diff --git a/docs/getting_started/advanced_stores.md b/docs/getting_started/advanced_stores.md
index 409806408..5c08a1d39 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started/advanced_stores.md
+++ b/docs/getting_started/advanced_stores.md
@@ -40,10 +40,12 @@ Different S3 services might have different rules, but the limit is typically sma
 The `S3Store` should be constructed as follows:
 
 ```python
-from maggma.stores import MongograntStore, S3Store
-index = MongograntStore("ro:mongodb03/js_cathodes",
-                        "atomate_aeccar0_fs_index",
-                        key="fs_id")
+from maggma.stores import MongoURIStore, S3Store
+store = MongoURIStore(
+    "mongodb+srv://<username>:<password>@<host>",
+    "atomate_aeccar0_fs_index",
+    key="fs_id",
+)
 s3store = S3Store(index=index,
         bucket="<<BUCKET_NAME>>",
         s3_profile="<<S3_PROFILE_NAME>>",
diff --git a/docs/getting_started/stores.md b/docs/getting_started/stores.md
index a4ff6bd13..308294fdd 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started/stores.md
+++ b/docs/getting_started/stores.md
@@ -8,21 +8,22 @@ The benefit of the `Store` interface is that you only have to write a `Builder`
 
 Current working and tested `Store` include:
 
-- `MongoStore`: interfaces to a MongoDB Collection
+- `MongoStore`: interfaces to a MongoDB Collection using port and hostname.
+- `MongoURIStore`: interfaces to a MongoDB Collection using a "mongodb+srv://" URI.
 - `MemoryStore`: just a Store that exists temporarily in memory
 - `JSONStore`: builds a MemoryStore and then populates it with the contents of the given JSON files
 - `FileStore`: query and add metadata to files stored on disk as if they were in a database
-- `GridFSStore`: interfaces to GridFS collection in MongoDB
+- `GridFSStore`: interfaces to GridFS collection in MongoDB using port and hostname.
+- `GridFSURIStore`: interfaces to GridFS collection in MongoDB using a "mongodb+srv://" URI.
 - `S3Store`: provides an interface to an S3 Bucket either on AWS or self-hosted solutions ([additional documentation](advanced_stores.md))
 - `ConcatStore`: concatenates several Stores together so they look like one Store
-- `MongoURIStore`: MongoDB Introduced advanced URIs including their special "mongodb+srv://" which uses a combination of SRV and TXT DNS records to fully setup the client. This store is to safely handle these kinds of URIs.
-- `MongograntStore`: uses Mongogrant to get credentials for MongoDB database
 - `VaultStore`: uses Vault to get credentials for a MongoDB database
 - `AliasingStore`: aliases keys from the underlying store to new names
 - `SandboxStore: provides permission control to documents via a `_sbxn` sandbox key
 - `JointStore`: joins several MongoDB collections together, merging documents with the same `key`, so they look like one collection
 - `AzureBlobStore`: provides an interface to Azure Blobs for the storage of large amount of data
 - `MontyStore`: provides an interface to [montydb](https://github.com/davidlatwe/montydb) for in-memory or filesystem-based storage
+- `MongograntStore`: (DEPRECATED) uses Mongogrant to get credentials for MongoDB database
 
 ## The `Store` interface
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2e233a499..08585720f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dependencies = [
         "pydantic>=2.0",
         "pydantic-settings>=2.0.3",
         "pymongo>=4.2.0",
-        "monty>=2023.9.25",
+        "monty>=2024.5.24",
         "mongomock>=3.10.0",
         "pydash>=4.1.0",
         "jsonschema>=3.1.1",
diff --git a/src/maggma/stores/advanced_stores.py b/src/maggma/stores/advanced_stores.py
index c0fc8b808..a93f72fe5 100644
--- a/src/maggma/stores/advanced_stores.py
+++ b/src/maggma/stores/advanced_stores.py
@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@
 from collections.abc import Iterator
 from typing import Optional, Union
 
-from mongogrant import Client
-from mongogrant.client import check
-from mongogrant.config import Config
-from monty.dev import requires
+from monty.dev import deprecated, requires
 
 from maggma.core import Sort, Store, StoreError
 from maggma.stores.mongolike import MongoStore
@@ -19,8 +16,15 @@
     import hvac
 except ImportError:
     hvac = None
+try:
+    from mongogrant import Client
+    from mongogrant.client import check
+    from mongogrant.config import Config
+except ImportError:
+    Client = None
 
 
+@deprecated(MongoStore)
 class MongograntStore(MongoStore):
     """Initialize a Store with a mongogrant "`<role>`:`<host>`/`<db>`." spec.
 
@@ -30,6 +34,10 @@ class MongograntStore(MongoStore):
     mongogrant documentation: https://github.com/materialsproject/mongogrant
     """
 
+    @requires(
+        Client is not None,
+        "mongogrant is required to use MongoGrantStore. Please run `pip install maggma[mongogrant]",
+    )
     def __init__(
         self,
         mongogrant_spec: str,