Restoc as a Prediko alternative: a reorder alert, not a planning suite

Restoc is a reorder-alert app for Shopify stores carrying roughly 50 to 2,000 SKUs. It calculates a reorder point per SKU from a sales velocity window you pick, 7, 14 or 30 days, plus the supplier lead time you enter for that SKU, and then it tells you which SKUs have crossed the line. Plans are $29, $59 and $99 a month, separated by SKU cap, and Shopify bills the subscription on your Shopify invoice rather than taking a separate card payment. That is the product.

What Restoc does not do

No demand forecasting. No purchase orders raised or tracked. No supplier, cost or landed-cost management. One location per store on every plan. Web app only, installed through Shopify OAuth, with no mobile app and no browser extension. If two or three of those are on your list, a broader planning tool is the right shape for your business, and you should know that in the first thirty seconds rather than after a trial.

On prediko

We have not captured Prediko's current positioning, feature list or prices from their own pages. Writing them from memory would be guessing, and a guess about a competitor's product would mislead you, so we have left those cells blank. The middle column of the table is exact and fully ours, and the right-hand column points you at the source. Open their site and their app listing, write the answers down, and bring them back to this table. That is thirty minutes of work and it is the only version of the comparison you can trust.

Choose a broader planning tool

Pick the wider product if you are setting order quantities across several suppliers with different lead times and minimums, if you want a forecast you can argue with before you commit cash, if you need purchase orders raised and tracked in one place, if you run more than one location, or if inventory is a cash-planning exercise months ahead rather than a weekly checklist. Restoc does none of that. No price makes up for a feature that is not there.

Choose Restoc

Pick Restoc if the problem is smaller and more irritating. You already know roughly what to order and who to order it from. What went wrong last quarter is that nobody noticed the best seller was four days from zero until a customer asked. You want one number per SKU, a reorder point, and a nudge the moment it is crossed. You want the weekly list with a suggested quantity next to each line, and a CSV you can attach to the email you send your supplier. You have a few hundred to a couple of thousand SKUs and no appetite for an implementation project.

The trade you are making

Restoc is narrow deliberately. It will not tell you how much to buy for the next quarter, and it will not model your cash. It is built to tell you what is about to run out, every week, without you remembering to look. A planning suite gives you more surface, and more surface means more to configure, more to keep accurate, and more to abandon when the week gets busy. Running out of stock on a good SKU is a real financial hit, so decide honestly which failure is likelier in your shop: a powerful tool nobody finished setting up, or a small tool that answers one question and leaves the rest to you.

Whichever way you lean, five questions settle most of these decisions, and you can put them to any app in this category including ours.

• What does the tool do on a SKU with thin or lumpy sales history, and does it still produce a usable number?
• Where does lead time come from: do you type it in, or does the tool assume one?
• Does it alert, or does it only report? A report you have to open is a habit, not a safety net.
• What does it cost at your actual SKU count, on the plan you would really be on?
• How much of your week does it need once it is set up?

Our guide, how to choose a Shopify inventory app when you don't need an ERP, walks the same decision without any vendor in the frame, including where a spreadsheet is genuinely still the right answer. Read that first if you are early in the search and have not shortlisted anything yet. The roundup of the best Shopify inventory apps for a 50 to 2,000 SKU store lays out the field we place ourselves in, and the page on the 60-day free trial explains exactly when the first charge lands.