Getting started with Shopify Point of Sale

This page was printed on Apr 18, 2023. For the current version, visit https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/sell-in-person/getting-started.

Before you start selling through your Shopify Point of Sale app, you need to choose the Shopify subscription plan that is best suited for your business, purchase and connect any POS hardware that you need, and set up your POS app to accept payments. You can use Shopify POS's basic features on every Shopify subscription plan at no extra cost. If you want extra retail features, then you need to useShopify POS pro.

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Shopify POS app subscriptions

Shopify offers two POS app subscriptions to fit your retail needs. For more information on pricing, refer toPOS features. To compare the features offered between Shopify POS Lite and Shopify POS Pro, refer to the following table:

Shopify POS features and subscriptions.
Feature Shopify POS Lite Shopify POS Pro
Integrated payment hardware with Shopify Payments(Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States only) ✓ ✓
Non-payment retail hardware integrations ✓ ✓
Customizable smart grid ✓ ✓
Add/edit customer profiles ✓ ✓
客户视图应用程序 ✓ ✓
Multi-location inventory, orders, and customer management ✓ ✓
Email/SMS receipts ✓ ✓
Custom printed receipts ✓
Discount codes and manual discounts ($, %) ✓ ✓
Automatic discounts ✓
Sell and redeem gift cards ✓ ✓
Camera barcode scanning ✓ ✓
Custom sales ✓ ✓
Offline cash payments ✓ ✓
Staff PINs (based on Shopify plan) ✓ ✓
Retail staff permissons and management ✓
Unlimited POS-only staff ✓
Sales attribution ✓
Refunds ✓ ✓
Exchanges ✓
Cash tracking ✓ ✓
Save/retrieve cart ✓
Email carts ✓ ✓
Ship to home ✓
Local pickup fulfillment ✓
Local delivery fulfillment ✓
先进的库存管理with Stocky ✓
Daily sales reports ✓
In-app retail store analytics ✓

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