About Shopify POS

Shopify POS is a point of sale software that helps businesses streamline operations related to inventory tracking, payment processing, customer loyalty, marketing, and more on a centralized platform. Administrators can configure user roles, set up access permissions, assign unique PIN codes, and distribute sales commissions to staff members.

Shopify POS has the essential features you’d expect from a traditional POS plus the features you need for the future. Run your online and retail stores from one app, so you don't need to keep track of multiple inventories, catalogs, and payment systems. Customers and orders are synced across online and in-store, so offering local pickup, processing returns/exchanges, rewarding customers through loyalty programs, and selling gift cards anywhere is easy.

Get the POS that gets your retail business.

Pricing starting from:

US$89,00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Top 5 alternatives to Shopify POS

Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Markets

Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia and 17 others

Supported Languages

Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch and 17 others

Pricing starting from:

US$89,00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Top 5 alternatives to Shopify POS

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Shopify POS Software - Speed up checkout with the customizable smart grid that adapts based on cart actions and staff workflows.
Shopify POS Software - Make informed decisions by keeping track of your daily sales and identifying your store's top selling products.
Shopify POS Software - Create frictionless returns and exchanges for customer purchases online, in-store, and at other locations.
Shopify POS Software - Seamlessly offer local pickup and track, pack, and fulfill all orders right from within Shopify POS. Plus, offer custom notifications when orders are packed, prepared, ready for pickup, and picked up.
Shopify POS Software - Reward your loyal customers with a variety of loyalty apps to choose from. No matter whether they buy online or in-store, ensure their loyalty is captured and rewarded.
Shopify POS Software - With buy online, ship to home, you can make the sale no matter where your inventory is stored.
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Shopify POS Software - Speed up checkout with the customizable smart grid that adapts based on cart actions and staff workflows.
Shopify POS Software - Make informed decisions by keeping track of your daily sales and identifying your store's top selling products.
Shopify POS Software - Create frictionless returns and exchanges for customer purchases online, in-store, and at other locations.
Shopify POS Software - Seamlessly offer local pickup and track, pack, and fulfill all orders right from within Shopify POS. Plus, offer custom notifications when orders are packed, prepared, ready for pickup, and picked up.
Shopify POS Software - Reward your loyal customers with a variety of loyalty apps to choose from. No matter whether they buy online or in-store, ensure their loyalty is captured and rewarded.
Shopify POS Software - With buy online, ship to home, you can make the sale no matter where your inventory is stored.

Features

Total features of Shopify POS: 61

  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting Integration
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Barcode/Ticket Scanning
  • CRM
  • Contactless NFC
  • Cost Tracking
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customer Accounts
  • Customer Database
  • Customer History
  • Data Synchronization
  • Discount Management
  • Electronic Payments
  • Email Marketing
  • Employee Management
  • For Retail
  • For iPad Devices
  • Forecasting
  • Gift Card Management
  • Inventory Control
  • Inventory Management
  • Inventory Optimization
  • Inventory Tracking
  • Kitting
  • Layaway Management
  • Loyalty Program
  • Merchandise Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Card Reader
  • Mobile Device Management
  • Multi-Channel Management
  • Multi-Location
  • Order Management
  • Ordering Automation
  • PCI Compliance
  • Payment Processing
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Pricing Management
  • Product Catalog
  • Product Identification
  • Promotions Management
  • Purchase Order Management
  • Receipt Management
  • Reorder Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Retail Inventory Management
  • Retail Management
  • Retail POS
  • Returns Management
  • Returns Tracking
  • Sales Reports
  • Search/Filter
  • Stock Management
  • Supplier Management
  • Timeout
  • Touch Screen
  • eCommerce Management

Alternatives

Square Point of Sale

4,7
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Lightspeed POS

4,4
#2 Alternative to Shopify POS
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Lavu POS

4,1
#3 Alternative to Shopify POS
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PayPal

4,7
#4 Alternative to Shopify POS
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Reviews

Overall rating

4,6 /5
(106)
Value for Money
4,5/5
Features
4,5/5
Ease of Use
4,6/5
Customer Support
4,6/5

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Lincey
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  • Industry: Apparel & Fashion
  • Company size: 2-10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great to charge credit cards at shows and fairs

Reviewed on 2019/01/02

I much prefer Shopify POS than Paypal here, Stripe and Etsy reader (I tried them all).

I much prefer Shopify POS than Paypal here, Stripe and Etsy reader (I tried them all).

Pros

Easy to use, non-laggy software to process credit card payments in person. The whole catalog from my Shopify store is connected and each product can be easily added to the bill. I often use the 'Quick sale' option for fast checkouts on which we simply enter the amount to charge. Shopify sent a free credit card reader that can read chips. The charge on the reader lasts for well over a day, which is perfect when you don't have access to power.

Cons

Sometimes (rarely) my phone and the reader won't detect each other and I have to enter the credit card number manually, which isn't ideal.

marquita
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 2-10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Shopify POS has definitely benefited my online live sales

Reviewed on 2022/04/29

I have been using Shopify POS for sometime, I've added other software and payment systems but I...

I have been using Shopify POS for sometime, I've added other software and payment systems but I doubt that we will completely walk away from Shopify POS.

Pros

I love that I am able to create and scan barcodes versus entering prices and descriptions when customers make a purchase, its more efficient and I can keep track of what I have, sold and sale items. It's really great!

Cons

They are a couple of pricing plans you can choose from (monthly rates) but there are still some charges you will incur; like fees for on line sales and in-person sales.

Alternatives Considered

Square Point of Sale

Reasons for Switching to Shopify POS

Another small business owner told me about it (someone I trust)
Daniel
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 2-10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

I can do the same on Square for FREE

Reviewed on 2017/06/10

Pros

Integrates with my Shopify Store (Something Square Cant), great for inventory across online offline, integrates with Epson printers.

Cons

PRICE, Shopify POS is expensive and does not require the price tag when compared to the competition. IT has an app store but those apps addon more price to the monthly fees. Also, the Shopify POS's payment terminal doesn't support TAP which is pretty bad. Switched to Square and never going back.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Shopify is by far the best shopping cart I've every used, and the POS is no exception.

Reviewed on 2017/12/06

It's constantly saving us money. With Shopify POS we don't have to spend anything extra for the POS...

It's constantly saving us money. With Shopify POS we don't have to spend anything extra for the POS support that connects into our existing shopping cart.

Pros

VALUE. Shopify allowed us to have a free developer account to test and work through our hesitations before paying a penny for the cart. The POS system comes with the cart for free, it works flawlessly on any apple device, I haven't tried the android offering, but I'm sure it's great as well. The account comes with multiple logins for managing employees with specified permissions for keeping eyes and fingers out of places they shouldn't be. And to top it all off it has a fantastic API connection that allows us to connect it to our Fishbowl Inventory Management system, which brings in the orders from both cart and POS and sorts the inventory out, handles the shipping with shipstation, posts back tracking and fulfills the orders in shopify and all the while capturing all the financial data in QB. I could seriously fire multiple employees for all the time and work this automation is doing for me.

Cons

If I had to complain it would be that there are some things you can't customize that you might be able to with one of the self hosted carts such as magento, woocommerce, or even magento 2.

Scotty
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  • Industry: Apparel & Fashion
  • Company size: 2-10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Shopify's POS Software makes our in-person events happen

Reviewed on 2019/12/03

My overall experience with the POS software has been extremely positive. I have only had issues...

My overall experience with the POS software has been extremely positive. I have only had issues when I've brought the POS Hardware into the equation with faulty and unreliable bluetooth pairing.

Pros

What I like most about the software is the ability to use it in a few different ways. During an event, I can use the search feature to add the actual product to the shopping cart for better inventory keeping, or I can do a "quick sale" and just enter the total amount for custom orders. I really like the flexibility there.

Cons

The pairing of the software and the hardware (credit card reader, in this case) is spotty at best. There are a lot of times that we have to manually enter CC information because we can't get the bluetooth pairing to work correctly. Would love a physical "docking" ability as a failsafe.

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Shopify POS FAQs

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Shopify POS offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$89,00/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Shopify POS is sold as part of Shopify software. Shopify POS Pro is available as an add-on to the Shopify application at $89/month per location.

Shopify POS has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1 000, 1 001-5 000

Shopify POS supports the following languages:

Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, European Portuguese, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish

Shopify POS supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Shopify POS integrates with the following applications:

Meta for Business, Shopify

Shopify POS offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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