its workflow before choosing a paid plan.

It holds a 4.8 rating from 358 reviews, with the most recent review dated July 29, 2026. Its App Store description opens by positioning itself as a replacement for Shopify's own discontinued Stocky app.

Its reporting covers both directions. Forecasting handles what to order, while its Slow-Moving Products and Aging Stock reports handle what already went wrong.

Key features

• Demand forecasting with stockout dates and what-if scenarios, echoing Cogsy's scenario planning
• Purchase order creation, receiving, and multi-location inventory tracking
• Slow-Moving Products and Aging Stock reports, plus a separate Inventory Value report
• A free plan including six months of sales history
• Migration positioning aimed at users of discontinued inventory apps

Pricing

Free with six months of history, then $19, $59, or $199 per month depending on the merchant's own Shopify plan level. Its top tier costs exactly what Cogsy did.

Who should choose Assisty

• Former Cogsy users who need something running today at no cost
• Multi-location Shopify merchants tracking stock across sites
• Stores that want forecasting and aging reports from one app

Limitations

Demand forecasting is gated to the $199 tier, despite the app's headline describing itself as AI-powered demand forecasting. Its Aging Stock report measures days since last received rather than days since last sale, which produces a different list, and its own homepage cites 345 reviews while the App Store shows 358.

Assisty vs Cash Margin Partners

Assisty rebuilds the purchase order and forecasting workflow Cogsy took away, and it does it on a free plan, which is the right answer for a merchant caught mid-season. Cash Margin Partners measures aging from sales history rather than receipt date and reports the dollars in the same view as the flag.

4. Inventory Planner by Sage: Best for Buying Against a Budget

Inventory Planner by Sage forecasts demand, generates purchase orders, plans open-to-buy against a merchandise budget, and reports overstock in both units and cost value, on custom pricing.

Inventory Planner is the functional step up from where Cogsy sat. It does the forecasting and replenishment Cogsy did, and adds open-to-buy planning against a merchandise budget, which Cogsy never offered.

Its connector list is broader than Cogsy's too, covering many ecommerce platforms. The emphasis throughout stays ecommerce rather than counter retail.

One caution drawn from its own marketing: the site claims time savings of 23 hours per week in one place and 50-plus hours in another. Treat both as marketing rather than as a benchmark.

Key features

• Demand forecasting with seasonality and trend adjustment
• Open-to-buy planning against a merchandise budget
• Overstock reporting in units and in cost value
• Purchase order generation accounting for supplier lead times
• A separate Shopify app, Inventory Planner Essentials, for lighter deployments

Pricing

Custom pricing, not published. The Inventory Planner Essentials app lists at $119.99 per month with a 2.8-star rating from two reviews, while the main platform holds 4.6 from 75 reviews on Capterra.

Who should choose Inventory Planner by Sage

• Merchants who outgrew Cogsy's planning depth before it shut down
• Multi-channel brands running a merchandise budget
• Buyers who want overstock reported in cost value rather than units

Limitations

Inventory Planner quotes custom pricing behind a demo request, so a merchant scrambling after a shutdown can't size the decision without a sales call. Its overstock reporting stops at identification, with no disposal plan and no channel for moving flagged stock.

Inventory Planner by Sage vs Cash Margin Partners

Inventory Planner is the stronger buying tool by a wide margin, and a merchant whose real problem is a disorganized reorder process should choose it over us. Cash Margin Partners takes over where the buying decision was already made badly and the cash is sitting in the back room.

5. Cin7: Best for Merchants Who Used Cogsy's Cin7 Connector

Cin7 is a multi-channel inventory and order management platform whose ForesightAI add-on carries the demand forecasting it acquired with Inventoro in 2024, starting at $349 per month.

Cin7 has a specific claim on this list. It was one of Cogsy's six named integration partners, so a subset of former Cogsy users already run it and already have their data in it.

Its forecasting arrived by acquisition. Cin7 bought Inventoro in May 2024, inventoro.com now redirects to cin7.com, and the capability continues as the ForesightAI add-on.

The cost of that breadth is scope. Cin7 runs purchasing, warehousing, B2B wholesale, and channel sync, which is a system rather than an app.

Key features

• Multi-channel order and inventory management across ecommerce, wholesale, and marketplaces
• ForesightAI demand forecasting, sold as a paid add-on
• Warehouse management with bin, batch, and serial tracking
• A B2B portal for wholesale customers to order directly
• An existing connector relationship with Cogsy, so some former users are already on it

Pricing

Cin7 Core runs $349 per month for Standard, $599 for Pro, and $1,199 for Advanced, with ForesightAI priced on top.

Who should choose Cin7

• Former Cogsy users who already ran the Cin7 connector
• Sellers running wholesale and retail channels from one stock pool
• Businesses consolidating several systems into one

Limitations

Cin7 supports Square for inventory and sales synchronization; compare its broader inventory and order workflows with the needs of your store. At $349 per month before the forecasting add-on, it costs almost twice what Cogsy did, and adopting it means a migration rather than an install.

Cin7 vs Cash Margin Partners

Cin7 is a system of record, and a business whose data is scattered across spreadsheets and a dead app has a real case for consolidating. Cash Margin Partners sits on top of whatever system of record a store already has and needs nothing migrated.

6. Netstock: Best for Operators Who Have Moved Onto an ERP

Netstock classifies SKUs by sales value and velocity, sets safety stock against risk, and generates replenishment orders for businesses running an ERP, with pricing that starts at $900 per month on an annual subscription.

Netstock is the answer for former Cogsy users who outgrew the Shopify app tier entirely. Brands that scaled past Cogsy and onto an ERP will find the replenishment discipline familiar and the altitude different.

It ranks SKUs by sales value and velocity, then recalculates safety stock against demand variability and supplier reliability. Its marketing leads on releasing cash tied up in excess inventory.

The entry condition is absolute. No ERP means no Netstock, and most Cogsy users never had one.

Key features

• SKU classification by sales value and velocity
• Safety stock recalculated against demand variability and supplier risk
• Replenishment orders respecting minimum order quantities and lot sizes
• Excess stock identification with inter-location transfer suggestions
• Connectors for ERP platforms including Sage, NetSuite, and Microsoft Dynamics

Pricing

Netstock's published pricing starts at $900 per month on an annual subscription.

Who should choose Netstock

• Former Cogsy users who have since implemented an ERP
• Multi-site operators who can rebalance stock between locations
• Buyers working against supplier lead times measured in months

Limitations

Netstock requires an ERP and lists no Shopify, Square, Lightspeed, or Clover connector, which rules out most of Cogsy's former user base outright. Its own homepage cites 4.8 out of 5 while a September 2026 post cites 4.6, so treat the self-reported score carefully.

Netstock vs Cash Margin Partners

Netstock prevents the next overbuy and shifts surplus between sites, which a single-location store can't use because there's no second site. Cash Margin Partners prices the overbuy already sitting there and helps that store prepare a lot for independent buyer review.

7. Katana: Best for Brands That Manufacture What They Sell

Katana tracks raw materials through production into finished goods for small manufacturers, free up to 30 SKUs, with the Core plan starting at $299 per month and Manufacturing Management priced separately.

Katana covers the part of Cogsy that mattered to brands making their own products. Cogsy handled component planning alongside finished goods, and Katana does that job with far more depth.

It holds a 4.4 rating from 123 G2 reviews, and its free plan is capped at 30 SKUs, which works as a trial rather than as a plan.

Read the positioning before buying. Katana's homepage now markets multi-channel commerce while its product pages still describe micro and small-business manufacturers, and Manufacturing Management moved to a $199 per month add-on.

Key features

• Bills of materials and production order tracking
• Raw material inventory managed alongside finished goods
• Shop floor control for small production runs
• Sales channel sync for ecommerce orders
• A free plan for up to 30 SKUs

Pricing

Free up to 30 SKUs, with Core starting at $299 per month and Manufacturing Management priced separately at $199 per month.

Who should choose Katana

• Former Cogsy users who manufacture in small batches
• Producers tracking components and finished goods together
• Businesses needing shop floor visibility more than retail forecasting

Limitations

Katana supports Shopify POS order synchronization; confirm that its manufacturing and inventory workflows fit your retail needs. The step from free to $299 per month is steep, and the manufacturing capability many buyers assume is bundled costs another $199.

Katana vs Cash Margin Partners

Katana serves the maker and Cash Margin Partners serves the buyer. A store that produces nothing gains little from bills of materials, and a brand that manufactures gains little from a marketplace built for retail closeouts.

Master Comparison: All Seven Cogsy Alternatives

How to Choose a Cogsy Replacement

1. Name which Cogsy feature you opened most. Forecasting, purchase orders, and backorder selling were three separate jobs, and no tool here does all three the same way.
2. Check your platform before your features. If you've added a Square or Lightspeed counter since 2021, most of this list disqualifies itself.
3. Decide how fast you need it. Assisty's free plan and Prediko's $49 band both start today. Inventory Planner means a demo cycle.
4. Rebuild your data assumptions from scratch. Ask the provider about any remaining export or recovery options. Verify retrieved costs and lead times against purchase records, and reconstruct only the fields you cannot retrieve.
5. Deal with the stock before rebuilding the forecast. Two seasons of Cogsy-driven purchase orders are sitting somewhere, and a new forecasting tool won't sell them.

Plan a 90-Day Inventory Review

This is a suggested workflow, not a promise of recovered revenue.

Week 1: review the evidence

Cash Margin Partners offers read-only Shopify, Square, and Lightspeed Retail X-Series connections where production launch status and workspace eligibility permit. Lightspeed is a capacity-managed X-Series custom application, excluding R-Series, eCom, and Restaurant. Compatible item-level uploads remain available after column review; Clover uses that export path, not a native connection.

Shopify supplies unit cost when available; Square and Lightspeed analyses add costs through CMP's prefilled template. Confirm the observation window, cost completeness, returns, and any sales outside the source before judging individual SKUs.

Weeks 2 to 4: choose actions

Review eligible SKU-level markdown and recovery recommendations, same-category bundle suggestions, margin floors, and liquidation candidates. The owner approves and executes each action through the store's existing systems. A failed markdown alone does not prove that an item should be liquidated.

Weeks 5 to 12: measure again

Refresh the source data and compare what sold, what remains, and actual net proceeds after costs. Directional 30-, 60-, and 90-day inventory-risk estimates and confidence signals require a recent successful supported live connection with sufficient usable history and cost evidence. They support decisions and do not guarantee future sales or recovery prices.

The proposed CMP Exchange publishes a 20% fee on a completed marketplace transaction, with no software subscription. Live listings, Stripe checkout, payouts, and buyer availability remain subject to production acceptance and workspace eligibility; no sale or payout timing is guaranteed.

How to Vet an Inventory App So This Doesn't Happen Twice

When was the most recent review?

Cogsy's last Shopify App Store review is dated June 28, 2023. A listing with a three-year gap and 13 total reviews was signalling something well before the redirect went up.

Does the vendor's own site still work?

Open the vendor's pricing page and help center directly in a browser rather than trusting the app listing's links. Cogsy's listing links to both, and both now redirect to a discontinuation notice.

Is there a published data export path?

Ask this question while you're still deciding whether to subscribe. A vendor that can't describe how you'd leave is a vendor whose shutdown will cost you your cost history.

Who owns the company now?

Cogsy's notice says it "was part of Mayple," a fulfillment company that mentions Cogsy nowhere else on its site. An owner in an unrelated business is a signal about where the product sits on their roadmap.

Does the App Store listing match the vendor's site?

This is the cheapest check on the list and the one that would have caught Cogsy. A live listing with an Install button and a dead vendor site is a contradiction worth five minutes.

Key insight

App Store listings outlive the companies behind them. Shopify's own Stocky listing also remains live with a 3.0 rating and no sunset banner, despite the Help Center confirming Stocky ended on August 31, 2026. Check the vendor's own domain before trusting any listing.

Start Here: Four Steps This Week

1. Uninstall Cogsy if it's still connected, and check your Shopify billing for an active $199 monthly charge against a discontinued product.
2. Write down your supplier lead times and unit costs from verified exports, invoices, and purchase orders. Confirm any remaining provider export options first, and flag estimates rather than treating recalled figures as verified data.
3. Export 12 months of sales from Shopify and sort ascending by units sold. Use it as part of a review of actual demand; the sales ranking alone does not establish the effect of any forecasting tool.
4. The free five-step calculator provides a directional trapped-cash estimate from questionnaire answers. A separate free workspace supports SKU-level analysis after a supported store connection or compatible item-level upload.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Cogsy still available?

No. cogsy.com redirects to a page reading "Cogsy has been discontinued and is no longer available," and the notice says Cogsy was part of Mayple. Its Shopify App Store listing is still publicly listed at $199 per month with no shutdown notice on it.

What is the best Cogsy alternative?

Prediko is the closest functional replacement, because it's Shopify-native, forecasts demand, builds purchase orders, and tracks components, starting at $49 per month. Cash Margin Partners is the better first stop for merchants whose real problem is the stock Cogsy already told them to order.

When did Cogsy shut down?

Mayple confirms Cogsy has been discontinued but does not date the shutdown. The update date of an older third-party article does not establish when the service ended.

Can I still export my data from Cogsy?

No migration guidance, data export instructions, or support contact is published. The discontinuation page points only to maypleglobal.com, a cross-border fulfillment company that doesn't replace inventory planning, and help.cogsy.com redirects to the same notice.

Why is Cogsy still on the Shopify App Store?

Nobody has taken the listing down. As of September 13, 2026 it shows a 4.9 rating from 13 reviews, a single $199 per month plan, a visible Install button, and no shutdown notice, while its own pricing and developer links redirect to the discontinuation page.

What did Cogsy do?

Cogsy was a Shopify inventory planning app promising total inventory visibility from vendor to end customer. It ran demand forecasting up to 12 months out, what-if scenarios, replenishment alerts, purchase orders, and backorder or pre-order selling, integrating with Amazon, Cin7, Extensiv, Fulfil, Linnworks, and ShipBob.

Did Cogsy work with Square or Lightspeed?

Cogsy has been discontinued. Its historical listing described Shopify and fulfillment integrations; that listing alone does not establish support for Square or Lightspeed.

Check your billing first, then your data, then your forecast. In that order.