Choosing your POS app subscription
Shopify POS is an iOS 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 subscription for each of your locations, which enables you to pick the subscription that fits your retail needs.
POS feature overview
Shopify offers two POS app subscriptions to fit your retail needs. For more information on pricing, refer to POS features. To compare the features offered between Shopify POS Lite and Shopify POS Pro, refer to the following table:
| Feature | Shopify POS Lite | Shopify POS Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Integrated payment hardware with Shopify Payments (Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, and the United States only) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Non-payment retail hardware integrations | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customizable smart grid | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add/edit customer profiles | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer View app | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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 | ✓ | |
| Advanced inventory management 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 in order to ensure that your stores have the subscription that best suits their needs.
Steps:
From your Shopify admin, go to Point of Sale > Locations.
Click Manage subscriptions.
Select a subscription for each location.
Click Save.
Click Approve subscription.
From the Shopify app, go to Store > Sales channels > Point of Sale.
Tap Locations.
Tap Manage subscriptions.
Select a subscription for each location.
Tap Next.
Tap Approve charges.
From the Shopify app, go to Store > Sales channels > Point of Sale.
Tap Locations.
Tap Manage subscriptions.
Select a subscription for each location.
Tap Next.
Tap Approve 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 to location management. For more information on how Shopify's billing cycles work, refer to App billing cycles.