Shopify POS is a point of sale app that you can use to sell your products in person. You can use Shopify POS to sell almost anywhere, including brick-and-mortar stores, markets, and pop-up shops.

What is a POS example?

An example of POS is when a customer pays for an item at a store’s checkout counter, and the store provides the customer with a receipt.

Fully synced customer profiles

Offer personalized experiences with quick access to order history, lifetime spend, and more in the POS system.

Effective marketing

Collect contact details and tailor marketing campaigns to share exclusive discounts and sneak previews.

Integrated loyalty programs

Add loyalty apps to your POS system to reward customers for shopping with you, both in store and online.

Which kind of businesses use Shopify Retail POS?

Shopify’s point of sale is flexible enough to support a variety of businesses at any stage of growth. The retailers that find the most value from Shopify POS are those that sell (or want to sell) products both in person and online. Connecting in-store and online sales helps you keep inventory, payments, and customers in sync so you can simplify day-to-day tasks, close more sales, and keep customers coming back.

What’s the difference between Shopify and Shopify POS?

Shopify is a complete platform for running a business. No matter where you sell, in-person or online, Shopify becomes your command center for managing products and orders, accepting payments, and building relationships with customers. Having a unified back office gives you the ability to sell from a retail store, a pop-up, a website, on social media channels, or online marketplaces, while keeping them all connected. This means flexible shopping options like buy online, pick up in store or buy in-store, ship-to-home are seamless.

Shopify POS connects to that powerful back office for in-person sales, ensuring that inventory, payments, and customer data are fully synced as you make sales from your retail store. Linking in-store and online sales with Shopify helps you simplify inventory tasks, have more control over cash flow, and re-engage in-store visitors with online marketing. The intuitive and mobile POS app also makes it easy to fly through checkout and assist customers anywhere, on the sales floor or on the go.