Point of Sale

Skip this POS. There are apps that you can get which will help, but if you want to run a real business, with many SKUs and a staff that cares about numbers and inventory, or, you know, if you care abut these things, skip this for now. It may be ready in a few years, but it doesn't even really integrate with your Shopify Admin. If all you want it for is the occasional pop up it will do you fine, but it's irresponsible of them to sell it as a viable trustworthy, business focused POS at this stage.

We had POS classic system for years which suited our business perfectly. I recently switched to the POS Pro Trial due to Classic being obsolete soon so I could re-train my staff now Shopify want $89/ month / terminal. WTF I have 4 stores that will cost me a fortune. If they charged $89/ month ONLY I would have signed up but at $356/month US to AUD it's $496/month sorry but absolutely no way. Now I have reverted back to POS Lite and this thing now is totally inadequate for my business they basically ripped all the features out of POS Classic and put it into POS Pro just so you have to pay for it now. Exchange button GONE,
Save the cart GONE. Staff Permissions GONE.
Sorry Shopify you screwed up a very good product just to make more revenue out of small businesses. Unless you revert back I will be serching for a new POS system ASAP.

Very disappointing that Shopify would release this update before working out the major flaws in this system. We are in our busiest time of year (when we also have temporary employees working) and we have spent hours trying to figure out our own way of getting around the issues as our phone calls to customer service have revealed that it will probably be a while before most of the issues are fixed. It is EMBARRASSING in front of customers when we cannot even issue a return or it credits them back inadvertantly and we have to ask them to pay again. Not to mention that when you print a "gift receipt"- a whole list of everything the person purchased prints onto the receipt. Who wants someone to know what all they purchased or if they are giving 15 people the same gift. How special does that feel? Very BASIC procedures are no longer possible. You cannot start a return unless you find the original order in the system- which doesn't work when someone is bringing back a gift. This new PRO POS is eating away at our productivity. We have had more calls into the support line in the last 2 weeks than the whole time we have used shopify. The home screen is nothing like the previous version where you could "see" your store and you basically do not have a menu driven system. Very poor decision on Shopify's part to launch this prematurely. We are disappointed as shopify charges alot of money for subscriptions, fees, and credit card processing.

Terrible system for retail. While Shopify has an excellent ecommerce platform their POS is lacking many basic features, is very limited as to what can integrate and the hardware is simply junk. Their card readers never stay connected, they never have hardware in stock so be sure to buy 2 of everything when they do have it or you will be forced to do manual card entry at an inflated fee as well as adding time to every card transaction. The worst part is they do not seem to care to make any real updates. Every forced update they send just causes more bugs and more issues. We are currently looking for a new system due to their lack of performance.

This may be the only POS on the market without a function to "leave a TIP" for the employee ringing up the order. While we do sell online retail, we offer barbering services, sharpening, etc.. in our brick and mortar store and are unable to let customers leave a tip on their credit card on this POS, and with more and more people not carrying cash, it looks like we may need to switch POS systems before our staff keeps getting upset that they are losing tips. Other than that, it is a smooth POS integration system, but the lack caring enough to add a simple function is why this POS is not ideal for anyone selling anything other than products. If you run a service, beverage, or food company then you definitely need to shop elsewhere for a POS.

I have Shopify for my online business for several years. I decided togo to Omni Channel and migrate our pos to Shopify POs. It has been an awful experience.The onboarding team just email you some links with no follow through. We have spend many hours on support call. The support team are very knowledgeable and helpful. All our bluetooth devices stay connected but the barcode scanner gets disconnected. We have turned off the energy setting to "leave on all the time" to no avail.Shopify support told us to leave the system on 24 hrs a day. This did not solve the problem. every morning you have to connect the scanner from scratch. we even send the brand new scanner for repair and used another new scanner with the same issue.This problem has nothing to do with my bluetooth since the other devices such ac tap/Chip and receipt printer stays connected. The interface between pos and barcode scanner is not stable. I have paid for several months but not able to go live. If I could have returned my hardware I would have not continued. Shopify should do way better with their pos considering the runup on theri stock price.

Eventhough it is the native app for shopify, it has recurrent connectivity and sincronization issues with barcodes and inventory
It is unpractical that only certain hardware is available for use with the app, and that this hardware is unexistent outside certain countries or extremely expensive.
It makes no sense that my current computers cant be used, and im forced to use tablets of mobile devices. This issue, next to the associated hardware makes scaling extremely expensive, and opening new venues implies purchasing the expensive and selective associated hardware.
Finally subscription costs are expensive, charging 80USd for being able to associate sales with employees. This should be a basic feature of the app, included with the plus 1000USD i pay monthly for shopify

Do not use this as your POS at any cost. It does not work to run a business at ALL! they do not record COG sales, you can not run a sales report by vendor for consignment, you cannot do an exchange!! I mean an exchange? This is retail 101. If you issue a store credit it does not track it...so it just goes into the universe with nothing attached to it. Their suggestion was to write store credits down in a book for our reference. Why in 2015 can you not attach a store credit to the customer that it belongs to???

It does not create sku's and yu cannot print stickers directly from the POS. You have to use a 3rd party app....which is just as difficult and slow.

Tracking and adjusting inventory is archaic and difficult. And does not give you a cost adjustment of LOS.

It's as if no-one that works at shopify has EVER worked in retail.

DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I MADE. DO NOT USE THIS FOR YOUR STORE POS. FOR ONLINE ITS FINE.

1/15/16**** FOR TWO WEEKS I WAS UNABLE TO PRINT TAGS BECUASE THE SOFTWARE WENT DOWN

2/15/16****THE CREDIT CARD JACK I PURCHASED FROM THEM---ONLY LASTED 4 MONTHS- THEY WOULD NOT REPLACE - AND THEY ARE BACK ORDERED FOR A MONTH- SO NOW I HAVE TO WAIT A MONTH TO GET A NEW CREDIT CARD PROCESSOR....AND HAVE TO HAND KEY IN EVERY TRANSACTION.

Unbelievably disappointed in the new Shopify POS. I have been with Shopify since February this year. Last week we were forced to update and lost the, save cart function and the returns function, unless we paid almost double to have those options available to us. What is wrong with you Shopify!! Your new program stinks. Buyer beware! Look elsewhere for your POS.

After using the shopify POS for my business it went well.. Unfortunately shopify since signing with apple pay has changed their "TOS" agreement citing that "apple" and apple pay does not approve of the sale of fire arms and or accessories.. Causing me to desperately look for another free or price accomodating POS system and causing me to loose over a full month of business.