QuickBooks Commerce shut down. Where do UK product businesses go now?
Intuit discontinued QuickBooks Commerce (the former TradeGecko) in 2023 and never replaced its inventory + purchasing depth inside QuickBooks Online. Three years on, plenty of small UK wholesalers are still running on the workaround they grabbed in a hurry - usually spreadsheets bolted to QBO. If that's you, this is the calm version of the decision you didn't get time to make then.
What you actually lost
QuickBooks Commerce did four jobs QBO alone doesn't: live multi-SKU stock control, purchase orders with receiving, reorder points, and stock reporting. QBO's built-in inventory covers basic quantity-on-hand for simple catalogs - it is not a stock-control system for a wholesaler with hundreds of SKUs and weekly supplier orders.
The realistic options in 2026
| Route | Fits |
|---|---|
| Straptory - inventory + POs in one, seat-priced | UK wholesalers/distributors, 3-50 people, spreadsheet-weary. Single location today; accounting sync isn't available yet |
| Light-ERP suites | Bigger, multichannel operations with implementation budget |
| Budget suite tools | Simple catalogues, teams already inside a software suite |
| Manufacturing-focused tools | Bills of materials and light manufacturing |
| Stay on spreadsheets | One person, low order volume - but no audit trail and no receiving discipline, and one shifted row breaks silently |
Whichever route you look at, ask the vendor what exactly raises your bill as you grow (items, orders, users or revenue), what a read-only seat costs, and what the renewal price is - not just the intro price.
Migrating without drama
- Export what's left: product list with SKUs and quantities (from QBO or your sheet), supplier list, and open POs.
- Clean once, in the export: dedupe SKUs, fix units, archive dead items - don't import mess you'll clean "later".
- Import products + suppliers via CSV, then do a counted stock take as your opening balance - that becomes day zero of a trustworthy audit trail.
- Re-key only OPEN purchase orders. History can live in the old exports; open orders need to be receivable in the new system from day one.
In Straptory's private beta, that whole path - CSV import, opening stock take, first POs - is what the guided onboarding walks you through, with founder help when the export is ugly.
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