Choosing and managing your POS app subscription

This page was printed on Jul 14, 2023. For the current version, visit https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/sell-in-person/getting-started/identify-your-pos-needs.

Shopify POS is an app that you can use to sell your products almost anywhere, including brick and mortar stores, markets, and pop-up stores. Shopify POS syncs with Shopify to track your orders and inventory across your retail locations, online store, and other active sales channels.

You can choose your level of POS app subscriptions for each of your locations, which lets you pick the subscription that fits each of your locations' individual retail needs.

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POS feature overview

Shopify offers two POS app subscriptions to fit your retail needs. For more information on pricing, refer toPOS pricing. For more information on features, 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 ✓ ✓
员工别针(基于Shopify计划) ✓ ✓
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 ✓

Manage the POS subscription for each location

You can manage your POS subscriptions by location to ensure that your stores have the subscription that best suits their needs.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, clickSettings>Apps and sales channels.

  2. From theApps and sales channelspage, clickPoint of sale.

  3. ClickOpen sales channel.

  4. ClickLocations.

  5. ClickManage subscriptions.

  6. Select a subscription for each location.

  7. ClickSave.

  8. ClickApprove subscription.

  1. From theShopify app, go toStore>Sales channels>Point of Sale.

  2. TapLocations.

  3. TapManage subscriptions.

  4. Select a subscription for each location.

  5. TapNext.

  6. TapApprove charges.

Shopify POS Pro billing

Shopify POS Pro is billed either on a monthly or annual billing cycle. To learn more about how to select a POS subscription for your locations, refer tolocation management. For more information on how Shopify's billing cycles work, refer toApp billing cycles.

Uninstall the POS sales channel

If you no longer need the POS sales channel, then you can uninstall it from your Shopify admin. Before you uninstall the POS sales channel, make sure to do the following actions:

  • review your POS subscription
  • fulfill all POS orders
  • process all returns or refunds on POS orders
  • remove the Shopify POS app from all devices

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, clickSettings>Apps and sales channels.
  2. Click thePoint of Salesales channel.
  3. ClickUninstall sales channel.
  4. SelectI understand the risks of uninstalling this sales channel.
  5. Optional: Select a reason why you're uninstalling the sales channel.
  6. ClickUninstall.

After you uninstall the POS sales channel, you can't publish products, fulfill orders, or manage performance anymore in your Shopify POS app.

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