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.
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Choose your Shopify POS app subscription
There are 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:
Manage your POS subscription for each location
If you're the account owner, then you can upgrade or downgrade your POS subscriptions by location to ensure that your stores have the subscription that best suits their needs. If you're on the Advanced, Shopify, or Basic plans, then you can also choose between a monthly or yearly billing cycle. If you're on the Shopify Plus plan, then you can only choose a 30 day billing cycle.
Steps:
Desktop
From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Apps and sales channels.
From the Apps and sales channels page, click Point of sale.
Click Open sales channel.
Click Settings > Subscriptions.
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In the Review POS subscriptions for each location section, select a subscription for each location by choosing one of the following options:
- To upgrade to POS Pro, select Upgrade to POS Pro and select whether you want to be billed monthly or yearly. In the POS Pro section, click Upgrade to POS Pro > Approve subscription.
- To downgrade to POS Lite and change your billing cycle, click Change plan and select whether you want to be billed monthly or yearly. In the POS Lite section, click Downgrade to POS Lite > Approve subscription.
- To cancel your POS Pro subscription and downgrade to POS Lite with the same billing cycle, click Cancel POS Pro > Confirm.
Mobile
- From the Shopify app, tap the … button.
- In the Sales channels section, tap Point of Sale.
- In the Point of Sale dropdown menu, tap Settings > Subscriptions.
- In the Review POS subscriptions for each location section, select a subscription for each location by choosing one of the following options:
- To upgrade to POS Pro, select Upgrade to POS Pro and select whether you want to be billed monthly or yearly. In the POS Pro section, click Upgrade to POS Pro > Approve subscription.
- To downgrade to POS Lite and change your billing cycle, click Change plan and select whether you want to be billed monthly or yearly. In the POS Lite section, click Downgrade to POS Lite > Approve subscription.
- To cancel your POS Pro subscription and downgrade to POS Lite with the same billing cycle, click Cancel POS Pro > Confirm.
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.