Shopify POS Retail Package: POS System for Shopify
By Sam Nguyen
Thanks to Shopify POS, you can get the extra functions by adding the retail package to your Shopify plan.
For the retail package, you can generate a retail store experience by using additional hardware with Shopify POS. By using a barcode printer, you can easily print barcodes for your products as well as add them to the cart only with scanning the barcode with a barcode scanner. Besides that, in order to print receipts, gift receipts, and paper gift cards for your customers, you can also integrate a receipt printer for this.
Another great benefit that the retail package brings, it gives you functions that can help manage your e-commerce store as register shifts, cash tracking, staff PINs, and saved carts.
The price of the retail package can be found on Shopify’s price page here.
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Retail POS package features
The retail package is only supported in Shopify POS for iPad, thus you can only take advantage of the majority of its features to generate a full retail store experience. However, with a Swipe card reader, a supported third-party gateway, and physical gift cards, the retail package can work with Shopify POS for iPhone.
The retail package in Shopify POS for iPad has a lot of additional features.
The additional retail hardware plays the role of a receipt printer, cash drawer, or barcode scanner which you can reuse it if Shopify supports it.
Moneris card reader is supported if your store is located in Canada. You can use it to solve credit and debit payments, including Interac.
Store owners can print customized receipts at the checkout as well as give their customers a gift receipt.
Shopify also allows selling and redeeming physical gift cards and using the Swipe card readers if those payment providers are supported by POS.
With the aim of balancing your cash drawer and keeping staff responsible for the money they have handled, the Shopify retail package provides register shifts to help you. Your cash float and daily register totals are also tracked and summarized by the cash tracking.
With the PIN entry, you can add unlimited staff members. To staff members who have a POS PIN, you can easily enable limited permissions for them. Moreover, the Shopify retail package offers the saved cart feature to save a cart during the checkout and retrieve it for the future.
Additionally, the hardware components such as the complete hardware kit, Apple AirPort Wi-Fi Extender, barcode printer, barcode scanner, cash drawer, credit card reader, iPad stand, physical gift cards, and receipt printer which are supported with the Shopify retail package in-app.
To add the retail package to your Shopify plan
In your Shopify admin you can add the retail package to your Shopify plan:
- Step 1. Click to Shopify admin > Point of Sale Setup page.
- Step 2. Tap Point of Sale, and then tap Setup
- Step 3. Tap Enable in the Retail package section
- Step 4. Tap Add Retail Package in the dialog displays showing how the retail package will affect your subscription fee.
From the Point of Sale Setup page of your Shopify admin, you can tap Disable to remove the retail package from your Shopify plan.
