With Shopify POS, you can sell anything, anywhere and at any time. You can sell in multiple locations too and synchronise data from all locations and channels to ensure your inventory and other data are always accurate and uptodate. Here is an overview of the Shopify POS Features.
The Shopify POS Features List
Here is a quick look at all the essentials, from managing your store and your products, accepting payment, offering discounts, and customer data management to analytics, reporting and Shopify 24/7 support.
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Payment Processing
With Shopify POS, you can use many different payment methods.
● You can accept cash payments, debit or credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover)
● You can create custom payment methods like check, gold coin, bank drafts, or IOU
● You can sit up store credit facility, which will also make refunds easier
● You can use Shopify card readers to process swipe, EMV or contactless cards. If you use Shopify card readers, you get lower swipe rates
● You can also use external card terminals
● You can accept split payments, partial and multiple payments for a single transaction
● You can create, offer and use gift cards for payments
Handling Discounts
Setup, offer, and track different types of Discounts with Shopify admin:
● Create and offer unlimited time and use discounts for specific types of customers like military personnel, seniors, or frequent buyers
● Offer limited time discounts for short term sales
● Offer limited quantity discounts for first-come first serve sales
● Offer minimum purchase value discounts to boost your store sales
● Offer special membership discounts like loyalty programs
● Create discount coupons online and allow customers to redeem these in-store
● Track all your discounts, analyse and compare their performance from the central dashboard
Checkout Features
Shopify makes the checkout process, smooth, easy, and flexible:
● Collect contact details and addresses from customers for shipping and billing
● Add notes to orders
● Create quick sales at checkout, change prices for specific products or orders
● Customise your print or sales receipts with your store details, targeted or general special promotions, offers etc
● With the mobile app, take the checkout to your customer
● Shopify automates tax collection, with rates based on your store location
● You can change or disable tax rates for specific products or special orders
Store Management
With Shopify’s Point Of Sale system, you can completely automate store management:
● Track order history, view by customer, by date, by product
● Easily manage refunds
● Save time and effort by integrating Shopify data with your accounting solution like Xero, QuickBooks etc.
● Keep track of cash register adjustments, track daily totals for the day, track totals for different payment types
● Use the Timeline tool to track orders, to find specific information, to solve problems
● If you are on Shopify Plan or above:
○ Create secure staff login PINs, track sales and cash adjustments by staff
○ Create store credit for refunds
Product Management
Product and Inventory management is now a smooth process with Shopify:
● Add products to your inventory, sort them by category, seasonal sale, type, etc.
● Create special collections to group products for sales
● Manage and synchronise inventory across POS Terminals, across different stores, across sales channels, to always stay up to=date on stock levels
● Create and manage product variations
● Use existing barcodes, create and assign new barcodes for your products
● Quickly record orders by scanning in barcodes at the checkout
● Use Shopify POS app to offer special prices like wholesale rates, BOGO sales, and other special sales
Customer Profile and Tracking
Customer profiles and customer relations made easy with Shopify POS:
● Create customer profiles, add contact details, shipping and billing addresses
● Collect email IDs to create email lists
● Track and record customer buying patterns and preferences
● Synchronise POS customer records with Shopify backend for centralised data management and analysis
● Analyse customer orders and shopping behavior
● Send opt-in newsletters, email promotions and sales announcements using the Mailchimp app
● Use collected mobile numbers to send text alerts of sales and promotions
Shopify On Mobile
Use your mobile devices to track stock, customers orders etc:
● Keep watch on your stock levels and take action when required
● Add new products to your store catalog using the Shopify POS app on your mobile device
● Send targeted alerts about new items, special promotions etc to customers
Analytics
The analytics dashboard helps you gain insights from all the data collected:
● Analyse sales, traffic and customer data
● Spot trends and patterns to make better merchandising and pricing decisions
● Analyse sales data by products, staff, and customers
● Extract meaningful reports on sales based on various criteria
Shopify 24/7 Support
Shopify Help and Support:
● Shopify offers 24/7 support to customers via phone, chat, and email
● Access the Shopify Help Center, guides and tutorials
● Access discussions forums to interact with and get help from other customers
● Access ECommerce University for video tutorials, websites, and e-books to learn about retail strategies
Hardware
The equipments:
● Shopify POS works on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices
● Connect a Shopify card reader for an integrated payment processing, and lower card processing rates
● Connect to external card terminals
● Add cash registers, receipt printers and barcode scanners to your POS system
● Shopify POS can work with Wifi cameras for security
Pricing Plans
For a good point of sale setup, Shopify offers these plans:
● Basic Shopify $29
● Shopify Plan $79
● Advanced Shopify $299
