Anvil vs Stock transfer pro
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 13, 2026 for Anvil, Oct 14, 2026 for Stock transfer pro.
The short answer
- Paid plans start at $39/month for Anvil and $12/month for Stock transfer pro.
- Anvil lists 8 features Stock transfer pro’s listing doesn’t mention, including Analytics, Import and export, Inventory planning.
Head to head
Starter
- · Core reports (low/out of stock, value)
- · Multi-location inventory
- · Purchase orders, suppliers & receiving
- · Stock & cost sync to Shopify
- · Supplier management
- · Up to 500 orders/month
Growth
- · All reports & sales velocity
- · CSV export
- · Everything in Starter
- · Reorder suggestions
- · Up to 3,000 orders/month
Scale
- · Everything in Growth
- · Higher volume? Contact us
- · Priority support
- · Up to 10,000 orders/month
Starter
- · 5-language UI (FR / EN / IT / ES / DE)
- · Email support
- · Full audit log for transfers and actions
- · Manual transfers (create, send, receive)
- · POS extension (scan, field validation)
- · Partial receive, discrepancies, and note
Pro
- · 30-day stock forecast (simple engine)
- · Create transfers from POS
- · Daily email alert summary
- · Everything in Starter
- · Purchase orders, COGS & stocktakes
- · Smart transfers (stock-based suggestions
Pro +
- · BYOK LLM AI (OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini
- · Detailed Revenue-at-Risk + trend + spark
- · EWMA + seasonality + multi-country event
- · Email and Slack alerts
- · Everything in Pro
- · Multi-horizon forecast: 14 / 30 / 60 day
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureAnvil helps growing merchants manage inventory and purchasing in one place. Create and send purchase orders to your suppliers, receive stock against them, and track quantities and costs across all your locations. Anvil watches your sales and tells you what is running low and what to reorder, with reorder points based on each product's sales history. Inventory counts and costs sync back to Shopify automatically.
Stock Transfer Pro helps merchants move inventory between Shopify locations. Create manual transfers with a draft, sent, and received workflow, support partial receipts, and review an audit log. Smart transfers suggest quantities from order history between two dates or from stock targets you set per variant and location. A mobile-friendly receiving flow helps store staff confirm incoming stock.
- Purchase orders: create, send to suppliers, and receive stock against them
- Reorder suggestions based on your real sales
- Multi-location inventory with quantities and costs tracked per location
- Stock counts and costs sync back to Shopify automatically
- Create transfers between locations with draft, sent, and received statuses.
- Get transfer suggestions from sales over a date range or from stock targets.
- Receive stock on a phone-friendly screen built for store teams.
- Track every action with an audit log and optional partial receipts.
All the numbers
Every figure, side by side
A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.
Adoption
| Measure |  Anvil |  Stock transfer pro |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Not published | Not published |
| Top store countries | Not published | Not published |
Reviews
| Measure | Anvil | Stock transfer pro |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 5.0 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 1 |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Anvil | Stock transfer pro |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Not listed |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $39/month | $12/month(ahead) |
| Longest free trial | 7 days | 14 days |
| Plans listed | 3 | 3 |
Listing
| Measure | Anvil | Stock transfer pro |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #691 | #129(ahead) |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Jun 9, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 4 |
| Developer | Plucore | Jbdevweb |
FAQ
Anvil and Stock transfer pro: common questions
- Is Anvil or Stock transfer pro cheaper?
- Paid plans start at $39/month for Anvil and $12/month for Stock transfer pro. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- Anvil lists 8 the others don’t mention, such as Analytics, Import and export, Inventory planning, Inventory sync. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
- Where does this comparison’s data come from?
- Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Oct 13, 2026 for Anvil, Oct 14, 2026 for Stock transfer pro; estimated figures are labeled.
How Shoplist compares apps
Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Oct 13, 2026 for Anvil, Oct 14, 2026 for Stock transfer pro. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.