Shopify POS

Shopify is a commerce platform company whose merchants have made more than USD 1 trillion in sales, with over 13,000 apps in its App Store. Shopify POS extends the same back office used for online stores into physical retail, so brands manage products, customers, orders and stock in one system instead of linking a separate register to e-commerce.

The POS app runs on integrated hardware for counter or mobile selling and accepts major cards and digital wallets through Shopify Payments. It supports buy online pick up in store, buy in store and ship to the customer, multi-location inventory, staff permissions, customer profiles and reporting, and it can integrate existing inventory or order management systems. More than one hundred POS-integrated apps extend it, and Shopify ships over 150 updates twice a year through its Editions releases.

• Unified back office: Manages online and in-store products, orders and customers together.
• Omnichannel fulfilment: Supports buy online pick up in store and buy in store ship to home.
• Multi-location inventory: Updates stock automatically across stores with each sale.
• Integrated payments: Accepts cards and digital wallets through Shopify Payments.
• Staff and customer tools: Sets staff permissions and captures customer profiles at checkout.
• App ecosystem: Extends POS with more than one hundred integrated apps.

A Vietnamese fashion brand selling internationally on Shopify can open a showroom that shares stock and customer profiles with its webshop. A lifestyle retailer can run weekend pop-ups with mobile POS. A cosmetics brand can let customers buy online and collect in store at its city outlets.

Merchants run online, social, marketplace and in-store sales from one back office, so inventory updates automatically with each sale and channels stay in sync. Store staff can offer pickup or ship-to-home when an item is out of stock locally. Shopify cites 99.9% platform uptime and lets merchants start free without a credit card. A large app ecosystem adds loyalty, scheduling and other functions without custom development.

Direct-to-consumer brands that started online are opening physical stores and pop-ups, and they need POS that shares the same catalog and customer data as their webshop. Vietnamese fashion and lifestyle brands selling abroad through Shopify storefronts face the same need when they add showrooms or flagship stores.

Shopify reports more than USD 1 trillion in merchant sales, 675 million+ unique shoppers in 2023 and about 10% of US e-commerce. Shopify POS can be used in nearly every country, while Shopify Payments and integrated hardware are limited to select regions such as Japan and India.