Managing your POS app subscription

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

This article provides instructions on how to manage your POS app subscription for each location, allowing you to choose the subscription that best suits your retail needs.

Shopify Plus

The first 20 POS Pro locations are included in all Shopify Plus plans.

Choose your Shopify POS app subscription

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Shopify offers two POS app subscriptions to fit your retail needs. For more information on pricing, refer to POS pricing. For more information on features, refer to POS 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	✓	✓
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	✓	✓
Shopify Tax calculations (United States only)	✓	✓
Camera barcode scanning	✓	✓
Custom sales	✓	✓
Offline cash payments	✓	✓
Staff PINs (based on Shopify plan)	✓	✓
Retail staff permissions 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		✓
Required checkout information		✓

Manage your POS subscription for each location

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

Steps:

Desktop

1. From your Shopify admin, click Settings > Apps and sales channels.
2. From the Apps and sales channels page, click Point of sale.

3. Click Open sales channel.

4. Click Locations.

5. Click Manage subscriptions.

6. In the Review POS subscriptions for each location section, select a subscription for each location.

7. Click Next.

8. Click Approve subscription.

Shopify POS Pro billing

Shopify POS Pro is billed separately for each activated location. You can choose between monthly or annual billing cycles. For more information on billing cycles, refer to app billing cycles.

To learn more about how to select a POS subscription for your locations, refer to location management.