CostCue vs StockCue: Inventory Planner
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Jul 17, 2026 for CostCue, Oct 13, 2026 for StockCue.
The short answer
- Only StockCue lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $9/month for CostCue and $19/month for StockCue.
- StockCue lists 13 features CostCue’s listing doesn’t mention, including Barcodes, Email notifications, Forecasting.
Head to head
Starter
- · CSV export
- · Missing and zero values
- · Up to 1,000 variants
Growth
- · CSV export
- · Margin review tasks
- · Up to 5,000 variants
Pro
- · CSV export
- · Larger catalog support
- · Up to 20,000 variants
Free
- · Bundle-aware forecasting
- · Demand forecasting with seasonality
- · In-app low-stock alerts
- · Sales velocity and reorder points
- · Track up to 50 SKUs
Starter
- · Ask questions of your reports
- · Barcode labels and bin locations
- · Buying planner with MOQ and case-pack
- · Everything in Free
- · Purchase orders: PDF + email to supplier
- · Receiving, full or partial, synced
Growth
- · CSV exports: alerts and suppliers
- · Everything in Starter
- · Explainable forecast: why this qty
- · Inventory audit log export
- · Inventory reconciliation
- · Scan-to-receive on mobile
Scale
- · ABC analysis, incl. margin-weighted
- · Automated PO drafts on a schedule
- · Everything in Growth
- · Priority support
- · Slack alerts
- · Stock transfers between locations
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureCostCue helps merchants clean up product margin data inside the admin. It scans products, variants, SKUs, inventory items, and margin fields to create a focused task inbox for missing values, zero values, below-margin risks, and duplicate SKUs. Merchants can run scans, open products to fix data, mark tasks done, and snooze tasks from one focused workflow.
StockCue tells you what to reorder, how much, and when. It reads 24 months of order history, blends recent and baseline velocity, drops outliers, and applies your store's own seasonal curve to the month you're buying for. Alerts reach you in-app, by email, in Slack, or via Shopify Flow. The buying planner groups buys by supplier, applies MOQ and case-pack rounding, and drafts POs to send and receive against.
- Find variants with missing or zero margin values
- Spot products that may sell below recorded margin
- Review low margin products before buying decisions
- Find duplicate SKUs that make cleanup harder
- Low-stock and reorder-point alerts before items run out
- Demand forecasting for what to reorder and when
- Purchase orders you can email to suppliers as a PDF and track
- Receive incoming stock against open purchase orders
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 |  CostCue |  StockCue |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | CostCue | StockCue |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 5.0 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 2 |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
FAQ
CostCue and StockCue: common questions
- Is CostCue or StockCue cheaper?
- Only StockCue lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $9/month for CostCue and $19/month for StockCue. 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?
- StockCue lists 13 the others don’t mention, such as Barcodes, Email notifications, Forecasting, Import and export. 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 Jul 17, 2026 for CostCue, Oct 13, 2026 for StockCue; 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 Jul 17, 2026 for CostCue, Oct 13, 2026 for StockCue. 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.